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The Guardian - UK
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Kate Connolly in Berlin

Unknown novel by writer who charted Hitler’s rise becomes German bestseller

black and white photo of a man in a three-piece suit with a pipe
Sebastian Haffner in 1932. Winston Churchill is said to have told his cabinet to read the author’s prewar classic Germany: Jekyll and Hyde. Photograph: Supplied

A previously unknown novel by one of Europe’s most influential postwar journalists which captures the heady yet fragile spirit of the final days of the Weimar Republic has been published in Germany after his children discovered the hand-written manuscript in his desk.

More than nine decades after he wrote it, Sebastian Haffner’s Abschied or Parting has soared to the top of the Spiegel bestseller list following its debut earlier this month.

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