REVIEW: The English Air by D.E. Stevenson

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A son makes a devastating choice.

Franz von Heiden, son of a Nazi official and an English mother, comes to England early in 1938 to visit his English cousins and to study them. He is both accepted and entertained by Wynne Braithwaites family and friends. But the peace and abundance which he finds about him are not what he had been taught to expect.

These people are not the decadent enemy; their casual talk and happy lives betray no weakness. Franz is disturbed his reports to his father at...