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"Christabel is memoir as history, covering the war years 1932 through 1945, and written with "one advantage perhaps over those whose knowledge must needs depend on documents: I am English, I was German, and above all I was there."...When Peter joins a military organization intent on ousting Hitler from power in late 1939, Christabel supports his decision and they begin a dangerously secret life..."
(J.L., p. 291)