{"product_id":"mare-angharad-hampshire","title":"Mare - Angharad Hampshire","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1939, when she was just nineteen years old, Hermine Braunsteiner applied for a job in a new prison opening near her home. She had heard the pay was better than working on the factory line.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe prison was called Ravensbrück. A few months later, the Second World War would break like a wave across Europe. By the time it was over, she had become one of the most notoriously cruel and violent guards in the Nazi death camps.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe prisoners nicknamed her the Mare – she was known for kicking her victims to death. After the war, Hermine disappeared back into civilian life. A few years later she met a US war veteran who was holidaying in Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe had no idea who she was. He fell in love with her, married her and brought her back to America, where she lived for years as a well-liked suburban housewife, until one day a tip-off from a Holocaust survivor sent a New York Times journalist to her door, and the questions started. Based on a true story, The Mare offers a gripping portrait of the descent of ordinary people into inhumanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd it asks what happens after that nadir. It considers the impossible task of defining justice in the face of a crime which involved everyone, and weighs the moral necessity of reckoning with the truth against the overwhelming urge to look away. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54625644544337,"sku":"9781405989541","price":13.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0270\/4618\/2960\/files\/9781405989541.jpg?v=1787143897","url":"https:\/\/lattesandliterature.com\/products\/mare-angharad-hampshire","provider":"Latte's and Literature","version":"1.0","type":"link"}