Dimensions
165 x 240 x 39mm
Otto Frank was the father of the most famous young girl of the twentieth century. The publication of Anne Frank's diary secured his legend as a quietly heroic, ideal father figure. Yet until now, apart from a few basic facts, almost nothing has been written about Otto's own extraordinary life.
Born a month before Adolf Hitler, Otto Frank grew up in a wealthy German Jewish household. In the First World War he fought as a German officer in the trenches of the Somme. 'The Hidden Life Of Otto Frank' brings to life these privileged early years, when Otto and his family were models of wholly assimilated European Jewry.
It reveals the full story behind Otto's first, cruelly thwarted love affair, as well as the truth about his subsequent arranged marriage to Anne's mother.
Carol Ann Lee has written a moving portrait of a man whose life, both charmed and cursed, was interwoven with the history of the last century. She has also uncovered the astonishing truth about the one remaining enigma of the Anne Frank story, which was to lead Otto Frank into a maze of terror.
