The secrets of the notebook : a woman's quest to uncover her royal family secret / Eve Haas.

By: Haas, Eve [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Arcade Publishing, [2016]Copyright date: ©2013Edition: First paperback editionDescription: xvi, 253 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781628725254 (paperback); 1628725257 (paperback)Subject(s): Haas, Eve -- Family | Haas family | Germany -- BiographyDDC classification: 929.7 LOC classification: DD205.H27 | A3 2016
Contents:
Good-bye Berlin -- hello Hampstead -- Granny Anna -- no news from Prague -- Meeting Emilie -- The call to adventure -- Return to Berlin -- Crossing the border -- At the castle walls -- Charming the minister -- The disappearing passports -- The opening of the archives -- My Great-Great-Grandfather -- prince August of Prussia -- Gottschalk -- Finding Emilie -- Going to the ball -- The assassin in the palace and the disappearance of Victor -- The death of the Prince -- A humble plea -- An offer to spy -- Calling their bluff -- The Prince in England -- Visiting August -- An ally in Berlin -- A poisonous legacy -- Finding Charlotte -- The final piece of the puzzle -- Tracking down Isadore and Charlotte -- The vanished palace -- A letter from the grave.
Summary: Inheriting a family diary that reveals she is descended from a Prussian princess, the daughter of a German Jewish family, obsessed with proving this birthright, follows the clues and unearths a love story set against the upheaval of the Napoleonic wars and the anti-Semitism of the Prussian court.
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Good-bye Berlin -- hello Hampstead -- Granny Anna -- no news from Prague -- Meeting Emilie -- The call to adventure -- Return to Berlin -- Crossing the border -- At the castle walls -- Charming the minister -- The disappearing passports -- The opening of the archives -- My Great-Great-Grandfather -- prince August of Prussia -- Gottschalk -- Finding Emilie -- Going to the ball -- The assassin in the palace and the disappearance of Victor -- The death of the Prince -- A humble plea -- An offer to spy -- Calling their bluff -- The Prince in England -- Visiting August -- An ally in Berlin -- A poisonous legacy -- Finding Charlotte -- The final piece of the puzzle -- Tracking down Isadore and Charlotte -- The vanished palace -- A letter from the grave.

Inheriting a family diary that reveals she is descended from a Prussian princess, the daughter of a German Jewish family, obsessed with proving this birthright, follows the clues and unearths a love story set against the upheaval of the Napoleonic wars and the anti-Semitism of the Prussian court.

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