{"product_id":"notes-from-fzhrer-hq-felix-hartlaub-9781805680086","title":"Notes from Führer HQ","description":"\u003cb\u003eFascinating, eerily poetic dispatches from inside Hitler's war machine, translated into English for the first time, from a mysterious and tragic figure in German literature.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFelix Hartlaub is one of the most enigmatic figures of 20th-century German literature. As a young writer of blazing promise, he went missing in the final days of the Second World War, leaving behind diaries, notes, and incomplete drafts that provide a singularly evocative portrait of life during the war. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom 1941, Hartlaub was posted in various Nazi military command headquarters, a historian tasked with writing the Wehrmacht's official and up-to-the-minute record of the war. In private, he wrote the disaffected, ruthlessly clear-eyed and often beautiful fragments that make up \u003ci\u003eNotes from Führer HQ\u003c\/i\u003e, now translated into English for the first time by the acclaimed Michael Hofmann. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoving from a strangely bucolic barracks in Ukraine to tense bureaucratic headquarters on the Eastern Front to the bizarre micro-climate of a command train, these dispatches conjure the absurdity and turmoil of life within Hitler's war machine. Soldiers peacock in the late summer heat, trading intel on the local women; officials have guarded conversations in an atmosphere of suffocating anxiety; as the command train hurtles through a chaotic Germany, its shadowy compartments are the scene of booze-fueled assignations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFull of vivid insights and unsettling plays with tone and perspective, \u003ci\u003eNotes from Führer HQ \u003c\/i\u003ereveals the nightmare of daily life in Nazi headquarters through the eyes of a remarkably perceptive, disabused observer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Felix Hartlaub\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1805680080\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781805680086\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pushkin Press Classics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Felix Hartlaub","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49001162375423,"sku":"9781805680086","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/notes-from-fzhrer-hq-felix-hartlaub-9781805680086","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}