Fey's War

Berlin, September 1944. Ulrich von Hassell, former ambassador to Italy, is executed for his part in an assassination plot against Hitler. In a remote castle in Italy, von Hassell's beloved daughter, Fey, is arrested. The SS seize her two sons, aged three and two. Fey is dragged away to the darkest corners of a Europe savaged by war, with no idea of her children's fate. Moving from a palazzo in the heart of the Italian countryside to the horrors of Buchenwald, Catherine Bailey tells an extraordinary story of resistance at the heart of the Second World War. The Lost Boys is an illuminating and devastating account of great personal sacrifice, of loss and, above all, of defiance.