A memoir of brutality, heroism and personal discovery from Europe's dark heart, revealing one of the most extraordinary untold stories of the Second World War
One of the most infamous atrocities of the Second World War, in which Countess Margit Batthyany and party guests from the highest echelons of the SS shot 180 enslaved Jewish labourers dead on a whim and then returned to the party, is contemplated by Batthyany's great-nephew, with the author considering his barbaric inheritance and how most constructively to bear it.