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|title=The Aftermath

|sort=Aftermath, The

|publisher=Penguin

|date=May 2013

|website=http://www.rhidianbrook.com/

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''The Aftermath'' is set amongst the devastated ruins in the fire-bombed city of Hamburg in 1946. The British have occupied the ruined city and Colonel Lewis Morgan, an officer and a gentleman, is charged with overseeing the restoration of order. However, Colonel Morgan must first deal with the human cost of the bombing including remnants of fanatic Nazis, the ''trummerkind'' - children of the rubble, and the starving civil populace. He also, in 1943, lost a child due to a Luftwaffe bomb and he must support his deeply grieving wife, Rachel, when she arrives after months of separation with their surviving twelve year old boy, the impressionable Edmund.

If this book appeals then you might also enjoy [[The Greatcoat by Helen Dunmore]] and [[Trieste by Dasa Drndic and Ellen Elias-Bursac (translator)]].

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