Leaving Fatherland

Oskar Bachmann always imagined that giving his first lecture would bethe defining moment of his life. It was, but not in the way he expected…Growing up a misfit in pre-war Germany, a victim of his father’sbeatings, Oskar’s love of books is a constant comfort in a world turnedupside-down by conflict. As a student, as a pilot in the brutal Luftwaffe during the Second WorldWar, in an unhappy marriage to an English bride, he finds himself returningover and over to the circumstances of his child...