"Unflinching. Illuminating. Bilger's haunting memoir reminds us, the past is prologue to who we are, as well as who we choose to be."--The Wall Street Journal

"An elegant and ambivalent book animated by an insoluble mystery."--The Washington Post

"A profoundly haunting work of historical investigation, a reporter's dogged inquiry into the tangled history of his Nazi grandfather . . . Fatherland is an unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration of morality, family, and war."--Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain

"Burkhard Bilger has long been one of our great storytellers: an acute observer, an intrepid reporter, and a writer of unmatched grace. Fatherland is that rare book--a finely etched memoir with the powerful sweep of history."--David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon

"Fatherland is the book we need right now. Gripping, gorgeously written, and deeply humane, it's both a moving personal history and a formidable piece of detective work. Bilger wrestles with one of the essential questions of our time: How can we make peace with our ancestors' past?"--Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal

"Fatherland is an unforgettable book: a family saga set on a global stage. I could not put it down."--Reza Aslan, author of Zealot and An American Martyr in Persia

"Fatherland is a masterful and riveting weave of the personal and the monumental, of ordinary Germans' struggles with questions of identity, responsibility, and sheer survival in a world gone mad."--Joel F. Harrington, Centennial Professor of History at Vanderbilt University and author of The Faithful Executioner

"Fatherland reads like a novel even as it provides important contributions to the history of the Second World War. His book is both a plausible and well-supported argument about the guilt and innocence of his grandfather, and a model for others trying to resolve their own painful family histories."--Eric A. Johnson, Professor of History at Central Michigan University and author of Nazi Terror

"[A] powerful investigation of morality . . . a vivid portrait of [Bilger's] grandfather and his times [and] a fascinating, deeply researched work of Holocaust-era history . . . a moving, humane biography."--Kirkus Review (starred review)

"Bilger shares his long journey of historical investigation in his exceptionally well-written and compulsively readable Fatherland."--BookPage, (starred review)

"A fascinating excavation of the twisted veins of good and evil in one man's soul . . ."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)