Walter Kempowski

Walter Kempowski (1929–2007) was one of postwar Germany’s most acclaimed and popular writers. His novels include All for Nothing and Marrow and Bone (both published by NYRB Classics). In the 1980s he began work on an immense project, Echo Soundings, which gathered firsthand accounts, diaries, letters, and memoirs of World War II. It is considered a modern classic.