{"product_id":"the-mare-copy","title":"The Mare","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn 1939, when she was just nineteen years old, Hermine Braunsteiner applied for a job in a new prison opening near her home. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe had heard the pay was better than working on the factory line. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe prison was called Ravensbrück. A few months later, the Second World War would break like a wave across Europe. By the time it was over, she had become one of the most notoriously cruel and violent guards in the Nazi death camps.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe prisoners nicknamed her the Mare – she was known for kicking her victims to death. After the war, Hermine disappeared back into civilian life. A few years later she met a US war veteran who was holidaying in Europe.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe had no idea who she was. He fell in love with her, married her and brought her back to America, where she lived for years as a well-liked suburban housewife, until one day a tip-off from a Holocaust survivor sent a New York Times journalist to her door, and the questions started. Based on a true story, The Mare offers a gripping portrait of the descent of ordinary people into inhumanity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd it asks what happens after that nadir. It considers the impossible task of defining justice in the face of a crime which involved everyone, and weighs the moral necessity of reckoning with the truth against the overwhelming urge to look away. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbsolutely unflinching and charged with urgent contemporary relevance, The Mare examines how we attempt to justify the unjustifiable – and forgive the unforgivable.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Angharad Hampshire","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62447912452483,"sku":"9781405989541","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/themare.png?v=1787568933","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.live\/products\/the-mare-copy","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}