When I was a student at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, my father asked me to buy him a copy of a newly released book by Marion Gräfin Dönhoff called Um der Ehre willen. Erinnerungen an die ...
The countess is 53 and unmarried. She has eyes of piercing blue, a disconcertingly level gaze, and a low metallic voice that is mistress of three tongues. She shakes hands firmly, rather like a man, ...