Sour Krauts? Not a bit of it

Roger Boyes in The Times of London explains how he came to write the soon-to-be-published My Dear Krauts.

I have made my separate peace. On behalf of all former Biggles readers I would like to say: it really is time to stop mentioning the war and shed half a century of heel-clicking clichés. To this end I have written what one British observer has described as a Truth and Reconciliation Book, a lightly fictionalised memoir of a correspondent’s clashes with his confusing host culture.

Here's an extract.

(via Arts & Letters Daily)

People who buy this book might also enjoy German Humor: On the Fritz, by John Louis Anderson. I found the chapter "The Slow Grinding of Teutonic Plates: Catholics and Lutherans Meet Head-On" put my interactions with my WELS colleagues in a different light.