'Based on a true story, this sweeping saga tells the tale of a working class couple in Berlin who decide to take a stand against the Nazis. More than an edge-of-your-seat thriller, more than a
moving romance, even more than literature of the highest order, it's a deeply moving story of two people who stand up for what's right, and for each other. Hans Fallada wrote Every Man Dies
Alone in a feverish twenty-four days, soon after the end of World War II and his release from a Nazi insane asylum. He did notlive to see his its publication'--P. 4 of cover.
