Product Description

As the tensions in the smouldering city grew worse, so Michael and Lili slowly fell in love. It was a love that surmounted all the prejudices and hatreds of war and offered a hope of understanding for the future.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #213000 in Books
• Published on: 2004-10-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 389 pages

From the Back Cover
BERLIN 1948:
A vanquished city of rubble – sliced into sections by the Allies, and set well back behind the Russian lines. A city of old women, black marketeers and sleazy cabarets in ruined cellars.

In the British sector was Squadron Leader Michael Harrison, a war hero who had helped to bomb Berlin into fragments. He hated the Nazis, who had killed his sister and her children. But here he was, doing his best to ensure that food and fuel was somehow brought in to save the surviving Berliners.

In the Russian sector was young Lili Leicht, German, middle-class daughter of a university professor and now living in the ruins of her former home, trying to prevent her grandfather and two younger brothers from dying of malnutrition. Her mother had been killed by British bombers.

As the tensions in the smouldering city grew worse, so Michael and Lili slowly fell in love. It was a love that surmounted all the prejudices and hatreds of war and offered a hope of understanding for the future.

About the Author
Margaret Mayhew was born in London and her earliest childhood memories were of the London Blitz. She began writing in her mid-thirties and had her first novel published in 1976. She is married to American aviation author, Philip Kaplan, and lives in Gloucestershire. Her novels, Bluebirds, The Crew, The Little Ship, Our Yanks, The Pathfinder and Those In Peril are all published by Corgi Books.

Customer Reviews

Review of "the Pathfinder"
This book takes a fresh, unpretentious & unhistrionic look at an unattractive & unfashionable part of post war European history. For me, Margaret Mayhew has an uncanny talent for 'getting inside an era'.The gauntness of life in Berlin around the time of the Airlift comes across with depressing clarity. I could hear the green flies buzzing & the rats scurrying in lili's apartment. I could feel the cracks & scratches in her work scarred hands, & empathize with her view of life . The confusion of Berlinners becoming allies so quickly, having been the arch enemy is seen from both sides .A very atmospheric book

Those in Peil
Very enjoyable reading. Accurately discriptive of the times and situations encountered by many during the Second World War.