PG Wodehouse The Unknown Years

by Baroness Reinhild von Bodenhausen

The story covers his release from a lunatic asylum to the panacea of the most peaceful German country estate where he wrote and polished his book "Joy in the morning", as well as making his ill advised, but wholly innocuous, broadcasts intended for his American friends and correspondents. The most dramatic and delightful story of his change of fortune as a civilian prisoner of war is told as witnessed through the eyes and ears of a young German aristocratic girl, Reinhild, and her mother, the beautiful widowed Baroness Anga Von Bodenhausen, on their estate in the Harz mountains, Degenershausen. The book demonstrates the unfair nature of the public reaction and accusations to Uncle Plummie's broadcast, and it is also an authoritative insight into his innocence, bringing with it a melange of history, survival and death, copied with so many of the other misfortunes of war. This work is uniquely illustrated with 50 pages of Wodehouses own dairy, letters and photographes from his time in Germany during Nazi rule.

238 pages, Paperback

First published November 11, 2009