The other Haffner: As a young columnist, he reported on life and the spirit of the times in the 1930s. Humorous anecdotes appear alongside travel sketches, childhood memories, and skeptical observations about modern technological achievements. And those who read closely will repeatedly find evidence of Haffner's unerring instinct for the catastrophe toward which Germany was heading in those years. Biography (Sebastian Haffner) Sebastian Haffner, born in Berlin in 1907, held a doctorate in law. He emigrated to England in 1938, where he worked as a journalist for the *Observer*. He wrote his *History of a German* in 1939 while in exile in London. In 1954, he returned to Germany, initially writing for *Die Welt*, and later for *Stern*. Haffner is the author of several historical bestsellers, including *Notes on Hitler*. He died in 1999. New product