Tag: Billiards at Half Past Nine

  • Heinrich Böll (1917-85) was born into a Roman Catholic, pacifist family in Cologne, Germany. He was conscripted in 1939, shortly after beginning a degree in German and Philology at the University of Cologne. He served for five years in several countries and was four times wounded. On leaving hospital in August 1944, he tried to…

    Billiards at Half Past Nine -Heinrich Böll

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