The Last Children of Schevenborn

Deeply unsettling and horrifically plausible. I don't think this is a book to enjoy, but it is most certainly a cautionary tale, the moral being "we reap what we sow." In our post-cold war era we have to a large part forgotten the ongoing threat of nuclear war, it is still there.

This book is the most realistic portrayal of a nuclear holocaust that I have ever read. It was intended for a mature youth but it's definately worth reading if your an adult.
It's written from a young person's point of view of the horrors of a nuclear holocaust. There are a lot of really disturbing parts to it so if you want to give it to a youth read it first so you can discuss it with them. I read it about 15 years ago and I still haven't forgotten the images it left in my mind. This book was so moving and so powerful that it burns into your mind.
I think it's out of print now but if you can find it, it's a great book worth having. Highly recommended.

Far left, far left and as expected, completely clueless.
Yeah, we had that book to read at school here in Germany and it's just ludicrious violent fantasy of a person who has no idea about warfare. Ever since the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there's a good reason why Russia never attempted to conquer Europe, why the UK revoked their "Operation Unthinkable" and why not even the inbred morons in India and Pakistan nuked each other.

The books is basically just scaremongering through vile descriptions of what could be, should be (though not as shocking as the infamous british movie "Threads") but without any logic or reason. War just happens out of the blue, for no reason (unrealistic) and hits people unprepared (again, show more unrealistic), who then suffer the worst fate (again, unrealistic. it's not as if Japan ceased to exist and turned completely savage and unhinged after two nukes, i mean, not anymore savage and unhinged than they were before to China and Korea)
The book is also not very well written, you can tell that Pausewang wasn't a proper writer, her prose leaves much to be desired (i wonder if the english translation is actually better?!) and once the bombs drops it falls into TKKG Adventure fields of german writing mixed with typical left-leaning ideologies. show less

Great story of survival of survival in the aftermath of a nuclear bomb.

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