The Hostage Author:C. S. Forester This special NEL edition contains the remaining stories from the original 1954 edition of 'The Nightmare'. — "The Hostage and otrher stories represents a frighteningly accurate picture of the effect that Hitler's Nazi Regime had upon Germany. — Here are stories of almost unbelievable savagery and cruelty, which are based upon the aothor's extensiv... more »e research into official files and documents and demonstrate just how much Hitler's insane ideas corrupted and depraved seemingly ordinary people."« less