Book Club - Two Brothers, Ben Elton

Ben Elton’s 14th novel, Two Brothers, tells the story of two German boys brought up as twins who end up on opposite sides in the Second World War – one with the Waffen-SS, the other with the British Army. It is a story based on Elton’s own. His uncle, Sir Geoffrey Elton, the historian, was born Gottfried Ehrenberg to a secular Jewish family who fled Germany for Britain in 1939. Elton’s uncle – his father’s brother – enlisted in the Army and anglicised his name.

We actually all really enjoyed it although there were elements of it that really annoyed it but certainly got a good a good discussion going..