Otto Frank was the father of the most famous girl of the 20th Century. It was he who found her diaries after her death and his determination to see them published around the world. This is the first time his story has been told.
Born into a prosperous Jewish family in Berlin, his life was a portrait in miniature of the century: decorated after the Battle of the Somme, forced to flee Germany in the 1930s, betrayed and imprisoned by the Nazis in the Holocaust and finally gaining recognition bybearing witness to the century's horrors though the writings of his young daughter.
Carol Ann Lee has written a powerful biography of an extraordinary man's life caught up in history.
Carol Ann Lee is a Sunday Times bestselling author of true crime and historical biography, and has also written novels and books for children. She has written extensively on the Holocaust and the Moors Murders, and specialises in telling the stories of women whose lives have been shaped by violence. Her biography of Ruth Ellis, A Fine Day for a Hanging (2013), was shortlisted for the CWA Non-Fiction Dagger and is the inspiration for Silverprints’s 2025 drama for ITV, A Cruel Love. Her true crime books have also included the definitive study of the Moor Murders case, One of Your Own: The life and death of Myra Hyndley (2010), and The Murders at White House Farm (2015), the latter was also adapted into a highly acclaimed ITV drama which won a TV Choice Award. Carol Ann Lee currently lives in Yorkshire and this is her thirteenth book.
