The Draughtsman – Robert Lautner

Germany, 1944. Ernst Beck is a young draughtsman newly employed at the Topf and Sons factory — a company that manufactures ovens. Ordinary ovens, he tells himself. But as the war grinds on and the truth of what he is helping to build becomes impossible to ignore, Ernst must make a choice that will define him forever.

Robert Lautner's The Draughtsman is a quietly devastating novel about complicity, conscience, and the terrifying ordinariness of evil. Drawing on the real history of the engineers who designed the crematoria at Auschwitz, it asks a question that lingers long after the final page: what would you have done?

Powerful, restrained, and deeply unsettling. Perfect for fans of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, HHhH, and literary historical fiction that confronts the darkest chapters of the twentieth century with unflinching honesty.

A paperback in Good condition.