As far as I remember / Michael Kerr.

"This autobiography of Sir Michael Kerr chronicles the life of one of Britain's most prominent judges of the 70s and 80s from his Continental childhood up to his career in the Court of Appeal and beyond." "In the first part of his memoir, the author traces his family history and Germanic roots. His father, Alfred Kerr, was a well-known dramatic critic and essayist, whose writings were widely known throughout Germany from the turn of the century and have recently seen a resurrection, 50 years after his death, as related in the last chapter of the book. But because of the fame of his anti-Nazi writings and broadcasts, the Kerrs were forced to flee from Berlin as early as 3 March 1933, when Hitler came to power. The author and his sister Judith, later to become a famous author of children's books, had a relatively happy cosmopolitan childhood in Zurich, Paris, Nice and ultimately England. But their parents' lives remained on the edge of poverty and sometimes despair and there was never again a family home."--BOOK JACKET.