The definitive 70th anniversary edition of The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank & edited by Otto H Frank & Mirjam Pressler the world's most famous diary & 'one of the greatest books of the century''12th June 1942I hope I will be able to confide everything to you as I have never been able to confide in anyone & I hope you will be a great source of comfort & support' In the summer of 1942 fleeing the horrors of the Nazi occupation Anne Frank & her family were forced into hiding in the back of an Amsterdam warehouse Aged thirteen when she went into the secret annexe Anne kept a diary in which she confided her innermost thoughts & feelings movingly revealing how the eight people living under these extraordinary conditions coped with the daily threat of discovery & death being cut off from the outside world petty misunderstandings & the unbearable strain of living like prisoners An intimate record of tension & struggle adolescence & confinement anger & heartbreak this is the definitive edition of the diary of Anne Frank' One of the greatest books of the century' Guardian'A modern classic' The Times' Rings down the decades as the most moving testament to the persecution of innocence' Daily Mail' Astonishing & excruciating Its gnaws at us still' New York Times Book Review'A monument to the human spirit' Mail on Sunday Anne Frank was born on 12 June 1929 She died in Bergen-Belsen three months short of her sixteenth birthday