Audiobook If I'd Known You in a Better Time written by David Donachie. 1942: The time of Stalingrad. At home, Elisabeth von Trecheim must run the family estate, not knowing if her husband is alive or dead. Into her life steps a handsome English Prisoner of War, invoking troubling memories. Her husband, Hans, must survive a Russian prison camp; no food, raging epidemics, men dying like flies.