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Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler's Capital, 1939-45

Door Roger Moorhouse

Categorie
WO II
Boeknummer
#409311-YA7
Titel
Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler's Capital, 1939-45
Auteur
Moorhouse, Roger
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
London : The Bodley Head
Jaar van uitgave
2010
ISBN10
0224080717
ISBN13
9780224080712
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original black boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, map on endpapers, illustrated with some photographs in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting
Berlin was the nerve-centre of Hitler's Germany. It was the backdrop for the most lavish of Nazi ceremonies, the venue for Albert Speer's grandiose plans to forge a new 'world metropolis', and the scene of the final climactic battle to defeat Nazism. Berlin was the stage upon which the rise and fall of the Third Reich was most visibly played out.

* Yet while our understanding of the Holocaust is well developed, we know little about the wider challenges posed to the German people by living under a dictatorship in wartime, the compromises demanded and the hardships endured. As a result our understanding of everyday life in Nazi Germany is profoundly imbalanced: we know in intimate detail how a minority died under Nazism, but we understand precious little about how the majority lived.

*... (Lees verder) In this vivid and important study, Roger Moorhouse seeks to portray the German experience of the Second World War, not through an examination of grand politics, but rather from the viewpoint of the capital's streets and homes - a 'Berlin-eye view' that makes use of published and unpublished memoirs, diaries and interviews.

* As well as giving a flavour of everyday life in the German capital, Berlin at War also raises issues about consent and dissent, morality and authority, which go to the heart of the experience of war and dictatorship. Above all, it charts the violent humbling of a once-proud metropolis - the fear, the cruelty, the petty heroism and the individual tragedy.
Pagina's
432
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 12,50

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