The Fall of Berlin - Couverture souple

Read, Anthony

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0393332411 ISBN 13 : 9780393332414

Editeur : W. W. Norton & Company, 1993

Synopsis

The authors have delved into archival research, diaries, and memoirs, and conducted numerous interviews to recreate through brilliantly detailed vignettes the story of Berlin and its resilient inhabitants: the soldiers and ordinary citizens pounded by Allied bombing but maintaining their gallows humor; the endless procession of refugees; the 5,000 Jews who foiled the Nazi's rabid attempt to "purify" the capital; people like Dietrich Bonhoeffer who gave their lives in heroic anti-Nazi resistance while film stars and the well-connected lived in precarious luxury; the Third Reich's leaders jockeying for power in Hitler's underground bunker even as a ragged army of children, invalids, and old men confronted Soviet tanks in the rubble above; and of course, Hitler himself, trapped beneath a city he hated, waiting for the miracle promised him in horoscope readings. Not since Is Paris Burning? has a book so vividly evoked the daily struggle for survival and dignity in the nightmarish center of total war.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Anthony Read is the author of many books, most recently The Devil's Disciples: Hitler's Inner Circle. He lives in England.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: W. W. Norton & Company
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0393332411
• ISBN 13: 9780393332414
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 540
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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