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The bitter taste of victory

life, love, and art in the ruins of the Reich

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An edition of The bitter taste of victory (2016)

The bitter taste of victory

life, love, and art in the ruins of the Reich

First U.S. edition.
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English
Pages
443

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Cover of: Bitter Taste of Victory
Bitter Taste of Victory: Life, Love and Art in the Ruins of the Reich
2017, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
in English
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Bitter Taste of Victory: In the Ruins of the Reich
2016, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
in English
Cover of: Bitter Taste of Victory
Bitter Taste of Victory: In the Ruins of the Reich
2016, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
in English
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Bitter Taste of Victory: Life, Love, and Art in the Ruins of the Reich
2016, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
in English
Cover of: Bitter Taste of Victory
Bitter Taste of Victory: In the Ruins of the Reich
2016, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
in English
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The bitter taste of victory: life, love, and art in the ruins of the Reich
2016
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Table of Contents

The battle for Germany, 1944-45. "Setting out for a country that didn't really exist" : Crossing the Siegfried Line, November-December 1944 ; "Nazi Germany is doomed" : advance into Germany, January-April 1945 ; "We were blind and unbelieving and slow" : Victory, April-May 1945
Ruin and reconstruction, May-December 1945. "Complete chaos guaranteed" : cccupation, May-August 1945 ; "Berlin is boiling in sweltering summer heat" : Berlin, July-October 1945 ; "A pain that hurts too much" : German winter, September-December 1945
Judgement and hunger, 1945-46. "You'll hang them anyhow" : Nuremberg, November 1945-March 1946 ; "Let Germany live!" : fighting the peace, March-May 1946 ; "Let this trial never finish" : boredom, May-August 1946 ; "The law tries to keep up with life" : judgement, September-October 1946
Tension and revival, 1946-48. "Their suffering, and often their bravery, make one love them" : Cold War, October 1946-October 1947 ; "I've been the Devil's General on earth too long" : artistic enlightenment, November 1947-January 1948 ; "In Hell too there are these luxuriant gardens" : Germany in California, January-June 1948
Divided Germany, 1948-49. "If this is a war who is our enemy?" : The Berlin Airlift, June 1948-May 1949 ; "Perhaps our deaths will shock you into attention" : division, May-October 1949
"Closing time in the gardens of the West."

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages [371]-420) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
940.554
Library of Congress
DD259.63 .F454 2016

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 443 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
Number of pages
443

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Open Library
OL27210122M
Internet Archive
bittertasteofvic0000feig
ISBN 10
1632865513
ISBN 13
9781632865519
OCLC/WorldCat
918283738

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