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Berlin at war / Roger Moorhouse. --
Record details
- ISBN: 0465005330
- ISBN: 9780465005338
- Physical Description: xvi, 432 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Basic Books c2010.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [418]-421) and index. |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 35.50 |
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| Subject: | World War, 1939-1945 > Germany > Berlin. Berlin (Germany) > History > 1918-1945. Berlin (Germany) > Social conditions > 20th century. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Cookstown Branch | 943.1550864 Moo | 31681002284172 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Drawing on diaries, memoirs and interviews, the author provides a riveting first-hand account of life and death on the home front in the Nazi capital of Berlin, including some Berliners' efforts to help the city's remaining Jews. By the author ofKilling Hitler: The Plots, the Assassins, and the Dictator Who Cheated Death . - Baker & Taylor
Drawing on diaries, memoirs, and interviews, the author provides a first-hand account of life and death on the home front in the Nazi capital of Berlin, including some Berliners' efforts to help the city's remaining Jews. - Book News
While most books about Germany during the Second World War deal with military or political history on a large scale, Moorhouse focuses on a single city, describing life during the war years from the perspective of residents of Berlin. Using interviews with still-living war survivors as well as unpublished memoirs and diaries, the author shows Berliners' lives became increasingly difficult and surreal as their city bore the brunt of the Allied air war and, later, the final attacks of the Soviet Red Army. A sobering testament to the escalating horrors that years of war wreak on civilians, Moorhouse's book deserves a wide audience. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) - Perseus PublishingBerlin was the city at the very center of World War Two. It was the launching pad for Hitlerâs empire, the embodiment of his vision of a ?world metropolis.â Berlin was also the place where Hitlerâs Reich would ultimately fall. Berlin suffered more air raids than any other German city and endured the full force of a Soviet siege.
In Berlin at War, historian Roger Moorhouse uses diaries, memoirs, and interviews to provide a searing first-hand account of life and death in the Nazi capital?the privations, the hopes and fears, and the nonconformist tradition that saw some Berliners provide underground succour to the cityâs remaining Jews. Combining comprehensive research with gripping narrative, Berlin at War is the incredible story of the city?and people?that saw the whole of World War Two.
- Perseus PublishingFrom the corridors of power to the daily experiences of Berliners, a magnificent portrait of everyday life at the epicenter of the Third Reich
