Endgame, 1945: The Missing Final Chapter of World War II
- Synopsis
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"War is too important to be left to the generals," Georges Clemenceau once famously remarked. Stafford (Centre for the Study of the Two World Wars, U. of Edinburgh, UK) adds, "the history of war is too important to be left to the military historians alone," especially as they tend to end their accounts with the immediate cessation of hostilities and neglect the importance of war's aftermath. His method of capturing some of the realities of the final days and immediate aftermath, through mid-summer 1945, of World War II, is to weave together the biographies of "a handful of individuals," including a German mother separated from her sons and imprisoned by the Nazis, a British commando witness to the aftermath of the horrors of the concentration camps, an American soldier in Italy, a war correspondent traveling with Gen. Patton's forces into Germany, a Canadian officer in Holland, a German-Jewish exile serving as a British secret agent in Austria, a New Zealand intelligence officer working in opposition to the communists in the disputed city of Trieste, an American paratrooper in Berlin involved in some the very first manifestations of the Cold War confrontation with the Soviets, and a woman involved with humanitarian work for concentration camp victims. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Copyright:
- 2007
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780316023436
- Related ISBNs:
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9780316023443,
9780316035996,
9780316023405,
9780316023412,
9780316023399,
9780316023450,
9780316023429
- Publisher:
- Little, Brown and Company
- Date of Addition:
- 06/09/09
- Copyrighted By:
- David Stafford
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
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English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
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History,
Military,
Nonfiction
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- Bookshare Staff
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