The bitter road to freedom : a new history of the liberation of Europe / William I. Hitchcock.
نوع المادة : نصالناشر:New York : Free Press, 2008الطبعات:Book Club editionوصف:viii, 446 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780743273817
- 0743273818
- D755.7 .H56 2008
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كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | D755.7 .H56 2008 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30020000046745 | ||
كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | D755.7 .H56 2008 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.2 | المتاح | 30020000048250 |
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D755.7 C58 1995 The conquest of the Reich : D-Day to VE-Day, a soldierʼs history / | D755.7 D613 1995 The decline and fall of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan : a pictorial history of the final days of World War II / | D755.7 .H56 2008 The bitter road to freedom : a new history of the liberation of Europe / | D755.7 .H56 2008 The bitter road to freedom : a new history of the liberation of Europe / | D755.7 H56 2009 Liberation : the bitter road to freedom, Europe 1944-1945 / | D755.7 L4 2001 With our backs to Berlin / | D755.7 W45 1997 Paths of death and glory : the war in Europe, January - May 1945 / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-429) and index.
Part 1. Liberation in the west. Prologue: D-Day. "Too wonderfully beautiful": liberation in Normandy ; Blood on the snow: the elusive liberation of Belgium ; Hunger : the Netherlands and the politics of food -- Part 2. Into Germany. Prologue: armies of justice. Red storm in the east: survival and revenge ; A strange, enemy country: America's Germany -- Part 3. Moving bodies. Prologue: "They have suffered unbearably." Freedom from want: UNRRA and the relief effort to save Europe ; "A tidal wave of nomad peoples": Europe's displaced persons -- Part 4. To live again as a people. Prologue: "We felt ourselves lost." A host of corpses : liberating Hitler's camps ; Americans and Jews in occupied Germany ; Belsen and the British -- Conclusion : the missing liberation.
"Americans are justly proud of the role their country played in liberating Europe from Nazi tyranny, but Americans often overlook the wartime experiences of European people themselves--the very people for whom the war was fought. Here, historian William I. Hitchcock surveys the European continent from D-Day to the final battles of the war and the first few months of the peace, and shows that the liberation of Europe was both a military triumph and a human tragedy of epic proportions. This multinational history of liberation brings to light the interactions of soldiers and civilians, the experiences of noncombatants, and the trauma of displacement and loss amid unprecedented destruction. Today, with American soldiers once again waging wars of liberation in faraway lands, this book serves as a timely and sharp reminder of the terrible human toll exacted by even the most righteous of wars"--Publisher description.