Opis: Eight Days in May - Volker Ullrich

1 May 1945. The world did not know it yet, but the final week of the Third Reich's existence had begun. Hitler was dead, but the war had still not ended. Everything had both ground to a halt and yet remained agonizingly uncertain.

Volker Ullrich's remarkable book takes the reader into a world torn between hope and terror, violence and peace. Ullrich describes how each day unfolds, with Germany now under a new Führer, Admiral Dönitz, based improbably in the small Baltic town of Flensburg. With Hitler dead, Berlin in ruins and the war undoubtedly lost, the process by which the fighting would end remained horrifyingly unclear. Many major Nazis were still on the loose, wild rumours continued to circulate about a last stand in the Alps and the Western allies falling out with the Soviet Union.

All over Europe, millions of soldiers, prisoners, slave labourers and countless exhausted, grief-stricken and often homeless families watched and waited for the war's end. Eight Days in May is the story of people, in Erich Kästner's striking phrase, stuck in 'the gap between no longer and not yet'.

Szczegóły: Eight Days in May - Volker Ullrich

Tytuł: Eight Days in May
Podtytuł: How Germany's War Ended
Autor: Volker Ullrich
Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books
ISBN: 9780141994109
Języki: angielski
Rok wydania: 2022
Ilość stron: 322
Format: 12.6x19.6cm
Oprawa: Miękka
Waga: 0.25 kg

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