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A Taste of War - Eyewitness Accounts of World War II - Straubing, Harold Elk (editor)

A Taste of War - Eyewitness Accounts of World War II

Author
Straubing, Harold Elk (editor)
Price
NZ$32.00
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1
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Macmillan 2003, very good condition with dustwrapper, spine a little faded

Here is a look at the private side of war, through graphic, first-hand accounts from all sides. Some of the pieces come from the heights of powers - Hitler's architect, Albert Speer, describing daily life at the Fuhrer's mountain hideaway; American journalist Sigrid Schultz's personal interviews with Hitler shortly before he killed himself. But many others emerge from raw notes scrawled by fighters in the heat of combat; from former prisoners-of-war trying to remember what they had tried so hard at the time to forget; from civilians under bombardment taking their lives into their hands by writing instead of escaping. This is the way the war was really waged - one human being at a time - and the impact of these 24 first-hand experiences brings the war home....

Format
Second hand Hardback
ISBN
9780806972060
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Category
SKU
134978

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