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The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-45 by Nicholas Stargardt (Paperback, 2016)
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The first social history of Germany during the Second World War for over forty years WINNER OF THE 2016 PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE The Second World War was a German war like no other. The Nazi regime, having started the conflict, turned it into the most horrific war in European history, resorting to genocidal methods well before building the first gas chambers. Over its course, the Third Reich expended and exhausted all its moral and physical reserves, leading to total defeat in 1945. Yet 70 years on - despite whole libraries of books about the war's origins, course and atrocities - we still do not know what Germans thought they were fighting for and how they experienced and sustained the war until the bitter end. When war broke out in September 1939, it was deeply unpopular in Germany. Yet without the active participation and commitment of the German people, it could not have continued for almost six years. What, then, was the war Germans thought they were fighting? How did the changing course of the conflict - the victories of the Blitzkrieg, the first defeats in the east, the bombing of Germany's cities - change their views and expectations? And when did Germans first realise that they were fighting a genocidal war? Drawing on a wealth of first-hand testimony, The German War is the first foray for many decades into how the German people experienced the Second World War. Told from the perspective of those who lived through it - soldiers, schoolteachers and housewives; Nazis, Christians and Jews - its masterful historical narrative sheds fresh and disturbing light on the beliefs, hopes and fears of a people who embarked on, continued and fought to the end a brutal war of conquest and genocide.Product Identifiers
PublisherVintage Publishing
ISBN-139780099539872
eBay Product ID (ePID)223825745
Product Key Features
Number of Pages736 Pages
Publication NameThe German War: a Nation under Arms, 1939-45
LanguageEnglish
SubjectGovernment, History
Publication Year2016
TypeTextbook
AuthorNicholas Stargardt
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height198 mm
Item Weight566 g
Item Width129 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorNicholas Stargardt
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- 29 Mar, 2017
Essential Correction of Historical Bias.
This book is exceptionally thoroughly researched with interviews done directly with participants and survivors or by reading original diaries and private letters home form troops. All British people should read this book to correct decades of continued war propaganda and history written by the victors. It is so full of detail and new perspectives that it took me a long time to work through it. Despite or perhaps because of this it is a very engrossing book of deep significance. I loved it and recommend it whole heartedly.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
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