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Informationen zum Autor John Gimlette is a well-established travel writer, having won the Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize and the Wanderlust Travel Writing Award. He is the author of At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig and Theatre of Fish , both of which were critically acclaimed. When not probing the extreme corners of the Earth he practises as a barrister in London. Klappentext By the end of World War II much of Western Europe was in chaos. The future of our world had been contested here in the hinterlands of France and across the German plains. But what's become of the battlefields now? Or the people that lived on them? And is there any trace of the 2.7 million Americans who smashed their way into the Reich (or the 12 million that followed)? With questions like these the award-winning travel writer John Gimlette guided by WWII veteran Putnam Flint sets off on an astonishing journey into the past. Zusammenfassung By the end of World War II much of Western Europe was in chaos. And is there any trace of the 2.7 million Americans who smashed their way into the Reich (or the 12 million that followed)? With questions like these, the award-winning travel writer John Gimlette, guided by WWII veteran Putnam Flint, sets off on an astonishing journey into the past.
