The German War - A Nation Under Arms, 1939-45

Informationen zum Autor Professor Nicholas Stargardt is one of Britain's foremost scholars of Nazi Germany. He teaches Modern European History at Magdalen College, Oxford, and is the author of Witnesses of War: Children's Lives under the Nazis (Jonathan Cape, 2005). Klappentext Drawing on a wealth of first-hand testimony, this is the first foray for many decades into how the German people experienced World War II. Told from the perspective of those who lived through it - soldiers, schoolteachers and housewives; Nazis, Christians and Jews -THE GERMAN WAR explores the ways in which ordinary people made sense of a conflict that transformed their lives. Zusammenfassung WINNER OF THE 2016 PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE The Second World War was a German war like no other.

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A terrific book. Nicholas Stargardt brilliantly explores diaries, letters and other previously untapped sources to provide more vivid and nuanced insight than ever before achieved into the motivation of ordinary Germans fighting the most horrific war of all time Ian Kershaw

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Stargardt, Stargardt Nicholas
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.09.2016
• EAN: 9780099539872
• ISBN: 978-0-09-953987-2
• No. of pages: 736
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 39 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book; Germany, HISTORY / Military / World War II, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Second World War, Social and cultural history, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2)