The bitter road to freedom: a new history of the liberation of Europe
Americans are justly proud of the role their country played in liberating Europe from Nazi tyranny, but Americans often overlook the wartime experiences of European people themselves--the very people for whom the war was fought. Here, historian William I. Hitchcock surveys the European continent fro...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Americans are justly proud of the role their country played in liberating Europe from Nazi tyranny, but Americans often overlook the wartime experiences of European people themselves--the very people for whom the war was fought. Here, historian William I. Hitchcock surveys the European continent from D-Day to the final battles of the war and the first few months of the peace, and shows that the liberation of Europe was both a military triumph and a human tragedy of epic proportions. This multinational history of liberation brings to light the interactions of soldiers and civilians, the experiences of noncombatants, and the trauma of displacement and loss amid unprecedented destruction. Today, with American soldiers once again waging wars of liberation in faraway lands, this book serves as a timely and sharp reminder of the terrible human toll exacted by even the most righteous of wars.--From publisher description. |
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| Beschreibung: | VIII, 446 S. Ill., Kt. |
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Preface:
A Cemetery in Luxembourg
1
PART I: LIBERATION IN THE WEST
Prologue: D-Day
11
1.
Too Wonderfully Beautiful : Liberation in Normandy
19
2.
Blood on the Snow: The Elusive Liberation of Belgium
60
3.
Hunger: The Netherlands and the Politics of Food
98
PART II: INTO GERMANY
Prologue: Armies of Justice
125
4.
Red Storm in the East: Survival and Revenge
131
5.
A Strange, Enemy Country: America s Germany
170
PART III: MOVING BODIES
Prologue: They Have Suffered Unbearably
211
6.
Freedom from Want: UNRRA and the Relief Effort to
Save Europe
215
7.
A Tidal Wave of Nomad Peoples : Europe s Displaced
Persons
249
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viii f
Contents
PART IV: TO LIVE AGAIN AS A PEOPLE
Prologue: We Felt Ourselves Lost
283
8.
A Host of Corpses: Liberating Hitler s Camps
287
9.
Americans and Jews in Occupied Germany
310
10.
Belsen and the British
339
Conclusion: The Missing Liberation
367
Acknowledgments
37
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Notes
379
Bibliography
415
Index
431
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