ISBN: 9780805039269

May 8, 1945, 23:30 hours: With war still raging in the Pacific, peace comes at last to Europe as the German High Command in Berlin signs the final instrument of surrender. After five year… More...

May 8, 1945, 23:30 hours: With war still raging in the Pacific, peace comes at last to Europe as the German High Command in Berlin signs the final instrument of surrender. After five years and eight months, the war in Europe is officially over. This is the story of that single day and of the days leading up to it. Hour by hour, place by place, Sir Martin Gilbert recounts the final spasms of a continent in turmoil. Here are the stories of combat soldiers and ordinary civilians, collaborators and resistance fighters, statesmen and war criminals, all recounted in vivid, dramatic detail. But this is more than a moment-by-moment account, for Gilbert uses every event as a point of departure, linking each to its long-term consequences over the following half century. In our attempts to understand the world we inherited in 1945, there is no better starting point than The Day the War Ended. Book jacket. Media > Book, [PU: Henry Holt and Company also Metropolitan Books]<

1995, ISBN: 0805039260

[EAN: 9780805039269], [PU: Henry Holt and Company, New York], SECOND WORLD WAR MILITARY HISTORY II TWO, Jacket, As New. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. The dust jacket is pr… More...

[EAN: 9780805039269], [PU: Henry Holt and Company, New York], SECOND WORLD WAR MILITARY HISTORY II TWO, Jacket, As New. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. The dust jacket is protected by a Brodart mylar cover and is not price-clipped. Not an ex-library copy. No remainder marks. Most books shipped within 24 hours. All books mailed with Delivery Confirmation. Fine condition in fine dust jacket. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo.; 473 pages, Books<