1995, ISBN: 9780671619336

Hardcover

London England: HarperCollins, 1995. Hardback. First Edition. The Day the War Ended. Very slight foxing to edge. Slight scratch to back D/J. The author tells the story of that single day … More...

London England: HarperCollins, 1995. Hardback. First Edition. The Day the War Ended. Very slight foxing to edge. Slight scratch to back D/J. The author tells the story of that single day fifty years ago and of the events which led up to it. Hour by hour, place by place, he recounts the final spasms of a continent in turmoil. On average about 20,000 people lost their lives each day of the war - the highest death toll in any conflict in recorded history. As many as twenty million lost their homes and became refugees. Hunger and deprivation beset the defeated. Revenge and magnanimity jostled in the minds of the victors. In planning this book, Gilber appealed all over the world for those who had witnessed VE-Day to write to him with their recollections. They replied in their hundreds - soldiers, sailors and airmen, combatants and civilians, young and old, prisoners of war and resistance fighters, the liberators, the liberated and the defeated. Gilbert weaves these wide-ranging and moving accounts, as well as archival material, much of it published here for the first time, and contemportary newspaper reports, to recreate a dramatic chronology of the ending of the war. But his book is more than a moment-by-moment account: he also uses many of the events of May 8 as points of departure, pointing to their consequences over the next fifty years and mapping the world that was to come. The result is a remarkable testament to this most terrible of wars and to much of the late twentieth-century history. This book gives both those who saw the end of the war for themselves, and subsequent generations, the chance to glimpse in graphic detail the aspirations and emotions of half a century ago. Illustrated. 473 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature). First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo. Hardback., HarperCollins, 1995, 3, New York, NY: Washington Square. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1967. Mass Market Paperback. 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 558 pages; Mass market paperback very lightly rubbed at edges. Covers lightly yellowed. Maps illustrate. Bagged for protection. ., Washington Square, 1967, 3<

1985, ISBN: 0671619330

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1985, ISBN: 9780671619336

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1985, ISBN: 0671619330

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