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An Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitler
Peter Fritzsche
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Description for An Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitler
Hardcover. From a prize-winning historian, a vivid account of German-occupied Europe during World War II that reveals civilians' struggle to understand Num Pages: 376 pages, TBD. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; HBJD; HBTB; HBTZ; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 242 x 35. Weight in Grams: 602.
World War II reached into the homes and lives of ordinary people in an unprecedented way. Civilian men, women, and children made up the vast majority of those killed by the war, and the conflict displaced millions more. On Europe's home fronts, the war brought the German blitzkrieg, followed by long occupations and the racial genocide of the Holocaust. In An Iron Wind , historian Peter Fritzsche draws on diaries, letters, and other first-person accounts to show how civilians in occupied Europe struggled to understand this terrifying chaos. As the Third Reich targeted Europe's Jews for deportation and death, ... Read more
World War II reached into the homes and lives of ordinary people in an unprecedented way. Civilian men, women, and children made up the vast majority of those killed by the war, and the conflict displaced millions more. On Europe's home fronts, the war brought the German blitzkrieg, followed by long occupations and the racial genocide of the Holocaust. In An Iron Wind , historian Peter Fritzsche draws on diaries, letters, and other first-person accounts to show how civilians in occupied Europe struggled to understand this terrifying chaos. As the Third Reich targeted Europe's Jews for deportation and death, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Basic Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
601g
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780465057740
SKU
V9780465057740
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About Peter Fritzsche
Peter Fritzsche is the W. D. & Sarah E. Trowbridge Professor of History at the University of Illinois. The author of nine books, including the award-winning Life and Death in the Third Reich, he lives in Urbana, Illinois.
Reviews for An Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitler
A work of deep reflection by an experienced historian rather than an attempt to capture the history of World War II from any particular angle. Still, his announced theme - the moral challenges of the war for civilians in Europe - gives way at the beginning to set pieces on other subjects: the ones, the reader suspects, that Fritzsche finds ... Read more