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Soldaten - On Fighting, Killing and Dying: The Secret Second World War Tapes of German POWs
Sonke Neitzel
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Description for Soldaten - On Fighting, Killing and Dying: The Secret Second World War Tapes of German POWs
Paperback. A remarkable, controversial book about Germany's soldiers in the Second World War drawn from transcriptions of their secretly recorded conversations Num Pages: 448 pages, Integrated b-w. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWXR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 314.
The authors discovered 150,000 pages of transcriptions of secretly recorded conversations among German prisoners of war, of which approximately one third were made in P.O.W. camps in Britain, another cache was made by bugging prisoners in the Mediterranean theatre of the war (North Africa, Malta, Italy) and the remainder comes from the bugging of prisoners of war in the USA. These transcriptions are thus unmediated, uncensored, and unselfconsciously candid and that is what gives this book its historical significance and extraordinary impact.
What emerges from these transcriptions and within these pages is a shocking and profoundly illuminating portrait ... Read more
The authors discovered 150,000 pages of transcriptions of secretly recorded conversations among German prisoners of war, of which approximately one third were made in P.O.W. camps in Britain, another cache was made by bugging prisoners in the Mediterranean theatre of the war (North Africa, Malta, Italy) and the remainder comes from the bugging of prisoners of war in the USA. These transcriptions are thus unmediated, uncensored, and unselfconsciously candid and that is what gives this book its historical significance and extraordinary impact.
What emerges from these transcriptions and within these pages is a shocking and profoundly illuminating portrait ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849839495
SKU
V9781849839495
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99-99
About Sonke Neitzel
Sönke Neitzel is Professor of International History at the London School of Economics, having also held positions at the universities of Glasgow, Saarbrücken, Bern and Mainz.. He is the author of seven books, including Tapping Hitler's Generals and Soldaten. Harald Welzer is a sociologist and social psychologist, Professor for Transformation-design at the University of Flensburg, as well as Executive Director ... Read more
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