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Author Hitchcock, William I.

Title The bitter road to freedom : a new history of the liberation of Europe / William I. Hitchcock.

Publication Info. New York : Free Press, 2008.

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 Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction  940.5314 HITCHCOCK    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  940.53 HIT    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  940.53 HITCHCOCK    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  940.5314 H674B    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  940.5314 HI    Check Shelf
Edition First Free Press hardcover edition.
Description viii, 446 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents Liberation in the west. Prologue: D-Day. "Too wonderfully beautiful": liberation in Normandy ; Blood on the snow: the eulsive liberation of Belgium ; Hunger : the Netherlands and the politics of food -- Into Germany. Prologue: armies of justice. Red storm in the east: survival and revenge ; A strange, enemy country: America's Germany -- Moving bodies. Prologue: "They have suffered unbearably." Freedom from want: UNRRA and the relief effort to save Europe ; "A tidal wave of nomad persons": Europe's displaced persons -- To live again as people. Prologue: "We felt ourselves lost." A host of corpses : liberating Hitler's camps ; Americans and Jews in occupied Germany ; Belsen and the British.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-429) and index.
Summary 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.
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Europe -- End.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Europe.
ISBN 9780743273817
0743273818
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