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100 1  Hitchcock, William I. 
245 14 The bitter road to freedom :|ba new history of the 
       liberation of Europe /|cWilliam I. Hitchcock. 
250    First Free Press hardcover edition. 
264  1 New York :|bFree Press,|c2008. 
300    viii, 446 pages :|billustrations, maps ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-429) and 
       index. 
505 0  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. 
520    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. 
650  0 World War, 1939-1945|zEurope|xEnd. 
650  0 World War, 1939-1945|xSocial aspects|zEurope. 
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