Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0571227732
ISBN-13
9780571227730
Edition
Main
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Imprint
Faber & Faber
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 3rd, 2009
Print length
464 Pages
Weight
436 grams
Dimensions
19.90 x 12.60 x 3.00 cms
Product Classification:
European history20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000Second World War
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The traditional image of Europe in 1945 is of grateful civilians showering soldiers with flowers and dancing in the streets. Using first-hand accounts, Hitchcock describes the catastrophic effects of invasion on Northern France, Belgium and Holland, the huge civilian death tolls from indiscriminate bombing, with towns destroyed and crops burnt.
The traditional image of Europe in 1945 is of grateful civilians showering soldiers with flowers and dancing in the streets. In reality, liberation was an extraordinarily violent and chaotic process. Using first-hand accounts, Hitchcock describes the catastrophic effects of invasion on Northern France, Belgium and Holland, the huge civilian death tolls from indiscriminate bombing, with towns destroyed and crops burnt. He shows that the motives and behaviour of the Allied forces were far from noble; they frequently abused power and authority, looted homes and sexually assaulted women. Hitchcock also writes about the discovery of the major concentration camps, and the often shocking lack of empathy shown by its liberators. Lucid and compelling, Liberation explores the paradoxes of ''the good war'', its glories and its horrific human costs.
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