Stay alive : Berlin 1939-1945
Buruma, Ian2026
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In 1939, when Ian Buruma's epic opens, Berlin has been under Nazi rule for six years, and its 4.3 million people have made their accommodations to the regime, more or less. When war broke out with Poland in September, what was most striking at first was how little changed. Unless you were Jewish. Then life, already hard, was soon to get unfathomably worse. By 1943, with the German defeat at Stalingrad, ordinary life in Berlin would acquire an increasingly desperate cast. The last three years of the war in Berlin are truly a descent into hell, with a deranged regime in desperate free fall, an increasingly relentless pounding from Allied bombers, and the mounting dread of the approaching Soviet army. And by war's end Berlin's population had fallen by almost half. Among the people trying to stay alive in the city was Ian Buruma's own father, a prisoner conscripted into forced labour in the war economy along with 400,000 other imported workers.
Main title:
Stay alive : Berlin 1939-1945 / Ian Buruma.
Author:
Buruma, Ian, author
Imprint:
London : Atlantic Books, 2026.
Collation:
384 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781805462897 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
943.155086943.155 BURU943.155943.155086 BUR
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
9066671