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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
505 0  Liberation in the west. Prologue: D-Day. "Too wonderfully beautiful": liberation in Normandy ; Blood on the snow: the elusive 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.
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-429) and index.
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.
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
650  0 World War, 1939-1945 |zEurope |xEnd.
650  0 World War, 1939-1945 |xSocial aspects |zEurope.
856 42  |3Publisher description |uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0838/2008002344-d.html
856 42  |3Sample text |uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0901/2008002344-s.html
852 0   |bstacks |hD755.7 |i.H56 2008