politalX Politics Store - In the Ruins of the Reich
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Manufacturer: Methuen Publishing Ltd
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 900
EAN: 9780413775115
ISBN: 0413775119
Label: Methuen Publishing Ltd
Manufacturer: Methuen Publishing Ltd
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: 2005-05-05
Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd
Studio: Methuen Publishing Ltd
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Summary: Objective account of the Aftermath of the Second WW
Comment: This is an excellent account of the aftermath of the Second World War, the appeal for me lying mainly in its apparent objectivity.
Despite the time elapsed since the end of the war, the abilities of man to inflict suffering upon fellow man appears to continue to this day. The book documents the horrors inflicted within the concentration camps and also conversely the later (and often overlooked) atrocities committed upon the German civilian population, both actively (in terms of violence) and by omission (mass starvation).
Much discussed in this book opened my eyes and plumbed new depths to the inhumanity of this war and for this reason, I would recommend this book as a more comprehensive account of its true legacy.
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Summary: Grippingly written
Comment: Perhaps most people of the post war generation probably think that the dying ended in Europe when the fighting stopped in May 1945. This book shows both the detail and numerous episodes of the continuing death toll that was levied on the peoples of Europe by the after-effects of conflict and the savage fighting of the final days of the Third Reich.
Mr Botting's sympathies seem to lie very much with the vanquished in detailing the terrible prospect of (non) economic life that faced most Germans at the conclusion of hostilities -- occasionally so much so that the reader wants to interject a sentence about all those who were given no choice about whether they lived or died by the architects of the Reich. But the story is very well told and the book is a true page-turner -- easily digested, engagingly clear and (to this reader at least) full of satisfyingly novel information. One star knocked off for what I perceived to be bias -- but that's probably permissible in what is a popular history and not an academic tome after all.
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