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1 online resource (x, 352 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Acknowledgments; Prologue; Chapter 1 Good-bye to the Mermaids; Chapter 2 Skulls and Danzig; Chapter 3 Aunt Margaret and the Tapeworm; Chapter 4 My Father's House; Chapter 5 Hitler's Eyes; Chapter 6 Of Stalingrad and Vitebsk; Chapter 7 Swimming in Amber; Chapter 8 Friendly Fire?; Chapter 9 Quiet before the Storm; Chapter 10 The Russians; Chapter 11 Frau Komm!; Chapter 12 Black Bread and Song, White Bread and Tears; Chapter 13 The Winterfelds; Chapter 14 "Isms"; Chapter 15 Airplanes over Berlin; Chapter 16 Lilacs; Chapter 17 Oma's Heart; Chapter 18 The Mermaids' Room |
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Chapter 19 Fire and IceEpilogue; Index |
| Summary |
"Memoir of a child living in Berlin during World War II. Tells how the war affected three generations of middle-class German women who lived through the bombing of Berlin, the Russian and Allied occupation, the Berlin Airlift, and the postwar recovery"--Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Finell, Karin -- Childhood and youth
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Finell, Karin fast |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany -- Berlin
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Germany -- Berlin -- Biography
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, German
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
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Childhood and youth of a person
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Children
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Weltkrieg 1939-1945
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Alltag
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Berlin (Germany) -- History -- Blockade, 1948-1949 -- Personal narratives
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Germany -- Berlin
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Berlin
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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History
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Personal narratives
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Personal narratives
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Autobiographies.
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Personal narratives.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Récits personnels.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780826265463 |
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0826265464 |
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