| Description |
viii, 446 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Preface: A Cemetery in Luxembourg -- 1. "Too Wonderfully Beautiful": Liberation in Normandy -- 2. Blood on the Snow: The Elusive Liberation of Belgium -- 3. Hunger: The Netherlands and the Politics of Food -- 4. Red Storm in the East: Survival and Revenge -- 5. A Strange, Enemy Country: Americas Germany -- 6. Freedom from Want: UNRRA and the Relief Effort to Save Europe -- 7. "A Tidal Wave of Nomad Peoples": Europe's Displaced Persons -- 8. A Host of Corpses: Liberating Hitler's Camps -- 9. Americans and Jews in Occupied Germany -- 10. Belsen and the British -- Conclusion: The Missing Liberation |
| Notes |
First published in the US under title: The bitter road to freedom, Europe 1944-1945 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-429) and index |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Europe -- End.
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| ISBN |
0571227724 (hbk.) |
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9780571227723 (hbk.) |
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