Dimensions
160 x 240 x 50mm
Illuminating and compellingly readable, this book recreates the terrible events in Europe in 1944 and 1945, showing how it contributed to form the world we now inhabit.
Unlike the Napoleonic Wars, and the First World War, there was no peace settlement in 1945. The shape of Europe was determined entirely by military force, dividing it into two halves which corresponded to neither geography, culture nor previous history.
With Gregor Dallas we re-live the vast events of the end of the war years in the experience of real people: we live with the armies in the field, their movements determined by the cycle of seasons, and with civilians, particularly in booming wartime Washington, bombed London, liberated Paris, annihilated Warsaw, doomed Berlin, and Moscow gripped by poverty and secret terror.
