Wolfram

The Boy Who Went to War

Giles Milton

За особеностите на екземпляра

Състояние:: Много добро
Забележка:: Към отлично. Здраво книжно тяло, без забележки по текста. Леки забележки по обложката. С автограф. С етикет на корицата.
Език:: Английски
Наличност:: 1 бр.

За изданието

Издателство:: Sceptre
Град на издаване:: London
Година:: 2011 г.
Език:: Английски
Страници:: 335
Корици:: Твърди
Категория:: Мемоари, биографии, писма
Ширина (мм):: 160
Височина (мм):: 240

WOLFRAM IS THE story of the Third Reich as seen through German eyes. It examines how one eccentric German family - who despised Hitler from the outset - survived the daily horrors of Nazi Germany. At the heart of the book is a moral dilemma that will strike a chord with every reader: how much should one compromise one's ideals when living in a brutal dictatorship? Wolfram was nine when Hitler came to power and 21 when the Second World War ended. He was to experience the rise and fall of the Third Reich, from the earliest street marches to the final defeat of the Nazi regime. Conscripted into Hitler's army, he was to witness firsthand the brutality of war - first on the Russian front and then on the Normandy beaches. Wolfram: The Boy Who Went to War offers a new and different perspective on the horrors of the Nazi regime. Based on sixty hours of interviews with Wolfram Aichele, along with letters and diaries in the family archive, Giles Milton recreates an extraordinary personal testimony from the darkest days of the Third Reich. The Allied bombers screamed in from the sea, spilling hundreds of shells onto the troops below. As the air filled with exploding shrapnel, one young German soldier flung himself into a ditch and prayed that his ordeal would soon be over. Wolfram Aichele was nine years old when Hitler came to power. His formative years were spent in the shadow of the Third Reich. He and his parents - free-thinking artists - were to have firsthand experience of living under one of the most brutal regimes in history. The Boy Who Went to War overturns all the cliches about life under Hitler. It is a powerful story of warfare and human survival and a reminder that civilians on all sides suffered the consequences of Hitler's war. It is also an eloquent testimony to the fact that even in times of exceptional darkness, there remains a brilliant spark of humanity that can never be totally extinguished. British writer and journalist Giles Milton was born in Buckinghamshire in 1966. He has contributed articles for most of the British national newspapers as well as many foreign publications, and specializes in the history of travel and exploration. In the course of his research, he has traveled extensively in Europe, the Middle East, Japan and the Far East, and the Americas. Knowledgeable, insatiably curious and entertaining, Milton locates history's most fascinating-and most overlooked-stories and brings them to life in his books. He lives in London, where he is a member of the Hakluyt Society, which is dedicated to reprinting the works of explorers and adventurers in scholarly editions, some of which he uses in his research. He wrote most of Samurai William in the London Library, where he loved the "huge reading room, large Victorian desks and creaking armchairs". At home and while traveling, he is ever on the lookout for new untold stories. Apparently he began researching the life of Sir John Mandeville for his book The Riddle and the Knight after Mandeville’s book Travels "literally fell off the shelf of a Paris bookstore" in which he was browsing.

Ключови думи: Wolfram, Giles, Milton