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Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler's Capital, 1939-45 ハードカバー – 2010/8/5
* Berlin was the nerve-centre of Hitler's Germany. It was the backdrop for the most lavish of Nazi ceremonies, the venue for Albert Speer's grandiose plans to forge a new 'world metropolis', and the scene of the final climactic battle to defeat Nazism. Berlin was the stage upon which the rise and fall of the Third Reich was most visibly played out.
* Yet while our understanding of the Holocaust is well developed, we know little about the wider challenges posed to the German people by living under a dictatorship in wartime, the compromises demanded and the hardships endured. As a result our understanding of everyday life in Nazi Germany is profoundly imbalanced: we know in intimate detail how a minority died under Nazism, but we understand precious little about how the majority lived.
* In this vivid and important study, Roger Moorhouse seeks to portray the German experience of the Second World War, not through an examination of grand politics, but rather from the viewpoint of the capital's streets and homes - a 'Berlin-eye view' that makes use of published and unpublished memoirs, diaries and interviews.
* As well as giving a flavour of everyday life in the German capital, Berlin at War also raises issues about consent and dissent, morality and authority, which go to the heart of the experience of war and dictatorship. Above all, it charts the violent humbling of a once-proud metropolis - the fear, the cruelty, the petty heroism and the individual tragedy.
- 本の長さ448ページ
- 言語英語
- 出版社The Bodley Head Ltd
- 発売日2010/8/5
- 寸法16.2 x 4.1 x 24 cm
- ISBN-100224080717
- ISBN-13978-0224080712
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Berlin at War is a well-researched and beautifully composed account, vividly recreating those years of Nazi arrogance, oppression, and corruption, that ended in such terrible destruction and civilian suffering -- Antony Beevor
Roger Moorhouse has marshalled an impressive range of primary sources including newspaper reports, official documents, memoirs, diaries and interviews with the dwindling band of survivors to create a gripping panorama of Berlin at war...Moorhouse's meticulous and painstaking research matched by his narrative verve, wide ranging sympathy and eye for telling detail -- C J Schuler ― Independent
The greatest achievement of Moorhouse's book is that it manages to capture the complexities and contradictions of life in Hitler's Germany, illuminating the experiences of those who were victims, perpetrators or both. In doing so it provides something rare: a popular-history account that will satisfy both general readers and professional historians ― Irish Times
Moorhouse's evocative social history...brings...the sights, sounds, thoughts and feelings of the ordinary Germans who lived here ― Telegraph
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- 出版社 : The Bodley Head Ltd (2010/8/5)
- 発売日 : 2010/8/5
- 言語 : 英語
- ハードカバー : 448ページ
- ISBN-10 : 0224080717
- ISBN-13 : 978-0224080712
- 寸法 : 16.2 x 4.1 x 24 cm
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Moorhouse examines daily life in the city as the war progressed. From the early air raids by the British to the almost carpet bombing later in the war when much of the city was destroyed, life for Berliners went from relatively easy to a desperate day-by-day existence. Searching for food and other rationed goods was an on-going problem, for everybody. (Except, of course, Nazi officials). The reader sees how acceptance of the idea of "total war" calling for "total effort" on the home front slackened greatly as the war was perceived by Berliners as going the wrong way, after 1942. Moorhouse writes about ordinary Berliners trying to eke out a daily existence despite nights spent in air raid shelters and largely destroyed city infrastructure. And then the Russians came, in early 1945, and destruction to the once great, liberal city was complete.
Moorhouse leaves very little out in his book. Chapters on the Jewish "problem" and ultimate solution are in the book along with chapters on propaganda, criminality by both the state and individuals, and on how the city functioned in the face of destruction. He's an excellent writer, too. For the amateur historian, this book is a delight.
What Roger Moorhouse has done is to give us a vivid and readable account of everyday life in the city at the time, alongside the broader trends.
For me, it was particularly rewarding to be told of the surprisingly low support in general for the Nazi regime in the city's elections. My wife's grandmother, writing from Berlin was ever at odds with it. The account in pages 271ff is particularly helpful in describing the way in which Berliners adapted to a regime which so few of them seem to have supported electorally.
On a more general canvas, this underlines the way in which the Nazi regime, with its SS and secret police was a "state within a state."
For anyone keen to understand this era, Roger Moorhouse has given us a readable and informative book, useful for every serious student.
Ted Baty
(The Reverend Doctor Edward Baty IMM)
PS I bought this Amazon at quite a discount, which made the purchase very worthwhile!