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A Baltic odyssey : war and survival /

Fifty years after the end of World War II, two unique narratives chronicle the final months of that desperate struggle in very personal and explicit terms. While cruelly separated from one another, Jurgen and Martha von Rosen have written two parallel accounts about the same years. Baron von Rosen&#...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Von Rosen, Martha, 1904-
Otros Autores: Von Rosen, Jürgen, 1907-1954, Whittaker, Elvi W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Calgary, Alberta] : University of Calgary Press, ©1995.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Fifty years after the end of World War II, two unique narratives chronicle the final months of that desperate struggle in very personal and explicit terms. While cruelly separated from one another, Jurgen and Martha von Rosen have written two parallel accounts about the same years. Baron von Rosen's prisoner-of-war diary is a standing testimonial to the horrors of imprisonment. It reveals a picture of the "enemy," and the conduct of the Allied forces toward their captives, which may be quite foreign to conventional knowledge. The Baron who had been conscripted into the Afrika Korps, was captured by the Allies in Italy after Germany surrendered in 1945. Baroness von Rosen's memoir is a refugee's account of war. As a young woman fleeing from the advancing Russians, she travelled through a harsh winter landscape accompanied by her aged parents and her young children
These poignant stories clearly show the experience of the forgotten and homeless victims of war, no matter what side they happen to have been on.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xix, 320 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-309) and index.
ISBN:0585172498
9780585172491
9781552382899
1552382893
1895176247
9781895176247