| Playing Time |
180609 |
| System Details |
Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 260202 KB). |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Performer |
Read by Mel Foster. |
| Note |
Duration: 18:06:09. |
| Summary |
The bitter road to freedom depicts in searing detail the shocking price that Europeans paid for their freedom, ranging from the ferocious battle for Normandy, to the plains of Poland, to the shattered cities and refugee camps of occupied Germany. |
| Contents |
Liberation in the west. Prologue: D-Day. "Too wonderfully beautiful": liberation in Normandy ; Blood on the snow: the elusive liberation of Belgium ; Hunger : the Netherlands and the politics of food -- Into Germany. Prologue: armies of justice. Red storm in the east: survival and revenge ; A strange, enemy country: America's Germany -- Moving bodies. Prologue: "They have suffered unbearably." Freedom from want: UNRRA and the relief effort to save Europe ; "A tidal wave of nomad peoples": Europe's displaced persons -- To live again as a people. Prologue: "We felt ourselves lost." A host of corpses : liberating Hitler's camps ; Americans and Jews in occupied Germany ; Belsen and the British. |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Europe -- End. -- Sound recordings.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Europe. -- Sound recordings.
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| Genre |
Audiobooks.
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| Added Author |
Foster, Mel.
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| Other Form: |
Original 0743273818 (DLC) 2008002344 (OCoLC)191024097 |
| ISBN |
9781400190478 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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1400190479 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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