Hausfrau at War : A German Woman's Account of Life in Hitler's Reich
195726746London: Odhams Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Label on front endpaper "Glen Historic Collection / Southland". Previous owner's name dated Xmas '58 on front endpaper. Fading to dust-jacket spine. 12mm tears to margins of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival cover.; 255 1 blank pages frontispiece 10 illustrtions on 4 plate leaves. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 210 x 135mm. "This is a war-book with a difference - a dramatic and moving account by an ordinary German housewife of everyday life in wartime Berlin. The Berlin of 1939 - gay exultant intoxicated with easy victories - is the backgound to the personal drama of a young woman deserted by her husband lonely miserable desperately missing the two sons she has reluctantly placed with foster parents in order to earn a living. Three years of devastating Allied air attacks and mounting German defeats in the field are seen through the eyes of a woman now happily remarried fearful for the safety of her re-united family her mother-in-law in Hamburg and her brother on the Russian front. The siege of Berlin is rememberd by a woman whose brother was killed in the city's defence; the harsh realities of defeat and occupation are made vivid and unforgettable by someone whose home was turned into a soldiers' billet whose husband was shot by Russian invaders." - from dust-jacket blurb. . Odhams Press hardcover
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