Collaboration Eileen Winncroft (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 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.