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The End - Hamburg 1943 (Paperback, New Ed)
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The End - Hamburg 1943 (Paperback, New Ed)
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One didn't dare to inhale for fear of breathing it in. It was the
sound of eighteen hundred airplanes approaching Hamburg from the
south at an unimaginable height. We had already experienced two
hundred or even more air raids, among them some very heavy ones,
but this was something completely new. And yet there was an
immediate recognition: this was what everyone had been waiting for,
what had hung for months like a shadow over everything we did,
making us weary. It was the end. Novelist Hans Erich Nossack was
forty-two when the Allied bombardments of German cities began, and
he watched the destruction of Hamburg--the city where he was born
and where he would later die--from across its Elbe River. He heard
the whistle of the bombs and the singing of shrapnel; he watched
his neighbors flee; he wondered if his home--and his
manuscripts--would survive the devastation. The End is his terse,
remarkable memoir of the annihilation of the city, written only
three months after the bombing. A searing firsthand account of one
of the most notorious events of World War II, The End is also a
meditation on war and hope, history and its devastation. And it is
the rare book, as W. G. Sebald noted, that describes the Allied
bombing campaign from the German perspective. In the first
English-language edition of The End, Nossack's text has been
crisply translated by Joel Agee and is accompanied by the
photographs of Erich Andres. Poetic, evocative, and yet highly
descriptive, The End will prove to be, as Sebald claimed, one of
the most important German books on the firebombing of that country.
A small but critical book, something to read in those quiet moments
when we wonder what will happen next.--Susan Salter Reynolds, Los
Angeles Times
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