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The Bitter Taste of Victory - Life, Love and Art in the Ruins of the Reich (Paperback)
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The Bitter Taste of Victory - Life, Love and Art in the Ruins of the Reich (Paperback)
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Shortlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown 2017 As the Second World
War neared its conclusion, Germany was a nation reduced to rubble:
3.6 million German homes had been destroyed leaving 7.5 million
people homeless; an apocalyptic landscape of flattened cities and
desolate wastelands. In May 1945 Germany surrendered, and Britain,
America, Soviet Russia and France set about rebuilding their zones
of occupation. Most urgent for the Allies in this divided, defeated
country were food, water and sanitation, but from the start they
were anxious to provide for the minds as well as the physical needs
of the German people. Reconstruction was to be cultural as well as
practical: denazification and re-education would be key to future
peace and the arts crucial in modelling alternative, less
militaristic, ways of life. Germany was to be reborn; its citizens
as well as its cities were to be reconstructed; the mindset of the
Third Reich was to be obliterated. When, later that year,
twenty-two senior Nazis were put in the dock at Nuremberg, writers
and artists including Rebecca West, Evelyn Waugh, John Dos Passos
and Laura Knight were there to tell the world about a trial
intended to ensure that tyrannous dictators could never again
enslave the people of Europe. And over the next four years, many of
the foremost writers and filmmakers of their generation were
dispatched by Britain and America to help rebuild the country their
governments had spent years bombing. Among them, Ernest Hemingway,
Martha Gellhorn, Marlene Dietrich, George Orwell, Lee Miller, W.H.
Auden, Stephen Spender, Billy Wilder and Humphrey Jennings. The
Bitter Taste of Victory traces the experiences of these figures and
through their individual stories offers an entirely fresh view of
post-war Europe. Never before told, this is a brilliant, important
and utterly mesmerising history of cultural transformation.
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