LEADER 00000cam a2200529Ii 4500 001 ocn918283738 003 OCoLC 005 20160526032634.0 008 150812s2016 nyuabf b 001 0 eng d 020 9781632865519 (HB) :|c$32.00 020 1632865513 (HB) :|c$32.00 020 9781408845325 (hardback) 020 1408845326 (hardback) 020 9781408845332 (paperback) 020 1408845334 (paperback) 035 (OCoLC)918283738|z(OCoLC)939902319 040 YDXCP|beng|erda|cYDXCP|dBTCTA|dBDX|dNLE|dOCLCO|dOCLCF|dVRC |dOCLCQ|dPMC|dOCLCQ|dOUN|dFM0|dABG|dRB0|dBKL|dUtOrBLW 043 e------ 049 BKLA 082 04 940.554|223 099 940.554|aF 100 1 Feigel, Lara,|eauthor. 245 14 The bitter taste of victory :|blife, love, and art in the ruins of the Reich /|cLara Feigel. 250 First U.S. edition. 264 1 New York ;|aLondon :|bBloomsbury Press,|c2016. 300 xi, 443 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : |billustrations, maps ;|c25 cm 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 500 "First published in Great Britain 2016"--Title-page verso. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages [371]-420) and index. 505 0 The battle for Germany, 1944-45. "Setting out for a country that didn't really exist" : Crossing the Siegfried Line, November-December 1944 ; "Nazi Germany is doomed" : advance into Germany, January-April 1945 ; "We were blind and unbelieving and slow" : Victory, April-May 1945 -- Ruin and reconstruction, May-December 1945. "Complete chaos guaranteed" : cccupation, May-August 1945 ; "Berlin is boiling in sweltering summer heat" : Berlin, July- October 1945 ; "A pain that hurts too much" : German winter, September-December 1945 -- Judgement and hunger, 1945-46. "You'll hang them anyhow" : Nuremberg, November 1945-March 1946 ; "Let Germany live!" : fighting the peace, March-May 1946 ; "Let this trial never finish" : boredom, May-August 1946 ; "The law tries to keep up with life" : judgement, September-October 1946 -- Tension and revival, 1946-48. "Their suffering, and often their bravery, make one love them" : Cold War, October 1946-October 1947 ; "I've been the Devil's General on earth too long" : artistic enlightenment, November 1947-January 1948 ; "In Hell too there are these luxuriant gardens" : Germany in California, January-June 1948 -- Divided Germany, 1948-49. "If this is a war who is our enemy?" : The Berlin Airlift, June 1948-May 1949 ; "Perhaps our deaths will shock you into attention" : division, May-October 1949 -- "Closing time in the gardens of the West." 611 27 Reconstruction (1939-1951)|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01091544 648 7 1900 - 1999|2fast 650 0 Denazification. 650 0 Reconstruction (1939-1951) 650 7 Denazification.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00890254 650 7 Intellectual life.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00975769 650 7 Social conditions.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01919811 651 0 Europe|xIntellectual life|y20th century. 651 0 Europe|xSocial conditions|y20th century. 651 7 Europe.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01245064 947 nsn 948 MARS 994 C0|bBKL