East Prussia in the summer of 1944: As the front in the East draws ever closer, Army Group Centre collapses under Soviet attacks, andfor the first timesoldiers of the Red Army set foot on German soil, the people living east of the Vistula cling desperately to a sense of normalcy. When, in August 1944, formations of British and Canadian bombers reduce Königsberg to rubble and ash, the end of a seven-hundred-year history becomes inevitable. What follows is one of the most dramatic mass exoduses of the Second World War. In *Ostpreußen 1944*, Hermann Pölking constructs a polyphonic narrativewoven from diaries, autobiographical memoirs, local and regional historical accounts, official documents, and family loreto present the harrowing panorama of a society teetering on the brink of the abyss, yet blindly refusing to look into it.
Author
Pölking, Herrmann
Title
Ostpreußen 1944
Details
Numerous colour illustrations. 304 pages.
State
new
Subtitle
Am Abgrund
Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft Hindenburgstr. 40 64295 Darmstadt Deutschland
