This multinational history of liberation brings to light the interactions of soldiers and civilians, the experiences of noncombatants, and the trauma of displacement and loss amid unprecedented destruction. Hitchcock surveys the European continent from D-Day to the final battles of the war and the first few months of the peace, and shows that the liberation of Europe was both a military triumph and a human tragedy of epic proportions. Summary: Americans are justly proud of the role their country played in liberating Europe from Nazi tyranny, but Americans often overlook the wartime experiences of European people themselves-the very people for whom the war was fought.
World War, 1939-1945 - Social aspects - Europe. Subject: World War, 1939-1945 - Europe - End. 8vo 8" - 9" tall 446 pages Description: viii, 446 p.
Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. A graduate of Kenyon College and Yale University, he is the author of The Age of Eisenhower and The Bitter Road to Freedom: The Human Cost of Allied Victory in World War II Europe, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.First Edition. His work and teaching focus on the global history of the 20th Century, in particular the era of the two world wars and the cold war. Corcoran Professor of History at the University of Virginia and serves as the faculty director of Governing American in a Global Era, or GAGE.
Ike led with integrity and became one of the most admired presidents of the past century. In fact, as this lecture will show, Eisenhower was one of the most consequential presidents of the postwar era, managing the Cold War with skill, generating economic growth, and taking important strides to advance Civil Rights. He was considered a mere caretaker who presided over a period of quiet prosperity. CDT View on YouTubeįor many years after he left office, Eisenhower received poor marks from historians and political journalists.
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