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The Bonfire of Berlin : A Lost Childhood in Wartime Germany - Schneider Helga - 2005

$21.00
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220 pages. Boards have no wear, rubbing or soiling. Dust jacket is in excellent condtion. Dust jacket is unclipped. Dust jacket is protected in clear, plastic sleeve. Pages are reasonably tanned. The powerful and moving memoir of Helga Schneiders abandonment by her parents and her terrifying childhood in wartime and post-war Berlin. Abandoned by her mother, who left to pursue a career as a camp guard at Auschwitz-Birkenau, loathed by her step-mother, cooped up in a cellar, starved, parched, lonely amidst the fetid crush of her neighbours, Helga Schneider endured the horrors of wartime Berlin. The Bonfire of Berlin is a searing account of her survival. The grinding misery of hunger, combined with the terror of air-raids, the absence of fresh water and the constant threat of death and disease served not to unite the tenants and neighbours of her apartment block but rather to intensify the minor irritations of communal life into flashpoints of rage and violence. And with Russian victory, the survivors could not look forward to a return to peacetime but rather to pillage and rape. It was only gradually that Schneiders life returned to some kind of normality, when her beloved father returned from the front, carrying his own scars of the war. This shocking book evokes the reality of life in a wartime city in all its brutality and deprivation, while retaining a kernel of hope that while life remains, not all is lost. From the Trade Paperback edition. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Military & Warfare; ISBN: 0434010502. ISBN/EAN: 9780434010509. Inventory No: 19060291. By: Schneider Helga Year: 2005 Visit our website to view thousands more products like this and order online at:
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