Swansong 1945 : a collective diary of the last days of the Third Reich / Walter Kempowski ; translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside.

Chronicles the end of Nazi Germany and World War II in Europe through hundreds of letters, diaries, and autobiographical accounts covering four days that fateful spring: Hitler's birthday on April 20, American and Soviet troops meeting at the Elbe on April 25, Hitler's suicide on April 30, and final...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Echolot. English.
Other Authors: Kempowski, Walter (Compiler)
Whiteside, Shaun (Translator)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
German
Published: New York, N.Y. : W. W. Norton & Company, 2015.
Edition:First American edition.
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Genre:
Physical Description:xxii, 479 pages ; 25 cm
Variant Title:
Swan song 1945.
Format: Book

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500 |a First published in Great Britain by Granta Books, 2014 as Swansong 1945: a collective diary from Hitler's last birthday to VE Day. Great Britain : Granta Books, 2014. 
500 |a Original German edition first published in 2005 as Das Echolot : Abgesang '45 : ein kollekitives Tagebuch by Albrecht Knaus Verlag, Munich.--Title page verso. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-454) and index. 
505 0 |a Foreword / Alan Bance -- Preface / Walter Kempowski -- Editorial note / Walter Kempowski -- Note on the English translation -- Friday, 20 April 1945 -- Wednesday, 25 April 1945 -- Monday, 30 April 1945 -- Tuesday, 8 May/Wednesday, 9 May 1945. 
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