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“A tribute to human resilience under extreme stress, both in response to the terror from the sky and to the sacrifices the Nazis imposed on their people.” —History
Under the Bombs tells the story of the civilian population of German cities devastated by Allied bombing in World War II. These people went to work, tried to keep a home (though in many cases it was just a pile of rubble where a house once stood), and attempted to live life as normally as possible amid the chaos of war. Earl Beck also looks at the food and fuel rationing the German people endured and the problems of trying to make a public complaint while living in a totalitarian state.
“An easily accessible ‘impressionistic description’ of life in Germany under Allied aerial bombardment . . . this evocative study captures the horror of war for a trapped population.” —Library Journal
“The most vivid account available of what it was actually like to live under the bombings.” —Historian
“Challenges the contention of Allied commanders that airpower was the ultimate key to victory and that it could have defeated the enemy by itself.” —America
“A powerful study.” —American Historical Review
“An enlightening, highly readable account of life in the war-ravaged Third Reich.” —Pineville Sun
“A description of what it was like to live, work, suffer, and die in wartime Germany.” —The Historian
Under the Bombs tells the story of the civilian population of German cities devastated by Allied bombing in World War II. These people went to work, tried to keep a home (though in many cases it was just a pile of rubble where a house once stood), and attempted to live life as normally as possible amid the chaos of war. Earl Beck also looks at the food and fuel rationing the German people endured and the problems of trying to make a public complaint while living in a totalitarian state.
“An easily accessible ‘impressionistic description’ of life in Germany under Allied aerial bombardment . . . this evocative study captures the horror of war for a trapped population.” —Library Journal
“The most vivid account available of what it was actually like to live under the bombings.” —Historian
“Challenges the contention of Allied commanders that airpower was the ultimate key to victory and that it could have defeated the enemy by itself.” —America
“A powerful study.” —American Historical Review
“An enlightening, highly readable account of life in the war-ravaged Third Reich.” —Pineville Sun
“A description of what it was like to live, work, suffer, and die in wartime Germany.” —The Historian
About the author
Earl R. Beck is professor emeritus of history at Florida State University.
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