Description: Further DetailsTitle: War Comes to AachenCondition: NewSubtitle: The Nazis, Churchill and the 'Stalingrad of the West'EAN: 9781911723691ISBN: 9781911723691Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 10/03/2024Description: This book narrates the tumultuous era of total war through the fate of Aachen—Imperial Germany’s seat of power for 600 years, site of Charlemagne’s coronation as Holy Roman Emperor, and a place with greater geopolitical significance for Adolf Hitler in 1944 than Stalingrad in 1943. This was a stark contrast with the events of the Great War: in 1918, the Imperial German Army had abandoned Aachen in a rout-like flight. In the Nazi period, however, Aachen became a major symbol of Germany’s defiance against the Allies. For Hitler—his mind warped after surviving the Stauffenberg bomb plot—Germany’s westernmost city became pivotal in his last-ditch defence of the ‘thousand-year Reich’. War Comes to Aachen weaves together the city’s story from 1900, tracing its entrenched Catholic orthodoxy, its growth as an industrial urban centre, the demise of democracy, the rise of Nazism, the two world wars, and the Holocaust. The book surveys Churchill’s wartime leadership and the destruction of pre-war Aachen through the lenses of military history and the anthropology of aerial bombing. Philip W. Blood’s absorbing history concludes with Allied efforts to reshape German society after 1945, and with the use of remembrance as a means of socio-political control.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 216mmItem Length: 138mmAuthor: Philip W. BloodGenre: HistoryRelease Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: War Comes to Aachen
Title: War Comes to Aachen
Subtitle: The Nazis, Churchill and the 'Stalingrad of the West'
EAN: 9781911723691
ISBN: 9781911723691
Release Date: 10/03/2024
Release Year: 2024
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Book Title: War Comes to Aachen : the Nazis, Churchill and the 'stalingrad of the West'
Number of Pages: 400 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: C. Hurst AND Company (Publishers) The Limited
Topic: Europe / Germany, Europe / General
Item Height: 1.6 in
Publication Year: 2024
Genre: History
Item Weight: 22.4 Oz
Item Length: 7.9 in
Author: Philip W. Blood
Item Width: 5.7 in
Format: Hardcover