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Death in the Baltic de Cathryn Prince

Death in the Baltic

Autor Cathryn Prince
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 aug 2014

January 1945: the outcome of World War II has been determined. The Third Reich is in free fall as the Russians close in from the east. Berlin plans an eleventh-hour exodus for the German civilians trapped in the Red Army's way. More than 10,000 women, children, sick, and elderly pack aboard the "Wilhelm Gustloff, "a former cruise ship. Soon after the ship leaves port, three Soviet torpedoes strike it, inflicting catastrophic damage and throwing passengers into the frozen waters of the Baltic. More than 9,400 perished in the night six times the number lost on the "Titanic." Yet as the Cold War started no one wanted to acknowledge the sinking. In "Death in the Baltic," by drawing on interviews with survivors, as well as the letters and diaries of those who perished, award-wining author Cathryn Prince reconstructs this forgotten moment in history. She weaves these personal narratives into a broader story, finally giving this WWII tragedy its rightful remembrance."

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781137279194
ISBN-10: 1137279192
Pagini: 236
Ilustrații: includes 8pp B&W photos
Dimensiuni: 145 x 224 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Palgrave MacMillan Trade
Locul publicării:Basingstoke, United Kingdom

Descriere

January 1945: the outcome of World War II has been determined. The Third Reich is in free fall as the Russians close in from the east. Berlin plans an eleventh-hour exodus for the German civilians trapped in the Red Army’s way. More than 10,000 women, children, sick, and elderly pack aboard the Wilhelm Gustloff, a former cruise ship. Soon after the ship leaves port, three Soviet torpedoes strike it, inflicting catastrophic damage and throwing passengers into the frozen waters of the Baltic. More than 9,400 perished in the night - six times the number lost on the Titanic. Yet as the Cold War started no one wanted to acknowledge the sinking. Drawing on interviews with survivors, as well as the letters and diaries of those who perished, award-wining author Cathryn Prince reconstructs this forgotten moment in history. She weaves these personal narratives into a broader story, finally giving this WWII tragedy its rightful remembrance.

Notă biografică

Cathryn J. Prince is the author of A Professor, a President, and a Meteor: The Birth of American Science, for which she won the Connecticut Press Club’s 2011 Book Award for nonfiction. She is also the author of Burn the Town and Sack the Banks: Confederates Attack Vermont! and Shot from the Sky: American POWs in Switzerland. She worked as a correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor in Switzerland and in New York, where she covered the United Nations. Prince covers the Connecticut State House for Patch.com. She lives in Weston, CT.

Caracteristici

1) GREAT SUMMERTIME READ FOR TITANIC ENTHUSIASTS:Prince reconstructs this moment from interviews with survivors as well as the letters and diaries of those who perished. An emotionally affecting retelling of a forgotten piece of history.
 
2)WORST MARITIME DISASTER: Along with the Titanic and the Lusitania which each claimed fewer than 2000 civilian lives, over 9300 German refugees from eastern Germany perished in the sinking of the Gustloff. This is one of the great unknown tragedies of the Second World War.
 
3)UNKNOWN WORLD WAR II SAGA: The story of the sinking of the refugee ship was blocked from the press in both countries - in Germany because of concerns about demoralization, while the Soviet Union suppressed stories that hinted at their revenge on the German population. In the Cold War, they would again block the press as Eastern Germany was folded into the Eastern bloc.

Cuprins

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: "You Have to Go On This Ship"
Chapter Two: Hitler's Hostages: Life in the Eastern Territories
Chapter Three: Operation Hannibal and the Crown of the Fleet--the Wilhelm Gustloff
Chapter Four: "We Knew We Had to Get Out"
Chapter Five: Saving a Scuttled Reputation
Chapter Six: Battle for the Baltic
Chapter Seven: Chaos on Deck
Chapter Eight: Plummeting to the Sea Floor
Chapter Nine: The Little Red Sweater
Chapter Ten: Forgotten Story
Chapter Eleven: "We Had To Get Over It"
Appendix
Bibliography