THE GERMAN WAR: 1939-45
Book ID/图书代码： 00200015B79603
English Summary/英文概要： Within the large cast, a number of characters stand out – the young photographer Liselotte Purper, photographing the ‘re-settlement’ of Germans from Romania to occupied Poland; Jews in the Lodz Ghetto; the air-lifting of German wounded during the battle of Stalingrad.
Wilm Hoseneld and August Topperwein – both school teachers and veterans of the previous war – who grapple with their consciences over the conduct of the war and, especially, the murder of the Jews.
There is the perspective of long-term persecution through the ‘mixed’ marriages of Eva and Victor Klemperer and Jochen and Johanna Klepper.
We have the last letters of conscientious objectors before their execution and the last letters of young soldiers at the front.
There are enthusiastic Hitler Youths; BDM activists and teenage anti-aircraft auxiliaries, prepared to lay down their lives for the Fatherland and falling in love for the first time. And so many, many more.
By the middle years of the war, many Germans were aware that the war was both genocidal and costly. It used to be supposed widely that by the defeat at Stalingrad, German society was overwhelmingly defeatist. This book explains how continuing to fight the war transformed German society, their moral outlook and personal aspirations.
The result of over twenty years of extensive and exhaustive research, THE GERMAN WAR is the first full-scale history of German society in the Second World War. Nicholas Stargardt explores German civilians and soldiers’ experiences through their letters and diaries, embedding them within the dramatically changing landscape of German wartime society.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这部首度全面记录二次世界中德国社会历史的小说，通过德国的平民和士兵的信件和日记，探索了德国战时社会所发生的戏剧性变化。 伴随着大幕的拉开，处于那个战火纷飞年代下的人物一一显现在我们面前。 有年轻摄影师Liselotte Purper，拍摄下了德国人从罗马尼亚一路向被占领的波兰的‘移民’潮，犹太人在罗兹犹太居住区，德国人在激战斯大林格勒期间的重创，以及德国平民在柏林公寓遭受轰炸被毁后，试着去购买新家具的定格画面。
其中有战前的两位退伍老兵，Wilm Hoseneld和August Topperwein，这二人都是教师，他们用自己的良知来衡量这场战争行为，尤其是对纳粹对犹太人的屠杀。还有那些曾遭受过纳粹长期迫害的夫妇们。书中还有那些拒绝服兵役者们在临行前的最后信件，和年轻士兵们在前线的最后一封封家书。有那些激情昂扬的希特勒青年团，这些热血青年们投身于当时柏林的防空辅助炮弹民兵部队，随时准备着为他们脚下的这片国土献出生命。还有那些给战争中失踪丈夫写信的妇女们。
我们可以在书中看到了那些投掷在天主教教堂的大量炸弹，却没有让这座城市的宗教信仰获得新生，而纳粹党的挫败让那些悲伤的家庭只能从教堂中聊以慰藉。
我们书中看见德国士兵购买被占法国土地，当纳粹强权开始大量地强行征收战争所需的食物配给和劳工。日耳曼人在‘全面战争’期间追寻着悠闲时光和严肃主题的诗歌，而德国人在公众场合的说话方式，也由大屠杀紧随着汉堡德累斯顿轰炸而至。
随着战争进入焦灼状态，许多德国人知道所谓的种族灭绝政策所让他们付出的代价。曾一度普遍认为斯大林格勒战役的失利，是德国社会的全面的失败主义的滋生。而这本书适时地证明了战争的延续是如何改变了德国社会，德国民众的道德观和个人志向的。(Sandy)
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About the Author/作者介绍： Nicholas Stargardt，父亲是一名徳裔犹太人，母亲是澳大利人，出生在墨尔本的他，在澳洲、日本和英国被长大。 作者在剑桥莫德林学院教授现代欧洲历史。Nicholas Stargardt is a professor of modern German history at Oxford University. He is the son of a German-Jewish father and Australian mother. He studied at King’s College, Cambridge, and is a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. He is the author of The German Idea of Militarism: Radical and Socialist Critics (1994), an intellectual and political history of anti-militarist movements in Germany before the First World War, and of Witnesses of War: Children’s Lives under the Nazis (2005), which offered the first social history of Nazi Germany in the Second World War through the eyes of children.
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Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)
Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE
Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Sold German rights to S Fischer.
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