Five Days That Shocked the World: Eyewitness Accounts from Europe at the End of World War II
- ISBN-10
- 0312614926
- ISBN-13
- 9780312614928
- Series
- Five Days That Shocked the World
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 369
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-01-17
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- Nicholas Best
Description
Documents the sensational five-day period after World War II that marked such events as the execution of Mussolini, Hitler's suicide and the fall of Berlin, sharing first-hand accounts by such figures as Walter Cronkite, the future Pope Benedict and Audrey Hepburn.
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- 2012-01-17
- 368 pages
- Paperback
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- 2013
- 312 pages
- Paperback
- Osprey Publishing
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- 2012-03-20
- 320 pages
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