Author: Longmate, Norman,
Title: WHEN WE WON THE WAR - The Story of Victory in Europe, 1945.
Description: Hutchinson, London, 1977, 1st edn., 192pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., map in text, blue cloth lettered in silver, photo pictorial dustwrapper, a record of the summer of 1945, when no-one apologized for being patriotic, of the crushing military victories, the death of Hitler and the great surrender ceremonies, of the bureaucratic muddles with different countries of liberated Europe celebrating on different days, but with a central thread of the numerous ordinary people and their victory celebrations, book cased upside down in boards otherwise near fine, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, very good reading copy in a very good dustwrapper,

Keywords: war ww2 liberation surrender victory celebration


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