In the Ruins of the Reich

London England: George Allen & Unwin. Very Good/Very Good. 1985. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo 004943036X Hardback Hardback. First Edition. In the Ruins of the Reich. Couple of small marks to inside cover from removal of old sellotape. On May 1945 the Nazis surrendered, brining the war in the West to an end. Hitler had committed suicide in his bunker only days before the fall of Berlin. Two huge Allied armies occupied the ruins of the once mighty Reich. Germany was prostrate, its population starving and its cities devasted, with millions of refugees flooding in from the East. This book tells of the extraordinary period that followed, until the drama of the Berlin airlift of 1948-9 and the formal division of Germany, the crucible of Europe, into two separate nations. While the German people eked out a stone-age existence in the rubble of caves and cellars, the occupying powers behaved like Imperial lords, punishing past crimes and perpetrating a few new ones of their own. This book is a portrait of a great European nation in chaos. Germany in the late 1940s gives us a glimpse of what life could be like after the bomb. Illustrated. 248 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.) .