Belsen
List belsen
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The story is told in the words of ordinary people: american infantry, british paratroopers, canadian gunners, australian pilots, new zealand pows and german civiliansneillands paints a broad picture, and tells of events from the participants viewpoint: the men who flew on the dresden raid or fought the battles in the hurtgen forest, the bulge, the reichwald, and at the rhine crossing, those who made the horrific discoveries of belsen, dachau, buchenwald and dorahe talks to those who survived the concentration camps, and to allied pows who lived through the death marches from the eastoxfam bookshop cheltenham this is the story, from new year's day to ve day, 8 may , of the conquest of nazi germany in the words of those who were thereit is the follow-up to robin neilland's "d-day : voices from normandy"see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Here are poets rescued from oblivion, such as the suffragette who wrote a compelling poem about her mistreatment in holloway prison in or the medical offer who went into belsen with the british troops producing an eye-witness poem of lasting powerbook is in good conditionsome discolouration on edges from dust and storage wear otherwise sharp copyhouseman, for example, rubs shoulders with tall the major events of the twentieth century are reflected in the choice of poems within these pagesthis richly rewarding collection makes invaluable reading for poetry lovers all over the worldby organizing the poems in chronological order, readers will see poets in a new light see oxfam website for delivery information read moreconcise biographies for each poet complete the anthologyeliot, showing that traditional forms can hold their own against the modernist orthodoxythe authors, both published poets themselves, give an overview of each period of history, while notes to the poems place each one in its historical context and trace the century's poetic developmentoxfam shop inverness this ground-breaking anthology presents in chronological order over 400 poems written in the twentieth century
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