Table of Contents

Introduction: total war and total history; 1. The loveliest place to live in Germany; 2. The beginning; 3. Visitations; 4. Tools and toils of war; 5. Collecting things; 6. Breakdown; 7. The war on the senses; 8. Public intimacies; 9. War and locality; 10. The national community in town; 11. Class; 12. Transections; 13. Fragmentation; 14. Exhaustion.

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Roger Chickering offers the most comprehensive history ever written of a German city at war.

About the Author

Roger Chickering is Professor of History, BMW Center for German and European Studies, at Georgetown University, Washington, DC. His numerous works on modern German and European history include, as editor with Stig Forster, The Shadows of Total War: Europe, East Asia, and the United States, 1919–1939 (2003), and Imperial Germany and the Great War (1998, 2004).

Reviews

'...this is not only a work of intellectual sophistication. it is also packed with an abundance of gripping anecdotes and stories. ... Chickering's attention to detail is unsurpassed, as is his eye for the seemingly circumstantial but actual pivotal detail.' History Today