The Berlin Diaries 1940-45
$55.72
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
19 November 1999
Summary
A brilliant record of wartime Berlin as well as the haunting day-by-day life of a beautiful woman of almost unbelievable courage' Daily MailMarieMissie’ Vassiltchikov as a White Russian emigree caught with her family in Hitler`s Germany at the outbreak of the war. She was a Bright Young Thing, part of the cosmopolitan set who managed to maintain a trance-like normality until as late as 1941 - picnics, house-parties, dinners at the Eden…Before long, however, Missie became sickened by the b…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780712665803 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0712665803 |
| Author: | Marie Vassiltchikov |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Imprint: | Pimlico |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 19 November 1999 |
| Weight: | 365g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 136mm x 27mm |
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Critics Review
Quite simply, one of the most extraordinary war diaries ever written. Innocent and knowing at once, it portrays the death of Old Europe through the eyes of a beautiful young aristocrat whose world itself is dying with the events that she describes – John le CarréWritten with a vividness, detail, understanding and humanity that rank it beside Pepys on the Great Fire – Bernard Levin * Observer *A fascinating insight into a circle whose independence of mind could not be crushed by totalitarianism, Soviet or Nazi * Financial Times *A remarkable historical document of the first importance – A.J.P. Taylor
About The Author
Marie Vassiltchikov
Marie ‘Missie’ Vassiltchikov - later Mrs Peter Harnden - was born in St Petersburg in 1917, the fourth child of Prince and Princess Illarion Vassiltchikov. The family left Russia in 1919, and Missie grew up in Germany, France and Lithuanian, where her father’s family had owned property before the Revolution. After the war she lived in France, Spain and England. She died in London in 1978.
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