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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> With war sti raging in the Pacific peace comes at last in Europe as one half hour before mid- night the German High Command in Berlin signs the final instrument of surrender. After five years and eight months the war in Europe is officially over. If you were in Paris it had ended nine months before and if you were in Belsen or Dachau concentration camp it ended with the arrival of British and American tanks in April. If you were serving in the Pacific your war would not end until August. And indeed for all too many the realities of war-the dangers and uncer- tainties the hunger and disease-would continue for weeks and even months to come. Yet for people everywhere this date took on a significance that has resonated for a half-century. This is the story of that single day fifty years ago and of the days leading to it. Hour by hour place by place it recounts the final spasms of a continent in turmoil. Here are the stories of combat soldiers and ordinary civilians collaborators and resistance fighters statesmen and war criminals. Here are the victorious the defeated the liberated and the long- subjugated. As with everything he writes Martin Gilbert chronicles the personal stories as well as the public events all in vivid dramatic detail. Stretching across the face of Europe and into Asia. (SP)