Through the Eyes of Innocents: Children Witness World War II

Werner, Emmy E.

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Idioma: inglés

Editorial: Westview Press Inc, 1999

0813335353 / 9780813335353

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World War II was the first modern war in which more civilians than soldiers were killed or maimed: When it ended in August 1945, more than thirty-nine million civilians had died as a direct result of the war, and some thirteen million of these were children. In Through the Eyes of Innocents, Emmy Werner tells the story of the children of World War II through their own words. Drawing on diaries, letters, and journals kept by youngsters caught up in the war, Werner shows the universality of their experience. Children and teenagers from a dozen countries - England, Germany, France, Japan, the former Soviet Union, Austria, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Poland, and the United States - are all represented in some 200 eyewitness accounts. Werner focuses on their shared reactions to the war, their hardships, how they coped, and how the war experience shaped their lives. The message they share with other children in contemporary wars is an extraordinary affirmation of life and the sustaining power of hope and human decency. Review: Emmy E. Werner survived World War II on the ground, as a child living in Germany, with a family split over both sides of the conflict. That war set more than a few gruesome records, but perhaps the most tragic was that more civilians than soldiers were maimed or killed in the fighting for the first time in modern history. Thirteen million were children, and another 20 million were left orphaned by the war. As one of the survivors, Werner carries a unique qualification for crafting this moving and well-researched book, a sweeping, reverently assembled collection of children's eyewitness accounts of that traumatic and uncertain time. Pulling together contrasting experiences from over 200 different children and teens (drawing from diaries, letters, journals, and a handful of adult interviews), Through the Eyes of the Innocents paints an impressively rich and varied picture of the war. Children on every side of the conflict recount images and incidents ranging from the benign to the horrific, whether it was German youngsters in the Ardennes decorating Christmas trees with radar foil or 12-year-old writing to MacArthur, begging him to let her get down in the trenches and mow these Germans down 5 by 5." But Werner manages to temper the horror with hope, devoting much attention to postwar recovery and rebuilding (especially the efforts of CARE and UNICEF), and pleading that we remember the words of the "wide-eyed and defenseless" as we confront the violence of today. --Paul Hughes."- Price clipped DJ and letter G printed on end page, otherwise an unmarked copy.…

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Título
Through the Eyes of Innocents: Children Witness World War II
Autor
Werner, Emmy E.
Editorial
Westview Press Inc
Año de publicación
1999
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Idioma
inglés
ISBN 10
0813335353
ISBN 13
9780813335353

Mad Hatter

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