Panther Soup: A European Journey in War and Peace [Lingua Inglese] - Rilegato

Gimlette, John

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ISBN 10: 0091921384 ISBN 13: 9780091921385

Casa editrice: Hutchinson, 2008

Riassunto

By the end of World War II much of Western Europe was in chaos. The future of our world had been contested here, in the hinterlands of France and across the German plains. But what’s become of the battlefields now? Or the people that lived on them? And is there any trace of the 2.7 million Americans who smashed their way into the Reich (or the 12 million that followed)? With questions like these, the award-winning travel writer, John Gimlette, sets off on an astonishing journey into the past.

Beginning in Marseille and ending in the Austrian Tyrol, these are travels through some of the most spectacular landscapes in the world, and through cities that have risen from cinders. Along the way, Gimlette explores old camps and drinking dens, delves into the murky sub-culture of the war, and visits towns still reeling from the trauma. There’s a rich cast of survivors too: veterans, prisoners, a heroine of the resistance, a few charlatans, Rommel’s son, an Austrian chatelaine and of course the children of the blitz. Panther Soup is the story of these encounters, a tale as bleak and absurd as war itself.

But this is also an uplifting tale of recovery, friendship and regeneration. Foremost amongst the survivors is an American called Putnam Flint.Sixty years earlier, Flint had fought with the tank destroyers (or ‘Panthers’) and had ridden along with the great wheeled city that rolled through Europe. It had been an undertaking of unimaginable scale and complexity, and for most of his life, Flint has lived with the memories of the tank-mangled sludge (the ‘Panther Soup’ of the title). Now, for the first time, he’ll return, and, as he and Gimlette retrace the old campaign trail, a very different Europe is revealed to them both.

(2004-09-22)

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Praise for John Gimlette:
“An exceptional piece of travel writing.”–Books of the Year, Sunday Telegraph

“Terrific stuff . . . As a descriptive writer, as master of the telling observation and the well-chosen epithet, Gimlette is in the highest class.”–Daily Telegraph
From the Trade Paperback edition.

Descrizione del libro:

A chance encounter with an American WWII veteran leads John Gimlette, the award-winning travel writer, on an astonishing journey through France, Germany and Austria.

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• Editore: Hutchinson
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0091921384
• ISBN 13: 9780091921385
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 416