Hamburg 1947: A Place for the Heart to Kip - Brossura

Smith, Harry Leslie

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0987842552 ISBN 13: 9780987842558

Casa editrice: Barley Hole LLC, 2012

Riassunto

Hamburg 1947 is also titled Love Among the Ruins Twenty-two years old and ready for peace, Harry Leslie Smith has survived the Great Depression and endured the Second World War. Now, in 1945 in Hamburg, Germany, he must come to terms with a nation physically and emotionally devastated. In this memoir, he narrates a story of people searching to belong and survive in a world that was almost destroyed. Hamburg 1947 recounts Smith’s youthful RAF days as part of the occupational forces in post-war Germany. A wireless operator during the war, he doesn’t want to return to Britain and join a queue of unemployed former servicemen; he reenlists for long term duty in occupied Germany. From his billet in Hamburg, a city razed to the ground by remorseless aerial bombardment, he witnesses a people and era on the brink of annihilation. This narrative presents a street-level view of a city reduced to rubble populated with refugees, black marketers, and cynical soldiers. At times grim and other times amusing, Smith writes a memoir relaying the social history about this time and place, providing a unique look at post-WWII Germany. Hamburg 1947 is both a love story for a city and a passionate retailing of a love affair with a young German woman.

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L'autore

Harry Leslie Smith was born in 1923 in Barnsley, Yorkshire. After a stormy and chaotic youth; he joined the RAF in 1941. At the end of the Second World War, Smith ended up in occupied Hamburg, Germany. He remained with RAF occupational forces until 1947, whereupon, he decamped back to Yorkshire. In the 1950's, Harry Leslie Smith emigrated to Canada. Since his time in the Second World War, Harry Leslie Smith has been an avid reader and writer; who at 88 has found a keen interest in social media and connecting the stories of his past with contemporary audiences. Currently, he divides his time between Canada, Great Britain, and Portugal. Harry is the author of 1923: A Memoir, Hamburg 1947: A Place for the Heart to Kip. His third book The Empress of Australia is due to be published in 2012

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Twenty-two years old and ready for peace, Harry Leslie Smith has survived the Great Depression and endured the Second World War. Now, in 1945 in Hamburg, Germany, he must come to terms with a nation physically and emotionally devastated. In this memoir, he narrates a story of people searching to belong and survive in a world that was almost destroyed. Hamburg 1947 recounts Smith's youthful RAF days as part of the occupational forces in post-war Germany. A wireless operator during the war, he doesn't want to return to Britain and join a queue of unemployed former servicemen; he reenlists for long term duty in occupied Germany. From his billet in Hamburg, a city razed to the ground by remorseless aerial bombardment, he witnesses a people and era on the brink of annihilation. This narrative presents a street-level view of a city reduced to rubble populated with refugees, black marketers, and cynical soldiers. At times grim and other times amusing, Smith writes a memoir relaying the social history about this time and place, providing a unique look at post-WWII Germany. Hamburg 1947 is both a love story for a city and a passionate retailing of a love affair with a young German woman.

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• Editore: Barley Hole LLC
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0987842552
• ISBN 13: 9780987842558
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 200