000306685 000__ 03376cam\a2200433\a\45\0 000306685 001__ 306685 000306685 005__ 20210513112745.0 000306685 008__ 040305s2004\\\\ilua\\\\\\\\\\000\0\eng\\ 000306685 010__ $$a 2004005284 000306685 015__ $$aGBA471562 000306685 0167_ $$a013006911$$2Uk 000306685 020__ $$a0226595560 (alk. paper) 000306685 02430 $$a9780226595566 000306685 0291_ $$aNLGGC$$b262335670 000306685 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocm54670359 000306685 035__ $$a306685 000306685 040__ $$aDLC$$cDLC$$dUKM$$dC#P$$dBAKER$$dXY4 000306685 0411_ $$aeng$$hger 000306685 043__ $$ae-gx--- 000306685 049__ $$aISEA 000306685 05000 $$aD757.9.H3$$bN68 2005 000306685 08200 $$a940.54/213515$$222 000306685 1001_ $$aNossack, Hans Erich,$$d1901-1977. 000306685 24010 $$aUntergang.$$lEnglish 000306685 24514 $$aThe end :$$bHamburg 1943 /$$cHans Erich Nossack ; translated by Joel Agee ; photographs by Erich Andres. 000306685 24630 $$aHamburg, 1943 000306685 260__ $$aChicago :$$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$$cc2004. 000306685 300__ $$axxi, 87 p. :$$bill. ;$$c21 cm. 000306685 500__ $$a"A Winterhouse book." 000306685 520__ $$aOne didn't dare to inhale for fear of breathing it in. It was the sound of eighteen hundred airplanes approaching Hamburg from the south at an unimaginable height. We had already experienced two hundred or even more air raids, among them some very heavy ones, but this was something completely new. And yet there was an immediate recognition: this was what everyone had been waiting for, what had hung for months like a shadow over everything we did, making us weary. It was the end. Novelist Hans Erich Nossack was forty-two when the Allied bombardments of German cities began, and he watched the destruction of Hamburg--the city where he was born and where he would later die--from across its Elbe River. He heard the whistle of the bombs and the singing of shrapnel; he watched his neighbors flee; he wondered if his home--and his manuscripts--would survive the devastation. The End is his terse, remarkable memoir of the annihilation of the city, written only three months after the bombing. A searing firsthand account of one of the most notorious events of World War II, The End is also a meditation on war and hope, history and its devastation. And it is the rare book, as W. G. Sebald noted, that describes the Allied bombing campaign from the German perspective. In the first English-language edition of The End, Nossack's text has been crisply translated by Joel Agee and is accompanied by the photographs of Erich Andres. Poetic, evocative, and yet highly descriptive, The End will prove to be, as Sebald claimed, one of the most important German books on the firebombing of that country. A remarkable firsthand account of one of the most notorious events of World War II, The End is also a meditation on war and hope, history and its devastation. 000306685 60010 $$aNossack, Hans Erich,$$d1901-1977. 000306685 650_0 $$aWorld War, 1939-1945$$xDestruction and pillage$$zGermany$$zHamburg. 000306685 651_0 $$aHamburg (Germany)$$xHistory$$yBombardment, 1940-1945$$vPersonal narratives, German. 000306685 651_0 $$aHamburg (Germany)$$xHistory$$y20th century. 000306685 7001_ $$aAgee, Joel. 000306685 85200 $$bgen$$hD757.9.H3$$iN68$$i2005 000306685 85642 $$3Publisher description$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/uchi052/2004005284.html 000306685 85642 $$3Contributor biographical information$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0616/2004005284-b.html 000306685 85641 $$3Table of contents only$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0616/2004005284-t.html 000306685 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:306685$$pGLOBAL_SET 000306685 980__ $$aBIB 000306685 980__ $$aBOOK 000306685 994__ $$aC0$$bISE