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"Hester Vaizey investigates a side of the story that has been relatively neglected: the strength and durability of many German marriages under the severest of pressures...She is right to stress the debilitating effects of shortages, bombing and making do, leaving most women utterly exhausted. She uses a rich seam of diaries and letters between spouses to demonstrate both this and the longing on both sides in a marriage for "reunion" and a return to normality. The letters in particular are a most illuminating source...This is an engrossing study of real human beings, including children who sometimes reacted negatively when a father who had become a stranger returned from war or captivity and reclaimed his wife's affections...shows the fundamental importance of marital and family bonds to couples and children at a time when personal privacy was routinely violated and families torn apart.' Jill Stephenson, Times Higher Education Supplement
''[Vaizey] ... brings a welcome breath of objectivity to a subject that has long been dominated by ideologically driven theorising. Her case is helped by her evident ease as a writer. Throughout the book she weaves context, analysis and first-hand testimony with considerable skill, producing a text which flows as well as it informs.'
Roger Moorhouse, History Today
" intriguing " - The Scotsman
'...it provides a much-needed emphasis on ordinary human beings and on their struggle to sustain loving relationships amid unimaginable horror.' - Journal of Contemporary History
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Book Title: Surviving Hitler’s War
Book Subtitle: Family Life in Germany, 1939–48
Authors: Hester Vaizey
Series Title: Genders and Sexualities in History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230289901
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Hester Vaizey 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-25148-9Published: 22 September 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-230-25149-6Published: 22 September 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-28990-1Published: 22 September 2010
Series ISSN: 2730-9479
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9487
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 252
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations
Topics: European History, Modern History, History of Germany and Central Europe, History of Military, Gender Studies, Social History