Название: The Berlin Diaries 1940-1945Автор: Marie Wassiltchikoff
Издательство: Methuen
Год: 1987
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 354
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 354
Язык: английский
The author of this diary, Marie (‘Missie’) Vassiltchikov* was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, on 11 January 1917. She died of leukemia in London on 12 August 1978.
These are the absorbing wartime diaries of Marie "Missie" Vassiltchikov, a White Russian who worked in a German foreign office in Berlin from 1940-45. Idealistic, vivacious and observant, Missie was a diarist of the first order, and her book is both a detailed portrait of 1940's Berlin and a gripping account of political conspiracy. She wrote her diary in English and is very detailed throughout with occasional humour.
Her accounts of the bombing raids are so descriptive you can almost imagine being there yourself, brushing off the dust. Missie was also unwittingly in the centre of the most famous plot which led to the failed assassination of Hitler at the Wolf's Lair. Towards the end of the war she became a nursing Helferin before finally fleeing the advancing Russian army, where the diary ends.