Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
The long road home : the aftermath of the Second World War
Primary Maker
Contributor/Publisher
Anchor Books
Place
Date
2012
Physical Description
xii, 489 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 21 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781400033508
Level of Current Record
Bib record
Member Object
Edition/State/Version
First Anchor Books edition, February 2012
Subject Category
Content
Introduction: "An enormous deal of kindness"
1. Feeding the war machine: foreign labour in Germany, 1940-1945
2. Food and freedom: preparing for the aftermath of war, 1940-1943
3. "The origin of the perpetual muddle" : experience with relief, 1943-1945
4. "Half the nationalities of Europe on the march" : Germany, 1945
5. The psychological moment: repatriating the refugees, 1945
6. The surviving remnant: Jewish DPs, 1945
7. "Feed the brutes?" : German refugees, 1945
8. Dollars or death: UNRRA in Germany, 1945
9. "You pick it up fast" : Wildflecken DP Camp, Germany, 1945
10. "Even if the gates are locked": Jewish DPs, 1946
11. "Skryning" : repatriating DPs, 1946
12. "Save them first and argue after" : La Guardia and UNRRA
13. "We grossly underestimated the destruction: the food crisis in Europe in the winter of 1946-1947 and Washington's response
14. "Dwell, eat, breed, wait" : life in DP camps, 1947-1950
15. "The best interests of the child" : child search in Germany, 1945-1950
16. "Good human stock" : resettling DPs, 1947-1950
17. "We lived to see it" : Jewish DPs and the creation of Israel, 1947-1949
18. America's fair share: the United States and DPs, 1947-1950
19. Legacies: how DPs made new lives.
Public Access Text
Paperback reprint of 1st American edition published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2011. Includes bibliographical references (pages [453]-470) and index.
Collection Type
Reading Room
Copyright
All rights reserved
Last Update
19 Dec 2023
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