Edition |
1st Vintage Books ed. |
Description |
xv, 324 p., [18] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cm. |
Note |
Reprint. Originally published: 1st American ed. New York : Knopf, 1987. |
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Includes index. |
Summary |
The secret diaries of a twenty-three-year-old White Russian princess who worked in the German Foreign Office from 1940 to 1944 and then as a nurse, these pages give us a unique picture of wartime life in that sector of German society from which the 20th of July Plot, the conspiracy to kill Hitler, was born. |
Contents |
January to December, 1940 -- January to June 1941 -- Interlude; July 1941 to July 1943 -- July to December 1943 -- January to 18 July 1944 -- 19 July to September 1944 -- January to September 1945. |
Subject |
Vassiltchikov, Marie, 1917-1978.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Russian.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany -- Berlin.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Austria -- Vienna.
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Berlin (Germany) -- Social life and customs.
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Vienna (Austria) -- History -- 1918-
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Nobility -- Russia -- Biography.
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ISBN |
0394757777 |
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9780394757773 |
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