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Witnesses At War by Nicholas Stargardt

Witnesses At War

Children's Lives Under the Nazis

by Nicholas Stargardt
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  • Jan 17, 2006, 512 pages
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  • Jan 2007, 528 pages
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About the author: Nicholas Stargardt is the son of a German-Jewish father and Australian mother. Born in Melbourne, he has lived in Australia, Japan, England and Germany. He studied at King's College, Cambridge, and is a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, where he teaches modern European history. Witnesses of War is his second book; his first, The German Idea of Militarism: Radical and Socialist Critics, 1866-1914 was published in 1994. He has written widely on the history of modern Germany, political and social thought and the Holocaust. He has two sons and is married to the historian Lyndal Roper.

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