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Fragments of shells pattering: letters home from Germany, August, 1940-February, 1942 /
"During the long slide into the wartime isolation of Berlin, Herman's letters lose some of the efferevescence and enthusiasm of earlier letters, in scope and tone. Rather that reporting on a frenetic social life and speculating about diplomacy and war, he turns his attention more to the ne...
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| Language: | English |
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[Gettysburg, PA] :
Musselman Library, Gettysburg College (Estate of S. W. Herman, Jr.),
2023.
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"During the long slide into the wartime isolation of Berlin, Herman's letters lose some of the efferevescence and enthusiasm of earlier letters, in scope and tone. Rather that reporting on a frenetic social life and speculating about diplomacy and war, he turns his attention more to the needs and struggles of the American colony and refugees. His efforts to help the uprooted and keep the American Church [in Berlin] going extended beyond the official limits of his Embassy responsibilities."--Back cover. |
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"This self-published volume bears the imprint of the Musselman Library, Gettysburg College."--Title page verso. The letters in this volume follow the correspondence published in the prior work in this Herman letter series entitled A Cold descending fog : letters home and a memoir from wartime Berlin, 1939-1940. "The intent of this volume is to provide a primary source, unaltered by time, about S.W. Herman, Jr's life in Berlin as recounted in the letters written...to his parents in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania." -- p. [xix] |
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xx, 371 pages : photographs, maps ; 23 cm. |
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Includes index. |
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9798390828137 |