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May 1945 found Europe in chaos, its infrastructure wrecked, its cities thronged with refugees. Accompanied by US veteran Putnam Flint, the award-winning travel writer John Gimlette sets out to uncover the legacy, and meet the survivors, of that titanic conflict. Starting in Marseille, the pair make their way though France and Germany to Austria, providing a quirky, erudite and moving insight into the ideals and ideologies of the continent.
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"A very special piece of travel writing. To journey past familiar European landmarks with someone who knew them in the post-war chaos of the 1940s is both moving and illuminating" (Tim Butcher, author of Blood River)
"Gimlette has a gift for travel writing with details of the most intimate kind, the small change and ammunition of a soldier's life... A subtle book, with telling testimony from the survivors of what it was actually like to fight a war with few rules" (Hugh Thomson Independent)
"An important book, reminding us of the links between old and new world, ideals and ideologies, war and peace in our phoenix-like continent. It is at once raw and erudite, deeply moving and strangely leisurely. It's also rich in black humour and insight" (Rory MacLean Guardian)
"An original travel book, written in vigorous prose and exhaustively researched... it has at its heart a profound understanding of the "soup" - the chaos and madness - of war" (Daily Telegraph)
"As a born traveller and writer, he takes an epicurean pleasure in place and language" (Tom Fort Sunday Telegraph)
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"Gimlette has a gift for travel writing with details of the most intimate kind, the small change and ammunition of a soldier's life... A subtle book, with telling testimony from the survivors of what it was actually like to fight a war with few rules" (Hugh Thomson Independent)
"An important book, reminding us of the links between old and new world, ideals and ideologies, war and peace in our phoenix-like continent. It is at once raw and erudite, deeply moving and strangely leisurely. It's also rich in black humour and insight" (Rory MacLean Guardian)
"An original travel book, written in vigorous prose and exhaustively researched... it has at its heart a profound understanding of the "soup" - the chaos and madness - of war" (Daily Telegraph)
"As a born traveller and writer, he takes an epicurean pleasure in place and language" (Tom Fort Sunday Telegraph)
A chance encounter with an American WWII veteran leads John Gimlette, the award-winning travel writer, on an astonishing journey through France, Germany and Austria.
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- PublisherArrow
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0099502380
- ISBN 13 9780099502388
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages432
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