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Berlin Diaries, 1940-1945

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.

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Includes index.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 324 pages

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