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Europe central / William T. Vollmann.
Van Pelt Library PS3572.O395 E97 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vollmann, William T.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Germany--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Germany.
- Manners and customs.
- Soviet Union--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Soviet Union.
- Germany--Social Life and Customs--Fiction.
- Soviet Union--Social Life and Customs--Fiction.
- Local Subjects:
- Germany--Social Life and Customs--Fiction.
- Soviet Union--Social Life and Customs--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Miscellaneous fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 811 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Viking, 2005.
- Summary:
- Vollmann presents a mesmerizing series of intertwined paired stories that compare and contrast the moral decisions made by various figures (some famous, some infamous, some unknown) associated with the warring authoritarian cultures of Germany and the USSR from 1900-1968.
- Contents:
- Steel in motion (Europe, 1939-1945)
- Saviors (USSR, 1918)
- Mobilization (Germany, 1914)
- Woman with a dead child (Germany, 1927)
- You have shut the Danube's gates (USSR, 1936)
- Elena's rockets (USSR, 1931)
- Maiden voyage (Germany, 1933-1939)
- When Parzival killed the red knight (Germany, 1934)
- Opus 40 (USSR, 1935)
- Operation Magic Fire (Germany, 1936)
- And I'd dry my salty hair (USSR, 1937)
- Case White (Germany, 1939)
- Operation Barbarossa (USSR, 1941)
- The Sleepwalker (Germany, 1936-1945)
- The palm tree of Deborah (USSR, 1906-1942)
- Untouched (Germany, 1939-1945)
- Far and wide my country stretches (USSR, 1936-1968)
- Breakout (USSR and Germany, 1942-1946)
- The last field-marshal (Germany and USSR, 1942-1957)
- Zoya (USSR, 1941)
- Clean hands (Germany, 1942-1945)
- The second front (USSR, 1943)
- Operation Citadel (USSR, 1943)
- The telephone rings (USSR, 1944)
- Ecstasy (USSR, 1945)
- Operation Hagen (Germany, 1945)
- Into the mountain (Germany, 1945)
- Denazification (Germany, 1945)
- Airlift idylls (West Germany, 1951)
- The red guillotine (East Germany, 1963)
- We'll never mention it again (USSR, 1959)
- Why we don't talk about Freya anymore (East Germany, 1960)
- Operation Wolund (USSR, 1961)
- Opus 110 (USSR, 1943-1975)
- A pianist from Kilgore (USSR, 1958)
- Lost victories (West Germany, 1962)
- The White Nights of Leningrad (USSR, 1941).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 753-808).
- National Book Award, Fiction, 2005
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Vollmann, William T. Europe central.
- ISBN:
- 0670033928
- 9780670033928
- 0143036599
- 9780143036593
- OCLC:
- 56911959
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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