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Ladataan... The Wild PlaceTekijä: Kathryn Hulme
   - Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta.   ) Cantsaywhy | Jul 28, 2021 |  For five years she was an administrator at several camps for displaced persons in Germany. When I read it the first time I didn't know much about post WWII stuff, just that there were a lot of refugees and some came to the US. She goes into the politics of how people were sent to various places, and how the US was quite late in accepting people. But it's her interesting in people's stories and her obvious concern and love for them that really makes it. I also know more about Hulme, who was a devotee of Gurdjieff in Paris in the 30s. The nurse on her team is the former nun whose story she later told in her best-seller, and they were lovers. A fascinating person. ( ) piemouth | Jan 31, 2018 | memmet | Feb 1, 2009 | näyttää 3/3 ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
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"In this memoir, Kathryn Hulme, a United Nations relief officer in Bavaria from 1945 until 1951, records the daily life, hopes and struggles of over 100,000 Displaced Persons housed by UNRRA at Wildflecken, a former training camp for Nazi SS troops, and in other DP camps. "[A]n unforgettable report on the struggle, the plight, the defeat or the eventual redemption of countless victims of the time." - George Shuster, The New York Times "A shattering book, and one that defines, once and for all, the meaning of that ghastly twentieth-century invention, the displaced person." - The New Yorker "The Wild Place is a rare book - powerful and exciting, compassionate and disturbing, tragic and funny - drawn from great and strange material. It is a verbatim record of the most dramatic human debris of our time, the homeless hordes left on deposit in Germany." - The New Yorker "Little has been recorded of the heroic postwar work with masses of displaced persons, and it will be hard to find a better account than this. It is crowded with people and incidents and has a special vitality as well as the ring of truth. Highly recommended." - Library Journal "Miss Hulme's story will seize your imagination, keep you fascinated, rouse your compassion, admiration, and respect... The top book of American nonfiction published this year..." - San Francisco Chronicle "A beautiful book, heartbreaking and at the same time veined with humor. It projects the passionate sense of purpose experienced by a compassionate woman struggling desperately to salvage human lives, and it leaves us with a quickened awareness of the astounding tenacity of the human spirit, the astounding durability of hope." - The Atlantic Monthly "A sensitive and moving report, by an UNRRA field worker, of her five years' experience in European D.P. camps after the war." - Henry L. Roberts, Foreign Affairs "A deeply felt and deeply moving record of this whole tragedy of displacement and dispossession, this is certain to engage the heart of any reader who has one." - Kirkus Reviews"-- Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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 Google Books — Ladataan...LajityypitMelvil Decimal System (DDC)940.531444History and Geography Europe Europe 1918- World War II Social, political, economic history; HolocaustKongressin kirjaston luokitusArvio (tähdet)Keskiarvo: (4.5)
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