The Mermaid and the Messerschmitt
Subtitle: War Through a Woman's Eyes, 1939-1940
By: by Rulka Langer
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Tradeselect Limited
Published: 2009
Language: eng
Number of pages: 467
ISBN-13: 9781607720003
Subjects: Weltkrieg (1939-1945); World War, 1939-1945; Women; Polish Personal narratives; Biography; History
Description: Most wartime accounts are written by soldiers and statesmen. [This] is a rare eyewitness account of the early chaotic days of World War II--the Nazi invasion of Poland, the Siege of Warsaw and the first few months of the Nazi occupation--written by a young working mother. -- jacket.
Notes: "First edition published 1942"--Title page verso.
Table of contents: title: August 1939: the last peacetime summer; title: My race with Hitler; title: August 27: back to Warsaw; title: August 29: Warsaw prepares; title: August 31: on the edge; title: September 1: WAR!; title: September 2: our first refugees; title: September 5: the back evacuates; title: September 6: mortal fear; title: at Aunt Flika's; title: Me, a German spy?; title: Vadik; title: September 15: home again; title: The siege; title: Waiting for horse meat; title: Playing, eating, sleeping; title: Grim but determined, Warsaw carries on; title: The Malachowskis; title: We take in the Grudas; title: September 23: my birthday; title: September 24: the Church of the Saviour burns; title: September 25: Black Monday; title: September 26: Warsaw surrenders; title: Bitter days; title: The Nazi occupation begins; title: In need of candles; title: Major von Kraven; title: Priests and teachers arrested; title: In terror's grip; title: Christmas 1939; title: New regulations, a new business and; title: The decision to leave Warsaw; title: Free!