Berlin diaries, 1940-1945 /

Vassiltchikov, Marie, 1917-1978.

Berlin diaries, 1940-1945 / Marie Vassiltchikov. - New York : Vintage Books, 1988, c1985. - xv, 324 p., [18] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.

Reprint. Originally published: 1st American ed. New York : Knopf, 1987. Includes index.

January to December, 1940 -- January to June 1941 -- Interlude; July 1941 to July 1943 -- July to December 1943 -- January to 18 July 1944 -- 19 July to September 1944 -- January to September 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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Vassiltchikov, Marie, 1917-1978.


World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Russian.
World War, 1939-1945--Germany--Berlin.
World War, 1939-1945--Austria--Vienna.
Nobility--Russia--Biography.


Berlin (Germany)--Social life and customs.
Vienna (Austria)--History--1918-

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