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By Mason B. Webb

Author Richard Bessel’s latest book is, without doubt, a monumental work that goes in depth to chart Germany’s progress from a flattened, vilified foe to a bulwark in Europe’s efforts to resist Communist expansion and takeover.

The last months of the war were by far the bloodiest and most agonizing as the unrelenting, pitiless Allied pounding, from east and west and above, bludgeoned Nazi Germany into a smoldering, nearly unrecognizable mass. In January alone, as many as one million people died violent deaths.

Nor did the cessation of fighting in May bring respite for the German people. In Germany From War to Peace (Harper, New York, , pp., photographs, bibliography, index, hardcover, $), Bessel describes an infrastructure that had been totally destroyed, along with law and order and all of the human services. Acts of vengeance inflicted by the armies of the conquering nations also contributed to Germany’s complete moral, physical, and spiri

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