Spot and Sink
Richard J. Evans
- With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918 by David Stevenson
Allen Lane, 688 pp, £30.00, May 2011, ISBN 978 0 7139 9840 5
In November 1918, after more than four years in the trenches, Adolf Hitler was in hospital away from the front, temporarily blinded by a gas attack. As he was recovering, he was told of Germany’s surrender and the overthrow of the kaiser. ‘Again,’ he later wrote, ‘everything went black before my eyes.’
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Vol. 33 No. 24 · 15 December 2011 » Richard J. Evans » Spot and Sink
pages 31-32 | 3348 words