Storming the Eagle's Nest (47 page)
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Authors: Jim Ring
CABLE-CAR TO DEATH
: two of the Nazis’ most infamous concentration camps were under the knees of the Alps: Dachau in Munich and Mauthausen close to Vienna. Sub-camps included Ebensee, whose survivors are pictured on 7 May 1945, shortly after liberation.
TO THE VICTORS, THE SPOIL
S
: Göring’s art collection that he intended to rival the Louvre, found its way to the Alps and fell into Allied hands at the war’s end.
MAY
1945: A column of American tanks screeches through the newly conquered Bavarian skiing resort of Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG
: at the heart of Goebbels’s vaunted Alpine redoubt, the victors grandstand for the cameras in the ruins of the Berghof, destroyed by the RAF bombing raid of 25 April 1945.
Jim Ring’s 1996 debut,
Erskine Childers
, won the Marsh Prize for biography. It was followed by
How the English
Made the Alps
which was described as ‘fascinating’ by the
Daily Telegraph
and ‘evocative and entertaining’ by the
Financial Times
. His collective biography of Britain’s leading Cold War submariners,
We Come Unseen
, won the Mountbatten Prize and was called ‘a welcome acknowledgement of one of the Cold War’s little-known aspects’ by the
Sunday Telegraph
.
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Erskine Childers
How the English Made the Alps
We Come Unseen
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First published in 2013
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