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Love Among The Ruins: A Memoir of Life and Love in Hamburg, 1945 by Harry Leslie Smith (Icon Books, £8.99)
HAMBURG made a formal surrender to the British on May 3 1945. The occupying soldiers commented on the smell as they entered the city, with the stench of death seeping up through mile upon mile of streets buried in rubble.
After six years of wartime deprivation and allied air raids — the saturation bombing of 1943 ignited massive firestorms — half the city was rubble.
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