“Summer of Freedom: How 1945 Changed the World”
By Thomas Connolly Oliver Hilmes’s Summer of Freedom offers vivid snapshots of 1945—but little sense of why the world changed. Summer of Freedom: How 1945 Changed the World by Oliver Hilmes (translated by Jefferson Chase). Other Press, 272 pages, $29 If it weren’t for the title’s overreach, this would be a fine little book to…
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