Author:
Vassiltchikov, Marie, 1917-1978.
Edition Statement:1st American ed.
Imprint:New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1987, c1985.
Descriptionxv, 324 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:Originally published: London : Chatto & Windus, 1985.
Note:Includes index.
Note:January to December, 1940 -- January to June 1941 -- Interlude; July 1941 to July 1943 -- July to December 1943 -- January to 18 July 1944 -- 19 July to September 1944 -- January to September 1945.
Note:The secret diaries of a twenty-three-year-old White Russian princess who worked in the German Foreign Office from 1940 to 1944 and then as a nurse, these pages give us a unique picture of wartime life in that sector of German society from which the 20th of July Plot, the conspiracy to kill Hitler, was born.