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Defying Hitler: A Memoir

Categorie	WO II
Boeknummer	#379748-UB7
Titel	Defying Hitler: A Memoir
Auteur	Haffner, Sebastian
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Jaar van uitgave	2002
ISBN10	0297607626
ISBN13	9780297607625
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original brown boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with some photographs in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	Sebastian Haffner was a non-Jewish German who emigrated to England in 1938. This memoir (written in 1939 but only published now for the first time) begins in 1914 when the family summer holiday is cut short by the outbreak of war, and ends with Hitler's assumption of power in 1933. It is a portrait of himself and his own generation in Germany, those born between 1900 and 1910, and brilliantly explains through his own experiences and those of his friends how that generation came to be seduced by Hitler and Nazism. The Germans lacked an outlet for self-expression: where the French had amour, food and wine, and the British their gardens and their pets, the Germans had nothing, leading to a tendency towards mass psychosis. The upheaval of post-WWI revolution, factionalism and inflation left th... (Lees verder)e Germans addicted to excitement and action: Hitler provided this, and more.
Pagina's	210
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 9,00

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