Diary Of A Man In Despair

Author : Friedrich Reck
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590175867
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diary of a Man in Despair written by Friedrich Reck and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as one of the most important works on the Hitler period, this is an “astonishing, compelling, and unnerving” portrait of life in Nazi Germany between 1936 and 1944—from a man who nearly shot Hitler himself (The New Yorker) Friedrich Reck might seem an unlikely rebel against Nazism. Not just a conservative but a rock-ribbed reactionary, he played the part of a landed gentleman, deplored democracy, and rejected the modern world outright. To Reck, the Nazis were ruthless revolutionaries in Gothic drag, and helpless as he was to counter the spell they had cast on the German people, he felt compelled to record the corruptions of their rule. The result is less a diary than a sequence of stark and astonishing snapshots of life in Germany between 1936 and 1944. We see the Nazis at the peak of power, and the murderous panic with which they respond to approaching defeat; their travesty of traditional folkways in the name of the Volk; and the author’s own missed opportunity to shoot Hitler. This riveting book is not only, as Hannah Arendt proclaimed it, “one of the most important documents of the Hitler period,” but a moving testament of a decent man struggling to do the right thing in a depraved world.

Author : Fritz Percy Reck-Malleczewen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diary of a Man in Despair written by Fritz Percy Reck-Malleczewen and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Victor Klemperer
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826491308
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language of the Third Reich written by Victor Klemperer and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-07-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victor Klemperer was Professor of French Literature at Dresden University. As a Jew, he was removed from his post in 1935, only surviving thanks to his marriage to an Aryan. Presenting a study of language and its engagement with history, this book draws form Klemperer's conviction that the language of the Third Reich helped to create its culture.

Author : W. N. P. Barbellion
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Journal of a Disappointed Man written by W. N. P. Barbellion and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Timothy E. Donohue
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226157689
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Open written by Timothy E. Donohue and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1997-11-08 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part One February to July 1990Part Two July to September 1990Part Three December 1990 to February 1991Part Four June 1991Part Five January 1992 to December 1994 Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Victor Klemperer
Publisher : Random House (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Will Bear Witness: 1942-1945 written by Victor Klemperer and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1998 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The best written, most evocative, most observant record of daily life in the Third Reich." -Amos Elon, "The New York Times Victor Klemperer risked his life to preserve these diaries so that he could, as he wrote, "bear witness" to the gathering hor-ror of the Nazi regime. The son of a Berlin rabbi, Klemperer was a German patriot who served with honor during the First World War, married a gentile, and converted to Protestantism. He was a professor of Romance languages at the Dresden Technical Institute, a fine scholar and writer, and an intellectual of a somewhat conservative disposition. Unlike many of his Jewish friends and academic colleagues, he feared Hitler from the start, and though he felt little allegiance to any religion, under Nazi law he was a Jew. In the years 1933 to 1941, covered in the first volume of these diaries, Klemperer's life is not yet in danger, but he loses his professorship, his house, even his typewriter; he is not allowed to drive, and since Jews are forbidden to own pets, he must put his cat to death. Because of his military record and marriage to a "full-blooded Aryan," he is spared deportation, but nevertheless, Klemperer has to wear the yellow Jewish star, and he and his wife, Eva, are subjected to the ever-increasing escalation of Nazi tyranny. The distinguished historian Peter Gay, in The New York Times Book Review, wrote that Klemperer's "personal history of how the Third Reich month by month, sometimes week by week, accelerated its crusade against the Jews gives as accurate a picture of Nazi trickery and brutality as we are likely to have...a report from the interior that tells the horrifying story of the evolving Nazi persecution...witha concrete, vivid power that is, and I think will remain, unsurpassed." This volume begins in 1942, the year of the Final Solution, and ends in 1945, with the devastation of Hitler's Germany. Rumors of the death camps soon reach the Jews of Dresden, now jammed into their so-called Jews' houses, starved, humiliated, subject day and night to Gestapo raids, and terrified as, one by one, their neighbors are taken away. Klemperer is made to shovel snow, is assigned to do forced labor in a factory, is taunted on the streets by gangs of boys, but his life is spared, thanks to the privileged status of Jews married to Aryans. In the final days of the war, however, even Jews in mixed marriages are summoned to report for transport to "labor camps," which Klemperer now knows means death, and that his turn will soon come. He is saved by the great Dresden air raid of February 13, 1945; he and his wife survive the fiery destruction of their city and make their way to the Allied lines. "In the enthralling and appalling final pages of this miraculous work," wrote Niall Ferguson in the London Sunday Telegraph, "Klemperer all too soon encounters the deliberate amnesia of the defeated Germany: 'What is "Gestapo"?' declares a Breslau woman he encounters in May 1945. 'I've never heard the word. I've never been interested in politics, I don't know anything about the persecution of the Jews.'" Says Ferguson, "Of all the books I have read on this subject, I find it hard to think of one which has taught me more."

Author : Ivan Bunin
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee
ISBN 13 : 1461730309
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cursed Days written by Ivan Bunin and published by Ivan R. Dee. This book was released on 1998-06-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nobel PrizeDwinning author's great anti-Bolshevik diary of the Russian Revolution, translated into English for the first time, with an Introduction and Notes by Thomas Gaiton Marullo. A harrowing description of the forerunners of the concentration camps and the Gulag. —Marc Raeff

Author : Fritz Percy Reck-Malleczewen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diary of a Man in Despair written by Fritz Percy Reck-Malleczewen and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 1970 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a prophetic insight into the psychotic soul of Nazi Germany, written by a Prussian aristocrat in the years between 1936 and 1944. It charts the rise of Hitler and the blind allegiance of the masses to his suicidal cause.

Author : Nikolay Gogol
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 014191002X
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, & Selected Stories written by Nikolay Gogol and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author, dramatist and satirist, Nikolay Gogol (1809-1852) deeply influenced later Russian literature with his powerful depictions of a society dominated by petty beaurocracy and base corruption. This volume includes both his most admired short fiction and his most famous drama. A biting and frequently hilarious political satire, The Government Inspector has been popular since its first performance and was regarded by Nabokov as the greatest Russian play every written. The stories gathered here, meanwhile, range from comic to tragic and describe the isolated lives of low-ranking clerks, lunatics and swindlers. They include Diary of a Madman, an amusing but disturbing exploration of insanity; Nevsky Prospect, a depiction of an artist besotted with a prostitute; and The Overcoat, a moving consideration of poverty that powerfully influenced Dostoevsky and later Russian literature.

Author : Kevin Joel Berland
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807839116
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Commonplace Book of William Byrd II of Westover written by Kevin Joel Berland and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Byrd II (1674-1744) was an important figure in the history of colonial Virginia: a founder of Richmond, an active participant in Virginia politics, and the proprietor of one of the colony's greatest plantations. But Byrd is best known today for his diaries. Considered essential documents of private life in colonial America, they offer readers an unparalleled glimpse into the world of a Virginia gentleman. This book joins Byrd's Diary, Secret Diary, and other writings in securing his reputation as one of the most interesting men in colonial America. Edited and presented here for the first time, Byrd's commonplace book is a collection of moral wit and wisdom gleaned from reading and conversation. The nearly six hundred entries range in tone from hope to despair, trust to dissimulation, and reflect on issues as varied as science, religion, women, Alexander the Great, and the perils of love. A ten-part introduction presents an overview of Byrd's life and addresses such topics as his education and habits of reading and his endeavors to understand himself sexually, temperamentally, and religiously, as well as the history and cultural function of commonplacing. Extensive annotations discuss the sources, background, and significance of the entries.