4 edition of German Writers of the Great War found in the catalog.
German Writers of the Great War
Nicholas Martin
Published
January 30, 2008
by Palgrave Macmillan
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Written in English
The Physical Object | |
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Format | Hardcover |
Number of Pages | 256 |
ID Numbers | |
Open Library | OL10387540M |
ISBN 10 | 0312223919 |
ISBN 10 | 9780312223915 |
OCLC/WorldCa | 567310805 |
And bonus: all these book are about women! Novels about World War 2: Realistic focus. 1. Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave. I love great historical novels, so I was looking forward to this book set at the cusp of World War II, but I wasn’t expecting it to be so good, or so impactful. “The German War” takes us into the lives of men and women from all walks of life, as they fought, survived and suffered — grunts, tank commanders, staff officers; the P.O.W. camp guard who.
The leaders of Great Britain and America also adopted policies designed to force war with Germany. Britain’s unconditional guarantee to Poland led to horrific acts of violence against Poland’s ethnic Germans and, thus, Germany was forced to invade Poland to end these atrocities. Franklin Roosevelt’s numerous provocations, including a shoot-on-sight policy against German shipping and. Get this from a library! Nurse writers of the Great War. [Christine E Hallett] -- Examining the experiences of First World War nurses through their own writings, this book offers fresh insights into the reality of industrial warfare.
Inciting Event: Roger Bartlett, “Big X,” arrives at the camp and immediately reveals his plan to engineer the biggest escape from a German POW camp in history. Subplot: Hilts tangles with the Commandant for the first time and is sent to the cooler. First Plot Point: The tunnels, “Tom” and “Harry,” are started beneath the stove in one hut and in the shower drain in another. In her book My Years in Germany, Martha wrote, “To the desolateness of the intellectual life of Germany, Thomas Wolfe was like a symbol of the past when great writers were great men.” “Hamsun bitterly denounced the British as arrogant hypocrites bent on world domination through treachery and murder.
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List of famous German writers with their biographies that include trivia, interesting facts, timeline and life history.
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out of 5 stars 1, Kindle Edition. $ # The Castle in German Literature. Gift Ideas. The great post-first world war “humiliation” underpins pretty much everything, serving as motivation for the actions not just of the Nazi regime but of millions of German individuals.
Catastrophe and Identity in Post-War German Literature by Aaron Horton The purpose of this study is to examine selected German literature dealing with issues of history and identity in light of the catastrophic reshaping of society after World War II and reunification.
German literature - German literature - The 20th century: German Modernism emerged from turn-of-the-century Aestheticism. Like European Modernism as a whole, German Modernism was in fact a cluster of different literary movements, including Expressionism, Neue Sachlichkeit (“New Objectivity”), and Dada.
Of these, Expressionism is the best known and most important. Another great guide to the Civil War is the New York Times’ acclaimed book Disunion, which has been narrating the war in a series of amazing articles coinciding.
The story of World War II seen through the eyes of regular German citizens. In this massive but thorough meditation, Stargardt (European History/Magdalen Coll., Oxford; Witnesses of War: Children’s Lives Under the Nazis,etc.) carefully avoids fixing blame on how the war affected both the attitudes and daily lives of German citizens.
Instead, the author takes a studiously clinical. He wrote about his visit in War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War (London: Cassell, ). He starts by musing on the strange idea that opinion-formers were invited to visit the Front: among the English writers he mentions are Arnold Bennett, Mr Noyes, Hugh Walpole, Stephen Graham, and others.
For my own part I did not want to go. The country’s experiences in World War II remained an important theme in German literature in the early 21st century. In particular, writers grappled with how best to represent memories of the Nazi period.
In addition, works of migrant literature—books in German by writers who moved to Germany from other countries—rose in prominence. The great books that define the Great War On the anniversary of the assassination that triggered WWI, Eileen Battersby selects the books, many written by veterans, that illuminate the conflict and Author: Eileen Battersby.
The Haunted California Idyll of German Writers in Exile. Wartime émigrés in L.A. felt an excruciating dissonance between their circumstances and the horrors unfolding in Europe.
World War I literature is a reflection of a collective crisis of confidence and trust in modern civilization, issues that are inextricably linked to the question of meaning.
Depending on philosophical and political positions, the attempts to answer this question varied, and they changed over time until the s. During the first months, World War I still inspired notions of heroism and. Writers and poets of the Great War attempted to distinguish how this war was different than anything the world had seen before, both the manner in which it was fought and the changing attitude toward the purpose of the conflict, and it was a task shared by all of society, both those on the battlefield and back at home.
The Great War (). My Father's Country. By Wibke Bruhns () Decades after Nazi armies began their march of conquest and genocide, the German "children of the war" have begun to confront their parents' : Konrad Jarausch.
France went to war in not only in the trenches but also in the mind. When President Poincare called upon the intellectual elite to contribute to the war effort with "their pens and their words", the union sacree of scholars and writers - including Henri Bergson, Pierre Duhem, Ernest Lavisse, and Emile Durkheim - united French intellect against German Kultur.
This is a well-written narrative, offering a military history of the First World War. It covers the key developments, incorporates testimonials from participants which add to the sense of what it was like for the fighting man to be at the sharp end of the conflict, and gives a Cited by: 3.
Despite an apparent fascination with the subject in Britain, not all German writing is about the country’s history.
When it is, though, it’s often very well done. Translator and blogger Katy Derbyshire has a list of 11 contemporary German books you ought to read. German literature - German literature - The 19th century: The early years of German Romanticism have been aptly termed the theoretical phase of a movement whose origin can be traced back to the Sturm und Drang era and, beyond Germany itself, to the French philosopher and writer Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
An interest in individual liberty and in nature as a source of poetic inspiration is a common. German Women Writers of the Twentieth Century is an anthology of German women writers of the twentieth century and includes English translations of their German-language short stories.
These short stories provide an insight into their creators' literary achievement and give some impression of the great variety and scope of their work.
The 10 must-read German books of Only a few dozen writers are currently translated for readers in London, New York or San Francisco. Some discoveries await readers.Némirovsky died in the camp but the first two books and her notebooks were published after the war.
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