Everyone Has Their Reasons - Couverture rigide

Matthews, Joseph

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1629630942 ISBN 13 : 9781629630946

Editeur : PM Press, 2015

Synopsis

THE TALE OF ONE BOY'S EXPERIENCE IN THE EXTRAORDINARY SETTING OF TURBULENT PRE-WWII PARIS

Based on true events, this is the story of a Polish-German Jew whose actions helped spark Kristallnacht.

At a time when the issues of identity, immigration and class remain both universally important and enormously controversial, this book is an accessible and captivating tale of one boy's historically famous experience in Paris before WWII.

On 7 November 1938, a small, slight 17-year-old Polish-German Jew named Herschel Grynszpan entered the German embassy in Paris and shot dead a consular official. Three days later, in supposed response, Jews across Germany were beaten, imprisoned and killed, their homes, shops and synagogues smashed and burned - Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass.

Based on the historical record and told through his "letters" from German prisons, this novel begins in 1936, when 15-year-old Herschel flees Germany, and continues through his show trial, in which the Nazis sought to demonstrate through his actions that Jews had provoked the war. But Herschel throws a last-minute wrench in the plans, bringing the Nazi propaganda machine to a grinding halt and provoking Hitler to postpone the trial and personally give an order regarding Herschel's fate.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Born in Boston and raised there and in California, Joseph Matthews was for a number of years a criminal defense lawyer in San Francisco, engaging in the criminal/political cases of anti-Vietnam War activists and Mission District barrio residents, defending prisoners during the California prison rebellions of the 1970s, serving as a public defender, and teaching at the law school of the University of California, Berkeley. He spent considerable time in Greece in the 1970s and 1980s, where his novel Shades of Resistance (1996) is set during the period of the military junta there. His other previous books are the short story collection The Lawyer Who Blew Up His Desk (1998) and the political analysis Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War (2005, with Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, and Michael Watts).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: PM Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1629630942
• ISBN 13: 9781629630946
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 530
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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