The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky: Into Germany at the End of World War II - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 1805393421 ISBN 13 : 9781805393429

Editeur : Berghahn Books, 2024

Synopsis

"'The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky' offers not only a panoramic view of a country poised between devastation and an uncertain future but a gripping self-portrait of a man poised between unresolved youthful bewilderment and a mature clarity of conviction." - Wall Street Journal

In 1945 Melvin J. Lasky, serving in one of the first American divisions that entered Germany after the country's surrender, began documenting the everyday life of a defeated nation. Travelling widely across both Germany and post-war Europe, Lasky's diary provides a captivating eye-witness account colored by ongoing socio-political debates and his personal background studying Trotskyism. The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky reproduces the diary's vivid language as Lasky describes the ideological tensions between the East and West, as well as including critical essays on subjects ranging from Lasky's life as a transatlantic intellectual, the role of war historians, and the diary as a literary genre.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Charlotte A. Lerg is assistant professor of American history at Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, and managing director of the Lasky Center for Transatlantic Studies. She is a board member of the Bavarian American Academy and has held research fellowships at the Library of Congress as well as at the German Historical Institute (Washington DC). Publications include The Continuity of Change. Reform Movements in U.S.-History (Dec. 2021) with Jana Weiß, and Universitätsdiplomatie (2019). Lerg also co-edits the series History of Intellectual Culture (HIC): International Yearbook of Knowledge and Society.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Berghahn Books
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1805393421
• ISBN 13: 9781805393429
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 342
• Éditeur: Lerg Charlotte A.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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