The Setting of the Pearl: Vienna under Hitler

Weyr, Thomas

ISBN 10: 0195146794 / ISBN 13: 9780195146790

Edité par Oxford University Press, New York, 2005

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First Edition: Same date on Title & Copyright Page plus complete number line with the number one. Hard cover in very good condition with black boards and gold gilt spine lettering. Text block clean & tight; no writing, no markings; no remainder mark. 352 numbered pages. Contains eight leaves/16 pages of glossy black & white photos. Concludes with a section on Notes to the Chapters, a Bibliography, and an extensive Index. Dust jacket in very good condition; only ghost of shelf & edge wear; not price clipped. * From the front jacket flap, "When Adolf Hitler seized Vienna in the Anschluss of 1938 he called the city " a pearl to which he would give a proper setting." But the setting he left behind seven years later was one of ruin and destruction - the pearl had become a physical, spiritual, and intellectual wasteland.".

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Setting of the Pearl: Vienna under Hitler
• Éditeur: Oxford University Press, New York
• Date de parution: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0195146794
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780195146790
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• Impression: 1st Printing
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • History of World War II

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Synopsis

When Adolf Hitler seized Vienna in the Anschluss of 1938, he called the city "a pearl to which he would give a proper setting." But the setting he left behind seven years later was one of ruin and destruction--a physical, spiritual, and intellectual wasteland.
Here is a grippingly narrated and heartbreaking account of the debasement of one of Europe's great cities. Thomas Weyr shows how Hitler turned Vienna from a vibrant metropolis that was the cradle of modernism into a drab provincial town. In this riveting narrative, we meet Austrian traitors like Arthur Seyss-Inquart and mass murderers like Odilo Globocnik; proconsuls like Joseph Buerckel, who hacked Austria into seven pieces, and Baldur von Schirach, who dreamed of making Vienna into a Nazi capital on the Danube--and failed miserably. More painfully, Weyr chronicles the swift destruction of a rich Jewish culture and the removal of the city's 200,000 Jews through murder, exile, and deportation. Vienna never regained the global role the city had once played. Today, Weyr concludes, only the monuments remain--beautiful but lifeless.
This is not only the story of Nazi leaders but of how the Viennese themselves lived and died: those who embraced Hitler, those who resisted, and the many who merely, in the local phrase, "ran after the rabbit." The author draws on his own experiences as a child in Vienna under Nazi rule in 1938, and those of his parents and friends, plus extensive documentary research, to craft a vivid historical narrative that chillingly captures how a once-great city lost its soul under Hitler.

À propos de l'auteur

Thomas Weyr is native of Vienna and was educated at Columbia University, the Sorbonne, and the University of Vienna, where he received his doctorate. He has worked for many years as a journalist and has written and translated ten books. He lives in Bronxville, New York.