The writers' castle : reporting history at Nuremberg
Neumahr, Uwe2024
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Click and Collect for The writers' castle : reporting history at Nuremberg"A gripping, fresh approach to the Nuremberg Trial, told through the stories of the many great writers who came to witness it. Nuremberg, 1946. As the trials of Nazi war criminals begin, some of the world's most famous writers and reporters gather in the ruined German city. Among them are Rebecca West, John Dos Passos, Martha Gellhorn, Erika Mann and Janet Flanner. Crammed together in the press camp at Schloss Faber-Castell, where reporters sleep ten to a room, complain about the food and argue in the lively bar, they each try to find words for the unprecedented events they are witnessing. Here, tensions simmer between Soviet and Western journalists, unlikely affairs begin, stories are falsified and fabricated - and each reporter is forever changed by what they experience. As Uwe Neumahr builds an engrossing group portrait of the luminaries at Nuremberg, we are taken to the heart of the political and cultural conflicts of the time - observing history at the very moment it was being written"-- Provided by publisher.
Main title:
The writers' castle : reporting history at Nuremberg / Uwe Neumahr ; translated from the German by Jefferson Chase.
Author:
Neumahr, Uwe, authorChase, Jefferson S., translator
Imprint:
London : Pushkin Press, 2024.©2024
Collation:
xv, 329 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Notes:
First published as Das Schloss der Schriftsteller by Verlag C.H. Beck oHG, München, in 2023.Includes bibliographical references and index.Translated from the German.
Contents:
ForewordA castle made of pencilsAmerican defeats, or the melancholy of John Dos PassosCountess Katharina and Gestapo head Rudolf DielsErich Kästner's broken promiseErika Mann, her "beloved lunatic" and an unpleasant reunionWilliam Shirer and the good Wehrmacht generalAlfred Döblin's didactic deception: the phantom resident of Schloss Faber-CastellJanet Flanner and the cross-examination of Hermann GöringThe French Stalinism of Elsa TrioletWilly Brandt, Markus Wolf and the Katyn MassacreRebecca West's doomed affairMartha Gellhorn, Hemingway's shadow and the shock of DachauPainting to escape the horror: Wolfgang Hildesheimer and the Einsatzgruppen TrialA kind of afterword: Golo Mann's plea for Rudolf Hess.
ISBN:
9781805330691 (hbk)97818053307149781805330691
Dewey class:
070.44934169070.449
LC class:
D799.G4
Language:
EnglishGerman
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BRN:
573301
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Society and Beliefs | 070.449 NEU | Available |
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