Author: George Ward PricePublisher: London : Harrap
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Extra-special Correspondent
Author: George Ward PricePublisher: London : Harrap
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Extra-special Correspondent
Author: George Ward PricePublisher: London : Harrap
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Shakespiritualism
Author: J. KahanPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137313552
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
This study concerns itself with a now-forgotten religious group, Spiritualists, and how their ensuing discussions of Shakespeare's meaning, his writing practices, his possible collaborations, and the supposed purity and/or corruption of his texts anticipated, accompanied, or silhouetted similar debates in Shakespeare Studies.
Fellow Travellers of the Right
Author: Richard GriffithsPublisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571310141
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
When reviewing the first edition in the Times Literary Supplement, Stephen Koss wrote that Fellow Travellers of the Right 'should be required reading for those who believe that ignorance under any circumstances can deter evil'. One can see why. So topsy-turvy had attitudes become in certain circles that the accusation of being 'unquestionably the biggest war-monger in the world today' was levelled at Churchill, not Hitler! In the author's words 'this book is an attempt to study the various forms of motivation which led to this phenomenon (pro-Nazi sympathies in Britain). It is also an attempt to assess the years in which approval for Nazi Germany became greater or less, and the possible reasons for these changes.' The author goes on to say, 'The pattern of British pro-Nazism is at first sight surprising. After a slow start in the 1933-35 period, it reached a high peak in the years 1936 and 1937, after which it gradually declined until, at the outbreak of the war, it was confined to extremist groups and isolated outcrops of specially motivated approval.' From misguided writers like Edmund Blunden and Henry Williamson to altogether more sinister figures like Lord Londonderry and Sir Arnold Wilson, the roll-call of 'fellow travellers of the Right' is disturbing. Richard Griffiths' acclaimed and much-sought-after book remains the best on the subject.
Fun
Author: Punch
Author: Henry MayhewPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caricatures and cartoons
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
I Know These Dictators
Author: G. Ward PricePublisher: Ostara Publications
ISBN: 9781684546244
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
An up close account of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, their political history, policies, and intentions, as published by the Daily Mail's most famous foreign correspondent in 1937. His description of both men and states provides one of the most accurate overviews of that time ever written in the English language.
punch
Author: Punch, Or, The London Charivari
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Otto Abetz and His Paris Acolytes
Author: Martin MauthnerPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1782842950
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Before Hitler comes to power, Otto Abetz is a left-wing Francophile teacher in provincial Germany, mobilising young French and German idealists to work together for peace through Franco-German reconciliation and a united Europe. Abetz marries a French girl but, after 1933, succumbs to the Nazi sirens. Ribbentrop recruits him as his expert on France, tasking him with soothing the nervous French, as Hitler turns Germany into a war machine. Abetz builds up a network of opinion-moulding French men and women who admire the Nazis and detest the Bolsheviks, and encourages them to use their pens to highlight Hitler's triumphs. In 1939, France expels Abetz as a Nazi agent. The following year he returns in triumph with the German army as Hitler appoints him as his ambassador in Paris. During the war, Abetz (apart from 'securing' works of art and playing a role in the deportation of Jews) manoeuvres three of his French publicist friends -- Jean Luchaire, Fernand de Brinon, Drieu la Rochelle into key positions, from where they can laud Nazi achievements and denigrate the Resistance. A prime question the author addresses is why these writers, and two others, Jules Romains and Bertrand de Jouvenel -- all of whom had close Jewish family connections -- supported the Nazi ideology. At the war's end, Drieu commits suicide, while Luchaire and Brinon are tried and executed as traitors. Abetz, charged with war crimes, pleads that he has saved France from being 'Polonised', but a French court finds him guilty and he is imprisoned. Released early, he dies in a mysterious car crash -- a saboteur being suspected of having tampered with the steering.