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The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky

Into Germany at the End of World War II
BuchKartoniert, Paperback
342 Seiten
Englisch
Berghahn Bookserschienen am02.08.2024
"'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 JournalIn 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.mehr
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Klappentext"'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 JournalIn 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.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-1-80539-342-9
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2024
Erscheinungsdatum02.08.2024
Seiten342 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 152 mm, Höhe 229 mm, Dicke 19 mm
Gewicht496 g
Artikel-Nr.60795860
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GenreGeschichte/Politik

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Journal of a ConscriptCharlotte A. Lerg and Maren RothChapter 1. Melvin J. Lasky´s Biography and DiaryMaren RothChapter 2. Not a Beginning but an End: Melvin Lasky, DiaristGeorge BlausteinChapter 3. Between Denazification and Reconstruction: US Occupation Policies and Practice in Germany 1945Jana AresinChapter 4. Clio continues to serve. Melvin J. Lasky as Combat HistorianCharlotte A. LergChapter 5. (Military) Masculinity and a Feminized Europe: The Gender Politics of Lasky´s DiaryKatharina GerundChapter 6. Lasky, Chronicler of Europe´s Twentieth CenturyMichael KimmageMelvin J. Lasky: Diary of a ConscriptAppendix A: List of Primary Literature in the Diarymehr

Autor

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.