The Turbulent World of Franz Göll An Ordinary Berliner Writes the Twentieth Century |
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| Author:
| Fritzsche, Peter |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-05531-5 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2011 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $40.00 |
Book Description:
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Fritzsche traces twentieth-century history through the remarkable diaries of an ordinary Berliner. Franz Göll wrote of hungry winters during WWI, the Berlin bombing, rapes by Russian soldiers, shockwaves cast by Darwin, Freud, and Einstein, the flexing of U.S. superpower, and the strange lifestyles that marked Germany's transition to modernity.
Fritzsche traces twentieth-century history through the remarkable diaries of an ordinary Berliner. Franz Göll wrote of hungry winters during WWI, the Berlin bombing, rapes by Russian soldiers, shockwaves cast by Darwin, Freud, and Einstein, the flexing of U.S. superpower, and the strange lifestyles that marked Germany's transition to modernity.