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This biography examines the life and career of scholar-journalist Elizabeth Wiskemann (1899-1971) from her youth and student years at Cambridge to her death by suicide. Disappointed in her hopes for an academic career, she reinvented herself as a journalist in Berlin, covering the overthrow of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Nazism for The New Statesman, Nation, and numerous other newspapers and periodicals. Expelled from Germany, she settled in Prague and funded by Chatham House wrote the most important account of the Czech-German conflict and the Sudeten crisis, still a classic, followed by a detailed analysis of Nazi political and economic destabilization of the countries of eastern E...
This is the first biography of Elizabeth Wiskemann (1899-1971), journalist, historian, and distinguished commentator on European affairs. Based upon new archival sources, including Foreign Office and OSS files and private papers, as well as Wiskemann's many publications, it examines her life from her youth and student years at Cambridge to her suicide. Disappointed in her hopes for an academic career, she reinvented herself as a foreign correspondent in Berlin, reporting on the final years of the Weimar Republic, Hitler's ascent to power, and Nazism's expansionist drive in Eastern Europe. Expelled from Germany by the Gestapo, she moved to Prague and in 1938 published a classic account of the...
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SCOTT (Copy 1): From the John Holmes Library collection.
This is a new release of the original 1949 edition.