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'This Anguish, Like a Kind of Intimate Song'
This literary history explores the reality of European women's roles in fighting Nazism. By comparing the resistance literature of French and German authors, this book links the traditional gender expectations for women and the conventions of their everyday lives with their unique forms of resistance. Theirs was an opposition grounded in the ordinary, beyond the sphere of political violence. Women were long regarded as outsiders to combat and politics, with no stake in upholding resistance myths. Women authors therefore freely rendered the personal and moral landscape of the resister's world in a new vocabulary. They revised standard rhetoric and replaced heroism and bullets with the values of home, human relationships, and candid acknowledgement of the sorrow, fear, and uncertainty of war.
1939
‘Taylor has done us a great service in making the personal stories of what it was actually like to live through the most crucial year of the twentieth century vivid, compelling and salutary.’ - Roland Philipps, author of A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean In the autumn of 1938, Europe believed in the promise of peace. Still reeling from the ravages of the Great War, its people were desperate to rebuild their lives in a newly safe and stable era. But only a year later, the fateful decisions of just a few men had again led Europe to war, a war that would have a profound and lasting impact on millions. Bestselling historian Frederick Taylor focuses on the day-to-day experience...
Der Krieg, den keiner wollte
Zwei Völker am Abgrund: Die Geschichte des Sommers vor der Katastrophe Sommer 1939: Zwanzig Jahre nach dem Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs steht Europa erneut am Abgrund. Die Diplomatie hat versagt, die Militärs haben aufgerüstet, was aber denken und fühlen die Menschen in Deutschland und in England? Frederick Taylor hat unzählige Quellen ausgewertet, Zeitzeugen interviewt und private Dokumente erschlossen - und zeichnet so ein eindrückliches Bild der Gefühlslage in beiden Völkern. Er verwebt auf kunstvolle Weise große Politik und persönliche Schicksale und verleiht den einfachen Bürgern eine Stimme. Dabei erweist sich, dass vielfach eine Kriegsmüdigkeit herrschte, die die Menschen dazu brachte, die Augen vor der Realität zu schließen. Eine glänzend geschriebene historische Reportage und das Porträt einer kurzen Epoche, die in der Katastrophe endete.
Krieg und Literatur
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After Midnight
Depicting a young woman's life in Nazi Germany, a masterpiece from the author of Child of All Nations 'I cannot think of anything else that conjures up so powerfully the atmosphere of a nation turned insane' Sunday Telegraph Nineteen-year-old Sanna just wants to drink her beer in peace, but that's difficult when Hitler has come to town and his motorcade is blocking the streets of Frankfurt. What's more, her best friend Gerti is in love with a Jewish boy, her brother writes books that have been blacklisted and her own aunt may denounce her to the authorities at any moment, as Germany teeters on the edge of the abyss. Written after she had fled the Nazi regime, Irmgard Keun's masterly novel captures the feverish hysteria and horror of the era with devastating perceptiveness and humour. Translated by Geoff Wilkes
Resistance
"If you who read this can say, I am not under fire; I am not under torture; I am not on the run; if I hear a noise at six in the morning, I know it is a neighbour or a milkman, not the secret police; no one in my country is arrested and held without prompt charge and trial... then you owe it, in a larger degree than most historians have so far allowed, to the resistance that occupied Europe put up to Hitler." An instant classic upon its initial publication in 1976, this fluent and persuasive book was the first to analyse the whole field of wartime resistance to the Nazis in Europe, to explain what resisters could and could not do, and to assess whether they achieved their aims. It is a truly epic theme, with its drama of intelligence, deception, escape and subversion. In gathering the threads of this important narrative into the fabric of a single volume, M. R. D. Foot, one of the most distinguished historians of his time, achieved a work of gripping and major significance.
