Diary of a Man in Despair - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Friedrich Reck, Richard J. Evans (Afterword by), Paul Rubens (Translator)Series:New York Review Books ClassicsPublish date:2013-02-12Pages:264
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781590175866ISBN-10:1590175867UPC:9781590175866Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Political, Personal Memoirs, Wars & ConflictsBook Topic:World War ISize:8.04 x 5.29 x 0.58 inchesWeight:0.6107Product ID:SC2NDZZ4A4
Diary of a Man in Despair
Hailed as one of the most important works on the Hitler period, this is an "astonishing, compelling, and unnerving" portrait of life in Nazi Germany between 1936 and 1944--from a man who nearly shot Hitler himself (The New Yorker). Friedrich Reck might seem an unlikely rebel against Nazism. Not just a conservative but a rock-ribbed reactionary, he played the part of a landed gentleman, deplored...
Series: New York Review Books Classics
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781590175866ISBN-10:1590175867UPC:9781590175866Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Political, Personal Memoirs, Wars & ConflictsBook Topic:World War ISize:8.04 x 5.29 x 0.58 inchesWeight:0.6107Product ID:SC2NDZZ4A4
Friedrich Reck (1884-1945) was born Friedrich Percyval Reck in Masuria, East Prussia, the son of a prosperous conservative politician and landowner. Having initially complied with his father's wishes to pursue a military career, he left the army to begin medical studies. By the beginning of the First World War, for which he was ruled unfit to serve, he had begun work as a full-time theater critic...
Publisher: New York Review of Books
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Friedrich Reck, Richard J. Evans (Afterword by), Paul Rubens (Translator)
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