The Lesser Evil

The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945-1959

Autori

• Victor Klemperer

Parametri

• 637 pagine
• 23 ore di lettura

• Autobiografie e memorie
• Biografie e pensieri
• Narrativa tedesca
• Saggistica
• Storia

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'The third and final volume of the diaries of Victor Klemperer, a Jew in Dresden who survived the war and whose 1933-1945 diaries have already been hailed as one of the twentieth century's most important chronicles. In June 1945 Victor and Eva Klemperer return to their home in the Dresden suburbs, a place last seen in 1940 when they were forced to leave it and live in a Jews' House. Feelings of fairy-tale euphoria alternate with much darker moods. The immediate postwar period produces shocks and revelations: some people have behaved better than Klemperer had believed, others much worse......' (Back of book)

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2003

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