Allan Mitchell

The Devil's Captain

Ernst Jünger in Nazi Paris, 1941-1944

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Written by a Choice Academic Book of the Year award winner Uses Ernst Jünger’s journals and correspondence to investigate his professional and personal experiences Analyses Nazi Paris through Jünger’s experiences in order to better understand the France of this period

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 364g
• ISBN-13: 9780857451149
• ISBN-10: 0857451146
• Artikelnr.: 33622920

Autorenporträt

Allan Mitchell received his PhD from Harvard in 1961, then taught at Smith College (1961-1972) and the University of California, San Diego (1972-1992). His most recent books include The Great Train Race: Railways and the Franco-German Rivalry 1815-1914 (Berghahn Books, 2000); Rêves Parisiens: L'échec de projets de transport public en France au XIXème siècle (Ponts-et-Chaussées, Paris, 2005); A Stranger in Paris: Germany's Role in Republican France, 1870-1940 (Berghahn Books, 2006); and Nazi Paris: The History of an Occupation, 1940-1944 (Berghahn Books, 2008).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Loner
Chapter 2. The Road to Paris
Photograph Section I
Chapter 3. Man About Town
Chapter 4. Dreaming and Musing
Chapter 5. Strange Interlude
Chapter 6. Kniébolo and the Nazis
Photograph Section II
Chapter 7. The Plot Against Hitler
Chapter 8. Telling Omissions
Chapter 9. Immediate Afterthoughts
Chapter 10. The Correspondent
Photograph Section III
Postscript: Liebe Sophie
Conclusion
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index