Christabel Bielenberg

The Past is Myself & The Road Ahead Omnibus

When I Was a German, 1934-1945: omnibus edition of two bestselling wartime memoirs that depict life in Nazi Germany with alarming honesty

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Produktbeschreibung

The Past is Myself is her story of that experience - and an unforgettable portrait of an evil time. The Road AheadFollowing the extraordinary success of her wartime memoir, The Past is Myself, Christabel Bielenberg received thousands of letters from readers begging her to describe what happened next.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Transworld Publishers Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 136mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780552165143
• ISBN-10: 055216514X
• Artikelnr.: 33385405

Autorenporträt

Christabel Bielenberg, a niece of Lord Northcliffe, was born in 1909 and left for Hamburg, Germany, in 1929 to study singing. There she met and married the lawyer, Peter Bielenberg, in 1934. She lived through the war as a German citizen and wrote about her experiences in her memoir, The Past is Myself (1968) and in its sequel, The Road Ahead (1992). The Past is Myself was adapted for television by Dennis Potter under the title Christabel. In 1988, the Federal Republic of Germany awarded her the Commander's cross of the Order of Merit for her contribution to German-English understanding. Since 1948 she and her family had been living in Co Carlow, Ireland, where she died in 2003.