Lowell W. Culver

Journey into Darkness (eBook, PDF)

An American in Hitler's Wehrmacht

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Journey into Darkness relates the irony and tragedy of twin brothers caught up in World War II on opposite sides and how Adolf Hitler's dramatic rise to power in a defeated Germany influenced a young American to join the German army. What circumstances caused the one twin to travel to Germany for graduate study even with the threat of war and then to remain after the outbreak of hostilities in a potentially hostile environment? What was his fate and that of his twin brother who joins the American army and narrates the story? Laced with thought-provoking interpretations and commentaries, the novel draws heavily on historical events, accounts of Germans who experienced the war firsthand and archival information provided by the cities of Berlin, Hamburg and Kiel and the National Archives of the United States.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761890263
• Artikelnr.: 74399423

Autorenporträt

Lowell W. Culver has followed political developments in Germany for nearly half a century. He was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Hamburg and later a Fulbright exchange professor at the University of Oldenburg. In addition to this study on German elections, he has authored an historical novel on Germany in World War II under the title Journey Into Darkness and a number of articles and conference papers on such subjects as state and local elections, right-extremism, regional cooperation, and the German party system since reunification. As a member of the Chicago-Hamburg Sister Cities Committee, he has been responsible for the student exchange between Chicago and the Hansastadt since 1998. He and his wife share time between the United States and Germany, where they teach at two institutions of higher learning. Culver holds a doctorate in political science from the University of Southern California.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
CHAPTER I
A Fated Reunion
CHAPTER II
An Uncertain Journey
CHAPTER III
The Transformation
CHAPTER IV
The Decision
CHAPTER V
Disillusionment
CHAPTER VI
France and Beyond