War Diary - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook War Diary write by Ingeborg Bachmann. This book was released on 2011. War Diary available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-73) is recognized as one of the most important novelists, poets, and playwrights of postwar German literature. As befitting such a versatile writer, her War Diary is not a day-by-day journal but a series of sketches, depicting the last months of World War II and the first year of the subsequent British occupation of Austria. These articulate and powerful entries--all the more remarkable taking into account Bachmann's young age at the time--reveal the eighteen-year-old's hatred of both war and Nazism as she avoids the fanatics' determination to "defend Klagenfurt to the last man and the last woman." The British occupation leads to her incredible meeting with a British officer, Jack Hamesh, a Jew who had originally fled Vienna for England in 1938. He is astonished to find in Austria a young girl who has read banned authors such as Mann, Schnitzler, and Hofmannsthal. Their relationship is captured here in the emotional and moving letters Hamesh writes to Bachmann when he travels to Israel in 1946. In his correspondence, he describes how in his new home of Israel, he still suffers from the rootlessness affecting so many of those who lost parents, family, friends, and homes in the war. War Diary provides unusual insight into the formation of Bachmann as a writer and will be cherished by the many fans of her work. But it is also a poignant glimpse into life in Austria in the immediate aftermath of the war, and the reflections of both Bachmann and Hamesh speak to a significant and larger story beyond their personal experiences.Praise for the German Edition"A minor sensation that will make literary history. Thanks to the excellent critical commentary, we gain a sense of a period in history and in Bachmann's life that reached deep into her later work. . . . What makes these diary entries so special is . . . the detail of the resistance described, the exhilaration of unexpected peace, the joy of freedom."--Die Zeit
A World Gone Mad
A World Gone Mad - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A World Gone Mad write by Astrid Lindgren. This book was released on 2016-10-27. A World Gone Mad available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A civilian, a mother, and a writer's unique account of a world devastated by conflict 'A rare glimpse of life in neutral Sweden and an insight into the dark setting that created her best-known work' FT Before she became internationally known for her children's books, Astrid Lindgren was an aspiring author living in Stockholm with her family at the outbreak of The Second World War. In these diaries, Lindgren emerges as a morally courageous critic of violence and war, as well as a deeply sensitive and astute observer of world affairs. Alongside political events, she includes delightful vignettes of domestic life, moments of personal crisis, and reveals the origins of Pippi Longstocking - soon to become one of the most famous and beloved children's books of the twentieth century.
War Diaries 1939 1945
War Diaries 1939 1945 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook War Diaries 1939 1945 write by Alan Brooke Alanbrooke (Viscount). This book was released on 2003-06. War Diaries 1939 1945 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first complete and unexpurgated publication of the diaries of Lord Alanbrooke, who during World War II was Chief of the Imperial General Staff of the British Empire and Churchill's most prominent advisor -- and rival.
The War Diaries of Weary Dunlop
The War Diaries of Weary Dunlop - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The War Diaries of Weary Dunlop write by Edward E Dunlop. This book was released on 2005-03-01. The War Diaries of Weary Dunlop available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This extraordinary first-hand account of Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop's experiences as senior medical officer in the infamous prisoner-of-war camps in Java and on the Burma-Thailand Railway, is not only an account of great historical significance but also a testament to the ability of the human spirit to overcome the most unbearably cruel conditions. 'I have the testimony of hundreds of Australians who had served with me and who accompanied Weary to Burma and Siam that he was both their inspiration and the main instrument of their physical and spiritual survival.' Laurens Van Der Post 'His experiences – and the manner in which he handled them – are what have made Weary Dunlop one of our most loved and most respected countrymen.' Herald Sun 'Sir Edward's care and concern for his men and his unbreakable spirit made him a living legend.' Sunday Times
We are at War
We are at War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook We are at War write by Simon Garfield. This book was released on 2006. We are at War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Includes portions of the diaries of: Pam Ashford, Christopher Tomlin, Tilly Rice, Eileen Potter, and Maggie Joy Blunt.
