Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself
The Downfall of Ordinary Germans in 1945
(Sprache: Englisch)
The extraordinary German bestseller on the final days of the Third Reich
A Times and Telegraph Book of the Year 2019
One of the last untold stories of the Third Reich is that of the extraordinary wave of suicides, carried out not just by much of the...
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The extraordinary German bestseller on the final days of the Third Reich
A Times and Telegraph Book of the Year 2019
One of the last untold stories of the Third Reich is that of the extraordinary wave of suicides, carried out not just by much of the Nazi leadership, but by thousands of ordinary Germans, in the war's closing period. Some of these were provoked by straightforward terror in the face of advancing Soviet troops or by personal guilt, but many could not be explained in such relatively straightforward terms.
Florian Huber's remarkable book, a bestseller in Germany, confronts this terrible phenomenon. Other countries have suffered defeat, but not responded in the same way. What drove whole families, who in many cases had already withstood years of deprivation, aerial bombing and deaths in battle, to do this?
In a brilliantly written, thoughtful and original work, Huber sees the entire project of the Third Reich as a sequence of almost overwhelming emotions and scenes for many Germans. He describes some of the key events which shaped the period from the First World War to the end of the Second, showing how the sheer intensity, allure and ferocity of Hitler's regime swept along millions. Its sudden end was, for many of them, simply impossible to absorb.
Autoren-Porträt von Florian Huber
Huber, FlorianFlorian Huber is a writer and documentary maker. He was born in Nuremberg in 1967. He has written four books about German history of which this is the first to be translated into English. He lives in Hamburg.
Imogen Taylor is a literary translator based in Berlin.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Florian Huber
- 2019, 304 Seiten, Masse: 16,4 x 24,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Books UK
- ISBN-10: 0241399246
- ISBN-13: 9780241399248
- Erscheinungsdatum: 04.07.2019
Sprache:
Englisch
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