Swansong 1945 : a collective diary of the last days of the Third Reich
Record details
- ISBN: 0393248151
- ISBN: 9780393248159
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Physical Description:
xxii, 479 pages ; 25 cm
print - Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York, N.Y. : W. W. Norton & Company, 2015.
- Copyright: ©2014
Content descriptions
General Note: | First published in Great Britain by Granta Books, 2014 as Swansong 1945: a collective diary from Hitler's last birthday to VE Day. Great Britain : Granta Books, 2014. "Original German edition first published in 2005. Walter Kempowski: Das Echolot. Abgesang '45 Ein kollekitives Tagebuch. Copyright © 2005 by Albrecht Knaus Verlag, Munich." --Title page verso. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-454) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Foreword / Alan Bance -- Preface / Walter Kempowski -- Editorial note / Walter Kempowski -- Note on the English translation -- Friday, 20 April 1945 -- Wednesday, 25 April 1945 -- Monday, 30 April 1945 -- Tuesday, 8 May/Wednesday, 9 May 1945. |
Language Note: | Text in English translated from the German. |
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Subject: | World War (1939-1945) World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives German diaries German diaries Germany History 1933-1945 Germany |
Genre: | Diaries. Personal narratives. Personal narratives. History. Diaries. |
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Swansong 1945 : A Collective Diary of the Last Days of the Third Reich
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Swansong 1945 : A Collective Diary of the Last Days of the Third Reich
Walter Kempowski (1929-2007) was one of Germany's most important postwar writers. In the 1980s he began gathering diaries, letters, and memoirs of World War II, which he edited into ten volumes published in German. Swansong 1945 is the first portion to appear in English. Shaun Whiteside 's translations from the German include classics by Freud, Musil, and Nietzsche.