Not I : a German childhood
Fest, Joachim C., 1926-20062013
Book
Few other historians have shaped our understanding of the Third Reich as Joachim Fest. Fierce and intransigent, German-born Fest was a relentless interrogator of his nation's modern history. His analysis, The Face of the Third Reich, his biographies of Adolf Hitler and Albert Speer and his descriptions of the last days in the Fuhrer's bunker have all reached a worldwide audience of millions. But how did the young Fest, born in 1926, personally experience National Socialism, the Second World War and a catastrophically defeated Germany? In Not I, the memoir of his childhood and youth, Joachim Fest chronicles his own extraordinary early life, providing an intimate portrait of those dark years of conflict. Whether describing his Catholic home in a Berlin suburb, his father's resistance of the regime and subsequent teaching ban, his own expulsion from school, or Aunt Dolly's introductions to the operatic world, these are the long-awaited personal reflections of a born observer the exactitude of whose prose is as sharp as the memories he describes.
Main title:
Not I : a German childhood / Joachim Fest ; translated from the German by Martin Chalmers.
Imprint:
London : Atlantic Books, 2013, c2012.London : Atlantic Books, 2013.©2012.
Collation:
xi, 316 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Notes:
First published in Germany as Ich nicht in 2006 by Rowohlt Verlag Gmbh. First published in Great Britain as Not me in 2012 by Atlantic Books.Includes index.Translated from the German.
ISBN:
9781843549321
Dewey class:
943.087092943.087
Language:
EnglishGerman
Added title:
BRN:
144052
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library at the Dock | -Biography | BIOG 943.087 FEST | Available |