A riveting group portrait that puts these celebrity reporters in the spotlight... An engaging blend of gossipy anecdote and precise, thought-provoking analysis

Financial Times

Using freshly unearthed archives, as well as the countless reports, features, cartoons, novels and radio dispatches filed by the writers, Neumahr makes the trial feel new again... Unsettling and elusive, a book about a trial that cleverly refuses to render judgment

Sunday Times

Ranging across the (sometimes shifting) viewpoints of the different writers gathered in Nuremberg, Uwe Neumahr complicates the story in small but important ways... This readable history of the view from the castle shows the many ways in which human beings process transgression, violence and trauma

TLS

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Fascinating

Jewish Chronicle

A fascinating chronicle of the press and the parties around the Nuremberg trials

Irish Independent

Fascinating... engrossing

Spectator

Neumahr's approach is biographical and kaleidoscopic... Very entertaining

History Today

Rich in historical detail and anecdote

Irish Times

A gripping new approach to the Nuremberg Trial, told through the stories of the many great writers who came to witness itNuremberg, 1945. As the trials of Nazi war criminals begin, some of the world's most famous writers and reporters gather in the ruined German city. Among them are Rebecca West, John Dos Passos, Martha Gellhorn, Erika Mann and Janet Flanner.Crammed together in the press camp at Schloss Faber-Castell, where reporters sleep ten to a room, complain about the food and argue in the lively bar, they each try to find words for the unprecedented events they are witnessing. Here, tensions simmer between Soviet and Western journalists, unlikely affairs begin, stories are falsified and fabricated - and each reporter is forever changed by what they experience.As Uwe Neumahr builds an engrossing group portrait of the literary luminaries at Nuremberg, we are taken to the heart of the political and cultural conflicts of the time - observing history at the very moment it was being written.
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A riveting group portrait that puts these celebrity reporters in the spotlight... An engaging blend of gossipy anecdote and precise, thought-provoking analysis

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781805330691
Publisert
2024-08-29
Utgiver
Vendor
Pushkin Press
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
153 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
352

Forfatter
Oversetter

Om bidragsyterne

Uwe Neumahr is an author and literary agent who holds a PhD in Romance and German Studies. He has previously written biographies of historical figures from the Renaissance and Early Modern periods, including Miguel de Cervantes. Jefferson Chase is the translator of some 40 books from German to English, including works by Thomas Mann, Volker Ullrich and Wolfgang Schivelbusch. He lives in Berlin.