UID:
almafu_9959852093602883
Format:
1 online resource (480 p.)
ISBN:
9781442609204
Content:
In this fascinating volume, renowned historian Howard M. Sachar relates the tragedy of twentieth-century Europe through an innovative, riveting account of the continent's political assassinations between 1918 and 1939 and beyond. By tracing the violent deaths of key public figures during an exceptionally fraught time period—the aftermath of World War I—Sachar lays bare a much larger history: the gradual moral and political demise of European civilization and its descent into World War II. In his famously arresting prose, Sachar traces the assassinations of Rosa Luxemburg, Kurt Eisner, Matthias Erzberger, and Walther Rathenau in Germany—a lethal chain reaction that contributed to the Weimar Republic's eventual collapse and Hitler's rise to power. Sachar's exploration of political fragility in Italy, Austria, the successor states of Eastern Europe, and France completes a mordant yet intriguing exposure of the Old World's lethal vulnerability. The final chapter, which chronicles the deaths of Stefan and Lotte Zweig, serves as a thought-provoking metaphor for the assassination of the Old World itself.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Illustrations --
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Preface --
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Stylistic Note --
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Chapter one. Social Democracy’s White Terror --
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Chapter two. The Death of Giacomo Matteotti --
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Chapter three. A Posthumous Imperial Vengeance --
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Chapter four. Who Killed Sergei Kirov? --
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Chapter five. “Richard III” in Germany --
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Chapter six. A Return Visit from Austria’s Tatterdemalion Son --
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Chapter seven. All Roads Lead to Rome --
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Chapter eight. Gallic Fraternité under the Third Republic --
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Chapter nine. The Hunt for Leon Trotsky --
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Chapter ten. Gallic Fraternité under Vichy’s Armistice --
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Chapter eleven. The Humanist of Yesterday --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3138/9781442609204
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442609204
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442609204
