sag harbor the permanent press 1988 (3 results)

black, red & gilt decorative (spine) 1/2 cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. vg cond. binding square & tight. couple of water spots on front cover, couple of faint smudges on rear. edges clean. front fyleaf corner clipped, otherwise contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. faint crease on rear flap, not torn or price clipped. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (NAP). 316p. notes & sources. bibliography. name index. biography. world history. german history. weimar republic. nazi germany. third reich. ~ From Berlin's diplomatic salons to the earliest concentration camps, 1933 captures the drama of Hitler's first year in power. Using the technique of "cluster biography" the author intertwines the stories of five people~the American ambassador and his daughter, Hitler's chief of the foreign press, a Jewish society reporter, and the first head of the Gestapo ~ into a ground zero view of Berlin society during the first turbulent months of Hitler's rule. Frequently portrayed as a "seizure of power;' the Nazi victory was more than an upsurge in popular support or a backstairs intrigue. It was an uprising of the victorious against the vanquished that unleashed a reign of terror across Germany's political and cultural landscape. Philip Metcalfe's painstaking research provides a novelistic look at one of history's great enigmas: how a nation of poets and scholars could succumb to a group of men little better ~ as one American reporter put it ~ than the Ku Klux Klan. As Metcalfe states in his preface: "I wanted to write the history of a revolution as the participants lived it, to portray German society as more than Nazis, non~Nazis and Jews. I wanted to show that in a revolution there is not one reality but numerous, partial realities. For this purpose I discovered a narrative that could go anywhere: into embassies, private homes, concentration camps, even across the sea to America. For the most part, however, I was content to hover over Berlin and peek into windows and overhear half~remembered conversations." The book opens in the home of the beleaguered American ambassador and expands to include the antics of Hitler's clownish foreign press chief, the tragic plight of a Jewish journalist, and the haunting story of Germany's first head of the Gestapo. From the first book~burnings to the final confrontation of the Roehm Purge, the reader will experience again the full, uncensored story, as filed by American correspondents from Berlin. 1933 was five years in the writing and involved the examination of over 500 books, hundreds of newspaper accounts, a score of archives both in the United States and Germany, and reams of personal documents saved by the major participants. For those who wish to have a better understanding of what has been one of the most dramatic and fateful periods of the 20th century, this is a worthy and significant addition to Holocaust literature.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fine in a fine dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fine in a fine dj.