| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 400 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Summary |
This book examines the integrity of diary keeping and selects seven major diarists from Germany, Italy and Britain who wrote their diaries as the events of 1940 unfolded. They wrote without the benefit of hindsight, and any additional notes a few of them added later are ignored here unless critical. The volume explores how these people understood what was happening in this critical year as it occurred. A few other diarists are quoted, but the seven chosen have been selected for their importance, namely Ulrich von Hassell (a German diplomat and anti-Nazi); Galeazzo Ciano, the Italian Foreign Minister (and Mussolini's son-in-law); Sir John Colville, Lord Alanbrooke, Victor Klemperer, Paul Joseph Göbbels, and George Orwell |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The integrity of diaries -- The diarists -- Twentieth century conflagration -- September to December 1939 -- January 1940 -- February 1940 -- March 1940 -- April 1940 -- May 1940 -- June 1940 -- July 1940 -- August 1940 -- September 1940 -- October 1940 -- November 1940 -- December 1940 |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain -- History -- Personal narratives.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany -- History -- Personal narratives.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Italy -- History -- Personal narratives.
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France. |
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Germany. |
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Great Britain. |
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World War (1939-1945) |
| Chronological Term |
1939-1945 |
| Genre/Form |
Personal Narrative.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Personal narratives.
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Personal narratives.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: SANGSTER, ANDREW. DIARISTS OF 1940. [S.l.] : CAMBRIDGE SCHOLARS PUBLIS, 2020 1527543803 (OCoLC)1131899202 |
| ISBN |
9781527544390 (electronic book) |
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1527544397 (electronic book) |
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9781527543805 |
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1527543803 |
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