A Noble Combat by Klemens Von Klemperer
The letters of Shiela Grant Duff and Adam von Trott zu Solz tell of a friendship - tender, strained, and in the end tragic - between a young Englishwoman who became a distinguished foreign correspondent in the mid-1930s, and a German Rhodes Scholar who eventually joined the resistance against Hitler and was executed by the Nazis. The correspondence spans the years when Sheila and Adam's friendship first blossomed, amid hopes for a new Europe and a world order of social justice and self-rule. The story continues to the eve of war, when their relationship finally floundered under the strain of their own temperaments and the mounting crisis in Europe.
`The editing is careful and thorough and the book is well equipped with highly informative notes' R.A.C.Parker, English Historical Review.
'Professor von Klemperer, an exemplary editor, has brought almost the entire correspondence together in a book that illuminates not just the writers, but the 1930s in European history.' The Economist
'This book was worth publishing for the light it throws on the inwardness of those years ... a telling contribution to history and especially to what led to the renewal of war' The Spectator
'often gripping stuff ... the book has high historical relevance.' The Independent
'Some 300 pages of personal letters ... are here accompanied by a very competent introduction and commentary from Professor Klemperer' Financial Times
'... an extraordinarily moving account of a friendship wrecked by politics.' Robert Skidelsky, Sunday Telegraph
'very carefully edited by Klemens von Klemperer, and no doubt serious students of the inter-war years will find the result rewarding.' The Irish Times
'... poignant and extraordinarily powerful.' Artemis Cooper, Weekend Telegraph
'a telling contribution to history, and especially to what led to the renewal of war.' Books
`The editing is careful and thorough and the book is well equipped with highly informative notes'. R.A.C. Parker, English Historical Review, Oct 1991.
'Professor von Klemperer, an exemplary editor, has brought almost the entire correspondence together in a book that illuminates not just the writers, but the 1930s in European history.' The Economist
'This book was worth publishing for the light it throws on the inwardness of those years ... a telling contribution to history and especially to what led to the renewal of war' The Spectator
'often gripping stuff ... the book has high historical relevance.' The Independent
'Some 300 pages of personal letters ... are here accompanied by a very competent introduction and commentary from Professor Klemperer' Financial Times
'... an extraordinarily moving account of a friendship wrecked by politics.' Robert Skidelsky, Sunday Telegraph
'very carefully edited by Klemens von Klemperer, and no doubt serious students of the inter-war years will find the result rewarding.' The Irish Times
'... poignant and extraordinarily powerful.' Artemis Cooper, Weekend Telegraph
'a telling contribution to history, and especially to what led to the renewal of war.' Books
`The editing is careful and thorough and the book is well equipped with highly informative notes'. R.A.C. Parker, English Historical Review, Oct 1991.
Klemens von Klemperer is Professor of History at Smith College, Massachusetts.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780198229087 |
| ISBN 10 | 0198229089 |
| Title | A Noble Combat |
| Author | Klemens Von Klemperer |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 1988-03-31 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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