The Turbulent World of Franz Göll: An Ordinary Berliner Writes the Twentieth Century

by Peter Fritzsche

Book Overview

Fritzsche traces twentieth-century history through the remarkable diaries of an ordinary Berliner. Franz G ll wrote of hungry winters during WWI, the Berlin bombing, rapes by Russian soldiers, shockwaves cast by Darwin, Freud, and Einstein, the flexing of U.S. superpower, and the strange lifestyles that marked Germany's transition to modernity.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674055314
• ISBN13: 9780674055315
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.3"