The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky : : Into Germany at the End of World War II / / ed. by Charlotte A. Lerg.
In 1945 Melvin J. Lasky, serving in one of the first American divisions that entered Germany after the country’s surrender, began documenting the everyday life of a defeated nation. Travelling widely across both Germany and post-war Europe, Lasky’s diary provides a captivating eye-witness account co...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2022 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022] ©2022 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Transatlantic Perspectives ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (342 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Introduction. Journal of a Conscript
- Chapter 1 Melvin J. Lasky’s Biography and Diary
- Chapter 2 Not a Beginning but an End Melvin J. Lasky, Diarist
- Chapter 3 Between Denazification and Reconstruction: US Occupation Policies and Practice in Germany 1945
- Chapter 4 “Clio Continues to Serve” Melvin J. Lasky as Combat Historian
- Chapter 5 (Military) Masculinity and a Feminized Europe: The Gender Politics of the Lasky Diary
- Chapter 6 Melvin J. Lasky, Chronicler of Europe’s Twentieth Century
- Melvin J. Lasky Diary
- Appendix A: List of Primary Literature in the Diary
- Appendix B: List of Names in the Diary
- Appendix C: Names and Ranks of Lasky’s Fellow Soldiers
- Index