Koestler: the literary and political odyssey of a twentieth-century skeptic
The first authorized biography of one of the most influential and controversial intellectuals of the twentieth century, based on new research and full access to its subject's papers. Best known as the creator of the classic anti-Communist novel Darkness at Noon, Koestler is here revealed as a m...
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| Zusammenfassung: | The first authorized biography of one of the most influential and controversial intellectuals of the twentieth century, based on new research and full access to its subject's papers. Best known as the creator of the classic anti-Communist novel Darkness at Noon, Koestler is here revealed as a man whose personal life was as astonishing as his literary accomplishments. The young Hungarian Jew whose experience of anti-Semitism and devotion to Zionism provoked him to move to Palestine; the foreign correspondent who risked his life from the North Pole to Franco's Spain; the committed Communist for whom the brutal truth of Stalin's show trials inspired the angry novel that became an instant classic in 1940; the escape from occupied France by joining the Foreign Legion and his bluffing his way illegally to England, where his controversial 1943 novel Arrival and Departure was the first to portray Hitler's Final Solution. Scammell also gives a full account of the author's voluminous writings, making the case that the autobiographies and essays are fit to stand beside Darkness at Noon as works of lasting literary value.--From publisher description |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [579]-585) and index |
| Beschreibung: | xxi, 689 S., [8] Bl. Ill. 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780394576305 0394576306 |
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CONTENTS
Women's Land Army
Hostel
Locations in Bedfordshire x
Foreword by Juliet Gardiner
xi
WLA Veterans Certificate
xii
Preface
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127
CHAPTER
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Summary and conclusions
201
Notes
208
List of Illustrations
215
Bedfordshire Women's Land Army Timeline,
1939-1950 218
Bedfordshire War Agricultural Executive Committee and District Committees
239
Bedfordshire Women's Land Army Hostels,
1942-1950 240
The Farming Year
241
Bedfordshire Women's Land Army Employment Figures
1939-1950 243
Women's Land Army Uniform Issue
246
Women's Land Army Benevolent Fund
246
Poem The Women's Land Army by Rose Perritt
248
Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
249
Sources and Bibliography
272
Acknowledgements
282
Archives
285
Index
287 |
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