The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky
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The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky

Into Germany at the End of World War II

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The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky

Into Germany at the End of World War II

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" 'The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky' offers not only a panoramic view of a country poised between devastation and an uncertain future but a gripping self-portrait of a man poised between unresolved youthful bewilderment and a mature clarity of conviction." • Wall Street Journal

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 colored by ongoing socio-political debates and his personal background studying Trotskyism. The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky reproduces the diary's vivid language as Lasky describes the ideological tensions between the East and West, as well as including critical essays on subjects ranging from Lasky's life as a transatlantic intellectual, the role of war historians, and the diary as a literary genre.

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Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2022
ISBN
9781800736962
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
German History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky
  3. Illustrations
  4. Abbreviations
  5. Introduction — Journal of a Conscript
  6. Chapter 1 — Melvin J. Lasky’s Biography and Diary
  7. Chapter 2 — Not a Beginning but an End: Melvin J. Lasky, Diarist
  8. Chapter 3 — Between Denazification and Reconstruction: US Occupation Policies and Practice in Germany 1945
  9. Chapter 4 — “Clio Continues to Serve”: Melvin J. Lasky as Combat Historian
  10. Chapter 5 — (Military) Masculinity and a Feminized Europe: The Gender Politics of the Lasky Diary
  11. Chapter 6 — Melvin J. Lasky, Chronicler of Europe’s Twentieth Century
  12. Melvin J. Lasky Diary
  13. Appendix A — List of Primary Literature in the Diary
  14. Appendix B — List of Names in the Diary
  15. Appendix C — Names and Ranks of Lasky’s Fellow Soldiers
  16. Index