The Russell Cawthorn Collection
The Great War 1914-1918, and Associated Conflicts Aftermath of War Germany in the Immediate Post War Period
RCC7754
Dreamers. When The Writers Took Power. Germany, 1919
ISBN
9781782275046
Purchase Price
£13.88 (new)
Date Purchased
November 30, 2018
Publisher
Pushkin Press (2018, London)
Notes
This book was translated by Ruth Martin. This is a new book about Munich in November 1918 and the ensuing months, when in the final days of the war revolutionaries opened the doors of military prisons, occupied official buildings and overthrew the monarchy. The new Head of State of Bavaria was Kurt Eisner, a journalist and theatre critic, along with various luminaries of German cultural history. Two months later Eisner was assassinated and the revolution failed, to give way to right wing activists - the precursors of the Nazis. This was clearly a crucial event in post war Germany, and this is a good book which deals with the events of that time in an accessible manner.
9781782275046
Purchase Price
£13.88 (new)
Date Purchased
November 30, 2018
Publisher
Pushkin Press (2018, London)
Notes
This book was translated by Ruth Martin. This is a new book about Munich in November 1918 and the ensuing months, when in the final days of the war revolutionaries opened the doors of military prisons, occupied official buildings and overthrew the monarchy. The new Head of State of Bavaria was Kurt Eisner, a journalist and theatre critic, along with various luminaries of German cultural history. Two months later Eisner was assassinated and the revolution failed, to give way to right wing activists - the precursors of the Nazis. This was clearly a crucial event in post war Germany, and this is a good book which deals with the events of that time in an accessible manner.