Solitaire: Magda Goebbels: A Banality of Ambition and Evil

Williams, Byron

ISBN 10: 172717495X / ISBN 13: 9781727174953

Editore: CreateSpace Independent Publishi, 2018

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• Titolo: Solitaire: Magda Goebbels: A Banality of Ambition and Evil
• Editore: CreateSpace Independent Publishi
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 172717495X
• ISBN 13: 9781727174953
• Rilegatura: paperback
• Condizione: Good

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Riassunto

Solitaire is the ambitious, seductive and macabre story of the "unofficial" First Lady of the Third Reich, Magda Goebbels. On May 1, 1945, after Adolf Hitler committs suicide, Magda murders six of her seven children and sits down to play solitaire in the Fuhrerbunker, as she waits for her husband, Josef, to return so they can execute themselves in the Reich Chancellery gardens. Magda goes on a retrospective quest for redemption, examining her loving relationship with her Jewish stepfather, Richard Friedlander and her first love, Chaim Arlosoroff, a Zionist leader. She is forced to confront her indefinable desire for "more"... which inevitably leads to the woman she had become --- a banality of ambition and evil. Her obsession with her public image as the paragon of German womanhood has blinded her to the humanity of others, including her own. It was a life that ran a parallel course with the rise and fall of Nazi Germany."

Informazioni sull?autore

Byron Williams is a political columnist, author, NPR-affiliated radio host and adjunct professor at Wake Forest University. His previous books include: Strip Mall Patriotism: Moral Reflections on the Iraq War and 1963: The Year of Hope and Hostility, which won the 2014 International Book Award for U.S. History.