Forgotten Fatherland
The Search for Elisabeth Nietzsche
1. Auflage
Erschienen am 7. März 2013
256 Seiten
978-1-4088-3816-7 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
'Startling, dark and absorbing' Independent
'Excellent travel writing: vivid, sympathetic, humorous' Guardian
'Fascinating, provocative and highly eccentric' New York Times
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In 1886 Elisabeth Nietzsche, the philosopher Friedrich's bigoted, imperious sister, founded a 'racially pure' colony in Paraguay together with a band of blond-haired fellow Germans. Over a century later, Ben Macintyre sought out the survivors of Nueva Germania to discover the remains of this bizarre colony.
Forgotten Fatherland vividly recounts his arduous adventure locating the survivors, while also tracing the colorful history of Elisabeth's return to Europe, where she inspired the mythical cult of her brother's philosophy and later became a mentor to Hitler. Brilliantly researched and mordantly funny, this is an illuminating portrait of a forgotten people and of a woman whose deep influence on the twentieth century can only now be fully understood.
'Excellent travel writing: vivid, sympathetic, humorous' Guardian
'Fascinating, provocative and highly eccentric' New York Times
_______________________
In 1886 Elisabeth Nietzsche, the philosopher Friedrich's bigoted, imperious sister, founded a 'racially pure' colony in Paraguay together with a band of blond-haired fellow Germans. Over a century later, Ben Macintyre sought out the survivors of Nueva Germania to discover the remains of this bizarre colony.
Forgotten Fatherland vividly recounts his arduous adventure locating the survivors, while also tracing the colorful history of Elisabeth's return to Europe, where she inspired the mythical cult of her brother's philosophy and later became a mentor to Hitler. Brilliantly researched and mordantly funny, this is an illuminating portrait of a forgotten people and of a woman whose deep influence on the twentieth century can only now be fully understood.
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1. Auflage
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Englisch
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London
Großbritannien
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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16pp black and white
ISBN-13
978-1-4088-3816-7 (9781408838167)
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Ben Macintyre is a columnist and Associate Editor on The Times. He has worked as the newspaper's correspondent in New York, Paris and Washington. He is the author of nine books including Agent Zigzag, shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and the Galaxy British Book Award for Biography of the Year 2008, the number 1 bestseller Operation Mincemeat and, most recently, the Richard & Judy Book Club selection, Double Cross. He lives in London with his wife and three children.
Inhalt
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Map
- Foreword
- 1 Asunción Docks, Paraguay, 15 March 1886
- 2 Terra Incognita
- 3 Up the Creek
- 4 The White Lady and New Germany
- 5 Knights and Devils
- 6 Elisabeth in Llamaland
- 7 Will to Power
- 8 Mother of the Fatherland
- 9 Nueva Germania, March 1991
- Plate Section
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- A Note on the Author
- By the Same Author
- List of Illustrations
- eCopyright
