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Bezig met laden... Captured by History: One Man's Vision of Our Tumultuous Century (1997)door John Toland
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Pretty good memoir by a historian of WW 2. ( ) 4703. (captured) by history One Man's Vision of Our Tumultuous Century, by John Toland (read 1 May 2010) This autobiography was good reading especially in his telling of his life from birth in 1912 till the 1950's when he finally became a successful writer of non-fiction and a historian, even though he had not taken a history class in college. Some of the book on his books spends a lot of time on stuff he apparently had to cut out of his books, so that while of interest I thought detracted from this book. And his book on FDR was a loser, though he does not admit that. But overall this book held my interest well. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"Captured by History is an autobiography like none other in recent years, for few historians have interviewed as many men and women who helped shape the most momentous events of our century than John Toland. Here, for the first time, Toland reveals how he found these key players and how he persuaded them to talk to him." "From disgraced Japanese generals to the German doctor who nearly succeeded in assassinating Hitler, Toland's sources are remarkable for what they reveal about their subjects. It was Toland's ability to listen, more than anything else, that persuaded those he interviewed to divulge secrets and stories they would tell no one else." "Toland's unorthodox approach to history came from his early desire to be a playwright. Toland found that he saw history as a play, with narrative structure and drama, not as a dry series of dates and names. The result was a series of landmark works such as Infamy; The Rising Sun, which won him the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in 1970 and reflected his ability, with the help of his Japanese wife, to open doors normally closed to Westerners in Japan; In Mortal Combat; The Last 100 Days; and his best-selling biography of Adolf Hitler." "Written by one of our last witnesses to the terrible and deracinating conflicts that split the world asunder at mid-century, Captured by History is an astonishing personal story of a hugely inquisitive man who became a historian not by accident or design, but by fate; a man who succeeded in chronicling the most tumultuous events of our century."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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