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Title Witness to History : the Life of John Wheeler-Bennett / Victoria Schofield
Published New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2012]
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Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations and Maps -- Acknowledgements -- 1. The Undertow of History -- 2. Youthful Illusions -- 3. International Traveller -- 4. The Tragedy of Weimar -- 5. Twilight -- 6. The Perils of War -- 7. Political Warfare in America -- 8. The Horrors of Peace -- 9. High Honour -- 10. The Sixties -- 11. Memories -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index
Summary Historian Sir John Wheeler-Bennett (1902-1975) was one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary political operators. Through an ability to make important connections, he became an authority on Germany in the inter-war years and knew all the German hierarchy, including Hitler and Hindenburg. He also was one of the last people to interview Trotsky, writing an important analysis of the Brest-Litovsk Treaty between Germany and the Soviet Union in 1917. As King George VI's official biographer, he met and interviewed all the major leaders in the post-war period, including Winston Churchill, Harry Truman, and members of the Royal Family; he also supervised young Jack Kennedy's master's thesis. With the first biography of Wheeler-Bennett Victoria Schofield has written a book tha will fascinate anyone interested in twentieth-century European history.&#160
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 19. Jan 2018)
Subject Wheeler-Bennett, John Wheeler, Sir, 1902-1975.
SUBJECT Wheeler-Bennett, John Wheeler, Sir, 1902-1975 fast
Subject Historians -- Great Britain -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
Historians
Great Britain
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
dissertations.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780300182149
0300182147
9781282241848
1282241842