Not Me: Memoirs of a German Childhood
By Joachim Fest
4/5
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
From the author of Inside Hitler's Bunker, the critically acclaimed book that inspired the equally acclaimed 2005 film Downfall.
Few other historians have shaped our understanding of the Third Reich as Joachim Fest. Fierce and intransigent, German-born Fest was a relentless interrogator of his nation's modern history. His analysis, The
Face of the Third Reich, his biographies of Adolf Hitler and Albert Speer and his descriptions of the last days in the Fuhrer's bunker have all reached a worldwide audience of millions. But how did the young Fest, born in 1926, personally experience National Socialism, the Second World War and a catastrophically defeated Germany?
In Not Me, the memoir of his childhood and youth, Joachim Fest chronicles his own extraordinary early life, providing an intimate portrait of those dark years of conflict. Whether describing his Catholic home in a Berlin suburb, his father's resistance of the regime and subsequent teaching ban, his own expulsion from school, or Aunt Dolly's introductions to the operatic world, these are the long-awaited personal reflections of a born observer the exactitude of whose prose is as sharp as the memories he describes.
Related to Not Me
Related ebooks
Satan in Top Hat: The Biography of Franz von Papen Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Devil in France - My Encounter with Him in the Summer of 1940 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOut of the Night Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Terror Flyers: The Lynching of American Airmen in Nazi Germany Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWith Hitler in the West Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHonecker's Children: Youth and patriotism in East(ern) Germany, 1979–2002 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAfter The Bombs: My Berlin Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Alsace-Lorraine Since 1870 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBaldwin Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Third Reich, as I See It": Politics, Society, and Private Life in the Diaries of Nazi Germany, 1933-1939 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRudolf Hess: Truth at Last Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsConversations With Stalin Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Serious Disappointment: The Battle of Aubers Ridge 1915 and the Munitions Scandal Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTarget London: Bombing the Capital, 1915–2005 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5General Smuts: South Africa Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Wood Called Bourlon: The Cover-up after Cambrai, 1917 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5War in the corner: Chronicle of a village in wartime Netherlands Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsResistance Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Inheritors Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Leeds at War, 1939–45 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSummary of Adrian Weale's Army of Evil Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Conservative Party and the extreme right 1945–1975 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSalient Points One: Ypres Sector, 1914–18 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFranz Werfel: The Faith of an Exile: From Prague to Beverly Hills Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5GARBO: The Spy Who Saved D-Day Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAsquith Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Red Orchestra Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Prussia at War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWorld War II: The Last War Heroes: From D-Day to Berlin with the men and machines that won the war Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Two Pieces of Cloth Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
History For You
Whore Stories: A Revealing History of the World's Oldest Profession Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The ZERO Percent: Secrets of the United States, the Power of Trust, Nationality, Banking and ZERO TAXES! Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Becoming Cliterate: Why Orgasm Equality Matters--And How to Get It Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5100 Things You're Not Supposed to Know: Secrets, Conspiracies, Cover Ups, and Absurdities Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wise as Fu*k: Simple Truths to Guide You Through the Sh*tstorms of Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lessons of History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England: 400 – 1066 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Richest Man in Babylon: The most inspiring book on wealth ever written Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Secret History of the World Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Great Reset: And the War for the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Great Awakening: Defeating the Globalists and Launching the Next Great Renaissance Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Grief Observed Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Reviews for Not Me
43 ratings1 review
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Finished "Not I: Memoirs of a German Childhood" by Joachim Fest (after a couple of breaks), the WWII German historian, b. 1926; fought for a short bit at the end of the war and POW in France. The book is a lot about his father, but I did come away with quite the feeling for JF. It's really quite the memoir, quite the time, quite the people and friends and family, quite the story.