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Chargement... Hitler’s Girl: The British Aristocracy and the Third Reich on the Eve of WWII (édition 2022)par Lauren Young (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreHitler’s Girl: The British Aristocracy and the Third Reich on the Eve of WWII par Lauren Young
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Hitler's Girl is a groundbreaking history that reveals how, in the 1930s, authoritarianism nearly took hold in Great Britain as it did in Italy and Germany. Drawing on recently declassified intelligence files, Lauren Young details the pervasiveness of Nazi sympathies among the British aristocracy, as significant factions of the upper class methodically pursued an actively pro-German agenda. She reveals how these aristocrats formed a murky Fifth Column to Nazi Germany, which depended on the complacence and complicity of the English to topple its proud and long-standing democratic tradition--and very nearly succeeded. As she highlights the parallels to our similarly treacherous time, Young exposes the involvement of secret organizations like the Right Club, which counted the Duke of Wellington among its influential members; the Cliveden Set, which ran a shadow foreign policy in support of Hitler; and the shocking four-year affair between socialite Unity Mitford and Adolf Hitler. Eye-opening and instructive, Hitler's Girl re-evaluates 1930s England to help us understand our own vulnerabilities and poses urgent questions we must face to protect our freedom. At what point does complacency become complicity, posing real risk to the democratic norms that we take for granted? Will democracy again succeed--and will it require a similarly cataclysmic event like World War II to ensure its survival? Will we, in our own defining moment, stand up for democratic values--or will we succumb to political extremism?"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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 Google Books — Chargement...GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)941.083History and Geography Europe British Isles Historical periods of British Isles 1837- Period of Victoria and House of Windsor 1910-1936 George VClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne: (2.5)
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The writing style is not always clear and there are times when Young jumps around chronologically without making that apparent to the reader. She, also, at times, is rather repetitive. The most egregious shortcoming of this book, though, is the lack of analysis. Young talks about the fact that large swaths of the British aristocracy and upper class harbored Nazi sympathies,, but she barely even hints at why they did so; what drove these people to support the Nazi cause? Only once did she come close to ascribing their motivation to side with fascism because they saw it as a bulwark against the rising tide of communism in Russia, which was viewed as a greater evil. She completely ignores the nascent rise in subversive Russian and communist movements within Britain. I understand that this may be beyond the intended scope of this book, however, I feel that Young should have at least talked directly about motiovations.
On the whole, even though there was some good information in this book, I found Young's treatment of the topic lacking on this crucial front. (