Description: No one before or after Kurt Tucholsky has captured the horrors of the "Great War," as World War I was known, quite like he did. This is the first bilingual anthology in German and in English of his works on World War I.
Brief description: Peter Appelbaum MD, PhD, is Emeritus Professor of Pathology, Pennsylvania State University. His has authored Loyalty Betrayed: Jewish Chaplains in the German Army During the First World War and Loyal Sons. German Jews in the First World War, coming out September. He also has unearthed poetry written by German Jewish soldiers, and translated many of those, making them available in English for the first time.
Review Quotes: This volume illustrates the importance of sensitive translations as a route to the understanding of significant historical realities. Such texts are essential resources through which future generations may grasp the impact upon humanity of global tragedies such as the First World War; tragedies from which vital lessons should have been, but have not yet, been learned. - Felicity Rash, Professor of German Linguistics. School of Languages, Linguistics and Film Queen Mary, University of London The Nazis kept a long list of writers to settle scores with, but one in particular infl amed them: the left-wing satirist Kurt Tucholsky. In articles and poems, he took aim at nationalists, militarists and fat cats. . . Tucholsky was big, the most brilliant, prolific and witty cultural journalist of his time. -William Grimes, The New York Times In this skillful compilation of Tucholsky's poetry and prose, Appelbaum and Scott bring new insight and understanding of the author's sharply critical depiction of the terrors of WWI. -Barton W. Browning, Associate Professor of German Emeritus, Penn State University Such sensitive translations are essential resources through which future generations may grasp the impact upon humanity of global tragedies such as the First World War; tragedies from which vital lessons should have been, but have not yet, been learned. -Felicity Rash, Professor of German Linguistics School of Languages, Queen Mary, University of London