Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #584237 in Books
• Published on: 2003-09-11
• Format: Abridged
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 637 pages

TIME OUT
"An astonishing level of detail, an obsessive urge to record the minutiae of horror."

INDEPENDENT
"A classic work of war literature and a document of enduring human value. Martin Chalmers has translated them beautifully."

Review
"The voice of Victor Klemperer is simply indispensible." (EVENING STANDARD )

"In the hands of a master, the ephemeral is perennial." (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH )

"One of the supreme chroniclers of the 20th century." (SPECTATOR )

"As a portrait of a flawed human being, these diaries represent a magnificent achievement." (LITERARY REVIEW )

"Such a vivid and powerful account of a remarkable life." (SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY )

"The voice of Victor Klemperer is simply indispensible" (Norman Lebrecht Yorkshire Post )

"Puts tears and blood into a political era that is otherwise difficult to dramatise and so to imagine." (MICHAEL PYE THE SCOTSMAN )

"His picture of life in the Cold War is an invaluable one." (COUNTRY LIFE )

"An essential guide to the most significant and terrible aspect of 20th-century political history, a living reminder of how fortunate many of us are never to have had to make such hard choices." (DAILY TELEGRAPH )

"They enhance Victor Klemperer's rare standing as a truth-teller" (IRISH TIMES )

"One of the most important chronicles of the 20th century." (HISTORY TODAY )

"An astonishing level of detail, an obsessive urge to record the minutiae of horror." (TIME OUT )

"A classic work of war literature and a document of enduring human value. Martin Chalmers has translated them beautifully." (INDEPENDENT )