Tag Archives: Stoddard Martin

Joseph Goebbels, Chronicler of a Catastrophe

Posted on September 4, 2015 by leslie

Joseph Goebbels, Chronicler of a Catastrophe Stoddard Martin transcends the tyranny of fact There are possible revelations to be inferred from Peter Longerich’s exhaustive biography of Joseph Goebbels, but when I started out on his long, rich account I had … Continue reading →

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The “Flying Salzburger”

Posted on March 15, 2015 by leslie

The “Flying Salzburger” Stoddard Martin considers the enigma that was Zweig Among German-language authors of the first half of the 20th century Stefan Zweig is now being re-positioned near the top. Some contemporaries saw him as in ‘the first rank … Continue reading →

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Upwardly mobile couple

Posted on January 5, 2015 by leslie

Upwardly mobile couple Stoddard Martin sifts through the Himmlers’ correspondence A petty bourgeois element runs through the history of National Socialism, with counterpoint from its traditional obverse – the bohemian. Himmler came from suburban Munich and had the provincial’s suspicion … Continue reading →

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Mission to Kabul, a Footnote in Weltpolitik STODDARD MARTIN

Posted on August 27, 2014 by leslie

  Mission to Kabul: a Footnote in Weltpolitik Stoddard Martin discerns a curious continuity in German foreign policy The Kaiser’s Mission to Kabul: A Secret Expedition to Afghanistan in World War 1, Jules Stewart, I. B. Tauris, London, 2014, HB, … Continue reading →

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A Northern Light for Europe’s darkest hour STODDARD MARTIN

Posted on May 1, 2014 by leslie

  A Northern Light for Europe’s Darkest Hour STODDARD MARTIN enjoys a new biography of one of the most admirable – if enigmatic – figures of World War Two THE HERO OF BUDAPEST: The Triumph and Tragedy of Raoul Wallenberg … Continue reading →

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Father to the Man

Posted on March 2, 2014 by leslie

Father to the Man The Confusions of Young Master Törless by Robert Musil, translated by Christopher Moncrieff, Alma Classics, 2014, 250pp, pb, £6.39 STODDARD MARTIN reviews a new translation of Robert Musil’s Bildungsroman In this year of the centenary of the … Continue reading →

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World War Three

Posted on December 1, 2013 by leslie

World War Three Stoddard Martin recalls the wartime exploits of three contrasting characters A Very English Hero: The Making of Frank Thompson, Peter J Conradi, Bloomsbury, London etc, 2012, 409 pp, £16.46; She Landed by Moonlight: The Story of Secret … Continue reading →

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La Bohême

Posted on November 1, 2013 by leslie

La Bohême Stoddard Martin visits Prague by proxy PRAGUE, CAPITAL of the TWENTIETH CENTURY: A Surrealist History, by Derek Sayer, Princeton University Press, 2013 There is a mystique about Prague which makes it for some the most alluring of European cities. … Continue reading →

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Fuzzy Math

Posted on October 10, 2013 by leslie

Fuzzy Math STODDARD MARTIN steps gingerly into an ethical quagmire Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz, Thomas Harding. Heinemann, Sept 2013. £20 Literature to do with the Holocaust implicates all of us. … Continue reading →

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Beryl Bainbridge’s ‘major phase’

Posted on June 30, 2013 by Derek Turner

Beryl Bainbridge’s ‘major phase’ STODDARD MARTIN burns incense to a great 20th century chronicler, and her literary mentors The second half of the 20th century had no ‘Bloomsbury Group’ as such. In his first book, The Movement, Blake Morrison tried … Continue reading →

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