My Argument with the Gestapo

My Argument with the Gestapo
Title My Argument with the Gestapo PDF eBook
Author Thomas Merton
Publisher New Directions Publishing
Pages 260
Release 1975
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780811205863

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Of the full-length prose works that Thomas Merton wrote before he entered the Cistercian Order in 1941, only My Argument with the Gestapo has survived--perhaps in part because it was a book that Merton never ceased wanting to see in print.

My Argument with the Gestapo: Autobiographical novel

My Argument with the Gestapo: Autobiographical novel
Title My Argument with the Gestapo: Autobiographical novel PDF eBook
Author Thomas Merton
Publisher New Directions Publishing
Pages 260
Release 1975-01-17
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0811223930

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Of the full-length prose works that Thomas Merton wrote before he entered the Cistercian Order in 1941, only My Argument with the Gestapo has survived––perhaps in part because it was a book that Merton never ceased wanting to see in print. Although it first appeared after his death in 1968, he had arranged for its publication, written a foreword for it, and was delighted with the prospect of its at last becoming a part of his published works. My Argument with the Gestapo tells of the adventures of a young man, clearly identified by the name Thomas Merton, who travels from America to Europe to report on the war with Germany from the viewpoint of a poet. He hates the war, yet is driven to come to terms with it. There is a pervading sense of dreamworld or hallucination, heightened by the device of passages written in a macaronic language, invented from multilingual roots, to satirize and parody political propaganda speeches dealing with the war. A work of imagination (Merton did not in fact return to England after the start of World War II in Europe), it nevertheless contains much that is autobiographical and revealing of the young Merton. Most clearly visible are the seeds of his never-forsaken concern with peace and nonviolence and his abhorrence of war. Indeed, his outspoken criticism of Britain at a time when all the emphasis was on 'the brave little island standing alone' foreshadows his devotion to truth as he saw it, no matter what the cost. And students of Merton will find scenes in the book that are straight autobiography, amplifying and perhaps filling in gaps in what later was to be the beginning of Merton's great literary success, The Seven Storey Mountain (1948).

Nazi Terror

Nazi Terror
Title Nazi Terror PDF eBook
Author Eric A. Johnson
Publisher Basic Books (AZ)
Pages 672
Release 1999
Genre History
ISBN

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Johnson's exhaustive new history tackles terror, the central aspect of the Nazi dictatorship, focusing on the role of the society in making this tactic work, and delving deeply into the how and why of this horrendous regime. Illustrations.

Raids on the Unspeakable

Raids on the Unspeakable
Title Raids on the Unspeakable PDF eBook
Author Thomas Merton
Publisher New Directions Publishing
Pages 198
Release 1966
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 9780811201018

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This paperbook collection of his prose writings reveals the extent to which Thomas Merton moved from the other-worldly devotion of his earlier work to a direct, deeply engaged, often militant concern with the critical situation of man in the world.

Resistance of the Heart

Resistance of the Heart
Title Resistance of the Heart PDF eBook
Author Nathan Stoltzfus
Publisher Rutgers University Press
Pages 422
Release 2001
Genre History
ISBN 9780813529097

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Stoltzfus's (history, Florida State U.) 1996 book has now appeared in paper. The Rosenstrasse protest consisted almost entirely of women protesting the arrest of their Jewish husbands by the Nazis in 1943. The Nazis, surprisingly enough, gave in, and almost all of the men survived the war in their Berlin neighborhood. Using interviews with survivors and other primary resources, Stoltzfuz reconstructs the story, offering his analysis of how intermarriage with Germans was viewed by the Gestapo and by Hitler. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Beneath a Scarlet Sky

Beneath a Scarlet Sky
Title Beneath a Scarlet Sky PDF eBook
Author Mark Sullivan
Publisher Lake Union Publishing
Pages 0
Release 2018
Genre Germany
ISBN 9781503902374

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A teenage boy in 1940s Italy becomes part of an underground railroad that helps Jews escape through the Alps, but when he is recruited to be the personal driver for a powerful Third Reich commander, he begins to spy for the Allies.

On Thomas Merton

On Thomas Merton
Title On Thomas Merton PDF eBook
Author Mary Gordon
Publisher Shambhala Publications
Pages 156
Release 2020-01-07
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1611807670

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From the best-selling novelist and memoirist: a deeply personal view of her discovery of the celebrated modern monk and thinker through his writings. “If Thomas Merton had been a writer and not a monk, we would never have heard of him. If Thomas Merton had been a monk and not a writer, we would never have heard of him.” So begins acclaimed author Mary Gordon in this probing, candid exploration of the man who became the face and voice of mid-twentieth-century American Catholicism. Approaching Merton “writer to writer,” Gordon illuminates his life and work through his letters, journals, autobiography, and fiction. Pope Francis has celebrated Merton as “a man of dialogue,” and here Gordon shows that the dialogue was as much internal as external—an unending conversation, and at times a heated conflict, between Merton the monk and Merton the writer. Rich with excerpts from Merton’s own writing, On Thomas Merton produces an intimate portrait of a man who “lived life in all its imperfectability, reaching toward it in exaltation, pulling back in anguish, but insisting on the primacy of his praise as a man of God.”