"'The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky' offers not only a panoramic
view of a country poised between devastation and an uncertain
future but a gripping self-portrait of a man poised between
unresolved youthful bewilderment and a mature clarity of
conviction." * Wall Street Journal In 1945 Melvin J. Lasky, serving
in one of the first American divisions that entered Germany after
the country's surrender, began documenting the everyday life of a
defeated nation. Travelling widely across both Germany and post-war
Europe, Lasky's diary provides a captivating eye-witness account
colored by ongoing socio-political debates and his personal
background studying Trotskyism. The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky
reproduces the diary's vivid language as Lasky describes the
ideological tensions between the East and West, as well as
including critical essays on subjects ranging from Lasky's life as
a transatlantic intellectual, the role of war historians, and the
diary as a literary genre.
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