Bilde av Elizabeth Wiskemann Av Geoffrey (emeritus Professor Of History Emeritus Professor Of History Purchase College State University Of New York) Field

Elizabeth Wiskemann Av Geoffrey (emeritus Professor Of History Emeritus Professor Of History Purchase College State University Of New York) Field

This biography examines the life and career of scholar-journalist Elizabeth Wiskemann (1899-1971) from her youth and student years at Cambridge to her death by suicide. Disappointed in her hopes for an academic career, she reinvented herself as a journalist in Berlin, covering the overthrow of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Nazism for The New Statesman, Nation, and numerous other newspapers and periodicals. Expelled from Germany, she settled inPrague and funded by Chatham House wrote the most important account of the Czech-German conflict and the Sudeten crisis, still a classic, followed by a detailed analysis of Nazi political and economic destabilization of the countries of eastern Europe. Her journalistic skills served her well in the war years when sheworked as a secret agent in Switzerland, gathering intelligence, running agents into Axis-controlled Europe, and working closely with Allen Dulles, the O.S.S. chief in Bern. Postwar, Wiskemann returned to freelance journalism, fo

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Quantum mechanics is an extraordinarily successful scientific theory. It is also completely baffling. From the moment of its inception, its founders struggled to understand its meaning. This struggle was most famously encapsulated in the debate between...

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Elizabeth Wiskemann Av Geoffrey (emeritus Professor Of History Emeritus Professor Of History Purchase College State University Of New York) Field

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