Word: frischauer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Rise and Fall of Hermann Goering, by Willi Frischauer. The all but incredible story of one of the most energetic moral relativists of the 20th Century; popular biography at its best (TIME, Sept...
...Rise and Fall of Hermann Goering, by Willi Frischauer. The all but incredible story of one of the most energetic moral relativists of the 20th Century; popular biography at its best (TIME, Sept...
...Rise and Fall of Hermann Goering, by Willi Frischauer. The all but incredible story of one of the most energetic moral relativists of the 20th Century; popular biography at its best (TIME, Sept...
...this creature, regarded even by his best friends as childlike, reach the eminence of criminality that had him described at N¨urnberg as one whose "guilt is unique in its enormity?" Journalist Willi Frischauer, a Viennese who went to Britain as a foreign correspondent in 1935 and has lived there ever since, gives some of the answers in an admirable, well-documented biography. Not only has Frischauer pondered Goering's career from womb to ash can; he has also won the confidence of such key figures as Goering's widow, his valet and some of his military...
...Flares. Goering's character, Frischauer shows, was "far from deep. It was, rather, a broad one-as expansive and glittering with showy decorations as the chest and paunch that went with it. Goering was a supremely energetic man, endowed with an extraordinary memory for facts & figures and an acute, intuitive sense of popular emotions. But these faculties, like every other aspect of his character, were flares that burnt furiously and impressively for short periods and then were suddenly succeeded by bursts of playfulness, pseudo mysticism, or acute depression...