The Past Is Myself
$24.99
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
20 July 2024
Summary
Featuring a new introduction from Clare Mulley, Christabel Bielenberg’s bestselling memoir tells the incredible story of an Englishwoman’s life in Germany under Nazi rule.
On 29 September 1934, at the German Embassy office in London, Christabel Bielenberg officially became a German citizen. Having met her German husband Peter two years prior, Christabel decided to renounce her British citizenship, planning to start married life with Peter in Berlin. Though Adolf Hitler had risen to po…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781804994993 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1804994995 |
| Author: | Christabel Bielenberg |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 20 July 2024 |
| Weight: | 212g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 20mm |
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About The Author
Christabel Bielenberg
Christabel Bielenberg, a niece of Lord Northcliffe, was born in 1909 and left for Hamburg, Germany, in 1929 to study singing. There she met and married the lawyer, Peter Bielenberg, in 1934. She lived through the war as a German citizen and wrote about her experiences in her memoir, The Past is Myself (1968) and in its sequel, The Road Ahead (1992). The Past is Myself was adapted for television by Dennis Potter under the title Christabel. In 1988, the Federal Republic of Germany awarded her the Commander’s cross of the Order of Merit for her contribution to German-English understanding. Since 1948 she and her family had been living in Co Carlow, Ireland, where she died in 2003.
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