Description
About the Author
Tim Grady is Senior Lecturer in European History at the University of Chester and Honorary Fellow at the Parkes Institute for Jewish / non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton.
Reviews
A fine addition to our understanding of German Jewish history in the period of the First World War and in its aftermath, full of clearly written and interesting detail and impressive research.
Jay Winter
Grady's book presents many illuminating examples and carefully chosen quotations. The six chapters are clearly structured and draw upon a broad base of original source material, including newspapers, personal memoirs, and official documents from communal archives.
Matthias Hambrock, The American Historical Review, vol 117, no 5
In his study, Grady has provided a commendable contribution to the history of the Jewish war veterans in Germany, in particular during the interwar years. He illustrates the opinions of both non-Jewish Germans towards their Jewish fellow-citizens as well as Jewish interpretations of their own position in contemporary German history.
Klaus-Peter Friedrich, Zeitschrift fur Geschichtswissenschaft, 61 Jahrgan, Heft 4
This is a thought-provoking book. Many readers will remember their fathers' participation in the First World War and the medals they earned and wore with pride. Alas, although they had hoped that these medals would protect them once the Nazis came to power, this was not to be. I should add that this book is written entirely with West Germany in mind. In East Germany (the DDR), where culpability for the Nazi crimes was never acknowledged, it would have been a very different story.
Leslie Baruch Brent, Association of Jewish Refugees, Volume 12, No. 2
Awards
Runner-up for Royal Historical Society Gladstone History Book Prize 2011 (UK).
Book Information
ISBN 9781846318511
Author Tim Grady
Format Paperback
Page Count 260
Imprint Liverpool University Press
Publisher Liverpool University Press