Strange Bird : The Albatross Press and the Third Reich / Michele K. Troy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Troy, Michele K., author.

Series:

New directions in narrative history.

New Directions in Narrative History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Albatross Verlag.

Albatross Verlag--History.

Publishers and publishing--Germany--History--20th century.

Publishers and publishing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (440 pages) : illustrations, portraits

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The first book about the Albatross Press, a Penguin precursor that entered into an uneasy relationship with the Nazi regime to keep Anglo-American literature alive under fascism The Albatross Press was, from its beginnings in 1932, a "strange bird": a cultural outsider to the Third Reich but an economic insider. It was funded by British-Jewish interests. Its director was rumored to work for British intelligence. A precursor to Penguin, it distributed both middlebrow fiction and works by edgier modernist authors such as D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and Ernest Hemingway to eager continental readers. Yet Albatross printed and sold its paperbacks in English from the heart of Hitler's Reich. In her original and skillfully researched history, Michele K. Troy reveals how the Nazi regime tolerated Albatross-for both economic and propaganda gains-and how Albatross exploited its insider position to keep Anglo-American books alive under fascism. In so doing, Troy exposes the contradictions in Nazi censorship while offering an engaging detective story, a history, a nuanced analysis of men and motives, and a cautionary tale.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION. Behind the Door

ONE. Tauchnitz Has a Rival

TWO. Spies for England

THREE. Winning the Continent

FOUR. Un-German Literature

FIVE. Made in Britain?

SIX. The Scissors in Their Heads

SEVEN. A Tale of Two Publishers

EIGHT. The Center Will Not Hold

NINE. The Shell Game

TEN. Suspicion

ELEVEN. Dear Reader

TWELVE. Allegiances

THIRTEEN. Faces of War

FOURTEEN. Enemy Books

FIFTEEN. Return and Departure

SIXTEEN. Albatross Under the Occupation

SEVENTEEN. The Deutsche Tauchnitz

EIGHTEEN. English Books Abroad

NINETEEN. Rivals

TWENTY. When the Bombs Fell

TWENTY- ONE Making Peace

TWENTY- TWO Rising from the Ashes

TWENTY- THREE Homecoming

CONCLUSION Longing

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Chapter-Opening Illustration Credits

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9780300228076

0300228074

OCLC:

1059280718