William Queux: The Secrets of Potsdam

Cover: 9788028331269 | The Secrets of Potsdam | William Queux | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2023

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The Secrets of Potsdam is a wartime exposé that purports to unveil the private intrigues, moral corruption, and political calculations of Kaiser Wilhelm II's court. Cast in the form of insider revelation, it blends documentary pose, melodramatic anecdote, and spy-thriller urgency. Its style belongs to the Edwardian invasion-scare and espionage tradition, but its context is unmistakably 1914-18: a literature of mobilization, suspicion, and propaganda aimed at making German autocracy legible-and detestable-to British readers. William Le Queux, the Anglo-French journalist and prolific popular novelist, was unusually well placed to produce such a work: his career had long fused travel writing, sensational crime, diplomatic rumor, and fantasies of secret service. Books such as The Invasion of 1910 helped shape British anxieties about German militarism, and The Secrets of Potsdam extends that preoccupation into the intimate theatre of imperial power. Readers interested in First World War culture, early spy fiction, or the literary manufacture of enemy images will find this book revealing. It should be read not as neutral history, but as a vivid artifact of wartime imagination, fear, and persuasion.

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Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Fachbereich:	Regionalgeschichte
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9788028331269
ISBN-10:	8028331262
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Queux, William
Hersteller:	Sharp Ink
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Copycat s.r.o., 22, Holesovice, Schnirchova 662, ?-170 00 Prague, kristoferpaetau@gmail.com
Maße:	229 x 152 x 7 mm
Von/Mit:	William Queux
Erscheinungsdatum:	17.11.2023
Gewicht:	0,181 kg