EAN: 9780307278432

JOURNEY TO THE ABYSS - HARRY GRAF KESSLER KARTO...

These fascinating  never-before-published early diaries of Count Harry Kessler present a
sweeping panorama of the arts and politics of Belle Époque Europe  a glittering world poised to
be changed irrevocably by the Great War. Kessler's immersion in the new art and literature of
Paris  London  and Berlin unfolds in the first part of the diaries. This refined world gives
way to vivid descriptions of the horrific fighting on the Eastern and Western fronts of World
War I  the intriguing private discussions among the German political and military elite about
the progress of the war  as well as Kessler's account of his role as a diplomat with a secret
mission in Switzerland. Remarkably insightful  poignant  and cinematic in their scope 
Kessler's diaries are an invaluable record of one of the most volatile and seminal moments in
modern Western history.

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