Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life

Table of Contents

Title Page

Dedication

List of Illustrations

Preface

1 - Overture

2 - A Child in Vienna

3 - Hard Times

4 - Berlin: Weimar Dies

5 - Berlin: Brown and Red

6 - On the Island

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V

7 - Cambridge

8 - Against Fascism and War

9 - Being Communist

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II

10 - War

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II

III

11 - Cold War

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II

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III

12 - Stalin and After

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II

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IV

13 - Watershed

14 - Under Cnicht

15 - The Sixties

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II

16 - A Watcher in Politics

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II

III

17 - Among the Historians

18 - In the Global Village

19 - Marseillaise

20 - From Franco to Berlusconi

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III

21 - Third World

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II

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IV

22 - From FDR to Bush

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III

23 - Coda

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III

Notes

Copyright Page

To my grandchildren

List of Illustrations

Photographic acknowledgements appear in parentheses.

1. Mimi, Nelly and Gretl Grun

2. Percy, Ernest and Sidney Hobsbaum

3. Nelly and Percy Hobsbaum

4. Aunt Gretl

5. Mother, Nancy, cousin Peter and EH