Frank Millard
Autor(a) de The Palace and the Bunker: Royal Resistance to Hitler
Obras de Frank Millard
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Millard, Frank
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Großbritannien
Membros
Resenhas
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 3
- Membros
- 11
- Popularidade
- #857,862
- Avaliação
- 2.3
- Resenhas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 3
The first half of the book consists of a "potted" history of Nazi ideology and politics that relies heavily on a conservative and religious analysis. The second, "royal," half of the book has four brief sections on "royal enemies" of Hitler: Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria, Hubertus of Lowenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg, and a general "Habsburg" chapter that includes Archduke Otto as well as the sons of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Maximillian and Ernst - both of whom spent time at Dachau and other camps. The inclusion of such a minor princeling as Hubertus with the more significant figures is peculiar and not fully explained in the test. Moreover, Millard fails to include even the most basic biographical information about his subjects, which severely limits the usefulness and interest for the general reader.
There are a number of unfortunate mistakes in the text. King Haakon VII is described as having been a prince of the Swedish - not Danish - royal line. Millard has that it was Boris II - not Boris III - who ruled Bulgaria in the 1930s and 40s. The name of the French WWII collaborationist premier is given as Petin. The name of noted German historian Fritz Stern is mangled and becomes "Richard Stern Fritz." Prince Bernhard of Lippe Biesterfeld is described as the spouse of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, when he was in fact married to her daughter Queen Juliana.… (mais)