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Author Troy, Michele K., author.

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

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]

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 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  943 TRO    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  943 TROY    Check Shelf
Description xiv, 423 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm.
Series New directions in narrative history
New directions in narrative history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-408) and index.
Summary The first book about 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.
Subject Albatross Verlag.
Albatross Verlag -- History.
Publishers and publishing -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN 9780300215687 (hardcover ;) (alkaline paper)
0300215681 (hardcover ;) (alkaline paper)
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