Prayer After the Slaughter The Great War

<p class=ql-align-justify>No one before or after Kurt Tucholsky has captured the horrors of the Great War as World War I was known quite like he did. The famed Weimar writer who would become one of Germany's best-known satirist and journalists describes surviving in the trenches and fighting a losing battle the arrogance of the officers and the desperation of the loved ones back home. His writing is similar to that of Heinrich Heine his role model in that it appears superficially simple but is replete with hidden meanings. His works are touching stirring and precisely to the point. He brings alive the war that still looms even into our own 21st century. This is the first bilingual anthology in German and in English of his works on World War I.</p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify>The First World War was the Great War. Everything that happened after this war even into our own 21st century is contingent on the years between 1914 and 1918. The Great War also shaped Kurt Tucholsky who emerged from the war.. His style is biting satirical and penetrating full of Berlin gallows humor. This bilingual anthology contains English translation of his short stories as well as a rendition of his poetry about World War I all representative of his style.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Kurt Tucholsky's Prayer After the Slaughter i</strong>s a book by Berlinica Publishing LLC a multi-media publishing house based in New York City. Berlinica offers English-language books from Berlin German; fiction non-fiction travel guides history about the Wall and the Third Reich Jewish life art architecture and photography as well as books about nightlife cookbooks and maps. It also offers documentaries and feature films on DVD as well as music CDs. Berlinica caters to history buffs Americans of German heritage travelers and artists and young people who love the cutting-edge city in the heart of Europe. Berlinica cooperates with Berlin-based publishing houses and tourist organizers.</p><p><br></p><p>Berlinica Publishing offers English-language books from Berlin German; fiction non-fiction travel guides history about the Wall and the Third Reich Jewish life art architecture and photography as well as travel guides and cookbook. It also offers documentaries and feature films on DVD as well as music CDs. Berlinica caters to history buffs Americans of German heritage travelers and artists and young people who love the cutting-edge city in the heart of Europe. Berlinica cooperates with Berlin-based publishing houses. </p><p>Berlinica's current and upcoming titles include Our West Berlin by various authors also five translated books by famed Weimar author Kurt Tucholsky as well as Harold Poor's landmark biography of Tucholsky two translated plays by Ernst Toller and two American travel stories by Alfred Kerr and Roda Roda soon to be followed by Egon Erwin Kisch's Paradise America.</p><p>In the non-fiction department we have Rocking the Wall the Bruce-Springsteen-book and Burning Beethoven about German Americans in World War I both by Erik Kirschbaum also Mark Twain in Berlin by Andreas Austilat Berlin 1945: World War II: Photos of the Aftermath by Michael Brettin The Berlin Wall Today a full-color guide to the remnants of the Wall by Michael Cramer Berlin in the Cold War about post-World War II history the comprehensive guide Jews in Berlin by Andreas Nachama Julius Schoeps Hermann Simon and A Place they Called Home edited by Donna Swarthout about Jews returning to Germany.</p><p>We also offer The Berlin Cookbook a full-color collection of traditional German recipes by Rose Marie Donhauser the picture book Wings of Desire by Lothar Heinke Martin Luther's Travel Guide by Cornelia Dömer and Leipzig! The City of Books und Music by Sebastian Ringel.</p><p> </p>