Bücher von Judith Mackrell

Sie berichteten unter Lebensgefahr mitten aus dem Machtzentrum der Nazis in Berlin und von der Front, erlebten den D-Day am Strand der Normandie und gehörten zu den ersten, die die Befreiung der Konzentrationslager dokumentierten. Sechs außergewöhnlichen Frauen, die die bis dahin weitgehend männliche Domäne der Kriegsberichterstattung erobert haben: Lee Miller, Martha Gellhorn, Sigrid Schultz, Virginia Cowles, Clare Hollingworth und Helen Kirkpatrick Judith Mackrell folgt den Lebenswegen dieser heldenhaften Frauen, die immer im Zentrum der Ereignisse waren und kein Risiko scheuten, um ihre Leser:innen wahrheitsgemäß zu informieren. Entstanden ist ein faktenreiches und vielschichtiges Buch aus einer spezifisch weiblichen Perspektive, wie man es so noch nicht gelesen hat. Von der Machtergreifung der Nazis in Deutschland 1933 bis zu den Nürnberger Prozessen - chronologisch aufgebaut gibt dieses Buch auch einen unverstellten Blick auf die Jahre 1933 bis 1946.

The story of Venice's Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, `the Unfinished Palazzo', told through the lives of three of its most unconventional, passionate and fascinating residents - Luisa Casati, Doris Castlerosse and Peggy Guggenheim.

For many young women, the 1920s felt like a promise of liberty. It was a period when they dared to shorten their skirts and shingle their hair, to smoke, drink, take drugs and to claim sexual freedoms. In an era of soaring stock markets, consumer expansion, urbanization and fast travel, women were reimagining both the small detail and the large ambitions of their lives.In Flappers, acclaimed biographer Judith Mackrell follows a group of six women - Diana Cooper, Nancy Cunard, Tallulah Bankhead, Zelda Fitzgerald, Josephine Baker and Tamara de Lempicka - who, between them, exemplified the range and daring of that generation's spirit. For them, the pursuit of experience was not just about dancing the Charleston and wearing fashionable clothes. They made themselves prominent among the artists, icons, and heroines of their age, pursuing experience in ways that their mothers could never have imagined, seeking to define what it was to be young and a woman in an age where the smashing of old certainties had thrown the world wide open.Talented, reckless and wilful, with personalities that transcended their class and background, they re-wrote their destinies in remarkable, entertaining and sometimes tragic ways. And between them they blazed the trail of the New Woman around the world.