Marshal Without Glory
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Damaged
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Damaged but present; fairly large chuck missing from the spine - remains in one piece with moderate tears.
Few figures in the theatre of the Second World War are as grotesquely compelling as Hermann Göring — a decorated World War I flying ace who transformed himself into one of the most powerful and corrupt architects of the Nazi regime. Marshal Without Glory chronicles the spectacular rise and ignominious fall of this vainglorious Reichsmarschall, tracing his path from the cockpits of the Great War through his command of the Luftwaffe, his looting of Europe's art treasures, and his ultimate disgrace at the Nuremberg trials — a life defined by grandiosity, moral bankruptcy, and breathtaking self-delusion. Ewan Butler and Gordon Young bring a sharp, journalistic authority to their subject, presenting Göring not as a cartoonish villain but as a deeply human study in ambition corrupted by power. Their prose is incisive and unflinching, situating Göring within the broader catastrophe of the Third Reich while never allowing the reader to lose sight of his personal culpability. A biography that is as much a moral reckoning as it is a historical account, Marshal Without Glory leaves one asking how a man of such demonstrated capability could choose so catastrophically wrong a path.
Author: Ewan Butler And Gordon Young
Format: Hardback
Published: 1951, Hodder & Stoughton
Genre: Biography
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Damaged
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Damaged but present; fairly large chuck missing from the spine - remains in one piece with moderate tears.
Few figures in the theatre of the Second World War are as grotesquely compelling as Hermann Göring — a decorated World War I flying ace who transformed himself into one of the most powerful and corrupt architects of the Nazi regime. Marshal Without Glory chronicles the spectacular rise and ignominious fall of this vainglorious Reichsmarschall, tracing his path from the cockpits of the Great War through his command of the Luftwaffe, his looting of Europe's art treasures, and his ultimate disgrace at the Nuremberg trials — a life defined by grandiosity, moral bankruptcy, and breathtaking self-delusion. Ewan Butler and Gordon Young bring a sharp, journalistic authority to their subject, presenting Göring not as a cartoonish villain but as a deeply human study in ambition corrupted by power. Their prose is incisive and unflinching, situating Göring within the broader catastrophe of the Third Reich while never allowing the reader to lose sight of his personal culpability. A biography that is as much a moral reckoning as it is a historical account, Marshal Without Glory leaves one asking how a man of such demonstrated capability could choose so catastrophically wrong a path.