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050 00 $aD801.G7$bL96 1995
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100 1 $aLynton, Mark.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86094110
245 10 $aAccidental journey :$ba Cambridge internee's memoir of World War II /$cMark Lynton.
260 $aWoodstock, NY :$bOverlook Press,$c1995.
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300 $a266 pages ;$c24 cm
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520 $aLife at Cambridge was idyllic for the student elite in the Fall of 1939, redolent with a Brideshead Revisited ambiance that sheltered those inside from the harsh political realities brewing outside. Mark Lynton, ne Max-Otto Ludwig Loewenstein, a German Jew from a privileged background, was not unlike the other students, who barely noticed the war in those early days, keeping to his routine of attending lectures, playing squash and golf, going to movies and sherry parties.
520 8 $aThis all changed in an instant, as he and other German and Austrian aliens were interned suddenly and without warning and sent to Liverpool, and then Canada and finally back to Europe, thrown headlong into a turbulent seven-year odyssey far removed from the lotus-eating days of student life.
520 8 $aThis remarkable story follows the author as he exchanges privilege for privation and becomes part of the war effort, first as a private with shovel in the Pioneer Corps, then as an officer in the Royal Tank Corps, and finally, after the fighting ends, with the Intelligence Corps, where he is tapped to interrogate such diverse people as Field Marshall Gerd von Rundstedt, the most senior of all German generals, and Dr. Werner Best, the complex, cultured German viceroy stationed in Denmark.
520 8 $aLynton, present at the suicide of Himmler and the arrest of Hoess, Commandant of Auschwitz, plays out his army career as the "gray eminence" on the political scene of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein. Acerbically witty and grandly entertaining, this is a personal history of the most gripping and engaging kind.
600 10 $aLynton, Mark.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86094110
650 0 $aDeportation$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$vPersonal narratives, Jewish.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148465
650 0 $aNoncitizens$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xPrisoners and prisons, British.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113977
650 0 $aGerman students$zGreat Britain$vBiography.
650 0 $aStudents and war.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85129324
852 00 $bglx$hD801.G7$iL96 1995