Giles MacDonogh

Giles MacDonogh (born April 6, 1955 in London ) is a British historian , author and translator .

Life

His education, he graduated from the City of London School and studied Modern History at Balliol College of Oxford University . Later he deepened his studies at the École pratique des hautes études .

MacDonogh worked as a journalist for the Financial Times (1988-2003). There he mainly wrote about food and nutrition and other topics. He has also written articles for almost all other major British newspapers, including The Times in London . As a historian, MacDonogh focuses primarily on Central Europe, especially Germany.

MacDonogh is the author of fourteen books, mostly about German history, but also about gastronomy and wine. In 1988 he won the Glenfiddich Special Award for his first book, A Palate in Revolution , and was shortlisted for the André Simon Award .

His books have been translated into French, Bulgarian, Italian, German, Chinese, Spanish, Russian and Polish.

MacDonagh gave courses on Jewish history as a visiting professor at the London Jewish Cultural Center, London, and gave a guest lecture at the Humboldt University in Berlin in July 2005 .

He is married to Candida Brazil; the couple has two children. As an enthusiastic hobby painter, he can already look back on exhibitions.

reception

"Giles MacDonogh has repeatedly shown himself to be in the front rank of British scholars of German history. The depth of his human understanding, the judiciousness of his pickings from source material and the quality of his writing make this a book at once gripping and grave. " Graham Stewart , The Spectator , 2009.

“Giles MacDonogh goes far in his book“ After the Reich ”. He is concerned with the central question of European history: who controls the center of Europe - geographically, politically, ideologically? The author makes it understandable that and why the Allies practiced such a “brutal” occupation policy after May 8, 1945, the armistice. It was war by other means, as Clausewitz would say. MacDonogh explains why the suffering of the Germans did not end with the Second World War, but rather began ”.

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Monographs

• A Palate in Revolution , Robin Clark (1987) ISBN 0-86072-109-4
• A Good German: Adam von Trott zu Solz , Quartet (1989) ISBN 0-7043-2730-9
• Brillat-Savarin: The Judge and His Stomach John Murray (1992) ISBN 0-7195-4711-3
• Syrah, Grenach and Mourvèdre Viking (1992) ISBN 0-670-82588-3
• The Wine and Food of Austria Mitchell-Beazley (1992) ISBN 0-85533-944-6
• Prussia: The Perversion of an Idea Sinclair-Stevenson (1994) ISBN 1-85619-267-9
• Berlin Sinclair-Stevenson 1997 ISBN 1-85619-525-2
• Austria: New Wines from the Old World Agrar Verlag 1997 ISBN 3-7040-1343-9
• Frederick the Great Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1999 ISBN 0-297-81777-9
• The Last Kaiser: William the Impetuous Weidenfeld and Nicolson 2000 ISBN 0-297-81776-0
• Portuguese Table Wines Grub Street 2001 ISBN 1-902304-86-1
• After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation , New York, Basic Books, 2007 ISBN 978-0-465-00337-2
• After the Reich: From the Liberation of Vienna to the Berlin Airlift John Murray 2007 ISBN 978-0-7195-6770-4
• 1938 Hitler's Gamble Constable 2009 ISBN 978-1-84529-845-6
• The Great Battles Quercus 2010 ISBN 978-1-84916-490-0
  • The 50 most important battles. From Austerlitz to Waterloo. Translation by Birgit Herbst, National geographic Germany, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86690-230-5

translation

• Henrik Eberle and Matthias Uhl, The Hitler Book John Murray 2005 ISBN 0-7195-5498-5
• Melissa Müller and Reinhard Piechocki, A garden of Eden in Hell Macmillan 2007 ISBN 978-0-230-52802-4
• Karl Mayer et al., Wein / Wine Genesis Kulinarium Verlag 2009 ISBN 978-3-200-01538-8
• Blandine Vié, Testicles Prospect Books 2011 ISBN 978-1-903018-83-5

Web links

• List of reviews on his homepage
• How three million Germans died after VE Day. Nigel Jones reviews After the Reich: From the Liberation of Vienna to the Berlin Airlift by Giles MacDonogh . In: The Telegraph , April 18, 2007. Retrieved February 24, 2012.
• Holocaust Memorial Day: remember and say 'Never again'. Unite Against Fascim. January 22nd, 2012. Participation with a guest lecture on Sophie Scholl

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.macdonogh.co.uk/experience.htm
2. ↑ http://www.theragens.com/wines/books_glenfiddich_awards.htm
3. ↑ http://andresimon.co.uk/past.html
4. ↑ http://www.macdonogh.co.uk/gallery.htm
5. ↑ http://www.macdonogh.co.uk/experience-books.htm
6. ↑ Alexander Schuller : Instead of a German navel gaze, the view from outside Giles MacDonogh: "After the Reich" and Nicholas Baker : "Human Smoke" Review on Deutschlandradio , June 22, 2008, accessed on February 24, 2012.