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Secrets of a Suitcase

- The Countess, the Nazis, and Middle Europe's Lost Nobility
Af: Pauline Terreehorst Engelsk Hardback

Secrets of a Suitcase

- The Countess, the Nazis, and Middle Europe's Lost Nobility
Af: Pauline Terreehorst Engelsk Hardback
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When Pauline Terreehorst bid for a vintage Gucci suitcase at Sotheby’s Amsterdam, she had no idea what was inside. After picking up her prize, she found that the case was filled with dresses, fur collars and lace voiles, and accompanied by two brown boxes of postcard albums showing churches and castles in Austria, France, England and Scotland. This curious correspondence was addressed to an Austrian countess, businesswoman and philanthropist called Margarethe Szapáry, and her daughter.

These unexpected family treasures open a window onto a lost world. The Szapárys’ social, cultural and political landscape disappeared in the upheavals that seized Europe during the first half of the twentieth century—a time when borders were redrawn, old cities received new names, communities changed loyalties, and the transnational, monarchist aristocrats of Middle Europe had to decide whether to become Germans under Nazi rule.

What did Margarethe choose, when her neighbour Hermann Göring came knocking? What were the consequences for her and her children? And how did her family’s suitcase cross war-torn Europe and survive decades of rupture to end up in Terreehorst’s hands?

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When Pauline Terreehorst bid for a vintage Gucci suitcase at Sotheby’s Amsterdam, she had no idea what was inside. After picking up her prize, she found that the case was filled with dresses, fur collars and lace voiles, and accompanied by two brown boxes of postcard albums showing churches and castles in Austria, France, England and Scotland. This curious correspondence was addressed to an Austrian countess, businesswoman and philanthropist called Margarethe Szapáry, and her daughter.

These unexpected family treasures open a window onto a lost world. The Szapárys’ social, cultural and political landscape disappeared in the upheavals that seized Europe during the first half of the twentieth century—a time when borders were redrawn, old cities received new names, communities changed loyalties, and the transnational, monarchist aristocrats of Middle Europe had to decide whether to become Germans under Nazi rule.

What did Margarethe choose, when her neighbour Hermann Göring came knocking? What were the consequences for her and her children? And how did her family’s suitcase cross war-torn Europe and survive decades of rupture to end up in Terreehorst’s hands?

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 304
ISBN-13: 9781911723394
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 1911723391
Kategori: Europæisk historie
Udg. Dato: 31 okt 2024
Længde: 29mm
Bredde: 242mm
Højde: 166mm
Forlag: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Oplagsdato: 31 okt 2024
Forfatter(e): Pauline Terreehorst
Forfatter(e) Pauline Terreehorst

Kategori Europæisk historie

ISBN-13 9781911723394

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 304

Udgave

Længde 29mm

Bredde 242mm

Højde 166mm

Udg. Dato 31 okt 2024

Oplagsdato 31 okt 2024

Forlag C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd