Voyage Through the Twentieth Century

Born in Berlin of an Austrian family of Jewish background Klemens von Klemperer studied in Vienna until 1938 when he was forced to emigrate to the United States. He continued his studies at Harvard University, which were then interrupted from 1943 to 1946 by his service in the US Army. After receiving his PhD in History from Harvard University, he taught at Smith College, and after his retirement, at neighboring institutions.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. BeginningsChapter 2. School yearsChapter 3. O du mein Österreich...Chapter 4. America-coming down to EarthChapter 5. Going to and fro upon the Earth: On being a soldierChapter 6. Du bist ein wanderer...Chapter 7. Mit dem Gesicht nach DeutschlandChapter 8. Living in "a world come of age"AfterthoughtsBibliographyIndex

“An intriguing view of a historian’s journey through the last century... a pleasure to read. With this memoir, von Klemperer joins the ranks of other historian memoirists such as Peter Gay, Felix Gilbert, and Werner Angress. It is a thoughtful and interesting account of what it was like to be a conservative historian of Germany in the decades after 1945.”  ·  Catherine Epstein, Associate Professor of History, Amherst College