Going to Extremes: Berlin to the Arctic in 1939 (Stewart W. Herman, Jr.: life in Germany)
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Going to Extremes: Berlin to the Arctic in 1939 (Stewart W. Herman, Jr.: life in Germany)
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$14.99
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In June 1939, 30-year-old S. W. Herman, Jr., took a six-week break from pastoring the American Church in Berlin and graduate study. He wanted to clear his head of the tension from living and working in the Nazi German capital on the brink of war. By train, bus and boat, he journeyed to the northern tip of Spitsbergen, now Svalbard. He was entranced by the austere beauty of the Arctic. He reported the trip home to his parents in long weekly letters. His letters are packed with lively descriptions of cities, historic buildings, people—and the discomforts he experienced and the food he ate along the route. Since he was moving through regions that were only months away from destruction in World War II, his letters—laced with photographs--provide one more record of a region poised on the brink of massive change.