Dispatches from the Ruhr


Gelesen von Atul Sharma

(4 stars; 9 reviews)

Before finding celebrity as an author, including his 1954 Nobel Prize, Ernest M. Hemingway honed his craft as a journeyman reporter. In the spring of 1923, as a special correspondent for the Toronto Star, he travelled to the occupied Ruhr Valley where he produced a series of 10 articles, collected here as Dispatches from the Ruhr. In them, he explores the French political system and its role in the decision to occupy the Ruhr Valley militarily, in an effort to collect on unsustainable war reparations. In addition, he examines the suffering of its ordinary citizens, as conditions there led to a progressive loss of confidence in the Weimar Republic; its economic collapse under the weight of hyper-inflation; and, ultimately, to the rise of Nazism. It is worth reading as both a case study on the unintended consequences of military occupation and a master class in the development of Hemingway’s characteristic prose style. - Summary by ASharma (1 hr 36 min)

Kapitel

A Victory Without Peace Forced the French To Undertake the Occupation of the Ru… 11:05 Gelesen von Atul Sharma
French Royalist Party Most Solidly Organized 9:32 Gelesen von Atul Sharma
Government Pays for News in French Papers 11:25 Gelesen von Atul Sharma
Ruhr Commercial War Question of Bankruptcy 8:29 Gelesen von Atul Sharma
A Brave Belgian Lady Shuts Up German Hater 8:57 Gelesen von Atul Sharma
Getting Into Germany Quite a Job, Nowadays 12:53 Gelesen von Atul Sharma
Quite Easy To Spend a Million, If in Marks 9:50 Gelesen von Atul Sharma
Amateur Starvers Keep Out of View in Germany 6:42 Gelesen von Atul Sharma
Hate in Occupied Zone a Real, Concrete Thing 9:27 Gelesen von Atul Sharma
French Speed with Movies on the Job 8:35 Gelesen von Atul Sharma