Leopold Schwarzschild

Leopold Schwarzschild (8 December 1891, Frankfurt am Main, Germany – 2 October 1950, Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy) was a German author.

His 1943 book World in Trance[1] was praised by Winston Churchill but criticised by H. G. Wells, who called Schwarzschild "superficially intelligent and massively stupid", and Michael Foot, who denounced it as "a facile, scintillating treatise which...has received applause from those weary brains which prefer the dismal past to the adventurous future".[2] A. J. P. Taylor called the book a "brilliant argument in favour of firmness".[3]

Further reading

Mauthner, Martin (2006). German Writers in French Exile, 1933–1940. London: Vallentine Mitchell. ISBN 978-0853035411.

References

  1. ↑ Schwarzschild, Leopold (1943). World in trance. Hamish Hamilton. ASIN B0007IX5O8.
  2. ↑ "INTERNATIONAL: The Old Adam" (abstract). Time magazine. 24 July 1944. Retrieved 12 March 2013.
  3. ↑ A. J. P. Taylor, The Origins of the Second World War (London: Penguin, 1991), p. 344.