Timothy W. Ryback

Timothy W. Ryback (born 1954 ) is Deputy Secretary of the Académie Diplomatique Internationale ( ADI) in Paris and co-founder of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation ( IHJR ) in The Hague. Previously, he was director and vice - president of the Salzburg Global Seminar and lecturer focusing on the history and literature at Harvard University.

Ryback has been published many times on European history, politics and culture, among other things, in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker and the New York Times.

He is the author of the 2000 published and widely acclaimed book The Last Survivor: Legacies of Dachau, which was also under the German title The last survivor: appeared in search of Alfred number Nordenfeldt.

Also he is the monograph Hitler 's private library: the books did shaped his life, published in 2008 in the publishing house Alfred A. Knopf. The book is published in more than two dozen editions around the world, has often receive recognition for the delivered insights into Hitler's life and personality, but was also criticized for some inaccuracies and incompleteness of observation. Ian Kershaw wrote the book " written elegant, meticulously researched and fascinating " as praised.

Ryback is also by its published on the eve of the collapse of the Eastern Bloc representation of the rock music scene in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, Rock Around the Bloc: A History of Rock Music in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, published in 1989 by Oxford University Press, has become internationally known.

Works (selection)

  • Timothy W. Ryback, Hitler's books: his library - his thinking. Torchbearers -Verl., Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-7716-4437-6.
  • Timothy W. Ryback, Hitler 's private library: the books did shaped his life. Knopf, New York 2008, ISBN 978-1-4000-4204-3.
  • Timothy W. Ryback: The last survivor: in search of Alfred number Nordenfeldt. Siedler, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-88680-691- X.
  • Timothy W. Ryback: Rock around the bloc: a history of rock music in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Oxford Univ. Press, New York, 1990, ISBN 0-19-505633-7.
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