Gerald Williams (4) (1935–2020)
Author of Blowing Up Hitler: A Life of Johann Georg Elser, Would-Be Assassin
For other authors named Gerald Williams, see the disambiguation page.
Works by Gerald Williams
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Common Knowledge
- Other names
- Williams, Gerald M.
- Birthdate
- 1935-06-02
- Date of death
- 2020-07-17
- Gender
- male
- Occupations
- poet
translator
editor
essayist
substitute teacher - Organizations
- Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
Reader's Digest
Delta (literary review)
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
World Veterans Organization
Olympia Press (show all 7)
United States Army - Cause of death
- COVID-19
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- The Bronx, New York, USA
- Places of residence
- New York, New York, USA
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Paris, France
Amsterdam, Netherlands - Place of death
- New York, New York, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- USA
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Reviews
It's difficult to determine how to rate a book like this: a pamphlet, a series of poems telling the story of Johann Georg Elser, one of my greatest personal heroes, who tried to kill Hitler in 1939 and nearly succeeded. The book, I think, overstates his Communist affiliations, but does give an accurate picture of Elser as an extremely ordinary, sensible man who realized long before anyone else that Hitler would be the ruin of Germany and that he had to go.
This is a curiosity; nothing more.
This is a curiosity; nothing more.
Statistics
- Work
- 1
- Member
- 1
- Popularity
- #2,962,639
- Rating
- 3.0
- Reviews
- 1
- ISBNs
- 12
- Languages
- 1