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These fascinating never-before-published early diaries of Count Harry Kessler present a sweeping panorama of the arts and politics of Belle Époque Europe a glittering world poised to be changed irrevocably by the Great War. Kessler's immersion in the new art and literature of Paris London and Berlin unfolds in the first part of the diaries. This refined world gives way to vivid descriptions of the horrific fighting on the Eastern and Western fronts of World War I the intriguing private discussions among the German political and military elite about the progress of the war as well as Kessler's account of his role as a diplomat with a secret mission in Switzerland. Remarkably insightful poignant and cinematic in their scope Kessler's diaries are an invaluable record of one of the most volatile and seminal moments in modern Western history.

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