Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Mountains in the German Imagination, 1919–53
6. Bruno Taut, Alpine Architecture 16
7. 1: Between the Wars (1919–39) 17
8. 2: The Postwar Years (1945–53) 66
9. Part II: Imprinting Nanga Parbat
10. Kurt Tessmann, Cover for Der Kampf um den Nanga Parbat (1941) 82
11. 3: Reading Defeat 83
12. 4: Narrating Success 114
13. Part III: Imag(in)ing the German “Mountain of Destiny”
14. Illustrierter Film-Kurier: Nanga Parbat: Ein Kampfbericht (1936) 158
15. 5: Hiding the Obvious 159
16. 6: Seeing the Unseen 196
17. Conclusion 219
18. Notes 227
19. Bibliography 257
20. Index 273