Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vi
4. Abbreviations vii
5. Introduction. Journal of a Conscript 1
6. Chapter 1 Melvin J. Lasky’s Biography and Diary 9
7. Chapter 2 Not a Beginning but an End Melvin J. Lasky, Diarist 21
8. Chapter 3 Between Denazification and Reconstruction: US Occupation Policies and Practice in Germany 1945 29
9. Chapter 4 “Clio Continues to Serve” Melvin J. Lasky as Combat Historian 38
10. Chapter 5 (Military) Masculinity and a Feminized Europe: The Gender Politics of the Lasky Diary 49
11. Chapter 6 Melvin J. Lasky, Chronicler of Europe’s Twentieth Century 59
12. Melvin J. Lasky Diary 67
13. Appendix A: List of Primary Literature in the Diary 303
14. Appendix B: List of Names in the Diary 306
15. Appendix C: Names and Ranks of Lasky’s Fellow Soldiers 315
16. Index 316