Just Passing Through: Interactions with the World 1938 - 2021

by Daniel Snowman

Historian and author Daniel Snowman (b. 1938) writes of a Jewish child's memories of the War, gives colourful inside accounts of life in Cambridge, JFK's America (including Civil Rights) and the new University of Sussex, of the BBC in its heyday, choral concerts under the world's top conductors and extended visits to the Arctic and Antarctic. Daniel watches Churchill making one of his final speeches, interviews Harry Truman about Hiroshima, spends a week in Bayreuth with Wagner's daughter-in-law, meets Pope John-Paul II, Isaiah Berlin and Lord Snowdon, while getting to know Plácido Domingo and the most famous among the ‘Hitler Emigrés’.

Kindle Edition

Published September 16, 2021

Reviews

[Stuart Sanders · Rating 5 out of 5]

Daniel Snowman has written this memoir which makes an excellent read. I thank him for sharing it with such self-effacing candour.
The author and I share the same background; and then there is a common passion for opera and cricket. So, although I followed a different profession, his life story resonates with my own.
For me, this book is a page-turner and I can’t recommend it more highly.