Table of Contents

Introduction
Between the Wars (1919-39)
The Postwar Years (1945-53)
Reading Defeat
Narrating Success
Hiding the Obvious
Seeing the Unseen
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Reviews

Though the title suggests the book's common thread will be Nanga Parbat, in fact Höbusch has given us something far more wide-ranging. 'Mountain of Destiny' is a deeply sourced account of the co-development of mountaineering culture and Germany's modern self-identity, hinged around the rhetoric and trauma of National Socialism. . . . Students looking for introductory analyses of key primary sources in the history of mountaineering will find large parts of each chapter richly helpful.
*JOURNAL OF AUSTRIAN STUDIES*

Readers with interest in German mountaineering or film history will find value in the impressing amount of details the author presents.
*GERMAN HISTORY*

There is much to admire in Mountain of Destiny, a book that should take its place . . . as a classic of the intellectual history of mountaineering.
*COLLOQUIA GERMANICA*

'[A]bsorbing . . . . [W]ill naturally appeal to anyone interested in the history of mountaineering. It also offers an unusual perspective on some of the major themes of twentieth-century German history.
*JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES*