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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 1128
Book Description
Almanach de Gotha
Author: Focus On: 100 Most Popular English Emigrants to the United States
Author: Wikipedia contributorsPublisher: e-artnow sro
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 883
Book Description
Free World
Author: Timothy Garton AshPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030727697X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
“We, the free, face a daunting opportunity. Previous generations could only dream of a free world. Now we can begin to make it.” In his welcome alternative to the rampant pessimism about Euro-American relations, award-winning historian Timothy Garton Ash shares an inspiring vision for how the United States and Europe can collaborate to promote a free world. At the start of the twenty-first century, the West has plunged into crisis. Europe tries to define itself in opposition to America, and America increasingly regards Europe as troublesome and irrelevant. What is to become of what we used to call “the free world”? Part history, part manifesto, Free World offers both a scintillating assessment of our current geopolitical quandary and a vitally important argument for the future of liberty and the shared values of the West.
Almanach de Gotha
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Category : Diplomatic and consular service
Languages : fr
Pages : 1276
Book Description
Defiant Diplomat
Author: Willard Allen FletcherPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1611493994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Drafted while events were fresh in his mind in 1942–1943, Alabama-born American diplomat George Platt Waller’s memoir chronicles his war-time experience in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. In vivid prose, he recalls the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, the “Phony War,” the German invasion of May 10, 1940, and the Wehrmacht occupation. Intimately involved with the political and public life of this small democratic nation, Waller did not follow Grand Duchess Charlotte and her government into exile. Instead, he remained as long as he could to witness and champion the Luxembourg people, doing his best to rescue the flood of refugees seeking visas and asylum in the United States. Waller bitterly condemns the Nazi civilian administration, its oppressive racial laws, and its attempts to annex the country to Germany under the banner of Heim ins Reich. From his pivotal position as dean of the diplomatic community, representative of the powerful United States; and trusted confidant of leaders, executives, and citizens alike, Waller was privy to information from a wide range of sources: government, military, the church, the professions, the resistance, ordinary people, and refugees. He narrates gripping accounts of individual initiative and courage and exposes the many official hindrances to the timely rescue of refugees. His observations shed new light on life in Luxembourg from 1939 to 1941, when he was finally expelled from the country. The editors’ introduction places this brief but highly significant memoir in the context of Waller’s family background, education, and career, including his dramatic return to Luxembourg at its liberation by American troops in 1944 and his participation in the Grand Duchy’s postwar renaissance. Extensive annotations and photographs complement the text.
The Russian Imperial Award System During the Reign of Nicolas II, 1894-1917
Author: Ulla Tillander-GodenhielmPublisher:
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Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
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Almanach de Gotha 2003
Author: John KennedyPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Incorporated
ISBN: 9780953214242
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
Book Description
The Almanach de Gotha is the ultimate authority for the genealogies of royal and princely houses of Europe and their descendents, and has been since it was first published in 1763 in the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg Gotha. It includes updated information on births, marriages, deaths and dissolutions, changes in family headship, and private addresses. There is also a fuller index listing Gotha family entrants, their spouses and in-laws by name.
Stalin's Romeo Spy
Author: Emil DraitserPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810126648
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
Living a life that seems incredible even for a spy novel, Dmitri Bystrolyotov was a sailor, doctor, lawyer, and writer, fluent in many languages, whose success as a spy hinged on the fact that he was a charming, handsome, and very adept at seducing women. He stole military secrets from Germany and Italy and fed Stalin information from all over Europe, with his conquests including a French embassy employee, the wife of a British official, and a disfigured Gestapo officer. His story took an unexpected turn when at the height of Stalin's purges he was arrested, tortured, and sentenced to hard labor in the Gulag, where he risked further punishment by documenting how the regime he once served fully and unquestioningly had descended into a monstrous legacy of crimes against humanity.
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Author: The Jesus Presidents
Author: L. E. CooperPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595333001
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
While the very early descent of the following US presidents from Jesus is a new subject that will arouse discussion and disagreement, the family ancestry presented of these presidents will also cause a much earlier review of each president's family as these family lines go back to the beginning, to Adam.