Author: Stefan LorantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Sieg Heil! (Hail to Victory)
Author: Stefan LorantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Sieg Heil! (Hail to Victory).
Author: Stefan LorantSieg Heil! Hail to victory An illustr.history of Germany from Bismarck to Hitler
Author: Stefan LorantSieg Heil! =
Author: Stefan LorantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This book contains pictures and text covering the period from Bismark to Hitler. It isn't just a review of military matters. It includes cultural happenings during this period. Bismark was the President of the Weimar Republic and Hitler the dictator, after he disbanded the Reichstag (= our Congress). This book spans the 1920's, 1930's, and mid 1940's. It is an excellent addition to the libraries of people interested in WWII, German Culture, German History, or the backdrop of the NAZI movement.
Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase & Fable
Author: John AytoPublisher: Chambers Harrap Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780550105646
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 853
Book Description
Completely updated for the twenty-first century, this reference presents definitions and origins of thousands of words, idioms, catchphrases, slogans, nicknames, and events from TV, literature, music, comic strips, and computer games.
Odette's Secrets
Author: Maryann MacdonaldPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1599909251
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
For Jews in Nazi-occupied Paris, every day brings new dangers. So when Odette's father is thrown into a work camp and the Nazis suspect her mother of helping the Resistance, Odette is sent to the French countryside until it is safe to return. On the surface, Odette leads the life of a regular girl, going to school, doing chores, even attending Catholic masses with other children. But inside, she is burning with secrets for the life she left behind, and the identity she must hide at all costs. Yet when the war ends, the cost of keeping secrets takes an unexpected toll: can Odette return to Paris as a Jew, or has she changed too much? Inspired by the life of the real Odette Meyer, this moving free-verse novel is a story of triumph over adversity.
The Roman Salute
Author: Martin M. WinklerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Saluting gestures in Roman art and literature -- Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii -- Raised-arm salutes in the United States before fascism : from the pledge of allegiance to Ben-Hur on stage -- Early cinema : American and European epics -- Cabiria : the intersection of cinema and politics -- Gabriele d'Annunzio and Cabiria -- Fiume : the Roman salute becomes a political symbol -- From D'Annunzio to Mussolini -- Nazi cinema and its impact on Hollywood's Roman epics : from Leni Riefenstahl to Quo vadis -- Visual legacies : antiquity on the screen from Quo vadis to Rome -- Cinema : from Salome to Alexander -- Television : from Star trek to Rome -- Conclusion.
A Child of Hitler
Author: Alfons HeckPublisher: American Traveler Press
ISBN: 9780939650446
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The author's story of his rise to power in the Hitler Youth under the spell of Adolf Hitler.
Two Shades of War
Author: Edward W. WeissPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1438981627
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
This is the true story of Edward Weiss who in 1938, at the young age of eleven, left the United States with his family to go to the aid of a Jewish relative in Germany. This was only to be a short trip, but they are forced to remain until the end of World War II. Follow Edward on his journey that begins as a boy trying to adjust to life in a foreign country. His journey takes him from being a non-German speaking American citizen to a soldier in Hitler's army, and years later returning to the U. S. to serve as an American soldier in the Korean War. A story of being in the wrong place at the wrong time puts Edward in danger many times over. You'll read about the sacrifices his parents had to make for the safety and well-being of Edward and his sisters - and the determination of a young boy doing what he must to survive.
The End and the Beginning
Author: Hermynia Zur MühlenPublisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1906924279
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
First published in Germany in 1929, The End and the Beginning is a lively personal memoir of a vanished world and of a rebellious, high-spirited young woman's struggle to achieve independence. Born in 1883 into a distinguished and wealthy aristocratic family of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, Hermynia Zur Muhlen spent much of her childhood travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. After five years on her German husband's estate in czarist Russia she broke with both her family and her husband and set out on a precarious career as a professional writer committed to socialism. Besides translating many leading contemporary authors, notably Upton Sinclair, into German, she herself published an impressive number of politically engaged novels, detective stories, short stories, and children's fairy tales. Because of her outspoken opposition to National Socialism, she had to flee her native Austria in 1938 and seek refuge in England, where she died, virtually penniless, in 1951. This revised and corrected translation of Zur Muhlen's memoir - with extensive notes and an essay on the author by Lionel Gossman - will appeal especially to readers interested in women's history, the Central European aristocratic world that came to an end with the First World War, and the culture and politics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.