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Author : Helmut Hörner
Publisher : Fulcrum Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A German Odyssey written by Helmut Hörner and published by Fulcrum Group. This book was released on 1991 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tale of a German captured by the Americans in WWII.
Author : Donald Allendorf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Long Road to Liberty written by Donald Allendorf and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They served almost five years, most of that time in daily contact with their Southern adversaries in Tennessee and Georgia. When the war was finally over, more than half of the 904 officers and men who had ever served with the 15th regiment had been wounded or killed, while another 107 died of disease"--Jacket.
Author : Hugh S. Roberton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (228 download)
Download or read book A German Odyssey written by Hugh S. Roberton and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Delmar Taft Spivey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book POW Odyssey written by Delmar Taft Spivey and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Otto Zarek
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book German Odyssey written by Otto Zarek and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ron Theodore Robin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400821622
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Barbed-Wire College written by Ron Theodore Robin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1995-04-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Stalag 17 to The Manchurian Candidate, the American media have long been fascinated with stories of American prisoners of war. But few Americans are aware that enemy prisoners of war were incarcerated on our own soil during World War II. In The Barbed-Wire College Ron Robin tells the extraordinary story of the 380,000 German prisoners who filled camps from Rhode Island to Wisconsin, Missouri to New Jersey. Using personal narratives, camp newspapers, and military records, Robin re-creates in arresting detail the attempts of prison officials to mold the daily lives and minds of their prisoners. From 1943 onward, and in spite of the Geneva Convention, prisoners were subjected to an ambitious reeducation program designed to turn them into American-style democrats. Under the direction of the Pentagon, liberal arts professors entered over 500 camps nationwide. Deaf to the advice of their professional rivals, the behavioral scientists, these instructors pushed through a program of arts and humanities that stressed only the positive aspects of American society. Aided by German POW collaborators, American educators censored popular books and films in order to promote democratic humanism and downplay class and race issues, materialism, and wartime heroics. Red-baiting Pentagon officials added their contribution to the program, as well; by the war's end, the curriculum was more concerned with combating the appeals of communism than with eradicating the evils of National Socialism. The reeducation officials neglected to account for one factor: an entrenched German military subculture in the camps, complete with a rigid chain of command and a propensity for murdering "traitors." The result of their neglect was utter failure for the reeducation program. By telling the story of the program's rocky existence, however, Ron Robin shows how this intriguing chapter of military history was tied to two crucial episodes of twentieth- century American history: the battle over the future of American education and the McCarthy-era hysterics that awaited postwar America.
Author : Joseph Kazickas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781482015867
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (158 download)
Download or read book Odyssey of Hope written by Joseph Kazickas and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-18 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story of a Lithuanian Immigrant's Escape from Communism to Freedom in America and the Return to His Beloved Homeland
Author : Otto Zarek
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Splendor and shame written by Otto Zarek and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ron Chernow
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307813509
Total Pages : 881 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Warburgs written by Ron Chernow and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-01-18 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pulitzer Prize–winning bestselling author of Alexander Hamilton, the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical, comes this definitive biography of the Warburgs, one of the great German-Jewish banking families of the twentieth century. Bankers, philanthropists, scholars, socialites, artists, and politicians, the Warburgs stood at the pinnacle of German (and, later, of German-American) Jewry. They forged economic dynasties, built mansions and estates, assembled libraries, endowed charities, and advised a German kaiser and two American presidents. But their very success made the Warburgs lightning rods for anti-Semitism, and their sense of patriotism became increasingly dangerous in a Germany that had declared Jews the enemy. Ron Chernow's hugely fascinating history is a group portrait of a clan whose members were renowned for their brilliance, culture, and personal energy yet tragically vulnerable to the dark and irrational currents of the twentieth century.
Author : Otto Zarek
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781258187309
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Splendor and Shame written by Otto Zarek and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steve Bill Hanshew
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1512741132
Total Pages : 659 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (127 download)
Download or read book Toms Run written by Steve Bill Hanshew and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2016-09-21 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History is a sequence of events from the past leading us to the present. Family History is where we came from and how we got here. More often than not those two paths converge and become a composite history we live each and every day, interacting with the world around us. This history forms and molds us into what we become and when were gone, how we will be remembered, however fleeting that may be. For a Christian how we interact with the world is defined by Christ and should be a defining feature of our personality. Pointedly, we are to be both salt and light. Salt preserves and light displaces darkness. This task has never been more difficult as we are slowly enveloped by a culture that preserves nothing good, extols the bad while seeking to snuff out the light. As believers we more and more find ourselves as Christ warned; hated and reviled, just as He was. At some nearly subliminal level I think many Americans feel this void as more and more of our culture seeks to eradicate God and replace it with secular Humanism. They feel the unnatural movement towards anarchy. It can be stopped or at least abated, only if we are willing to look at where we were and how we got here. This book attempts to retrace those steps leading to this amoral abyss.
Author : Moishe Rozenbaumas
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815654723
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)
Download or read book The Odyssey of an Apple Thief written by Moishe Rozenbaumas and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Odyssey of an Apple Thief, Moishe Rozenbaumas (1922–2016) recounts his fascinating life, from his Lithuanian boyhood, to the fraught experiences that take him across Europe and Central Asia and back again, to his daring escape from Soviet Russia to build a new life in Paris. Along the way, we get a rarely seen portrait of the lives of working-class Jewish youth in Telz/Telsiai, a religious town renowned for its yeshiva. We hear of the games children played, the theft of apples from a Catholic orchard, and Rozenbaumas’s early apprenticeship as a tailor once his father leaves the country. The war breaks out and the teenaged Rozenbaumas flees Lithuania alone, unable to convince his mother and sibling to go with him. We learn of his life as a starved refugee in an Uzbek kolkhoz, his escape into the Red Army, and his unlikely work in the reconnaissance unit of the Soviet Army. After the war, Rozenbaumas is drafted into the Marxist-Leninist university and as a cadre of the Communist Party, ultimately escaping in 1956 with his family to Paris, where he and his wife give an openly Jewish education to their children. In the vast literature of memory written by Jewish witnesses before, during, and after WWII, Rozenbaumas’s account stands out for the singularity of his experience and for his deft narration of events of mythological dimension from a personal perspective. The Odyssey of an Apple Thief offers not only invaluable testimony of this historical moment but also an illuminating and original portrait of Lithuanian Jews in the twentieth century.
Author : Herb Sheaner
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462824498
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (628 download)
Download or read book Prisoner's Odyssey written by Herb Sheaner and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-08-18 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of survival, hunger and reflection from a teenaged prisoner of war inside Germany near the end of WWII. From capture at the Battle of The Bulge to the final escape from his German guards, the author allows us a glimpse into the despair and agony of being a prisoner in a foreign land.
Author : Allan Kent Powell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Splinters of a Nation written by Allan Kent Powell and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : GORDON WILLIAMSON
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Hans Sturm written by GORDON WILLIAMSON and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many biographies of former soldiers of the German Wehrmacht, many of whom had fascinating stories to tell, and several of whom were highly decorated. Few, however, can match Hans Sturm in his astonishing rise from a mere private in an infantry regiment, thrown into the bloody maelstrom of the Eastern Front, to becoming a glorified war hero whose role brought him into direct regular contact with Prominenten of the Third Reich. This young man s fearless heroism in combat earned him some of Germany s highest military awards, and yet he was pugnaciously outspoken about bullying and injustice. From striking a member of the feared Sicherheitsdienst in defence of a Jewish woman to refusing to wear a decoration he felt was tainted by its encouragement of inhumane treatment of enemy partisans, Sturm repeatedly stuck to his moral values no matter what the risk. But even when the war was finally over, his travails did not end: he was held in a number of Soviet labour camps, before finally being released in 1953. Hans Sturm: A Soldier s Odyssey on the Eastern Front is an engaging reconstruction of events based on exchanges of correspondence and reminiscences between the author and Hans Sturm himself. It vividly portrays not only a German soldier s experience on the Eastern Front, but the intriguing trajectories that success in the battlefield yielded for him at home under the Nazi regime.
Author : Steve Bill Hanshew and his Fathers
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 9781512741124
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Toms Run written by Steve Bill Hanshew and his Fathers and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2016-09-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History is a sequence of events from the past leading us to the present. Family History is where we came from and how we got here. More often than not those two paths converge and become a composite history we live each and every day, interacting with the world around us. This history forms and molds us into what we become and when we're gone, how we will be remembered, however fleeting that may be. For a Christian how we interact with the world is defined by Christ and should be a defining feature of our personality. Pointedly, we are to be both ?salt? and ?light'. Salt preserves and light displaces darkness. This task has never been more difficult as we are slowly enveloped by a culture that preserves nothing good, extols the bad while seeking to snuff out the light. As believers we more and more find ourselves as Christ warned; hated and reviled, just as He was. At some nearly subliminal level I think many Americans feel this void as more and more of our culture seeks to eradicate God and replace it with secular Humanism. They feel the unnatural movement towards anarchy. It can be stopped or at least abated, only if we are willing to look at where we were and how we got here. This book attempts to retrace those steps leading to this amoral abyss
Author : Daniel Mendelsohn
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681376393
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)
Download or read book Three Rings written by Daniel Mendelsohn and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir, biography, work of history, and literary criticism all in one, this moving book tells the story of three exiled writers—Erich Auerbach, François Fénelon, and W. G. Sebald—and their relationship with the classics, from Homer to Mimesis. In a genre-defying book hailed as “exquisite” (The New York Times) and “spectacular” (The Times Literary Supplement), the best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn explores the mysterious links between the randomness of the lives we lead and the artfulness of the stories we tell. Combining memoir, biography, history, and literary criticism, Three Rings weaves together the stories of three exiled writers who turned to the classics of the past to create masterpieces of their own—works that pondered the nature of narrative itself: Erich Auerbach, the Jewish philologist who fled Hitler’s Germany and wrote his classic study of Western literature, Mimesis, in Istanbul; François Fénelon, the seventeenth-century French archbishop whose ingenious sequel to the Odyssey, The Adventures of Telemachus—a veiled critique of the Sun King and the best-selling book in Europe for a hundred years—resulted in his banishment; and the German novelist W.G. Sebald, self-exiled to England, whose distinctively meandering narratives explore Odyssean themes of displacement, nostalgia, and separation from home. Intertwined with these tales of exile and artistic crisis is an account of Mendelsohn’s struggle to write two of his own books—a family saga of the Holocaust and a memoir about reading the Odyssey with his elderly father—that are haunted by tales of oppression and wandering. As Three Rings moves to its startling conclusion, a climactic revelation about the way in which the lives of its three heroes were linked across borders, languages, and centuries forces the reader to reconsider the relationship between narrative and history, art and life.
