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Author | : Ilse Stritzke |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2013-04-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786473541 |
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The mother of 11 year old Ilse Glaus turned down the last plane out of East Prussia ahead of the advancing Russians in order to stay back with her aged parents. That decision cost her family dearly in wartorn Europe, 1945. Ilse grew up on a small farm, with a wonderful family, the woods as a playground and the beaches of the Baltic. Then turmoil followed the German defeat by the Russians and the subsequent occupation. In 31 months under the Russians, Ilse's family is driven from their home, she mourns her missing father, witnesses her mother's rape, sees her grandparents and baby brother succumb to the brutal conditions, and hears of her oldest sister's capture and death in a work prison. Fighting starvation, Ilse crafts ways to coexist with the Russians, scavenging, begging and stealing to help the family survive.
Author | : Max Egremont |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2011-11-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1429969334 |
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Until the end of World War II, East Prussia was the German empire's farthest eastern redoubt, a thriving and beautiful land on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea. Now it lives only in history and in myth. Since 1945, the territory has been divided between Poland and Russia, stretching from the border between Russia and Lithuania in the east and south, and through Poland in the west. In Forgotten Land, Max Egremont offers a vivid account of this region and its people through the stories of individuals who were intimately involved in and transformed by its tumultuous history, as well as accounts of his own travels and interviews he conducted along the way. Forgotten Land is a story of historical identity and character, told through intimate portraits of people and places. It is a unique examination of the layers of history, of the changing perceptions and myths of homeland, of virtue and of wickedness, and of how a place can still overwhelm those who left it years before.
Author | : Karla O. Poewe |
Publisher | : Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Today a distinguished anthropologist, Karla Poewe was born in Koenigsberg, East Prussia, in 1941. In this autobiography, she tells of her early life as a vagrant refugee pursued by Russian armies and Allied bombs during World War II.
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Total Pages | : 740 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Bibliography |
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Author | : Piotr K. Gwiazda |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Poetry |
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Poetry. Chosen for The Montserrat Review's Best Picks for Poetry 2005, GAGARIN STREET offers an edgy and disquieting meditation on the intersection of private and public history. "From the title poem of Piotr Gwiazda's impressive debut collection, a recurring theme announces itself: altered history and the poet's qualified attempts at recognition, if not full reclamation"--Gaylord Brewer. "These poems remind us how easily the Gagarin Streets of our youth may disappear, and of the poet's vital task to re-inscribe them for the future's fellow travelers"--Mark Nowak. Piotr Gwiazda teaches modern and contemporary poetry at University of Maryland Baltimore County.
Author | : Sybil von Sell Niemöller |
Publisher | : Purdue University Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 155753618X |
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This is the story of a remarkable life and a journey, from the privileged world of Prussian aristocracy, through the horrors of World War II, to high society in the television age of postwar America. It is also an account of a spiritual voyage, from a conventional Christian upbringing, through marriage to Pastor Martin Niemoeller, to conversion to Judaism. Born during the turbulent days of the Weimar Republic, the author was the goddaughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II (to whom her father was financial advisor). During her teenage years, she witnessed the rise of the Third Reich and her family's resistance to it, culminating in their involvement in "Operation Valkyrie," the ill-fated attempt to assassinate Hitler and form a new government. At war's end, she worked with British Intelligence to uncover Nazis leaders. Keeping a promise to her father, she left Germany for a new life in the United States in the 1950s, working for NBC and raising her son in the exciting world of New York, only to return to Germany as the wife of Martin Niemoeller, the voice of religious resistance during the Third Reich and of German guilt and conscience in the postwar decades. Upon her husband's death in 1984 she returned to America, after having converted to Judaism in London, and turned yet another page by becoming an active public speaker and author. The title reflects a story of three parts: "Crowns," the world of nobility in which the author was raised; "Crosses," her life with Martin Niemoeller and his battles with the Third Reich; and "Stars," the spiritual journey that brought her to Judaism.
Author | : Alice Miller |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2002-11-14 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1466806761 |
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For Your Own Good, the contemporary classic exploring the serious if not gravely dangerous consequences parental cruelty can bring to bear on children everywhere, is one of the central works by Alice Miller, the celebrated Swiss psychoanalyst. With her typically lucid, strong, and poetic language, Miller investigates the personal stories and case histories of various self-destructive and/or violent individuals to expand on her theories about the long-term affects of abusive child-rearing. Her conclusions—on what sort of parenting can create a drug addict, or a murderer, or a Hitler—offer much insight, and make a good deal of sense, while also straying far from psychoanalytic dogma about human nature, which Miller vehemently rejects. This important study paints a shocking picture of the violent world—indeed, of the ever-more-violent world—that each generation helps to create when traditional upbringing, with its hidden cruelty, is perpetuated. The book also presents readers with useful solutions in this regard—namely, to resensitize the victimized child who has been trapped within the adult, and to unlock the emotional life that has been frozen in repression.
Author | : James C. Scott |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 2020-03-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0300252986 |
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“One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.”—John Gray, New York Times Book Review Hailed as “a magisterial critique of top-down social planning” by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail—sometimes catastrophically—in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters. “Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit.”—New Yorker “A tour de force.”— Charles Tilly, Columbia University
Author | : Benjamin Labatut |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2021-09-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1681375664 |
Download When We Cease to Understand the World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize and the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature A fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose discoveries resulted in moral consequences beyond their imagining. When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about the complicated links between scientific and mathematical discovery, madness, and destruction. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger—these are some of luminaries into whose troubled lives Benjamín Labatut thrusts the reader, showing us how they grappled with the most profound questions of existence. They have strokes of unparalleled genius, alienate friends and lovers, descend into isolation and insanity. Some of their discoveries reshape human life for the better; others pave the way to chaos and unimaginable suffering. The lines are never clear. At a breakneck pace and with a wealth of disturbing detail, Labatut uses the imaginative resources of fiction to tell the stories of the scientists and mathematicians who expanded our notions of the possible.
Author | : Jurgen Herbst |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0299164136 |
Download Requiem for a German Past Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Jurgen Herbst s account of growing up in Nazi Germany from 1928 to 1948 is a boy s experience of anti-Semitism and militarism from the inside. Herbst was a middle-class boy in a Lutheran family that saw value in Prussian military ideals and a mythic German past. His memoir is a compelling, understated tale of moral awakening.