wyszukanych pozycji: 10
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Otto & Daria: A Wartime Journey Through No Man's Land
ISBN: 9780889774438 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) A poignant memoir of lives cleaved by war, Otto and Daria is the first-hand account of Eric (or Otto) Koch. As a Jewish refugee from WWII Germany, Otto first left his country for England, and later arrived in Canada, where he was for a time imprisoned in a camp. The counterpoint to Otto's recollections are the letters from his long-distance love interest, Daria Hambourg, a London girl of bohemian temperament, unusual literary talents and a distinguished, but restrictive, family background. These parallel writings tell the story of two young people caught in the grip of history, and together...
A poignant memoir of lives cleaved by war, Otto and Daria is the first-hand account of Eric (or Otto) Koch. As a Jewish refugee from WWII Germany, Ott...
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83,66 |
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New Beginnings
ISBN: 9781771610582 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) New Beginnings is the sequel to Eric Koch's landmark work The Golden Years: Glenn Gould, Marshall McLuhan, Lester B. Pearson, Rene Levesque & John G. Diefenbaker published by Mosaic Press in 2013. Once again, Koch is inventing a new literary form that is special and astonishing, crafting five intimate stories of six fascinating and important figures in Canadian history.
New Beginnings is the sequel to Eric Koch's landmark work The Golden Years: Glenn Gould, Marshall McLuhan, Lester B. Pearson, Rene Levesque & John G. ...
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I Remember the Location Exactly
ISBN: 9780889628618 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The Koch family was an established family in Frankfurt. Eric Koch's grandfatherRobert Koch was a court jeweller who had founded his store in 1879. His father had served in the German army during the first world war and saw action on the French and Russian fronts. He had married into another prominent family - the Kahns - who had achieved wealth in banking.Eric Koch's memoir documents, in a very personal way, the life of his family, the circle of their friends, and the life of Frankfurt generally from 1919 onward. It also covers his experiences at school and university in England after his...
The Koch family was an established family in Frankfurt. Eric Koch's grandfatherRobert Koch was a court jeweller who had founded his store in 1879. His...
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63,17 |
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Weimar Triangle : Frankfurt 1927
ISBN: 9780889629028 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The location of the novel is Frankfurt, Koch knew so well as he was born there in 1919 and lived there until 1935. The trigger for the novel is the major cultural event of 1927, the International Music Exhibition - 'The Summer of Music.
The location of the novel is Frankfurt, Koch knew so well as he was born there in 1919 and lived there until 1935. The trigger for the novel is the ma...
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75,61 |
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Earrings : Baden-Baden 1883
ISBN: 9780889627758 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Baden-Baden 1883. The summer capital of European high society. A place of amusement and intrigue.Take a suspenseful romp through the nineteenth century with all the big names... Empress Josephine, Kaiser Wilhelm, Johannes Brahms, Friedrich Nietzsche, Edward VII, Richard Wagner, Napoleon III, Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Prince Otto von Bismarck.
Baden-Baden 1883. The summer capital of European high society. A place of amusement and intrigue.Take a suspenseful romp through the nineteenth centur...
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63,17 |
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Premonitions : A Novel
ISBN: 9780889628830 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In the decade before 1914 Schwabing, the suburb of Munich, was a magnet which drew artists, writers, freethinkers and many others who wanted to opt out of bourgeois society and experiment with new ideas. It was the Haight-Ashbury of early 20th Europe. Richard Schlosser is a young man from North German who goes to Munich to study medicine.
In the decade before 1914 Schwabing, the suburb of Munich, was a magnet which drew artists, writers, freethinkers and many others who wanted to opt ou...
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104,87 |
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Man Who Knew Charlie Chaplin : A Novel About the Weimar Republic
ISBN: 9780889627185 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In October 1929, wealthy and famous American financier, Peter Hammersmith received a copy of a book. The book was Mein Kampf'. Astonished and disturbed he rushes off to Washington to consult his friend President Hoover. Hoover immediately assigns Peter to travel to his native Berlin, to investigate the political and economic climate and to write a full report with recommendations for the President of the United States. The setting, the urgency of the issues, the array of historical characters, the unique mise en scene...all combine to make this an unusual and important novel. And, in the...
In October 1929, wealthy and famous American financier, Peter Hammersmith received a copy of a book. The book was Mein Kampf'. Astonished and disturbe...
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92,43 |
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The Golden Years: Encounters with Glenn Gould, Marshall McLuhan, Lester B. Pearson, Rene Leveques and John G. Diefenbaker
ISBN: 9780889629806 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Eric Koch's career in Canada has spanned broadcasting, both radio and television with the CBC, a prodigious author of both fiction and non-fiction whose work has been translated into Chinese, Italian and German, a university professor who taught media studies at York University and most recently as a blogger (erickoch.ca) whose commentaries on contemporary issues and topics are widely read and discussed. Eric Koch has been at the heart of public affairs and public issues for over one-half century. As an astute observer and protagonist, he has witnessed the many changes in Canadian public life...
Eric Koch's career in Canada has spanned broadcasting, both radio and television with the CBC, a prodigious author of both fiction and non-fiction who...
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41,46 |
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Arabian Nights 1914 : A Novel About Kaiser Wilhelm II
ISBN: 9780889628007 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Set on the eve of the First World War, Eric Koch's latest novel details the efforts of Zade - a direct descendant of the legendary Scheherazade - to bring her isolated Arab kingdom into the modern age of science and technology. Looking to the mighty German Empire as a model state, and the Kaiser himself as a model for a modern ruler, the relationship between her kingdom of Ouda and the German Empire begins to grow. When Franz Ferdinand is brought down by an assassin's bullet, Zade is in a unique position to avert the coming storm of blood and iron sweeping over Europe, if only she can find...
Set on the eve of the First World War, Eric Koch's latest novel details the efforts of Zade - a direct descendant of the legendary Scheherazade - to b...
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63,17 |
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Misery by Stockade Bay
ISBN: 9781728734071 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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