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Good Germans: A Child's Fateful Journey Through Hitler's Third Reich
ISBN: 9780595368594 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Only rarely does an autobiographical manuscript become a breathtaking thriller However, the novel of American emigrant Hal Marienthal maintains its tension on a high level from the first to the last page and is, at the same time, a time-specific document of a terrifying reality." -"Walter Gruenzweig, Vienna Standard" 'A soul-riveting, heart-shattering personal account of the Holocaust, from the 1920's to liberation under the Statue of Liberty. Absolutely spell-binding." -"Kenneth Lincoln (UCLA), Men Down West, The Good Red Road, A Writer's China" 'Hal Marienthal writes with the assured...
'Only rarely does an autobiographical manuscript become a breathtaking thriller However, the novel of American emigrant Hal Marienthal maintains its t...
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76,04 |
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Pedlar of Dreams: The Story of Howard Kron and Texans Incorporated
ISBN: 9780595370085 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the early '30s Howard Kron took a bus to Hollywood to pursue his acting dreams. Before the decades end he had traveled the nightclub circuit as a popular singer, and discovered the world of pottery design, the arena in which he would excel. Although a relative unknown today, his extensive body of work includes some of the most memorable icons of mid-century decor, including numerous TV lamps that are treasured by collectors for their distinctive style. "Pedlar of Dreams" examines Kron's early aspirations, disappointments and final triumph as a ceramics designer and engineer. As the...
In the early '30s Howard Kron took a bus to Hollywood to pursue his acting dreams. Before the decades end he had traveled the nightclub circuit as a p...
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37,93 |
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The Tenth Child: A Hungarian Girl's Search for Freedom
ISBN: 9780595371297 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a powerful story of Julianna, the tenth child of poor Hungarian peasants, whose life spread through the most challenging and tragic historical milestones of twentieth century Europe: Second World War, Nazi occupation of Hungary, Communist Crackdown, and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Julianna's courage and determination will inspire and touch the hearts of the readers as she shares with them the wonderful, fascinating details of her life which was completely different from those of most Americans. She conveys those historical events through her own experiences, the way they had...
This is a powerful story of Julianna, the tenth child of poor Hungarian peasants, whose life spread through the most challenging and tragic historical...
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87,48 |
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Dearest Ruthy: A Soldier's Love Letters from the Battlefields of World War II
ISBN: 9780595371501 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When the ear-numbing thunder of artillery is suddenly silenced; the acrid smell of gunpowder blown away; the threat of death lessened; the wounded treated; and the dead removed; the weary soldier finds a safe shelter, lights a cigarette, and wants to talk. He does so by writing a letter to the one he loves most, sharing his fears and loneliness. But mostly, he tells of his love.
"Dearest Ruthy" is a moving collection of love letters from author Joseph Portnoy to his wife, Ruth, during World War II. From his Atlantic crossing aboard the HMS Aquitania, to his months in England preparing for... When the ear-numbing thunder of artillery is suddenly silenced; the acrid smell of gunpowder blown away; the threat of death lessened; the wounded tre...
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76,04 |
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On Falcons' Wings: An Intrepid Generation
ISBN: 9780595371747 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If you liked Tom Brokaw's "The Greatest Generation," you will love "On Falcons' Wings." Author John Scharfen tells the inspirational, heroic, sometimes humorous stories of American men and women living in an Air Force retired officer community. There are profiles of the:
If you liked Tom Brokaw's "The Greatest Generation," you will love "On Falcons' Wings." Author John Scharfen tells the inspirational, heroic, sometime...
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87,48 |
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Einstein@berlin: The Untraceable Soviet Cable Drop
ISBN: 9780595371921 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Who would ever believe that absentminded Nobel laureate professor Albert Einstein was a Soviet spy? Albert Einstein's political and humanitarian commitment was almost completely obscured from his popular image by the media since they portrayed him as a weird mathematical genius. J. Edgar Hoover obsessively accumulated 'derogatory information" on Albert Einstein since January 1933, the date of his arrival in California. But it was not until the beginning of the fifties that he set his international trap to 'get Einstein."
Dr. Giampiero Favato delves into this chilling story with his... Who would ever believe that absentminded Nobel laureate professor Albert Einstein was a Soviet spy? Albert Einstein's political and humanitarian commi...
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56,98 |
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The Tapestry of Our Lives Torn with Fear: Living Through the McCarthy Witch Hunts
ISBN: 9780595373284 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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49,36 |
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God Was Always With Me: Memories of Mama
ISBN: 9780595376537 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "In those five words she summarized the story of her life: 'God was always with me.""
Born in nineteenth-century Russia, Rachel-Leah 'Lena" Chipkin later went on to become a pioneer, a businesswoman, and a true 'Yiddesheh Mama." "God Was Always With Me" takes us through her childhood and teenage years in Libau, Russia, to New York, where she refuses to marry the cousin who sent for her. Later on, during a courageous trip to Chicago, Illinois, she reacquaints herself with and marries the love of her life: Max Weinstein. From a farmhouse in Gifford, Indiana, to her life as a Jewish resort... "In those five words she summarized the story of her life: 'God was always with me.""
Born in nineteenth-century Russia, Rachel-Leah 'Lena" Chipkin... |
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64,61 |
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Montana Montage: Memoir of a Dude Wrangler
ISBN: 9780595378456 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Owen Wister's "The Virginian," considered to be the archetype western novel, left an imprint on American and European writers of that genre. Clarence Mitchell breaks from that mold in this, his final book, using the broader base of historical journalism. "Montana Montage" describes a sweltering summer in 1931, when a young man decided to follow his dream by going west. Mitchell left his small hometown in rural Illinois and drove to Billings, Montana, to work at the Reverse B. K. Bar Ranch, one of the earliest dude ranches in the country. There he spent a season among a cast of colorful...
Owen Wister's "The Virginian," considered to be the archetype western novel, left an imprint on American and European writers of that genre. Clarence ...
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49,36 |
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The Birds of Paradise: Alfred Russel Wallace: a Life
ISBN: 9780595380411 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A biography of one of the world's great naturalists, with details of his explorations on the Amazon and in the Malay Archipelago. Wallace's hidden sexual life, the world of Victorian science and gay sexuality, and the struggles of a great thinker to survive in a hostile social environment are described in lavish detail.
A biography of one of the world's great naturalists, with details of his explorations on the Amazon and in the Malay Archipelago. Wallace's hidden sex...
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76,04 |
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The Last of the Khans: The Life of Morteza Quli Khan Samsam Bakhtiari
ISBN: 9780595382484 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Some times, I ask myself if I have not dreamt this entire incredible love story myself. I then have to open once again my familial photo album.to see the jovial Khan smiling back at me with his confident, glittering eyes and the Princess, smiling too, seated in her comfortable armchair and dressed in full Qashqai tribal regalia to make sure that the whole story was not, after all, just one of those extraordinary dreams of mine."
Iran's backbone is the Zagros mountain chain-a real paradise on Earth that is dominated by lofty peaks and water cascading down all of its steep valleys. It is... "Some times, I ask myself if I have not dreamt this entire incredible love story myself. I then have to open once again my familial photo album.to see...
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72,23 |
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American Biography
ISBN: 9780595384327 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of reviews, selected from Rollyson's "New York Sun" column, is as much about the romance of biography as it is about the American lives. Certain concerns resonate throughout the book: the American left's failure to reckon with Communist subversion, McCarthyism, and Stalinism, the problematic nature of authorized biography, the history of American biography, definitive biographies, literary biography, the differences between autobiography and biography, the importance of interviews in biographies of contemporary figures, the differences between history and biography,...
This collection of reviews, selected from Rollyson's "New York Sun" column, is as much about the romance of biography as it is about the American live...
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83,66 |
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Taken: A Lament for a Lost Ethnicity
ISBN: 9780595384907 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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49,36 |
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A Nomad's Journey
ISBN: 9780595385249 / Angielski / Miękka / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A gripping true tale of life in Russia, Turkey, and the United States, "A Nomad's Journey" shares the incredible story of Atilla Bektore and his father, Shevki Bektore. Born in Dobruja, Rumania, in 1888, Shevki Bektore dreams of being a teacher in his ancestral land of the Crimea. When the horrifying events of World War I alter his plans, he joins countless millions of others whose hopes and dreams are shattered in the maelstrom of war and revolution. Arrested in 1932 on trumped-up charges of treason, Shevki spends over twenty-two years of his life as an inmate in Stalin's Gulags in... A gripping true tale of life in Russia, Turkey, and the United States, "A Nomad's Journey" shares the incredible story of Atilla Bektore and his fa... |
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129,40 |
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Rights of the Heart: A Wisconsin North Woods Heritage
ISBN: 9780595386277 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Gift for everyone who has ever loved a summer home! The hilarious and heartbreaking story of an aging summer cottage, built to be "a refuge from grief with room for joy." Faced with the intrusion of an air conditioner, the builder's grand-daughter reflects on how the cottage has battled change as it fulfills its purpose-cosseting lovers, defying gangsters, sheltering wounded animals and children, and facing unique problems such as a porcupine in the basement, badgers under the support posts and a refrigerator in the bedroom. We watch the cottage adjust to history, fight for survival and...
A Gift for everyone who has ever loved a summer home! The hilarious and heartbreaking story of an aging summer cottage, built to be "a refuge from gri...
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49,36 |
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Fire In Montana
ISBN: 9780595388158 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the summer of 1949 fifteen smokejumpers parachuted into a remote Montana canyon called Mann Gulch. It started as a very small fire in rugged country but within two hours after landing, thirteen of these young men were caught in a raging inferno and were killed. They died bravely, together with their friends, and in the service of their country. Everyone was young and attractive, healthy and strong, enthusiastic and in love. They were bursting into the prime of their lives. There were no malcontents here. Everyone did their best but events overtook them.
Until now the actual time line... In the summer of 1949 fifteen smokejumpers parachuted into a remote Montana canyon called Mann Gulch. It started as a very small fire in rugged countr...
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53,17 |
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Dreams and Shadows
ISBN: 9780595390717 / Angielski / Miękka / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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72,23 |
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Dearest Folks: Sister Leatherneck's Letter Excerpts and WWII Experiences
ISBN: 9780595393251 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Dearest Folks" tells about two sisters, rural school teachers, from southwestern Minnesota, and how, in l943, they answered their "Uncle Sam's" call by driving their l938 Chevrolet, without air conditioning, or radio, to Long Beach, California, to work in Defense.
They accepted positions in the California Shipbuilding Corporation, where the much needed, famous "Liberty" ships were built. Eleanor returned to Minnesota that August to teach, but Berneice explored the Branches of Service. They then both decided to join the Women's Marine Corps and were members for 2 years 8 1/2 months. ... "Dearest Folks" tells about two sisters, rural school teachers, from southwestern Minnesota, and how, in l943, they answered their "Uncle Sam's" call ...
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60,80 |
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We Were Not the Enemy: Remembering the United States' Latin-American Civilian Internment Program of World War II
ISBN: 9780595393336 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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49,36 |
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My Life on Two Continents
ISBN: 9780595397488 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Raised in Germany during the Hitler years this girl had two wishes: to go to a university and to leave Germany for America. Both of these wishes were granted; but it was not easy. She was often confronted with obstacles and even had to endure life-threatening situations. Only her positive attitude, her persistence, and her belief in her own personal "Guardian Angel" pulled her through. Her parents, well respected citizens of her hometown, Bremen, had taken her out of high school to pursue a course in seed breeding to be able to work and be independent. But she ran into difficulties to even...
Raised in Germany during the Hitler years this girl had two wishes: to go to a university and to leave Germany for America. Both of these wishes were ...
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79,85 |
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