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An unforgettable and thrilling tale of two WWII American bomber pilots who forged an unexpected friendship in the flak-filled skies over Nazi Germany.
The air battle over Nazi Germany in WWII was hell above earth. It lasted three years and cost 125,000 Allied aircrew men, including 26,000 Americans from the US Army's Eighth Air Force in England, their lives. For bomber crews, every day they flew was like D-Day, exacting tremendous amounts of emotional...
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"In this illuminating and deeply moving memoir, a former American military intelligence officer goes beyond traditional Cold War espionage tales to tell the true story of her family--of five women separated by the Iron Curtain for more than forty years, and their miraculous reunion after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Forty Autumns makes visceral the pain and longing of one family forced to live apart in a world divided by two. At twenty, Hanna escaped...
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2021.
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English
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"A literary gem researched over a year the author spent living in Berlin, Endpapers excavates the extraordinary histories of the author's grandfather and father: the renowned publisher Kurt Wolff, dubbed "perhaps the twentieth century's most discriminating publisher" by the New York Times Book Review, and his son Niko, who fought in the Wehrmacht during World War II before coming to America. Kurt Wolff was born in Bonn into a highly cultured German-Jewish...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"An exuberant true-life adventure following two very different men - a loveable huckster turned publisher of DC Comics and the man he helped escape from 1930s Berlin - as they cross paths with icons of midcentury pop culture in pursuit of the American dream"--
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Rosen Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Even the youngest science enthusiasts know the name 'Einstein.' To them, it represents intelligence and ingenuity. But they may not know much about Albert Einstein as a man and why his fame reached such . . . heights. In this . . . biography, which draws on . . . research and personal documents, . . . text tells the . . . story of Einstein's life, including his early years in Germany, his achievements that led to the Nobel Prize, and his role in...
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[1999]
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English
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"Father/Land is a work of observation, insight and commentary, a provocative book that will become required reading for anyone seeking to understand modern Germany. The author also discovers the contradictory threads of good and evil woven throughout his own family as well. After years of denying his Germanness, he would have to confront it at last."
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AuthorHouse
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[2008]
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English
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"Life was good, and promising to get ever better for the recently married Dreifuss couple and their young daughter, Alice, living in rural southwest Germany. Then HItler came to power, and their world turned upside down. This vivid biography deals with one of the transforming events of the twentieth century. As happened throughout Germany during the eight years that served as a prelude to the Holocaust, the Nazis turned the Dreifuss family members...
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