Witness to History: From Vienna to Shanghai: A Memoir of Escape, Survival and Resilience, Paperback - Paul Hoffmann

Reducere. On the rainy afternoon of November 28, 1938, a slight 18-year-old Austrian man took in his first impressions of Shanghai. Paul Hoffmann had left hi...

Reducere. DescriptionWith the Nazi occupation of Kovno (Lithuania), her life changed forever. Zlata Santocki Sidrer was Jewish, but she survived the horrors ...

Published to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day, an unforgettable never-before-told first-person account of World War II: the true story of an Ame...

A vital and triumphant story of perseverance and recovery by one of Canada's foremost advocates for mental health When Mark Henick was a teenager i...

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Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Ph.D., Loretta CohaIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 182Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 155 x 23...

A history of world's fairs and expositions from London to Shanghai 1851-2010.

Description"An inspiring, intimate memoir about faith, resilience and the tenacity of love."--People "In this emotional tale, a young couple see th...

Reducere. In this collection of newly translated essays, philosopher and sociologist Raymond Aron chronicles the twentieth century with the authority of an a...

Do you want to discover how to safely escape from toxic parents and people? A guide to how to take back your life? If yes, then keep reading...The ...

Reducere. WINNER OF OVER 20 LITERARY AND DESIGN AWARDS True stories of glamour, drama, and tragedy told through five generations of a Shanghai family, from t...

Reducere. Outstanding Memoir winner and Book of the Year, second place, awarded by the Independent Author NetworkA high position bestowed by China's empress ...

WINNER OF OVER 20 LITERARY AND DESIGN AWARDS True stories of glamour, drama, and tragedy told through five generations of a Shanghai family, from t...

Reducere. The sequel to the 2014 bestseller (Curating) From A to Z, this book extends the investigation of curatorial practice that the writer, exhibition ma...

A superb example of the ever-popular Japanese POW genre. First hand and contemporaneous account of survival on the notorious Burma Railway.

Reducere. In the early hours of January 31, 1968, eighty-thousand North Vietnamese and Vietcong combat troops attacked every major city and military base in ...

DescriptionIn this concise and compelling history, Cambodia s past is described in vivid detail, from the richness of the Angkorean empire through ...

Reducere. DescriptionOn June 6, 1944, Werner T. Angress parachuted down from a C-47 into German-occupied France with the 82nd Airborne Division. Nine days la...

Reducere. When Lizzy Hershberger turns fourteen, her schooling ends at eighth grade, and she has no choice but to leave home to work as an unpaid maid for an...

Reducere. Losing a young daughter to murder is the worst nightmare that a mother could possibly imagine, but what if the killer was her son? Charity Lee was ...

The recreation of a life lost in the Holocaust.Publisher: Temple Lodge PublishingAuthor(s): Anne WeiseIllustration(s): 32 colour platesNumber of pa...

Reducere. At age twenty-one, while she was working with the legendary Nadia Boulanger in France, concert pianist Carol Rosenberger was stricken with paralyti...

The dramatic true story of Sigmund Freud's last-minute escape to London following the German annexation of Austria, and the group of friends who ma...

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Notes of a NewsmanPublisher: Luath Press LtdAuthor(s): John MacKayNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2015Dimensions: 153 x 201 x 27Cover type: P...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1683, Vienna endured a two-month siege and a battle with the Ottoman Turks. At the last minute, they were relieved by an army led by ...

Reducere. "You asked me what compels me to speak up? A peculiar thing: my conscience." Victor HugoThe Catholic Church's desire to control its faithful receiv...

DescriptionJens Mulller was one of only three men who successfully escaped from Stalag Luft III (now in ?aga? Poland) in March 1944--the break that...

Reducere. DescriptionMeet Emmi She is resilient, independent and courageous. She always tries her best, and even when the going gets tough, Emmi never gives ...

Reducere. We cannot choose our parents, but can we choose our destiny? Her faith in God and her love for her children kept Lorie Williams sane while she was ...

A woman's faith in herself is scorched to the core when she flees a California firestorm in the dead of night without alerting a single neighbor. H...

DescriptionArt, music, literature, and science in Vienna at the turn of the last century presented a series of wrenching dualities: reality and ill...

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Reducere. Have you got a story you're burning to tell - a true story from your life (not your WHOLE life story - memoir is a part of your life). The events y...

Reducere. These were the times and places where humans descended to a level lower than animals. Ravensbrck was one of those times and places where human dign...

DescriptionWhy are we here? Were we born to strive just to make sure the bills are paid, take the occasional vacation, and then retire for a few sh...

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Reducere. Noting that standard accounts of U.S. history often pay little attention to the working class, labor historian Paul Le Blanc presents a colorful, f...

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Reducere. Young and na ve, happily in love with the girl of his dreams, Todd is drafted into the U.S. Army just days before his twentieth birthday, December ...

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Reducere. What does a theologian say to young preachers in the early 1930s, at the dawn of the Third Reich? What Karl Barth did say, how he said it, and why ...

Reducere. This is a courageous act of self-reflection, a firsthand meditation on one man's surviving humanity as experience transforms to tales recited and t...

Reducere. It was a time of destruction of lives and futures and of rebirth and rebuilding. In his lively style with a wide sweep of insights Peter Lindenfeld...

The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was perhaps the most dramatic single event of the Cold War and a major turning point in history. Though it ended u...

Alma Ros 's tragic story, from her birth and youth in the exalted musical circles of Vienna (her father was leader of the Vienna Philharmonic, her ...

The harrowing, moving and poignant account of one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz: a girl who was only five years old when she was sent to a...

Reducere. Description"This is a story of a tough young man who lost his way, and of a loving God who never forgot him, no matter where he was." -- Nicky Cruz...