[PDF] Mein Gustav eBook

Author : Ira Campbell
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 839 pages
File Size : 49,6 MB
Release : 2019-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1796021105

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Mein Gustav is a historical fiction set in and over Europe during World War I. Though the characters are fictional, the danger and circumstances are real, based on over fifty years of research into the aerial aspect of the conflagration. While there is plenty of flying, there are more interactions happening on the ground. The characters are, after all, people, and people do what people do. There are two stories presented—British and German. While they interact mostly by inference, there is also direct conflict in the air. The story starts with Corporal Noble-Brown, recently transferred into a British fighter squadron on patrol over the front lines that scarred France. He is startled by a German fighter pilot’s surprise attack and seeks to find said pilot and return the favor. The German story introduces us to Vicefeldwebel Gustav Model, also a recent transferee into a single-seat fighter squadron. We learn of his infantry service where he suffered a gas attack that nearly killed him. We go on to meet various squadron mates and other people in their lives, as well as discover new acquaintances. The women are strong women in a time when women were little more than property. Though on the surface it is about the war and flying, Mein Gustav is very much a character-driven story. Purchase your copy, settle in for the first few chapters, and see if you can put it down.

Author : Lion Feuchtwanger
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 31,54 MB
Release : 2022-10-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1946022330

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Gustav Oppermann, who runs a chain of furniture stores, and the other members of his Jewish family face the terrifying rise of Nazism in Germany.

Author : Sandra A. Parker
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 24,64 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780879727666

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An anthology of fiction by eight women that reveals a literary tradition that begins on the frontier in the 1830s, and extends to a retrospective re-creation of the Western Reserve's frontier culture at the close of the century. The women explore the state's places and contemporary idiom in a variety of styles, but all attempt to define the frontier experience from their particular perspectives as Ohio women. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Kathleen Diffley
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 26,55 MB
Release : 2004-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780822334392

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An anthology of Civil War stories from nineteenth-century magazines.

Author : Constance Fenimore Woolson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 20,59 MB
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3732664775

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Reproduction of the original: Solomon by Constance Fenimore Woolson

Author : Harry Rosenfeld
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 23,68 MB
Release : 2013-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1438449178

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An insider’s account of how the Washington Post broke the Watergate story, depicting the tensions, challenges, and personal conflicts that were overcome as it laid bare the criminal wrongdoings of the Nixon administration. In this powerful memoir, Harry Rosenfeld describes his years as an editor at the New York Herald Tribune and the Washington Post, two of the greatest American newspapers in the second half of the turbulent twentieth century. After playing key roles at the Herald Tribune as it battled fiercely for its survival, he joined the Post under the leadership of Ben Bradlee and Katharine Graham as they were building the paper’s national reputation. As the Post’s Metropolitan editor, Rosenfeld managed Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein as they broke the Watergate story, overseeing the paper’s standard-setting coverage that eventually earned it the Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for Public Service. In describing his complicated relationship with Bradlee and offering an insider’s perspective on the unlikely partnership of Woodward and Bernstein, Rosenfeld depicts the tensions and challenges, triumphs and setbacks that accompanied the Post’s key role in Watergate, the most potent political scandal in America’s history. Rosenfeld also tells the gripping story of growing up in Hitler’s Berlin. He saw his father taken away by the Gestapo in the middle of the night, and on Kristallnacht, the prelude to the Holocaust, he witnessed the burning of his synagogue and walked through streets littered with the shattered glass of Jewish businesses. After his family found refuge in America, his childhood experiences stayed with him and ultimately influenced his decision to make journalism his life’s work. At a time when newspapers and other media are under financial pressure to cut back on investigative reporting, From Kristallnacht to Watergate reminds us why journalism matters, and why good journalism is essential to our democracy.

Author : Norman Lebrecht
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 35,84 MB
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 140009657X

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Why Mahler? Why does his music affect us in the way it does? Norman Lebrecht, one of the world’s most widely read cultural commentators, has been wrestling obsessively with Mahler for half his life. Following Mahler’s every footstep from birthplace to grave, scrutinizing his manuscripts, talking to those who knew him, Lebrecht constructs a compelling new portrait of Mahler as a man who lived determinedly outside his own times. Mahler was—along with Picasso, Einstein, Freud, Kafka, and Joyce—a maker of our modern world. Why Mahler? is a book that shows how music can change our lives.