German Charlie
Author: Marilyn Foster-Holmes
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780646195209
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Hitler's American Gamble
Author: Brendan Simms
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2021-11-16
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 1541619080
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA riveting account of the five most crucial days in twentieth-century diplomatic history: from Pearl Harbor to Hitler’s declaration of war on the United States By early December 1941, war had changed much of the world beyond recognition. Nazi Germany occupied most of the European continent, while in Asia, the Second Sino-Japanese War had turned China into a battleground. But these conflicts were not yet inextricably linked—and the United States remained at peace. Hitler’s American Gamble recounts the five days that upended everything: December 7 to 11. Tracing developments in real time and backed by deep archival research, historians Brendan Simms and Charlie Laderman show how Hitler’s intervention was not the inexplicable decision of a man so bloodthirsty that he forgot all strategy, but a calculated risk that can only be understood in a truly global context. This book reveals how December 11, not Pearl Harbor, was the real watershed that created a world war and transformed international history.
Charlie Chaplin and the Nazis
Author: Norbert Aping
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2023-12-15
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 1476649405
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUntil recently, it was assumed that the Nazis agitated against Chaplin from 1931 to 1933, and then again from 1938, when his plan to make The Great Dictator became public. This book demonstrates that Nazi agitation against Chaplin was in fact a constant from 1926 through the Third Reich. When The Gold Rush was released in the Weimar Republic in 1926, the Nazis began to fight Chaplin, whom they alleged to be Jewish, and attempted to expose him as an intellectual property thief whose fame had faded. In early 1935, the film The Gold Rush was explicitly banned from German theaters. In 1936, the NSDAP Main Archives opened its own file on Chaplin, and the same year, he became entangled in the machinery of Nazi press control. German diplomats were active on a variety of international levels to create a mood against The Great Dictator. The Nazis' dehumanizing attacks continued until 1944, when an opportunity to capitalize on the Joan Barry scandal arose. This book paints a complicated picture of how the Nazis battled Chaplin as one of their most reviled foreign artists.
Awakening
Author: Richard C. Sammis
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Published: 2018-05-03
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1480858498
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1939, life is good for Charlie Scudder and his fellow members of Psi Upsilon at Dartmouth College. Drinking, poker and hockey are favorite activities at the house. Following graduation, however, war breaks out in Europe and the course of Charlie's life suddenly turns in a very different direction. Charlie's cherished experiences at college do not prepare him for unprecedented future events that challenge him mentally, morally, and physically. He is surrounded by war, and his actions now have profound consequences for himself and the people he loves, especially when he befriends Frieda Pelle, a charming secretary in Germany. Awakening is an atmospheric tale, bringing to life Dartmouth, New York, and Europe in the age of the "Greatest Generation." Told with rich, historical detail and anchored in time by colorful facts, it is the story of a boy becoming a man as he learns the value of character over beauty and the need to courageously answer when duty calls.
Germans and African Americans
Author: Larry A. Greene
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2010-12-07
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1604737859
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGermans and African Americans, unlike other works on African Americans in Europe, examines the relationship between African Americans and one country, Germany, in great depth. Germans and African Americans encountered one another within the context of their national identities and group experiences. In the nineteenth century, German immigrants to America and to such communities as Charleston and Cincinnati interacted within the boundaries of their old-world experiences and ideas and within surrounding regional notions of a nation fracturing over slavery. In the post-Civil War era in America through the Weimar era, Germany became a place to which African American entertainers, travelers, and intellectuals such as W. E. B. Du Bois could go to escape American racism and find new opportunities. With the rise of the Third Reich, Germany became the personification of racism, and African Americans in the 1930s and 1940s could use Hitler's evil example to goad America about its own racist practices. Postwar West Germany regained the image as a land more tolerant to African American soldiers than America. African Americans were important to Cold War discourse, especially in the internal ideological struggle between Communist East Germany and democratic West Germany. Unlike many other countries in Europe, Germany has played a variety of different and conflicting roles in the African American narrative and relationship with Europe. It is this diversity of roles that adds to the complexity of African American and German interactions and mutual perceptions over time.
Gunmen of the Desert Sands
Author: Ralph Cotton
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780451225443
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen a Mexican girl saves his life during a gunfight, Fast Larry Shaw returns the favor by rescuing her from a gang of outlaws, which plunges him in the middle of a war between the federales and banditos. Original.
Coming of Age
Author: Eric Martin
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2011-08-18
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 1465304746
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Coming of Age” unfolds against the backdrop of the Counter Culture and the Olympic Games in Munich. It begins in Rome, where Charlie Weaver, a young English actor, revolts against the cynical manipulation of agents and directors. Tired of playing other people, he wants to command his own destiny. His youthful desire to be a soldier is rekindled by Udo, a German mercenary, whose exploits are motivated by altruistic ideals! They recruit a band of soldiers and conmen at the Hoffbrauhaus in Munich, and embark on an impossible mission....to steal from the biggest drug cartel in Germany!
Nuclear Rogue
Author: Robert W. Barker
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2016-03-07
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 149178511X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRussian terrorists pirate a nuclear missile, and conceal it in an abandoned mine shaft in the barren and remote Canadian Arctic. The missiles target: an entire seat of government. The terrorists intend to wipe out the old world political order and establish the new order, with themselves in control. Three panicked governments become aware of the countdown to nuclear disaster, but denial, disinformation, and betrayals create too many questions. The governments delay and quickly slide into incompetence and inaction. Assigned to explore for gold in the Arctic, Peter Binder, a geologist, stumbles on the terrorists and unearths the explosive truth of their plot. A former Navy SEAL, Peter struggles with the aftershocks of PTSD. He doesnt know that Maria Davidoff, the woman at his side, and an expert in the martial arts, hides her own dark secrets. Peter finds himself forced into the role of reluctant warrior. Can he and Maria possibly succeed in preventing a nuclear disaster? Isolated and alone, cut off from any possible support, facing the entrenched terrorists and savage weather at the missile silo, they move toward the inevitable and violent confrontation. Barker leads readers into the clandestine worlds of business, politics, espionage, and gold. Politically relevant and riveting, Nuclear Rogue is a nail-biter. Jean Zimmer, book editor
My Father, My Son
Author: Sheelagh Kelly
Publisher: Canelo
Published: 2017-08-21
Total Pages: 769
ISBN-13: 1911591940
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom an author praised for her “genuinely perceptive portrayals of human relationships,” a historical saga about the consequences of a wartime affair (Irish Independent). He survived the carnage of war. But it was bitter conflict on the home front that tore his life apart . . . After a year of fighting in the Boer War, Corporal Russ Hazelwood—missing his wife and tired of long, passionless nights—seeks solace in the arms of an African woman. Only his friend Jack Daw knows of the relationship and the son born of it. Returning to York, he builds a successful career in business and raises six daughters and a son with his wife Rachel. But when his former comrade branches into local politics, rivalry breeds betrayal. Suddenly the past comes back to haunt Russ, shattering bonds between husband and wife, father and son. Then comes the most dreadful war of all. But when it is over, the greatest battle has still to be won . . . Praise for the writing of Sheelagh Kelly: “The tough, sparky characters of Catherine Cookson, and the same sharp sense of destiny, place and time.” —Reay Tannahill, author of Fatal Majesty and Sex in History “Sheelagh Kelly surely can write.” —Sunderland Echo
