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På den amerikanske landevej møder vi vietnamveteranen Howard Walker på flugt fra en mørk hemmelighed. Under køreturen gennem Trumps Amerika fortæller Walker sin livshistorie, om krigstraumer og om at gå i hundene - og om sin tid sammen med den verdensberømte protestsanger Philip Boothman i New York. Det var Boothman, der samlede Walker op, da han lå i rendestenen, og siden har Walker udført lyssky arbejde for den feterede og elskede sangskriver og levet i hans skygge. Brian Dan Christensen (f.

I denne dramatiske beretning skildrer modstandsmanden Aage Bertelsen sine oplevelser i forbindelse med de danske jøders redning i 1943. Bogen er udkommet i mange oplag, er blevet oversat til en række sprog og er en klassiker i litteraturen om jødeforfølgelsen og besættelsestiden i Danmark. "Jeg har læst denne bog med oprigtig beundring, dyb bevægelse og taknemmelighed.

I "Rundt om Annapurna" beskriver forfatter og litteraturforsker Knud Wentzel sine oplevelser fra sin vandring i Annapurna-bjergene i Nepal. I dagbogsfragmenter reflekterer han over stedet og rejsen som udtryksform. Knud Wentzel (f. 1941) er en dansk essayist, litteraturforsker og lektor ved Københavns Universitet. Knud Wentzel har de sidste mange årtier spillet en afgørende rolle på dansk litteraturforsknings scene. Knud Wentzel modtog Dansk Forfatterforenings H.C.Andersen Legat i 2015.

World War II rises in its vastness and complexity over the rest of human history. A number of victims difficult to conceive, never surpassed by any other conflict; the masses of men, women, and resources mobilized in a conflict that shook even the most remote ends of the planet; the ideological battle between totalitarianism and democracy, between fascism and communism, and the passions and hatred that it aroused; the unimaginable horror and fanaticism of the Holocaust; geopolitical games; the repetition of World War I on an even more dire scale.

A teenage girl, guilty only of being Jewish, is saved from the fate that awaits her family and hidden by her parents' Catholic friends—who pay the ultimate price for their bravery. So much was risked and so much lost but the legacy of their courage and trust lives on through the surviving generations. Now, at last, their story can be told . . .

Most popular accounts of the Holocaust typically cast Jewish victims as meek and ask, "Why didn't Jews resist?" But we know now that Jews did resist, staging armed uprisings in ghettos and camps throughout Nazi-occupied Europe. In Hope and Honor, Rachel L. Einwohner illustrates the dangers in attempting resistance under unimaginable conditions and shows how remarkable such resistance was. She draws on oral testimonies, published and unpublished diaries and memoirs, and other written materials produced both by survivors and those who perished.

I et kapløb for at bevise sine tekniske evner og med blikkene rettet mod verdensrummet, udkæmpede USA og Sovjetunionen Den Kolde Krig på himmelsk front. Kapløbet mod rummet begyndte da Sovjet opsendte Sputnik 1 i 1957. USA, som havde talt om at sende sin egen satellit op bare to år tidligere, begyndte at blive urolige for, at Sovjet ville anvende sine satellitter til et angreb. Derefter fulgte et kapløb, der skulle fortsætte indtil 1971, hvor Sovjet bemandede den første rumstation, Saljut 1, og relationen mellem landene aftog.

It's almost shocking to think that now, more than seventy years after the Nazi surrender in 1945, there is not a single volume that has attempted to unify the resistance movements that convulsed Europe during the brutal years of occupation. In her extraordinary work, Resistance, Halik Kochanski does just that, creating a prodigiously researched account that becomes the first to bring these disparate histories into a single narrative.

With war clouds gathering and harassment increasing, the stars of Continental opera, many of whom are Jewish, face dark futures under the boot heel of the Nazis. What can two middle-aged British spinsters do about such matters? They can form a secret cabal right under Hitler’s nose and get to work saving lives. The sisters conspire to bring together worldwide opera aficionados and insiders in an international operation to rescue Jews in the opera from the horrific fate that everyone intuits is coming.

Che cosa successe di preciso quel martedì 10 giugno 1924, quando il pestaggio e l'uccisione di Giacomo Matteotti segnò un punto di svolta nella storia d'Italia? Ma soprattutto, quale fu la concatenazione di eventi che portò alla sua morte, e quale la catena di comando che sancì l'esecuzione del delitto? Con precisione chirurgica e lucidità da poliziesco americano, questo saggio inquisitorio scava negli archivi dell'epoca e riporta alla luce i fatti, le affermazioni e i personaggi che gravitarono intorno a Giacomo Matteotti nei giorni che precedettero il suo omicidio.

En 1945 Europa se encontraba en sus momentos más bajos. Gran parte del continente estaba devastado por la guerra, los asesinatos en masa, los bombardeos y el caos. Amplias zonas de Europa del Este empezaban a caer bajo control soviético para cambiar un despotismo por otro. En la actualidad, la Unión Soviética ya no existe y las democracias europeas llegan hasta la frontera de Rusia.

The Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) was the most important Catholic event in the past five hundred years. Yet sixty years after its opening on October 11, 1962, its meaning remains sharply contested and its promise unfulfilled. In To Sanctify the World, George Weigel explains the necessity of Vatican II and explores the continuing relevance of its teaching in a world seeking a deeper experience of freedom than personal willfulness.

France: An Adventure History is a profoundly original and endlessly entertaining history of France, from the first century BC to the present day, based on countless new discoveries and thirty years of exploring France on foot, by bicycle and in the library. Beginning with the Roman army’s first recorded encounter with the Gauls and ending with the Gilets Jaunes protests in the era of Emmanuel Macron, each chapter is an adventure in its own right. Along the way, listeners will find the usual faces, events and themes of French history.

As the “Final Solution” unfolds, a loose network of German military officers, diplomats, politicians, and civilians are doing everything in their power to undermine the Third Reich from the inside: reporting troop movements to the Allies, feeding disinformation to the Nazi high command, plotting to assassinate Adolf Hitler, and more. The Gestapo nicknames this shadowy confederation of traitors the “Black Orchestra.” White Knights in the Black Orchestra is a tautly written, meticulously reported account of men and women heroically resisting Hitler’s ruthless regime.

Few filmmakers, if any, make the kind of impact that Martin Scorsese has made on American cinema. The winner of every prestigious film award, including the Oscar, Scorsese is a living legend. Bestselling author and award-winning filmmaker Mary Pat Kelly’s groundbreaking biography reveals how this working-class boy from Manhattan’s Little Italy became one of our most acclaimed, celebrated, and influential filmmakers. Martin Scorsese: A Journey maps Scorsese’s personal and artistic evolution.

Less than a century ago, the Second World War took the lives of more than fifty million people; more than six million of them were systematically exterminated through crimes of such enormity that a new name to describe the horror was coined: the Holocaust. Yet amid such darkness, there were glimmers of light—courageous individuals who risked everything to save those hunted by the Nazis.

In 1848, The Communist Manifesto was published by two émigrés from Germany. Marx and Engels' apocalyptic vision of an insatiable system that penetrates every corner of the world reduces every relationship to that of profit, and burst asunder the old forms of production and of politics. It is still a recognisable picture of our world—the vampiric energy of the system being once again highly contentious. This is a strikingly imaginative take on Marx and what his most haunting book has to say to us today.

A powerful memoir by one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz, Tova Friedman, following her childhood growing up during the Holocaust and surviving a string of near-death experiences in a Jewish ghetto, a Nazi labor camp, and Auschwitz.

A few years ago Linda Kinstler discovered that a man fifty years dead—a former Nazi who belonged to the same killing unit as her grandfather—was the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation in Latvia. The proceedings threatened to pardon his crimes. They put on the line hard-won facts about the Holocaust at the precise moment that the last living survivors—the last legal witnesses—were dying.

The audiobook covers the first stages of the war, from 1927-1937, the interlude from 1938-1945 during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II, and the final and most well-known phase of the war from 1946-1949. Learn about the causes, events, and lasting effects of the Chinese Civil War and about the warfare tactics and political strategy of the Chinese Communist Party and the Nationalist Kuomintang during these integral years. This is the story about how a group of young, inexperienced Chinese revolutionaries changed the destiny of China.