Porto bello 2002 aus dem Englischen von Rolf-Werner Baak Am 14. April 1912 rammt die Titanic abseits der vielbefahrenen Atlantikroute einen Eisberg und sinkt. 1500 Menschen sterben. Lawrence Beesley ist einer der wenigen Männer aus der zweiten Klasse, die gerettet werden können. Der Hochschullehrer, der sich auf dem Weg zu einer Studienreise in die Usa befand, fühlt sich...
Adams Memorial Library (www.adamslib.org). — 86 p. Whether traveling in first, second or third class, life on the Titanic was a thrilling experience for children of all ages. Some were merely babes in the arms of young mothers, others groups of rowdy immigrants tagging alongside their parents, eager to see the shores of America; yet others were young men and women awaiting a...
Lyons Press, 2012. With photographs. A stunning memoir drawn from first-hand oral and written accounts Margarete Dos gave her daughter, Kerstin Lieff, shortly before she died in 2005. The stories herein are organized around actual historical events that took place in Germany and Russia spanning the years from 1933 to 1952. When Margarete Dos moved with her family to Berlin on...
New York Review Books, 2013. — 622 p. — ISBN: 1590176731. The distinguished Croatian journalist and publisher Slavko Goldstein says, “Writing this book about my family, I have tried not to separate what happened to us from the fates of many other people and of an entire country.” 1941: The Year That Keeps Returning is Goldstein’s astonishing historical memoir of that fateful...
London: James Nisbet & Co., 1897. — 254 p. An excerpt from preface: The following letters consist of a correspondence carried on by my wife and myself with a small circle of interested friends in England who followed our expedition to Armenia in the spring of the present year [1897]… One reason, which encourages us to believe that they may be further helpful in the cause of the...
Natascha Maria Kampusch wurde bekannt durch ihre Flucht aus einer acht Jahre dauernden Freiheitsentziehung. Die damals zehnjährige Österreicherin wurde 1998 vom arbeitslosen Nachrichtentechniker Wolfgang Priklopil in Wien entführt und mehr als acht Jahre in seinem Haus in Strasshof (Bezirk Gänserndorf bei Wien) gefangen gehalten. Als Kampusch 2006 im Alter von 18 Jahren fliehen...
HarperCollins, 1979. — 242 p. David Kherdian re-creates his mother's voice in telling the true story of a childhood interrupted by one of the most devastating holocausts of our century. Vernon Dumehjian Kherdian was born into a loving and prosperous family. Then, in the year 1915, the Turkish government began the systematic destruction of its Armenian population.
Eland, 1991. — 253 p. At the beginning of the Second World War, Koestler was living in the south of France working on Darkness at Noon. After retreating to Paris he was imprisoned by the French as an undesirable alien even though he had been a respected crusader against fascism. Only luck and his passionate energy allowed him to escape the fate of many of the innocent refugees,...
Harper, 2009. — 361 p. When the Nazi’s invaded their small town, Clara’s family and two other families were taken in by the Becks. Mrs. Beck was the family housekeeper and Mr. Beck was a womanizer and a vocal anti-Semite. They built a bunker where a total of 18 people lived for almost two years. During this time Clara kept a journal of her life. But unlike Anne Frank, Clara –...
Adelphi, 2003. — 244 p. Entrato a Napoli nel 1943 con la Quinta Armata, il giovane ufficiale inglese Norman Lewis si trovò stupefatto al centro della città delle signorine e degli sciuscià, scena mobile della prostituzione universale, oltre che di un’arte consumata dell’inventarsi la vita dal nulla. Come non bastasse, fu subito adibito a funzioni di polizia, quindi costretto a...
Grand Central Publishing, 2013. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 1455527858 ISBN13: 978-1455527854. Rebecca Musser grew up in fear, concealing her family's polygamous lifestyle from the "dangerous" outside world. Covered head-to-toe in strict, modest clothing, she received a rigorous education at Alta Academy, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' school headed by...
Grand Central Publishing, 2013. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 1455527858 ISBN13: 978-1455527854. Rebecca Musser grew up in fear, concealing her family's polygamous lifestyle from the "dangerous" outside world. Covered head-to-toe in strict, modest clothing, she received a rigorous education at Alta Academy, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' school headed by...
HarperCollins, 2010. — 256 p. From 1975 to 1979 — through execution, starvation, disease, and forced labor — the Khmer Rouge systematically killed an estimated two million Cambodians, almost a fourth of the country’s population. This is a story of survival: my own and my family’s. Though these events constitute my experience, my story mirrors that of millions of Cambodians. If...
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