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Author : Arthur Herbert Birse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004832874
Author : Yelena Rzhevskaya
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781784382827
"By the will of fate I came to play a part in not letting Hitler achieve his final goal of disappearing and turning into a myth I managed to prevent Stalins dark and murky ambition from taking root his desire to hide from the world that we had found Hitlers corpse" - Elena Rzhevskaya"A telling reminder of the jealousy and rivalries that split the Allies even in their hour of victory, and foreshadowed the Cold War"- Tom Parfitt, The GuardianOn May 2,1945, Red Army soldiers broke into Hitlers bunker. Rzhevskaya, a young military interpreter, was with them. Almost accidentally the Soviet military found the charred remains of Hitler and Eva Braun. They also found key documents: Bormann's notes, the diaries of Goebbels and letters of Magda Goebbels.Rzhevskaya was entrusted with the proof of the Hitlers death: his teeth wrenched from his corpse by a pathologist hours earlier. The teeth were given to Rzhevskaya because they believed male agents were more likely to get drunk on Victory Day, blurt out the secret and lose the evidence. She interrogated Hitler's dentist's assistant who confirmed the teeth were his.Elenas role as an interpreter allowed her to forge a link between the Soviet troops and the Germans. She also witnessed the civilian tragedy perpetrated by the Soviets. The book includes her diary material and later additions, including conversations with Zhukov, letters of pathologist Shkaravsky, who led the autopsy, and a new Preface written by Rzhevskaya for the English language edition.Rzhevskaya writes about the key historical events and everyday life in her own inimitable style. She talks in depth of human suffering, of bittersweet victory, of an author's responsibility, of strange laws of memory and unresolved feeling of guilt.
Author : Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307907691
The second volume of memoirs from the renowned Kenyan novelist, poet and playwright covers his high school years at the end of British colonial rule in Africa, during the Mau Mau Uprising. 15,000 first printing.
Author : Pavel Palazchenko
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780271040929
Author : Eugen Dollmann
Publisher : Dutton Adult
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015017668081
Author : Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101910511
Renowned novelist, poet, playwright, and literary critic Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o was a student at a prestigious, British-run boarding school near Nairobi when the tumultuous Mau Mau Uprising for independence and Kenyan sovereignty gripped his country. While he enjoyed scouting trips and chess tournaments, his family home was razed to the ground and his brother, a member of the insurgency, was captured by the British and taken to a concentration camp. But Ngũgĩ could not escape history, and eventually found himself jailed after a run in with the forces of colonialism. Ngũgĩ richly and poignantly evokes the experiences that would transform him into a world-class writer and, as a political dissident, a moral compass to us all. A winning celebration of the implacable determination of youth and the power of hope, here is a searing account of the history of a man—and the story of a nation.
Author : Valentin Mikhaĭlovich Berezhkov
Publisher : Carol Publishing Corporation
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015032228291
"Valentin M. Berezhkov was an important part of Josef Stalin's inner circle, where he found himself at center stage of international diplomacy. In his capacity as interpreter for both Stalin and Molotov, he was present when the fateful meeting leading to the Munich Pact took place; when Hitler negotiated the nonaggression agreement with Molotov; when Germany declared war on Russia; at the historic meeting where the Allies formed a united front against the Axis; and at the 1943 Teheran conference. Like a fly on the wall, he observed everything, including Stalin's fear of Hitler. When Berezhkov met with the German leader, the latter was so taken aback with his perfect use of the German language that he refused to believe the interpreter was a Russian native." "Berezhkov may be one of the last survivors of the events that shaped the destiny of Russia and the world. He personally observed how the major leaders of this century related to each other and the circumstances in which they found themselves."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Michael M. Gostich
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1612044719
I, Interpreter: From Iron Curtain to Interpreting is the fascinating memoir of author Michael M. Gostich. Born and raised in communist Yugoslavia, he led a rebellious life against the Communist regime. With dreams of finding his father, as an adolescent he risked certain death in a dramatic escape from Tito's tyrannical Communist regime in 1963. Ending up in Australia, Michael became involved in interpreting and translating languages, one of the world's oldest professions. Translating has become a vital tool for communication between nations, and Michael qualified in 1980 to work in three different languages. In his book I, Interpreter, Michael describes his experiences and insights into the practice and theory of interpreting and translating. Part drama, part crash course, his story is both an entertaining and enlightening read. The inspiration to write I, Interpreter came from Michael's life experience and for the need to provide insight into the fine art of interpreting and translating. Michael M.Gostich graduated from scalping cinema tickets, bootlegging, boxing and a trade apprenticeship in Yugoslavia to entering the field of translation when he migrated to Adelaide, Australia. In the 1990s, he obtained a degree in social science and became a trainer and examiner in tests for other interpreters and translators. As a translator, one rewrites other people's thoughts in a different language. To utilize his own writing skills and experiences, and to gain more knowledge to change his career once more, he studied novel and film script courses. He has produced screenplays that have been offered to Hollywood film companies. Publisher's website: http: //sbpra.com/MichaelMGostic
Author : Wolfe Frank
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526737526
The memoirs of Wolfe Frank, which lay hidden in an attic for twenty-five years, are a unique and highly moving behind-the-scenes account of what happened at Nuremberg the greatest trial in history seen through the eyes of a witness to the whole proceedings. They include important historical information never previously revealed. In an extraordinarily explicit life story, Frank includes his personal encounters, inside and outside the courtroom, with all the war criminals, particularly Hermann Goering. This, therefore, is a unique record that adds substantially to what is already publicly known about the trials and the defendants.Involved in proceedings from day one, Frank translated the first piece of evidence, interpreted the judges opening statements, and concluded the trials by announcing the sentences to the defendants (and several hundred million radio listeners) which earned him the soubriquet Voice of Doom.Prior to the war, Frank, who was of Jewish descent, was a Bavarian playboy, an engineer, a resistance worker, a smuggler (of money and Jews out of Germany) and was declared to be an enemy of the State to be shot on sight. Having escaped to Britain, he was interned at the outbreak of war but successfully campaigned for his release and eventually allowed to enlist in the British Army in which he rose to the rank of Captain. Unable to speak English prior to his arrival, by the time of the Nuremberg trials he was described as the finest interpreter in the world.A unique character of extreme contrasts Frank was a playboy, a risk taker and an opportunist. Yet he was also a man of immense courage, charm, good manners, integrity and ability. He undertook the toughest assignment imaginable at Nuremberg to a level that was satisfactory alike to the bench, the defence and the prosecution and he played a major role in materially shortening the enormously difficult procedures by an estimated three years.
Author : Paul Schmidt
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780750968959
As an interpreter in the German Foreign Ministry, Paul-Otto Schmidt (1899–1970) was in attendance at some of the most decisive moments of twentieth-century history. Fluent in both English and French, he served as Hitler's translator during negotiations with Chamberlain, the British declaration of war and the surrender of France, as well as translating the Führer's infamous speeches for radio. Having gained favour with the Nazi Party – donning first the uniform of the SS then that of the Luftwaffe – Paul Schmidt was given 'absolute authority' in everything to do with foreign languages. He later presided over the interrogation of Canadian soldiers captured after the 1942 Dieppe Raid. Arrested in May 1945, Schmidt was freed by the Americans in 1948. In 1946 he testified at the Nuremberg Trials, where conversations with him were noted down by the psychiatrist Leon Goldensohn and later published. After the war he taught at the Sprachen und Dolmetscher Institut in Munich. Hitler's Interpreter presents a highly atmospheric account of the bizarre life led behind the scenes at the highest level of the Third Reich. Roger Moorhouse is a historian of the Third Reich. He is the author of the acclaimed Berlin at War, Killing Hitler and The Devil's Pact. He has contributed to He Was My Chief, I Was Hitler's Chauffeur, With Hitler to the End and Hitler's Last Witness.
Author : Eva Gillies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Anthropologists
ISBN : 1909644137
Author : Teresa Lim
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780241544426
Discover one family's fascinating story in this beautiful, sweeping, multigenerational memoir, spanning 19th century south China to modern day Singapore 'A captivating, compelling story of history, family loyalty, and personal sacrifice. A fascinating and richly textured multigenerational tale' Charmaine Wilkerson, New York Times bestselling author of Black Cake 'I would learn that when families tell stories, what they leave out re-defines what they keep in. With my family, these were not secrets intentionally withheld. Just truths too painful to confront . . .' ________ In the last years of her life, Teresa Lim's mother, Violet Chang, had copies of a cherished family photograph made for those in the portrait who were still alive. On the back is the place and date: Hong Kong, 1935. Teresa would often look at this photograph, enticed by the fierceness and beauty of her great-aunt Fanny looking back at her. But Fanny never seemed to feature in the told and retold family stories. Why? she wondered. This photograph set Teresa on a journey to uncover her family's remarkable history. Through detective work, serendipity, and the kindness of strangers, she was guided to the fascinating, extraordinary life of her great-aunt and her world of sworn spinsters, ghost husbands and the working-class feminists of 19th century south China. But to recover her great-aunt's past, we first must get to know Fanny's family, the times and circumstances in which they lived, and the momentous yet forgotten conflicts that would lead to war in Singapore and, ultimately, a long-buried family tragedy. ________ The Interpreter's Daughter is a beautifully moving record of an extraordinary family history. For fans of Wild Swans, The Hare With Amber Eyes, and Falling Leaves this is the next classic in the making.
Author : Kevin Haynes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798591697334
Kevin Haynes spent years interpreting for Spanish-speaking people and for people who are deaf. He's had a lot of interesting experiences, from interpreting for a woman whose foot had been nearly severed to interpreting a Broadway show! He recounts many of those stories here, with fun insights and and life lessons.
Author : Anxo Fernandez-Ocampo,Michaela Wolf
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317598268
Situations of conflict offer special insights into the history of the interpreter figure, and specifically the part played in that history by photographic representations of interpreters. This book analyses photo postcards, snapshots and press photos from several historical periods of conflict, associated with different photographic technologies and habits of image consumption: the colonial period, the First and Second World War, and the Cold War. The book’s methodological approach to the "framing" of the interpreter uses tools taken primarily from visual anthropology, sociology and visual syntax to analyse the imagery of the modern era of interpreting. By means of these interpretative frames, the contributions suggest that each culture, subculture or social group constructed its own representation of the interpreter figure through photography. The volume breaks new ground for image-based research in translation studies by examining photographic representations that reveal the interpreter as a socially constructed category. It locates the interpreter’s mediating efforts at the core of the human sciences. This book will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in translation and interpreting studies, as well as to those working in visual studies, photography, anthropology and military/conflict studies.
Author : Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781412019118
As the advent of an attack on Iraq approaches, a young Egyptian man working in the Gulf decides to take up a freelance job as a field translator for the L.A. Times and unsuspectingly embarks on an electrifying roller-coaster ride from Kuwait City to Baghdad. What was to happen to him and his team for the following three months is documented in his book Baghdad Bound. This is a gripping account of the remarkable events that he witnessed before and during the Iraq War: The danger of frontline reporting Dodging bullets and translating between reporters and Iraqis, the author recounts in detail the escape of BBC, CBC, Newsweek, and other news network crews from the Iraqi border after the threat of being besieged by a group of disgruntled and armed locals. The devastation of the lives of Iraqi civilians From Basra to Baghdad, a direct look at the horror of living in fear of coalition bombs as well as Saddam loyalists. The author begins to understand their psychological trauma after a first-hand look at casualties of war and along the way, discovers the real face of the Ba'athi regime. The aftermath In a lawless land, chaos reigns supreme as Iraqis, coalition forces and journalists struggle to make sense of post-war Iraq. The author recounts the mayhem of looting and rubs shoulders with Shi'a leaders and Iraqi exiles like Ahmed Chalabi vying for power while Saddam is on the loose. Of all the books that have been published about the Iraq War, Baghdad Bound is a first. A mosaic of thrilling untold stories from the theatre of war, it is an earnest and unique collection of the action-packed memoirs of an Arab interpreter who finds himself caught in an intricate web involving the CIA, the L.A. Times, and Iraqis of various walks of life. Here is a raw view of the war through the eyes of a regular man who stumbled into a defining chapter of modern history...