Midnight In Berlin

Author : James MacManus
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466892132

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Midnight in Berlin by James MacManus Pdf

Berlin in the spring of 1939. Hitler is preparing for war. Colonel Noel Macrae, a British diplomat, plans the ultimate sacrifice to stop him. The West’s appeasement policies have failed. There is only one alternative: assassination. The Gestapo, aware of Macrae’s hostility, seeks to compromise him in their infamous brothel. There Macrae meets and falls in love with Sara, a Jewish woman blackmailed into becoming a Nazi courtesan. Macrae finds himself trapped between the blind policies of his government and the dark world of betrayal and deception in Berlin. As he seeks to save the woman he loves from the brutality of the Gestapo, he defies his government and plans direct action to avert what he knows will be a global war. Inspired by true events and characters, James MacManus’s Midnightin Berlin is a passionate story that will leave you in awe of the human capacity for courage, sacrifice, and love set against a world on the brink of war.

Author : JL MERROW.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1640801219

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MIDNIGHT IN BERLIN. by JL MERROW. Pdf

Author : Pat McMann Gilchrist
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781483688282

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IT'S MIDNIGHT IN BERLIN by Pat McMann Gilchrist Pdf

It’s Midnight In Berlin: A True Story of An American Girl in War Torn Germany 1946-47 By Pat McMann Gilchrist Pat was a 22 year old college graduate, who signed with the War Department to go to Germany, as a civilian, to work for the U.S. Military Government in Berlin, It was only a few months after World War II had ended and one=fourth of the city of Berlin had been destroyed. She flew over in a C-54, along with 2 other planeloads of girls going over to help set up the military offices. These planes first stopped in Marseilles, France, where German prisoners were removed from their barracks so the girls could sleep there. In Berlin, she was assigned to take minutes at the Four Power meetings, so she worked closely with the British, French and Russians. While in Berlin, she met a handsome, young lieutenant and married him in a double ceremony with a French Red Cross worker and a military police officer. Her husband was a paratrooper so she had her wedding dress made out of a parachute. Many unusual and exciting incidents occurred, including the time she was arrested by the British for driving a Jeep. The British had been unaware that Americans could own Jeeps. Then there was the time she was a proxy bride in a wedding between an American officer and a young woman in Los Angeles. The wedding was performed over the telephone and it was the legal marriage. Due to the extremely cold winter and the food shortage for the German people, Pat was able to help several families with groceries and clothing. One little boy was so grateful that he gave her a ceramic collie dog that even today is one of her most prized possessions.

Author : J. L. Merrow
Publisher : Dreamspinner Press LLC
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1640802592

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Midnight in Berlin by J. L. Merrow Pdf

Cristoph took hitchhiker Leon for a rogue werewolf and by the time he realizes his mistake, he must turn Leon into a monster to save his life. Leon struggles to cope with a horrifying new reality, mixed feeling for the man who bit him, and secrets Cristoph's pack will kill to protect.

Author : Frederick Kempe
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 826 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101515020

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Berlin 1961 by Frederick Kempe Pdf

In June 1961, Nikita Khrushchev called Berlin "the most dangerous place on earth." He knew what he was talking about. Much has been written about the Cuban Missile Crisis a year later, but the Berlin Crisis of 1961 was more decisive in shaping the Cold War-and more perilous. It was in that hot summer that the Berlin Wall was constructed, which would divide the world for another twenty-eight years. Then two months later, and for the first time in history, American and Soviet fighting men and tanks stood arrayed against each other, only yards apart. One mistake, one nervous soldier, one overzealous commander-and the tripwire would be sprung for a war that could go nuclear in a heartbeat. On one side was a young, untested U.S. president still reeling from the Bay of Pigs disaster and a humiliating summit meeting that left him grasping for ways to respond. It would add up to be one of the worst first-year foreign policy performances of any modern president. On the other side, a Soviet premier hemmed in by the Chinese, East Germans, and hardliners in his own government. With an all-important Party Congress approaching, he knew Berlin meant the difference not only for the Kremlin's hold on its empire-but for his own hold on the Kremlin. Neither man really understood the other, both tried cynically to manipulate events. And so, week by week, they crept closer to the brink. Based on a wealth of new documents and interviews, filled with fresh-sometimes startling-insights, written with immediacy and drama, Berlin 1961 is an extraordinary look at key events of the twentieth century, with powerful applications to these early years of the twenty-first. Includes photographs

Author : Erik Larson
Publisher : Crown
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307408853

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In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson Pdf

Erik Larson, New York Times bestselling author of Devil in the White City, delivers a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Nazi Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history. A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings along his wife, son, and flamboyant daughter, Martha. At first Martha is entranced by the parties and pomp, and the handsome young men of the Third Reich with their infectious enthusiasm for restoring Germany to a position of world prominence. Enamored of the “New Germany,” she has one affair after another, including with the suprisingly honorable first chief of the Gestapo, Rudolf Diels. But as evidence of Jewish persecution mounts, confirmed by chilling first-person testimony, her father telegraphs his concerns to a largely indifferent State Department back home. Dodd watches with alarm as Jews are attacked, the press is censored, and drafts of frightening new laws begin to circulate. As that first year unfolds and the shadows deepen, the Dodds experience days full of excitement, intrigue, romance—and ultimately, horror, when a climactic spasm of violence and murder reveals Hitler’s true character and ruthless ambition. Suffused with the tense atmosphere of the period, and with unforgettable portraits of the bizarre Göring and the expectedly charming--yet wholly sinister--Goebbels, In the Garden of Beasts lends a stunning, eyewitness perspective on events as they unfold in real time, revealing an era of surprising nuance and complexity. The result is a dazzling, addictively readable work that speaks volumes about why the world did not recognize the grave threat posed by Hitler until Berlin, and Europe, were awash in blood and terror.

Author : Irmgard Keun
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781935554714

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After Midnight by Irmgard Keun Pdf

Sanna and her ravishing friend Gerti would rather speak of love than politics, but in 1930s Frankfurt, politics cannot be escaped--even in the lady's bathroom. Crossing town one evening to meet up with Gerti's Jewish lover, a blockade cuts off the girls' path--it is the Fürher in a motorcade procession, and the crowd goes mad striving to catch a glimpse of Hitler's raised "empty hand." Then the parade is over, and in the long hours after midnight Sanna and Gerti will face betrayal, death, and the heartbreaking reality of being young in an era devoid of innocence or romance. In 1937, German author Irmgard Keun had only recently fled Nazi Germany with her lover Joseph Roth when she wrote this slim, exquisite, and devastating book. It captures the unbearable tension, contradictions, and hysteria of pre-war Germany like no other novel. Yet even as it exposes human folly, the book exudes a hopeful humanism. It is full of humor and light, even as it describes the first moments of a nightmare. After Midnight is a masterpiece that deserves to be read and remembered anew.

Author : Allan Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0646826980

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Berlin Midnight by Allan Smith Pdf

The year is 1941. Nazi Germany is at the peak of its power, dominates Europe, about to defeat the might of Russia. But there's a worm in the apple. Heinrich Himmler, one of the most powerful men in the Third Reich is under threat. A single piece of paper could bring him down. He must have that piece of paper. He will do anything to get it. The man who has it will do anything to use it against Himmler. It's a game with only one winner, a game where the loser loses all.

Author : Melanie Hudson
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780008420925

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The Night Train to Berlin by Melanie Hudson Pdf

‘A mesmerising story of love and hope...the best book that I have read this year’ Penny, Reader Review The most heartbreaking historical fiction novel you will read this year from the USA Today bestseller!

Author : Erik Larson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781446464502

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In The Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson Pdf

'A compelling tale... a narrative that makes such a brave effort to see history as it evolves and not as it becomes.' SPECTATOR Suffused with the tense atmosphere of the times, and with brilliant portraits of Hitler, Goebbels, Goering and Himmler amongst others, Erik Larson's new book sheds unique light on events as they unfold, resulting in an unforgettable, addictively readable work of narrative history. Berlin,1933. William E. Dodd, a mild-mannered academic from Chicago, has to his own and everyone else's surprise, become America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany, in a year that proves to be a turning point in history. Dodd and his family, notably his vivacious daughter, Martha, observe at first-hand the many changes - some subtle, some disturbing, and some horrifically violent - that signal Hitler's consolidation of power. Dodd has little choice but to associate with key figures in the Nazi party, his increasingly concerned cables make little impact on an indifferent U.S. State Department, while Martha is drawn to the Nazis and their vision of a 'New Germany' and has a succession of affairs with senior party players, including first chief of the Gestapo, Rudolf Diels. But as the year darkens, Dodd and his daughter find their lives transformed and any last illusion they might have about Hitler are shattered by the violence of the 'Night of the Long Knives' in the summer of 1934 that established him as supreme dictator . . .

Author : Ann Redisch Stampler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781481443951

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How to Disappear by Ann Redisch Stampler Pdf

This “adrenaline-soaked thriller” (Publishers Weekly) follows the game of cat and mouse between a girl on the run from a murder she witnessed—or committed?—and the boy who’s sent to kill her. Nicolette Holland is the girl everyone likes. Up for adventure. Loyal to a fault. And she’s pretty sure she can get away with anything...until a young woman is brutally murdered in the woods near Nicolette’s house. Which is why she has to disappear. Jack Manx has always been the stand-up guy with the killer last name. But straight A’s and athletic trophies can’t make people forget that his father was a hit man and his brother is doing time for armed assault. Just when Jack is about to graduate from his Las Vegas high school and head east for college, his brother pulls him into the family business with inescapable instructions: find this ruthless Nicolette Holland and get rid of her. Or else Jack and everyone he loves will pay the price. As Nicolette and Jack race to outsmart each other, tensions—and attractions—run high. Told in alternating voices, this tightly plotted mystery and tense love story challenges our assumptions about right and wrong, guilt and innocence, truth and lies.

Author : Rough Guides
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780241307779

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The Rough Guide to Berlin by Rough Guides Pdf

Taking you to the historic city of Berlin, to hikes outside the city, and to every museum in town, this updated guide is the ideal companion whether you're on a city break, beach vacation, or road trip. The locally based Rough Guides author team introduces the best places to stop and explore, and provides reliable insider tips on topics such as driving Berlin's roads, visiting the Berlin Wall's remains, and shopping for beer and sausage. You'll find special coverage of German history, art, architecture, and literature, and detailed information on the best markets and shopping for each area of the city. The Rough Guide to Berlin also unearths the best restaurants, nightlife, and places to stay, from backpacker hostels to beachfront villas and boutique hotels, and color-coded maps feature every sight and listing. Make the most of your time with The Rough Guide to Berlin.

Author : Maurine F. Dahlberg
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004-10-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781429930901

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Escape to West Berlin by Maurine F. Dahlberg Pdf

The advent of the Wall Heidi's thirteenth birthday is coming up, but she's disappointed -- her mother is pregnant and refuses to make the annual summer visit to Heidi's grandmother. What's more, it's 1961 and the government is cracking down on border crossers, people who work in the West but live in the East. Heidi's father is a border crosser, and her best friend, Petra, has been forbidden to see Heidi until her father finds a new job in East Berlin. Heidi feels betrayed. Then, as political tension mounts, her parents tell her they are secretly moving West, and Heidi must travel alone to get her grandmother. But how can she do it without Petra's help? The author captures all the terror of the time in her gripping story of an indomitable heroine who steals across the Berlin border by facing her greatest fear.

Author : Günter Nelles
Publisher : Hunter Publishing, Inc
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Berlin (Germany)
ISBN : 3886187462

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Berlin, Postdam by Günter Nelles Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781409354703

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Pocket Rough Guide Berlin by Anonim Pdf

The Pocket Rough Guide to Berlin is your essential guide to one of Europe's most exciting cities, with information on all the key sights in an easy-to-use, pocket-size format. Whether you have an afternoon, a few days, or more at your disposal, Rough Guides' carefully curated itineraries help you plan your trip, and the "Best of" Berlin section picks out the highlights you won't want to miss, from the city's dynamic architecture to world-famous clubs, cozy corner cafés, and relaxed beer gardens. Divided by area for easy navigation, the Places section is written in Rough Guides' trademark honest and informative style, with listings for what to see and where to eat, drink, sleep, and play. of the must-see sights and our pick of the places to eat, drink, and more. · The very best of the area, selected by our expert authors · Tailored itineraries and highlights to make trip-planning easy · Inspirational color photography brings the area to life on the pages · Up-to-date background information, including transportation details and a calendar of events Travel like you mean it, with The Pocket Rough Guide to Berlin. Now available in ePub format.