Plunder

Author : Menachem Kaiser
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781328506467

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Plunder by Menachem Kaiser Pdf

A New York Times Critics’ Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Biography From a gifted young writer, the story of his quest to reclaim his family’s apartment building in Poland—and of the astonishing entanglement with Nazi treasure hunters that follows Menachem Kaiser’s brilliantly told story, woven from improbable events and profound revelations, is set in motion when the author takes up his Holocaust-survivor grandfather’s former battle to reclaim the family’s apartment building in Sosnowiec, Poland. Soon, he is on a circuitous path to encounters with the long-time residents of the building, and with a Polish lawyer known as “The Killer.” A surprise discovery—that his grandfather’s cousin not only survived the war, but wrote a secret memoir while a slave laborer in a vast, secret Nazi tunnel complex—leads to Kaiser being adopted as a virtual celebrity by a band of Silesian treasure seekers who revere the memoir as the indispensable guidebook to Nazi plunder. Propelled by rich original research, Kaiser immerses readers in profound questions that reach far beyond his personal quest. What does it mean to seize your own legacy? Can reclaimed property repair rifts among the living? Plunder is both a deeply immersive adventure story and an irreverent, daring interrogation of inheritance—material, spiritual, familial, and emotional.

Author : Kenneth R. Andrews
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1984-11-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521276985

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Trade, Plunder and Settlement by Kenneth R. Andrews Pdf

Traces the maritime expansion of England through descriptions of a multitude of sea voyages from 1480 through 1630. Analyzes exploration, trading enterprise ventures and piracy and reveals how the attempts to create British settlements overseas resulted in the founding of the first New World colonies.

Author : George Sheppard
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0773511377

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Plunder, Profit, and Paroles by George Sheppard Pdf

Reviewing the claims submitted for damages attributed to the fighting, he argues that British forces as well as enemy troops were responsible for widespread destruction of private property and concludes that this explains why there was little increase in anti-American feeling after the war.

Author : Danny Schechter
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781616405847

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Plunder by Danny Schechter Pdf

DANNY SCHECHTER, "The News Dissector" has spent decades as a truth teller in the media, with leading media companies and as an independent filmmaker with the award-winning independent company Globalvision. A graduate of Cornell and the London School of Economics, Schechter was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard and a multiple Emmy Award winner at ABC News, where he was among the first to cover the S&L crisis. In 2007, his film IN DEBT WE TRUST was the first to expose Wall Street's connection to subprime loans, predicting the economic crisis that this book investigates. Schechter is a blogger, editor of Mediachannel.org, and author of nine books. He has reported from 53 countries, and lives in Gotham. He owns no derivatives or tranches.

Author : Cynthia Saltzman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374710392

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Plunder by Cynthia Saltzman Pdf

One of The Christian Science Monitor's Ten Best Books of May "A highly original work of history . . . [Saltzman] has written a distinctive study that transcends both art and history and forces us to explore the connections between the two.” —Roger Lowenstein, The Wall Street Journal A captivatingstudy of Napoleon’s plundering of Europe’s art for the Louvre, told through the story of a Renaissance masterpiece seized from Venice Cynthia Saltzman’s Plunder recounts the fate of Paolo Veronese’s Wedding Feast at Cana, a vast, sublime canvas that the French, under the command of the young Napoleon Bonaparte, tore from a wall of the monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore, on an island in Venice, in 1797. Painted in 1563 during the Renaissance, the picture was immediately hailed as a masterpiece. Veronese had filled the scene with some 130 figures, lavishing color on the canvas to build the illusion that the viewers’ space opened onto a biblical banquet taking place on a terrace in sixteenth-century Venice. Once pulled from the wall, the Venetian canvas crossed the Mediterranean rolled on a cylinder; soon after, artworks commandeered from Venice and Rome were triumphantly brought into Paris. In 1801, the Veronese went on exhibition at the Louvre, the new public art museum founded during the Revolution in the former palace of the French kings. As Saltzman tells the larger story of Napoleon’s looting of Italian art and its role in the creation of the Louvre, she reveals the contradictions of his character: his thirst for greatness—to carry forward the finest aspects of civilization—and his ruthlessness in getting whatever he sought. After Napoleon’s 1815 defeat at Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington and the Allies forced the French to return many of the Louvre’s plundered paintings and sculptures. Nevertheless, The Wedding Feast at Cana remains in Paris to this day, hanging directly across from the Mona Lisa. Expertly researched and deftly told, Plunder chronicles one of the most spectacular art appropriation campaigns in history, one that sheds light on a seminal historical figure and the complex origins of one of the great museums of the world.

Author : Menachem Kaiser
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781328508034

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Plunder by Menachem Kaiser Pdf

From a gifted young writer, the story of his quest to reclaim his family's apartment building in Poland--and of the astonishing entanglement with Nazi treasure hunters that follows Menachem Kaiser's brilliantly told story, woven from improbable events and profound revelations, is set in motion when the author takes up his Holocaust-survivor grandfather's former battle to reclaim the family's apartment building in Sosnowiec, Poland. Soon, he is on a circuitous path to encounters with the long-time residents of the building, and with a Polish lawyer known as "The Killer." A surprise discovery--that his grandfather's cousin not only survived the war, but wrote a secret memoir while a slave laborer in a vast, secret Nazi tunnel complex--leads to Kaiser being adopted as a virtual celebrity by a band of Silesian treasure seekers who revere the memoir as the indispensable guidebook to Nazi plunder. Propelled by rich original research, Kaiser immerses readers in profound questions that reach far beyond his personal quest. What does it mean to seize your own legacy? Can reclaimed property repair rifts among the living? Plunder is both a deeply immersive adventure story and an irreverent, daring interrogation of inheritance--material, spiritual, familial, and emotional.

Author : Hamendar Bhisham Pal
Publisher : Abhinav Publications
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Art
ISBN : 8170172853

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The Plunder of Art by Hamendar Bhisham Pal Pdf

India S Cultural Heritage Lies Among Others In Its Art-Paintings, Sculptures And Architecture. For Centuries Through Their Medium The Country S Inspired Men And Women Have Created Works Of Art Which Represent Truth And Beauty. The Glory Of These Can Be Seen Practically In Every State. However, Unfortunately The Vandals Have Played Havoc With This Repository Of The Country S Cultural Heritage. They Have Not Only Disfigured The Monuments, But Also Indulged In Thieving Of Art Pieces And Smuggling These Beyond The National Borders. The Greater Awareness Of The Beauty Of Indian Art, The Craze For Their Possession And The Fantastic Money These Fetch In Sales Abroad Are Basically Some Of The Causes That Prompt This Plunder Of Works Of Art.

Author : Daniel Lord Smail
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674737280

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Legal Plunder by Daniel Lord Smail Pdf

As a Europe grew rich in the Middle Ages, the well-made clothes, linens, and wares of households often substituted for hard currency. Pawnbrokers kept goods in circulation, and sergeants of the law marched into debtors’ homes to seize belongings equal in value to debts owed. David Smail describes a material world on the cusp of modern capitalism.

Author : Rodney Stich
Publisher : Silverpeak Enterprises
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : United States
ISBN : 9780932438706

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Japanese and U.S. World War II Plunder and Intrigue by Rodney Stich Pdf

Author : Richard Stark
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0226772918

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Plunder Squad by Richard Stark Pdf

“Hearing the click behind him, Parker threw his glass straight back over his right shoulder, and dove off his chair to the left.” When a job looks like amateur hour, Parker walks away. But even a squad of seasoned professionals can't guarantee against human error in a high-risk scam. Can an art dealer with issues unload a truck of paintings with Parker’s aid? Or will the heist end up too much of a human interest story, as luck runs out before Parker can get in on the score? “Parker is refreshingly amoral, a thief who always gets away with the swag.”—Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly “Westlake knows precisely how to grab a reader, draw him or her into the story, and then slowly tighten his grip until escape is impossible.”—Washington Post Book World

Author : Stephanie Flynn
Publisher : Small Fish Publishing
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781952372513

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Pirate's Plunder by Stephanie Flynn Pdf

A police officer desperate to save lives. A reckless pirate captain looking to self-destruct. By dating colleagues, Robin Hall had broken the cardinal rule at work, and now that mistake is following her around like a buzzing bee. Robin wants an escape, but she’d promised her friends she’d join them at the Tall Ships festival. While desperately searching for them, a handsome but disheveled man spouts crazy details of a historical world, and she’s determined to help the mentally ill enthusiast. But what if he’s telling the truth? Reputation, a pirate’s most valuable prize, but not to Captain Riley. He only wants to give his crew the ultimate prize—both showering the crew in riches and bringing him to his long-lost family. But a traitor from his past reappears, and before Riley can stop yet another betrayal, he’s transported to a foreign world of shiny beasts, amazing cooling devices, and strange food. When his rescuer follows him home, can he protect her from the plan he’d already set in motion? If you like real history, swashbuckling cinnamon roll pirates, bold women who know what they want, a steamy forbidden romance, and an adventure on the high seas, you'll love the Pirates in Time trilogy. Each book is a standalone with a guaranteed HEA, but best if read in order. Buy now and anchor yourself for a thrilling adventure on the high seas! Keywords: m/f romance, beta male, beta hero, cinnamon roll hero, pirate, pirates, pirate adventure, pirate romance, pirate romance series, pirate time travel romance, time travel romance, time travel adventure, female protagonist, romantic suspense, paranormal romantic suspense, paranormal romance, paranormal romance series for adults, pranormal romance, paranormal romance hea, sweet paranormal romance, sweet fantasy romance, fantasy, strong heroine, feisty heroine, historical fantasy books, historical fantasy romance, paranormal, supernatural, fantasy, action adventure, action & adventure, action, adventure, book, books, ebook, read, complete series, romance series, novel, secret, suspense, story, stories, hero, fiction, romance, seduction, sensual, historical, 18th century, eighteenth century, hea romance, sea adventure, beach read, Caribbean ocean, tropical island romance, tropical island romance, tropical escape, tropical island, hot guy, love book, love stories, romance novels for women, romance series, romances, romancing saga, romantic saga, sassy, sassy heroine, seduction, seduction romance, sensual, sensual books, sensual romance, series

Author : David M. Perry
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271066837

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Sacred Plunder by David M. Perry Pdf

In Sacred Plunder, David Perry argues that plundered relics, and narratives about them, played a central role in shaping the memorial legacy of the Fourth Crusade and the development of Venice’s civic identity in the thirteenth century. After the Fourth Crusade ended in 1204, the disputes over the memory and meaning of the conquest began. Many crusaders faced accusations of impiety, sacrilege, violence, and theft. In their own defense, they produced hagiographical narratives about the movement of relics—a medieval genre called translatio—that restated their own versions of events and shaped the memory of the crusade. The recipients of relics commissioned these unique texts in order to exempt both the objects and the people involved with their theft from broader scrutiny or criticism. Perry further demonstrates how these narratives became a focal point for cultural transformation and an argument for the creation of the new Venetian empire as the city moved from an era of mercantile expansion to one of imperial conquest in the thirteenth century.

Author : Brad Strickland
Publisher : ibooks
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781596878310

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Dragon's Plunder by Brad Strickland Pdf

Having been kidnapped by former pirates because of his ability to whistle up the wind, fifteen-year-old Jamie agrees to help their leader, a living corpse, find the dragon of Windrose Island.

Author : Asif Efrat
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199760305

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Governing Guns, Preventing Plunder by Asif Efrat Pdf

Examines illicit trade and the difficulties of establishing international cooperation against it, including how government interests differ, criminal groups involvement, and how legitimate players may seek to hinder regulatory efforts.

Author : John Jeter
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429943833

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The Plunder Room by John Jeter Pdf

Moments before Edward Duncan dies, the colorful World War II hero leaves a mandate for his grandson Randol--to safeguard the family's proud Southern legacy. Randol, paralyzed and in a wheelchair after a car accident, buries his grandfather, and learns that his father, a Vietnam veteran, is running an illicit empire with Randol's half-brother, Jerod. A wise-cracking music critic, Randol already has his hands full with his pot-smoking Goth son. When Jerod brings the gorgeous Annie down South and parks her in their South Carolina home, the family maid Volusia, "quick to ram a bar of soap into any foul mouth," sizes up Annie in short order. Jerod, his father, and Randol, are blind to what Volusia sees so easily, making it that much harder for Randol to bring the family together and salvage their dignity. John Jeter's debut is a powerfully compelling story about one man's mission to preserve his family's ideals of honor and loyalty.