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Prague in Danger

Peter Demetz
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Author : Peter Demetz
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429930352

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A dramatic account of life in Czechoslovakia's great capital during the Nazi Protectorate With this successor book to Prague in Black and Gold, his account of more than a thousand years of Central European history, the great scholar Peter Demetz focuses on just six short years—a tormented, tragic, and unforgettable time. He was living in Prague then—a "first-degree half-Jew," according to the Nazis' terrible categories—and here he joins his objective chronicle of the city under German occupation with his personal memories of that period: from the bitter morning of March 15, 1939, when Hitler arrived from Berlin to set his seal on the Nazi takeover of the Czechoslovak government, until the liberation of Bohemia in April 1945, after long seasons of unimaginable suffering and pain. Demetz expertly interweaves a superb account of the German authorities' diplomatic, financial, and military machinations with a brilliant description of Prague's evolving resistance and underground opposition. Along with his private experiences, he offers the heretofore untold history of an effervescent, unstoppable Prague whose urbane heart went on beating despite the deportations, murders, cruelties, and violence: a Prague that kept its German- and Czech-language theaters open, its fabled film studios functioning, its young people in school and at work, and its newspapers on press. This complex, continually surprising book is filled with rare human detail and warmth, the gripping story of a great city meeting the dual challenge of occupation and of war.

Prague in Black and Gold

Peter Demetz
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Author : Peter Demetz
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998-03-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781429930642

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Prague in Black and Gold by Peter Demetz Pdf

Prague is at the core of everything both wonderful and terrible in Western history, but few people truly understand this city's unique culture. In Prague in Black and Gold, Peter Demetz strips away sentimentalities and distortions and shows how Czechs, Germans, Italians, and Jews have lived and worked together for over a thousand years.

Paper Cities

Susana S. Martins,Anne Reverseau
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Author : Susana S. Martins,Anne Reverseau
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9789462700581

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Paper Cities by Susana S. Martins,Anne Reverseau Pdf

Thought-provoking case studies on cities, photographs and booksPhotographic books are almost as old as photography itself, and the city is one of their first and more recurring themes. Cities have been, and they continue to be, intensely photographed under a wide variety of forms, materialities, intentions and genres. This volume examines how a city can be moulded through the particularities of a photographic book, suggesting how urban portraits configure an overlooked, yet quite specific, photo-textual practice. Ranging from early photography to contemporary works, Paper Cities gathers thought-provoking case studies from several international contexts, providing new insights into art, material culture, history, heritage and memory, while simultaneously illuminating the debate on cities, photographs and books. Contributors: Steven Jacobs (Ghent University), Simon Dell (University of East Anglia), Hugh Campbell (University College Dublin), Steven Humblet (LUCA School of Arts), Chris Balaschak (Flagler College), Annarita Teodosio (University of Salerno), Cecile Laly (Université Paris I), Mónica Pacheco (University College London), Douglas Klahr (University of Texas), Johanna M. Blokker (Bamberg University), Philip Goldswain (University of Western Australia).

The Lights of Prague

Nicole Jarvis
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Author : Nicole Jarvis
Publisher : Titan Books
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781789093964

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For readers of VE Schwab and The Witcher, science and magic clash in atmospheric gaslight-era Prague. In the quiet streets of Prague all manner of otherworldly creatures lurk in the shadows. Unbeknownst to its citizens, their only hope against the tide of predators are the dauntless lamplighters - a secret elite of monster hunters whose light staves off the darkness each night. Domek Myska leads a life teeming with fraught encounters with the worst kind of evil: pijavica, bloodthirsty and soulless vampiric creatures. Despite this, Domek find solace in his moments spent in the company of his friend, the clever and beautiful Lady Ora Fischer - a widow with secrets of her own. When Domek finds himself stalked by the spirit of the White Lady - a ghost who haunts the baroque halls of Prague castle – he stumbles across the sentient essence of a will-o'-the-wisp captured in a mysterious container. Now, as it's bearer, Domek wields its power, but the wisp, known for leading travellers to their deaths, will not be so easily controlled. After discovering a conspiracy amongst the pijavice that could see them unleash terror on the daylight world, Domek finds himself in a race against those who aim to twist alchemical science for their own dangerous gain.

German Reich and Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia September 1939–September 1941

Andrea Löw,Caroline Pearce
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Author : Andrea Löw,Caroline Pearce
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110526363

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German Reich and Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia September 1939–September 1941 by Andrea Löw,Caroline Pearce Pdf

This source edition on the persecution and murder of the European Jews by Nazi Germany presents in a total of 16 volumes a thematically comprehensive selection of documents on the Holocaust. The work illustrates the contemporary contexts, the dynamics, and the intermediate stages of the political and social processes that led to this unprecedented mass crime. It can be used by teachers, researchers, students, and all other interested parties. The edition comprises authentic testimony by persecutors, victims, and onlookers. These testimonies are furnished with academic annotations and the vast majority of them are published here for the first time in English. Volume 3 documents the persecution of the Jews in the German Reich after the start of the Second World War and in the ‘Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia’, created in March 1939, until September 1941. It reveals the increasing isolation of the German and Czechoslovak Jews but also the perpetrators’ plans up to the eve of systematic deportations.

Dr. Feelgood

Richard A. Lertzman,William J. Birnes
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Author : Richard A. Lertzman,William J. Birnes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781626363359

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Dr. Feelgood by Richard A. Lertzman,William J. Birnes Pdf

Doctor Max Jacobson, whom the Secret Service under President John F. Kennedy code-named “Dr. Feelgood,” developed a unique “energy formula” that altered the paths of some of the twentieth century’s most iconic figures, including President and Jackie Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, and Elvis. JFK received his first injection (a special mix of “vitamins and hormones,” according to Jacobson) just before his first debate with Vice President Richard Nixon. The shot into JFK’s throat not only cured his laryngitis, but also diminished the pain in his back, allowed him to stand up straighter, and invigorated the tired candidate. Kennedy demolished Nixon in that first debate and turned a tide of skepticism about Kennedy into an audience that appreciated his energy and crispness. What JFK didn’t know then was that the injections were actually powerful doses of a combination of highly addictive liquid methamphetamine and steroids. Author and researcher Rick Lertzman and New York Times bestselling author Bill Birnes reveal heretofore unpublished material about the mysterious Dr. Feelgood. Through well-researched prose and interviews with celebrities including George Clooney, Jerry Lewis, Yogi Berra, and Sid Caesar, the authors reveal Jacobson’s vast influence on events such as the assassination of JFK, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Kennedy-Khrushchev Vienna Summit, the murder of Marilyn Monroe, the filming of the C. B. DeMille classic The Ten Commandments, and the work of many of the great artists of that era. Jacobson destroyed the lives of several famous patients in the entertainment industry and accidentally killed his own wife, Nina, with an overdose of his formula.

Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century

Derek Sayer
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Author : Derek Sayer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 621 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780691043807

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Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century by Derek Sayer Pdf

Asserts that Prague could well be seen as the capital of the twentieth century, describing how the city has experienced and suffered more ways of being modern than perhaps any other metropolis.

Maria Theresa

W. O. von Horn
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Author : W. O. von Horn
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547090243

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Maria Theresa by W. O. von Horn Pdf

Among the famous queens of the world—Catharine II of Russia, Elizabeth, Anne Boleyn, and Victoria of England, Mary Queen of Scots, Isabella of Spain, Louise of Prussia, Marie Antoinette, Marie and Catharine de Medici of France, and others, Maria Theresa of Austria holds a conspicuous place. In statesmanship and patriotism she ranks with Elizabeth and Catharine. As Catharine greatly improved the administration of her Empire, introduced new laws and extended its frontiers, and as Elizabeth's reign was characterized by great commercial enterprises and extraordinary intellectual activity, so the reign of Maria Theresa, though she was engaged for years in two great wars,—that of the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War with Frederick for the recovery of Silesia, which he had taken from her,—proved to be of the highest benefit to Austria in the strengthening of law and the introduction of needed reforms and wise measures for the welfare of the Empire. The story of the life of the great queen is briefly told in these pages. It is the story of the life of a proud, ambitious queen; a wise, judicious ruler, who had the best interests of her subjects at heart, and for whom they were always ready to die; a woman of spotless personal character and true to all her domestic duties at a time when immorality and corruption were rife in high places. The story covers some of the same episodes of history which occur in the narrative of Frederick, in this series, but is nonetheless interesting, as the reader will find both sides presented.

The Republic in Danger

Martin S. Alexander
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Author : Martin S. Alexander
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521524296

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The first full-length study in English of 'the man who lost the Battle of France'.

Prague in Black

Chad Bryant
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Author : Chad Bryant
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674261662

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In September 1938, the Munich Agreement delivered the Sudetenland to Germany. Six months later, Hitler’s troops marched unopposed into Prague and established the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia—the first non-German territory to be occupied by Nazi Germany. Although Czechs outnumbered Germans thirty to one, Nazi leaders were determined to make the region entirely German. Chad Bryant explores the origins and implementation of these plans as part of a wider history of Nazi rule and its consequences for the region. To make the Protectorate German, half the Czech population (and all Jews) would be expelled or killed, with the other half assimilated into a German national community with the correct racial and cultural composition. With the arrival of Reinhard Heydrich, Germanization measures accelerated. People faced mounting pressure from all sides. The Nazis required their subjects to act (and speak) German, while Czech patriots, and exiled leaders, pressed their countrymen to act as “good Czechs.” By destroying democratic institutions, harnessing the economy, redefining citizenship, murdering the Jews, and creating a climate of terror, the Nazi occupation set the stage for the postwar expulsion of Czechoslovakia’s three million Germans and for the Communists’ rise to power in 1948. The region, Bryant shows, became entirely Czech, but not before Nazi rulers and their postwar successors had changed forever what it meant to be Czech, or German.

St Valéry and Its Aftermath

Stewart Mitchell
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Author : Stewart Mitchell
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473886605

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St Valéry and Its Aftermath by Stewart Mitchell Pdf

This WWII military history chronicles the bravery and daring of Britain’s Gordon Highlanders in Nazi occupied France. During the German offensive of May, 1940, the 51st (Highland) Division—which included the 1st and 5th Battalions Gordon Highlanders—became separated from the British Expeditionary Force. After a heroic stand at St Valery-en-Caux, the Division surrendered when fog thwarted efforts to evacuate them. Within days, scores of Gordons had escaped and were on the run through Nazi-occupied France. Many reached Britain after harrowing travails, including recapture and imprisonment often in atrocious conditions in France, Spain, or North Africa. Those imprisoned in Eastern Europe were forced to work in coal and salt mines, quarries, factories and farms. Some died through unsafe conditions or the brutality of their captors. Others escaped, on occasion fighting with distinction alongside Resistance forces. Many had to endure the brutal 1945 winter march away from the advancing Allies before their eventual liberation. This superbly researched book vividly recounts their many inspiring stories.

Canine Commandos

Nigel Cawthorne
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Author : Nigel Cawthorne
Publisher : Ulysses Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612430553

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Canine Commandos by Nigel Cawthorne Pdf

Relates the stories of dogs who have helped United States troops in combat from World War I through the war in Afghanistan, including the Belgian Malinois who was a part of the mission to take out Osama bin Laden.

The Tragedy of Patton A Soldier's Date With Destiny

Robert Orlando
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Author : Robert Orlando
Publisher : Humanix Books
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781630061760

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The Tragedy of Patton A Soldier's Date With Destiny by Robert Orlando Pdf

"Better to fight for something than live for nothing." — General George S. Patton It is 75 years since the end of WW II and the strange, mysterious death of General George S. Patton, but as in life, Patton sets off a storm of controversy. The Tragedy of Patton: A Soldier's Date With Destiny asks the question: Why was General Patton silenced during his service in World War II? Prevented from receiving needed supplies that would have ended the war nine months earlier, freed the death camps, prevented Russian invasion of the Eastern Bloc, and Stalin's murderous rampage. Why was he fired as General of the Third Army and relegated to a governorship of post-war Bavaria? Who were his enemies? Was he a threat to Eisenhower, Montgomery, and Bradley? And is it possible as some say that the General's freakish collision with an Army truck, on the day before his departure for US, was not really an accident? Or was Patton not only dismissed by his peers, but the victim of an assassin's bullet at their behest? Was his personal silence necessary? General George S. Patton was America's antihero of the Second World War. Robert Orlando explores whether a man of such a flawed character could have been right about his claim that because the Allied troops, some within 200 miles of Berlin, or just outside Prague, were held back from capturing the capitals to let Soviet troops move in, the Cold War was inevitable. Patton said it loudly and often enough that he was relieved of command and silenced. Patton had vowed to “take the gag off” after the war and tell the intimate truth and inner workings about controversial decisions and questionable politics that had cost the lives of his men. Was General Patton volatile, bombastic, self-absorbed, reckless? Yes, but he was also politically astute and a brilliant military strategist who delivered badly needed wins. Questions still abound about Patton’s rise and fall. The Tragedy of Patton seeks to answer them.

10th Edition. Anunnaki Genetic Creation of the Human Races, Gods, Angels, Demons and Spirits.

Maximillien De Lafayette
10th Edition Anunnaki Genetic Creation of the Human Races Gods Angels Demons and Spirits Book PDF

Author : Maximillien De Lafayette
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781304544186

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10th Edition. Anunnaki Genetic Creation of the Human Races, Gods, Angels, Demons and Spirits. by Maximillien De Lafayette Pdf

Published by Times Square Press http://www.timessquarepress.com/ Author's website:www.maximilliendelafayettebibliography.comAn authoritative book of the history of the Anunnaki, religion, names & roles of gods who created MAN from clay, as well as spirits and demons. A powerful book which explains in simple English how early humans & final "types" of humans were created genetically by the Anunnaki some 65,000 years ago in Mesopotamia. The book is solely based upon the Sumerian-Akkadian-Assyrian tablets, archaeology, history, Anunnaki Ulema, literature and linguistic sources from Babylon, Uruk, Ur, Eridu and other ancient Mesopotamian cities. In this academic, informative and entertaining book, there is no room for false/bogus translations and ridiculous interpretations of the history of the Anunaki, Sumero-Akkadian-Assyrian tablets and fabrication of stories about planets and stars which do not exist, and childish tales of expeditions of ancient aliens and Anunnaki who came to Earth to mine gold.

Long Journey Home

Helen Notzl
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Author : Helen Notzl
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781525508189

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Long Journey Home by Helen Notzl Pdf

A four-year-old girl survives a harrowing escape across the heavily armed border of Czechoslovakia with her mother and brother after the Communist takeover in 1948. The family leaves everything behind to flee to freedom in Canada. Years later, as a young woman living in Toronto, she finds herself drawn to the country of her birth and returns to Prague, along the way finding love, danger, heartbreak, and her family's legacy. Helen Notzl's poignant memoir takes readers on a voyage between two starkly different and conflicting worlds - from affluence and fulfillment in Canada to passion and revolution in Prague. Must she choose between the two? With intense drama, vivid narration, and brilliant detail, Long Journey Home tells the story of a woman's quest for those things that truly matter to all of us: love, family, identity and homeland.