The Hunt For Raubgold

Author : Katherine Burlake
Publisher : Meroe Press, LLC
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781647046309

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The Hunt for Raubgold by Katherine Burlake Pdf

"The hunt for Nazi gold powers this humane, history-minded thriller." — Booklife "[An] unforgettable read ... Thriller fans, history lovers, and those who enjoy storylines involving treasure hunts will find this book appealing." —Seattle City Book Review In a current day suspense thriller, The Hunt for Raubgold is a story of mystery, intrigue, and the quest of millions who have searched for Raubgold-the gold Germany confiscated in World War II. In book three of the bestselling Amy Prowers series, Katherine Burlake reveals where the past becomes the present. Nothing brings out the blood in a search as much as the word gold. This gold is different. It represents the souls of the millions of people who were killed in WWII. The war ended seventy-five years ago, but the search for the gold has never ended. Governments, treasure seekers, and political splinter groups have failed, since World War II, to find all the gold confiscated from concentration camps and other countries Germany occupied. Today the gold could be worth over a billion dollars to whoever finds it. -Is it somewhere in Germany or another country? -Was it destroyed during the war or lost? -Is the missing gold only a myth? Amy Prowers’s husband was obsessed with finding it. Did he leave clues behind before his mysterious death? A bag hidden for 20 years is uncovered by an avalanche that destroyed a wall in her home. In it is a map and journal. Now Amy intends to find the gold and vindicate his search.

Author : Katherine Burlake
Publisher : Meroe Press, LLC
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780998973456

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The Last Request by Katherine Burlake Pdf

Amy Prowers hadn't planned on jetting off to the Balkans. She hadn't planned on having her life turned upside down or being held hostage. No, Amy Prowers hadn't planned on abandoning her career... and becoming a seeker of fulfilling her father's last request. The request that had the words attached: be careful who you trust. Benton Prowers' death in a suspicious plane crash has changed Amy’s life. His words, “be careful who you trust,” lead her on a quest to uncover the real Shroud and if it isn't in Turin as the Catholic Church believes...where is it? In the second Amy Prowers novel, Amy is caught up in a web of deceit, scandal, and terror that threatens her and everyone around her. Will Medak, the young monk at the monastery, help Amy understand the clues her father hid in the icon book...or should she trust him? Will El Ben Alemien, the evil North African leader, know that Amy is pretending to know where the Shroud is hidden at the Gracanica Monastery? Will Christianity as it exists today, be able to survive when the truth comes out? In a sweeping current day global suspense thriller, The Last Request takes you behind the scenes in a tense drama-filled story that is enveloped in mystery, intrigue, and religion.

Author : Gerald D. Feldman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : IND:30000066073077

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The Business History of the 'Third Reich' and the Responsibilities of the Historian by Gerald D. Feldman Pdf

Author : Victor Bibby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1922409995

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Fred and Me by Victor Bibby Pdf

Architect and successful international real estate developer Ron Forlee shares his many secrets in this high risk, high reward industry.

Author : Janet Evanovich,Peter Evanovich,Steve Hamilton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982172299

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The Bounty by Janet Evanovich,Peter Evanovich,Steve Hamilton Pdf

FBI agent Kate O’Hare and charming criminal Nick Fox race against time to uncover a buried train filled with Nazi gold in this thrilling adventure in the “romantic and gripping” (Good Housekeeping) Fox and O’Hare series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich. Straight as an arrow special agent Kate O’Hare and international criminal Nick Fox have brought down some of the biggest bad guys out there. But now they face their most dangerous foe yet—a vast, shadowy international organization known only as the Brotherhood. Directly descended from the Vatican Bank priests who served Hitler during World War II, the Brotherhood is on a frantic search for a lost train loaded with $30 billion in Nazi gold, untouched for over seventy-five years somewhere in the mountains of Eastern Europe. Kate and Nick know that there is only one man who can find the fortune and bring down the Brotherhood—the same man who taught Nick everything he knows—his father, Quentin. As the stakes get higher, they must also rely on Kate’s own father, Jake, who shares his daughter’s grit and stubbornness. Too bad they can never agree on anything. From a remote monastery in the Swiss Alps to the lawless desert of the Western Sahara, Kate, Nick, and the two men who made them who they are today must crisscross the world in a desperate scramble to stop their deadliest foe in the biggest adventure of their lives.

Author : Stephen Richards Graubard
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1412816173

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A New Europe for the Old? by Stephen Richards Graubard Pdf

Since 1989, it has been possible to review what has been published both at home & abroad on the communist states of Central & Eastern Europe &, no less importantly, on the Soviet Union itself, from a new perspective. Few have chosen to engage in this Herculean task, whether out of a residual civility in not wishing to mock certain aging scholarss whose research would appear curiously dated, or out of a sense of fatigue with the whole subject of casting aspersions on mistaken views. A New Europe for the Old? asks whether the master narratives that circulated so widely in the West in the half century since 1945 remain valid. The editor's volume raises pertinent questions regarding the current state of the European world as it has evolved since 1989. He includes contributions from important scholars around the world. A New Europe for the Old? provides greater sympathy for the complexity of societies, & argues for greater tolerance of those that are small, & that do not cast a long shadow in the world today. In the twenty-first as in the twentieth century, they may be engines of change, both as a result of the disorder that they produce as well as the ways in which their values, however seemingly antiquated, survive & prosper, & not only in their native lands. This volume will intrigue historians & European studies scholars alike.

Author : Tan Teng Phee
Publisher : Strategic Information and Research Development Centre
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789672464594

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Behind Barbed Wire by Tan Teng Phee Pdf

"Behind Barbed Wire looks behind the façade to ask what it was really like to be moved to, and live in, a 'New Village'. Tan, who himself lived in New Villages growing up, combines archival sources and oral history to give us a rounded account . . . We need Tan's book, because up to now the outsider's view has predominated, and outsiders have their own agenda." Karl Hack, in the Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society This unique book revisits the moment in the Malayan Emergency when some 500,000 women, children and men were uprooted from their homes and moved into new settlements, guarded day and night by police and troops. A majority were rural Chinese: market gardeners, shopkeepers, rice farmers, tin miners and rubber tappers who had long made Malaya their home and had lived through the hardships of the Japanese Occupation. Based upon newly accessible archival materials and painstaking multilingual interviews with more than 80 informants in four New Villages, Tan Teng Phee rewrites the history of the Emergency, exposing the voices of those at the heart of this lauded ‘social experiment’. In Francis Loh’s words, these were ordinary villagers ‘caught in the crossfire between the British security forces and the Malayan Communist Party’ whose lives were turned inside-out and re-ordered completely, with daily curfews, body searches and food controls alongside the carrots and sticks of registration, (re)education, sanitation, psychological warfare and swift punishment. Highlighting the disciplinary aims of British policy, as well as the ways in which villagers resisted this discipline through ‘weapons of the weak’, this book forms a unique history from below of the Malayan Emergency, and of a resettlement programme which shaped the social and geographical landscape of Malaysia for generations to come.

Author : Gerald D. Feldman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2001-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139432733

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Allianz and the German Insurance Business, 1933–1945 by Gerald D. Feldman Pdf

This history of the internationally prominent insurance corporation Allianz AG in the Nazi era is based largely on new or previously unavailable archival sources. This book joins a growing body of scholarship based on free access to the records of German corporations in the Nazi era.

Author : Christopher Kerr
Publisher : Book Guild Publishing
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781915352453

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The Barbarossa Secret by Christopher Kerr Pdf

From the darkest days of the Second World War comes an incredible story of a cover-up with staggering implications.

Author : Phillipe Braillard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317722748

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Switzerland and the Crisis of the Dormant Assets and Nazi Gold by Phillipe Braillard Pdf

First Published in 2001. Sharp criticism was recently focused on Switzerland for its doings during World War II and the Swiss banks' policies with respect to dormant assets belonging to victims of the Holocaust, in a process that lasted more than two years, from spring 1996 to fall 1998. Through the determined action of interested parties, the whole process evolved into a violent crisis with an international dimension. This crisis finally came to an end when an overall settlement was reached under which the foremost Swiss banks agreed to pay $1.25 billion to the Jewish organisations and Holocaust victims who had taken up legal action before the American courts. The aim of this book is to lay bare the mechanics of this crisis that so violently shook Switzerland and harmed its international image. It endeavours to show how and why organisations and governments heaped attack on Switzerland. The declared and perfectly legitimate cause of the crisis was that of seeing justice for the victims of the Holocaust. Behind that lay a hidden agenda only a closer look can bring to light. The proposals made here open up an important area of discussion as international policymakers seek peace and stability in the post-Cold War world.

Author : Jacques R. Pauwels
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1550287710

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The Myth of the Good War by Jacques R. Pauwels Pdf

This book offers a fresh and provocative look at the role of the USA in World War II. It spent four months on the nonfiction bestseller lists in Europe when it was first published in Belgium in 2000.

Author : Great Britain. Colonial Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1120 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119324536

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Colonial Reports - Annual by Great Britain. Colonial Office Pdf

Each number comprises the annual report of a different colony for a particular year.

Author : John Torpey
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Law
ISBN : 0674019431

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Making Whole what Has Been Smashed by John Torpey Pdf

This book explores the recent spread of political efforts to rectify past injustices. Although it recognizes that reparations campaigns may lead to improved well-being of victims and to reconciliation among former antagonists, it examines the extent to which concern with the past may depart from the future orientation of progressive politics.

Author : Arthur Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1989-10-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015017008726

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Hitler's Gold by Arthur Smith Pdf

Nazi Germany utilized every available resource to fight the Second World War, and one significant weapon in Hitler's economic arsenal was gold - gold looted from the central banks of those European countries which were occupied by the Nazi regime between 1939 and 1942. Calculated at pre-1939 prices, the Germans gained access to about $625 million (US) in monetary gold, only about half of which was recovered by American Forces in April 1945 from a mine in central Germany. The 'Gold War' did not end then, however; it just assumed a different shape. Instead of fuelling Hitler's war effort, the recovered gold soon became a pawn in the Cold War struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union and has remained a controversial issue in international politics for years, one not completely resolved to this day.Although this is an important aspect of the Second World War and its aftermath, it has been largely neglected in historical research because of the lack of adequate source materials. The author succeeded in gaining access to hitherto unavailable but crucial records from archives in West Germany, Britain and the United States and is thus in a position to piece together, for the first time, the story of the Nazi gold loot and the long, complicated restitution of part of this gold by the Western Allies. Hitler's Gold represents an essential contribution to the economic history of the Second World War.

Author : Karl E. Meyer,Shareen Blair Brysac
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781466879294

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The China Collectors by Karl E. Meyer,Shareen Blair Brysac Pdf

Thanks to Salem sea captains, Gilded Age millionaires, curators on horseback and missionaries gone native, North American museums now possess the greatest collections of Chinese art outside of East Asia itself. How did it happen? The China Collectors is the first full account of a century-long treasure hunt in China from the Opium Wars and the Boxer Rebellion to Mao Zedong's 1949 ascent. The principal gatherers are mostly little known and defy invention. They included "foreign devils" who braved desert sandstorms, bandits and local warlords in acquiring significant works. Adventurous curators like Langdon Warner, a forebear of Indiana Jones, argued that the caves of Dunhuang were already threatened by vandals, thereby justifying the removal of frescoes and sculptures. Other Americans include George Kates, an alumnus of Harvard, Oxford and Hollywood, who fell in love with Ming furniture. The Chinese were divided between dealers who profited from the artworks' removal, and scholars who sought to protect their country's patrimony. Duanfang, the greatest Chinese collector of his era, was beheaded in a coup and his splendid bronzes now adorn major museums. Others in this rich tapestry include Charles Lang Freer, an enlightened Detroit entrepreneur, two generations of Rockefellers, and Avery Brundage, the imperious Olympian, and Arthur Sackler, the grand acquisitor. No less important are two museum directors, Cleveland's Sherman Lee and Kansas City's Laurence Sickman, who challenged the East Coast's hegemony. Shareen Blair Brysac and Karl E. Meyer even-handedly consider whether ancient treasures were looted or salvaged, and whether it was morally acceptable to spirit hitherto inaccessible objects westward, where they could be studied and preserved by trained museum personnel. And how should the US and Canada and their museums respond now that China has the means and will to reclaim its missing patrimony?