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I Remember the Location Exactly
Set in Frankfurt, Germany, Cambridge, England and Quebec, Canada, this memoir races the most unusual life of Eric Koch from 1919 until 1941, when he as able to leave the internment camp to which he had been confined. Caught up in a period of enormous change and ominous transformation, Koch paints a vivid picture of an assimilated-Jewish family that was unprepared for the events following January 1933.
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Otto & Daria
This poignant memoir tells the story of a young Jewish refugee and his long-distance love interest, both caught in the grip of WWII.
Eric Koch Oral History (interview Code: 20462)
Zusammenfassung: Audiovisual testimony of a Holocaust survivor. Includes pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences
Premonitions
Richard begins his own, slow, meticulous hunt, assisted by the daughter of a bookseller with whom he falls in love. In his investigations he encounters a number of Schwabing's most lively personalities, members of Stefan George's 'Cosmic Circle', the Countess Franziska von Reventlow who is a leading member of Schwabing's 'Erotic Movement', the young Thomas Mann, Kandinsky, Paul Klee and other painters, the anarchists Gustav Landauer and Erich Muhsam, and many others who frequent Schwabing's cafes. In Richard's ñal encounter in 1913, he meets Adolf Hitler who has just arrived from Vienna."--Jacket.
The Brothers Hambourg
A lively account of the remarkable Hambourg brothers -- Mark, Jan, Boris and Clement. Their father, Professor Michael Hambourg, escaped Tsarist oppression for England. His oldest son, Mark, studied with Leschetizky and pursued a career as an international piano virtuoso. In 1910 Michael Hambourg took his three younger sons to Toronto, where he established the Hambourg Conservatory of Music. Jan, a violinist, married Isabelle McClung, close friend of novelist Willa Cather, and moved to Europe. He appears as "Uncle Jan" in Yehudi Menuhin's autobiography and was a scholar and editor of Bach's music for violin. Boris, a cellist, co-founded the Hart House String Quartet. A favourite interest of Vincent Massey, it became a major Canadian musical institution and toured widely. Clement, pianist and the self-styled black sheep, was proprietor of the House of Hambourg, one of Toronto's first jazz clubs.
Earrings
Baden-Baden 1883. The summer capital of Europe. Every summer, sixty thousand guests descended on this town of ten thousand inhabitants. They came to enjoy the natural beauty of the town and its surroundings, the social scene, the bath and the many cultural delights. It was the place for amusement and intrigue. It was the place where fantasy intersected with reality, reputations were made and lost, where the European aristocrat played their games from horse-racing to the casino, from the opera to the bedroom. This novel brings together the most intriguing figures of the nineteenth century. In the hands of Eric Koch, who has been called the 'master of historical fiction', the lives, times, foibles, fantasies and mysteries of 19th century Europe come to life.
The Weimar Triangle
Koch uses a multi-format narrative technique so highly praised in the German reviews, including stories, excerpts from imagined invented diaries, letters and even a synopsis of a never-produced operetta about the failed Hitler putsch of 1923. The triangle involves three main characters: Hanni Geisel, amateur musician and hostess, Erwin Herzberg, journalist and film historian and Hanni's husband, Hermann, a pacifist lawyer who, in his spare time, gathered data on the miscarriages of justice committed by judges. It turns out that Hanni had an affair with Erwin Herzberg.
The Man who Knew Charlie Chaplin
In October 1929, wealthy and famous American financier, Peter Hammersmith received a copy of a book. The book was Mein Kampf'. Astonished and disturbed he rushes off to Washington to consult his friend President Hoover. Hoover immediately assigns Peter to travel to his native Berlin, to investigate the political and economic climate and to write a full report with recommendations for the President of the United States. The setting, the urgency of the issues, the array of historical characters, the unique mise en scene...all combine to make this an unusual and important novel. And, in the hands of the accomplished novelist Eric Koch, this book is destined to be widely discussed.
Arabian Nights, 1914
Arabian Nights 1914 begins in 1914...the world is on the precipice of a World War. The great powers, Germany and the Ottoman Empire face each other. Ouda is a small Arab desert kingdom, poor and isolated. Zade, a direct descendant of Scheherazade, is convinced that Ouda is doomed unless it becomes a modern, secular state and adopts science and technology. Her king's model must be the quintessential modern monarch, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany. The Oudian Ambassador in Berlin sends books, documents, information praising the virtues of the forward-looking Kaiser. Late June, 1914. Zade learns about the assassination in Sarajevo of the Austrian heir to the throne. The world war must be stopped. She immediately decides to go to Berlin, seduce the Kaiser and preserve the peace. Full of intrigue, seduction, exotic characters, where the 'seductive middle east meets the modern west Arabian Nights 1914 is a totally engrossing novel. Like his previous works, Eric Koch introduces the reader to a by-gone but crucially important historical world. All his characters are well researched and reflect the reality of the period. In the master's hands, they are plausible, human and fully entertaining.
