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The War in Letters
Drawing on hundreds of letters written by her father as well as on personal and family memories, the author tells a multilayered story of WWII. At the center is one man's personal struggle to make sense of his life and to preserve his faith and his hope for rebuilding while serving as an officer in the German army through the horror and destruction of the war. At another level the story provides a unique eyewitness account of the military effort to establish Hitler's Third Reich, beginning with the occupations of Poland and France through the disastrous attempt to conquer the Soviet Union at the cost of millions of lives, ending with the German army's retreat and defeat. Woven through all ar...
Der Krieg in Briefen 1938-1949
Das hier ist ein Sachbuch. Keine Fiktion und schon gar kein Heldenepos. Dennoch ist in dieser Geschichte von Dieter Schoeller und seiner Grossfamilie aus den Kriegsjahren ein Spannungsbogen verborgen. Er reicht von Karins Geburt in der luxuriösen Villa ihrer Grosseltern bis zum Einzug der wieder vereinten Familie, neun Jahre später in die bescheidene Dürener Baracke am Fabrikgelände.
Heinrich Mann's Novels and Essays
The first full-length study in English of Heinrich Mann's literary work and political activism. Heinrich Mann, once counted among the most important literary figures in Germany, is known to most English-speaking readers only as the brother of Thomas Mann, or in connection with Marlene Dietrich and the film "The Blue Angel,"which was based on one of his novels. Only a few of his novels and stories and virtually none of his hundreds of provocative essays are available in English. But he deserves special attention for the window his work provides ontothe intellectual, social, and political history of Germany, especially Germany's struggle with the question of democracy in the early twentieth ce...
