Resultados para "Janus" en Novela histórica

Das Böse hat viele Gesichter. München 1949: Von der Doppelmoral der Nachkriegszeit desillusioniert versucht sich Privatdetektiv Bernie Gunther als Gastwirt. Doch dann bittet ihn eine schöne Fremde um Hilfe. Der Auftrag führt Bernie auf die Spur eines gesuchten Naziverbrechers. Viel zu spät erkennt er, dass die alten Machthaber noch immer aktiv sind - und gefährlicher denn je.

American Janus* is the story of a North Carolina Confederate veteran and his family at the dawn of the 20th century. While looking forward to the promise of the future, Harper Clayton can never truly slip his inescapable past as a soldier in the American Civil War and Freedman Bureau agent during Southern Reconstruction.*Janus-- the Roman god of new beginnings and transitions. Janus is portrayed as having two faces, one looking to the future and one the past.

Erik Thorvald was drafted into the army 10 days after graduating from college. He went in with an open mind to learn and get along with a cross section of American young men who were mentally and physically acceptable, yet represented a wide variety of intelligence and personalities. He found the experience to be interesting and oftentimes very funny. Of course, most draftees knew they were heading to the Nam after eight weeks of basic training followed by a like number of weeks in Advanced Infantry Training (AIT).