Resultados para "Prague" en Biografías y memorias

The Infant Jesus of Prague from Catholic Book Publishing is a glorious booklet designed to increase the love offered to the Divine Infant and encourage more Catholics to venerate the Infant Jesus. This perennial favorite is an excellent resource for all who wish to enhance their devotion or learn more about the Infant Jesus of Prague.

Selective Persecution: The Legalization of American Fascism weaves a narrative from Dr. Gold’s personal experience as a frontline doctor, and her forty-eight minutes inside the US Capitol Building on January 6. The author walks listeners through an array of COVID lies and corruption, the course of January 6 itself, and the unfathomable progression of fascist government abuse that followed. She endured a violent FBI raid, extreme malice and misconduct by the Department of Justice, and was sentenced to federal prison amid shocking corruption in the judiciary.

In 1939 Rev. Waitstill Sharp, a young Unitarian minister, and his wife, Martha, a social worker, accepted a mission from the American Unitarian Association: They were to leave their home and young children in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and travel to Prague, Czechoslovakia, to help address the mounting refugee crisis. Armed with only $40,000, the Sharps quickly learned the art of spy craft and covertly sheltered political dissidents and Jews and helped them escape the Nazis.

“A riveting tale of her family’s experience in Europe during World War II [and] a well-wrought political history of the region, told with great authority. . . . More than a memoir, this is a book of facts and action, a chronicle of a war in progress from a partisan faithful to the idea of...

The Untold Story Behind The Shot Heard Round The World The 1951 regular baseball season was as good as over. The Brooklyn Dodgers led the New York Giants by three runs with just three outs to go in their third and final playoff game. Not once in the 278 preceding playoff and World Series games...

Sie sind unsere Zukunft. Der Krieg nimmt ihnen die Perspektive. Kriege töten nicht nur Erwachsene im Jetzt, sondern auch die kommenden Erwachsenen. Und immer wieder gehen wir in den Krieg.

Kerry Hudson is celebrated for her emotionally and politically powerful writing about growing up in poverty. Her books and journalism have changed the conversation and touched countless lives. In this new book she asks: what next, after a childhood like hers? What hope is there of creating a different life for herself, let alone future generations? We see how Kerry found love, what it took to decide to start a family of her own and how fragile every step of the journey towards parenthood was. All along the way, she faces obstacles that would test the strongest foundations.

KRAUS FAMILY AWARD WINNER FOR BEST AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIR AT THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS WINNER OF THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE ‘Beautifully told' – John le Carré ‘More than just history’ – Michael Palin In this remarkably moving memoir, Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets...

A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa’s greatest houses—and the lives of its occupants When Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador’s residence in Prague, returning to the land his mother had fled...

Die Autobiografie eines der herausragendsten und streitbarsten Schriftstellers der Nachkriegsliteratur. Stefan Heym (1913-2001) ist eine Jahrhundertfigur. Sein Leben war aufs Engste mit der Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts verwoben: Er floh vor den Nationalsozialisten, wurde in die USA eingebürgert, unterstützte die amerikanischen Invasionstruppen bei der psychologischen Kriegsführung, übersiedelte 1953 in die DDR und leistete trotzdem Widerstand gegen die SED.