Resultados para "Schmidt" en Biografías y memorias

Giacomo Casanova ist für den Autor Stefan Zweig einer der Größten in der Literaturgeschichte und dieses wegen seiner schamlosen, auf niemanden Rücksicht nehmenden Wahrhaftigkeit.

In the fall of 1916, New York housemaid Augusta Steinbach fell in love with a man she met through a matrimonial advertisement in her local newspaper. She traveled to Detroit to marry her correspondent, but in March 1917, she mysteriously disappeared. What began as a routine search for a missing person turned into a baffling case of deception, bigamy and murder. Follow detectives as they unravel the tangled web spun by Michigan's original lonely hearts killer—a criminal mastermind the Detroit News dubbed "one of America's master outlaws."

Black Tulip locates the ambiguous truth about Erich Hartmann and so much of the German Wehrmacht in general: that many of these men were neither full-blown Nazis nor impeccable knights. They were complex, contradictory, and elusive. This book portrays a complex human rather than the heroic caricature we're used to, and it argues that the tidy, polished hero stories we've inherited about men like Hartmann say as much about those who've crafted them as they do about the heroes themselves.

Legal Gladiator is the story of perhaps the greatest lawyer in American history. It is the story of a poor, failing high schooler from Brooklyn who became the youngest professor in the history of Harvard Law School, where Ted Cruz, Natalie Portman, Mike Pompeo, Jamie Raskin, and others sat under his tutelage. It is the story of a passionate Zionist who advocated for Israel on the world stage and became a confidant of Israeli prime ministers, including Benjamin Netanyahu.

August 1943. As World War II consumes much of the globe, Americans at home have no idea the extent of the horror their servicemen face. What they also don’t know is that Eleanor Roosevelt has boarded a military transport plane, heading to the Pacific theater on a mission to discover and report first hand accounts of the war. Anticipating familiar backlash from those who would prefer a prim and proper First Lady, as well as to help ensure her safety, Eleanor and the rest of the White House keep the journey a closely guarded secret.

She had no choice in the matter - none of the girls did. Her mission was to give birth to and raise many children in devoted service to a shared husband. Susan was 15 years old when she became the sixth wife of Verlan LeBaron, one of the leaders of a rogue Mormon cult, who was engaged in a blood feud with his brother that from 1972 to 1988 claimed up to two dozen lives. In this gripping and eloquent book, Susan Ray Schmidt tells the story of growing up on the inside and of her ultimate escape with her children from an oppressive and violent life.

After a routine pap smear in 2009, Angela Schmidt Fishbaugh discovered that she had tested positive for BRCA1, a genetic trait that predisposed her to breast and ovarian cancer. After her initial shock - and subsequent to consulting with medical professionals, friends, and family - the proactive mother and teacher embarked on a mission to nip the issue in the bud.

Historien begynder på Korsika og slutter på Sankt Helena. Det er beretningen om den fattige korsikanske patriot, den passionerede kvindeelsker og ivrige brevskriver, der ville være forfatter eller videnskabsmand, men som i den franske revolutions virvar så sin chance og blev sin tids mægtigste kejser. Hvordan var det muligt? Hvad fik ham til for lidt mere end 200 år siden at sætte kejsertronen på sit hoved. Var det storhedsvanvid eller den logiske belønning for alle hans sejre? Herman Lindqvist fortæller fascinerende og medrivende den utrolige historie om Napoleon Bonaparte .

The diary of a young Jewish housewife who, together with her husband and five-month-old baby, fled the Warsaw ghetto at the last possible moment, and survived the Holocaust hidden on the "Aryan" side of town in the loft of a run-down tinsmith's shed. Rescued from the Ashes documents the incredible life story of Leokadia Schmidt and her small family and their daily struggle to survive the Warsaw Ghetto.

When a carrier goes to sea, those who work on the dangerous flight deck are at an average age of twenty years old. To add to the danger, those who work with aircraft ordnance, the bombs and missiles of these planes, are at even more risk of injury on the pitching deck. This is a true story of one young man, an aviation ordnanceman, who went to sea on his second cruise in 1978 at age twenty.

Fem unge politikere fortæller åbenhjertigt om deres opvækst, hvad der vækkede dem politisk og om deres vej til Folketinget. Hver især har de fem allerede gjort sig eftertrykkeligt bemærket i det politiske spil: Ida Auken Morten Messerschmidt, Johanne Schmidt-Nielsen, Simon Emil Ammitzbøll, Sophie Løhde Portrætterne er skrevet af journalisterne Lea Klæstrup Andersen, Anders Wendt Jensen, Poul Bonke Justesen og Annika Yderstræde.

"Livet er en gave" er en anderledes portraetbog, der går helt taet på manden, chefen, elskeren og tv-stjernen Ole Henriksen. "Der er intet i mit liv, som laeserne ikke må vide om mig. Det er bare så befriende at få mulighed for at tale frit og åbent. Sådan er jeg!" Som laeser får man her en unik chance for at komme helt taet på Ole Henriksen og på de tanker, han gør sig omkring livet, kaerligheden, parforhold, sex og forretningsliv. Vi kommer ind bag det store smil og de lysende øjne og hører om, hvordan Ole selv sørger for at beholde sit smil - også når livet ikke altid viser sig fra sin lyseste side.

Baronesse, verdensdame, løvejæger, kunstner og historiefortæller. Det er umuligt ikke at lade sig fascinere af Karen Blixen. Blixens liv væver sig ind i hendes fortællinger, formet af det enestående liv hun levede - hendes barndom på Rungstedlund, faderens selvmord, tiden som kunstmaler, oplevelserne i Afrika. "En lille bog om Blixen" er en rejsefører til Blixens univers og et blik ind i hendes tanker og følelsesliv.

The third of Judy Garland's five husbands, Sid Luft was the one man in her life who stuck around. He was chiefly responsible for the final act of Judy's meteoric comeback after she was unceremoniously booted off the MGM lot: he produced her iconic, Oscar-nominated vehicle A Star Is Born and expertly shaped her concert career.

Es ist spätabends, als es bei Kerstin Herrnkind an der Haustür klingelt. Zwei Polizisten stehen vor der Tür. Die Journalistin ahnt Schlimmes. Und richtig. Ihr Bruder Uwe ist tot aufgefunden worden. Gestorben an einem Mix aus Heroin, Alkohol und Medikamenten. Fast fünfundzwanzig Jahre war er drogensüchtig. Mutter, Schwester und Freunde haben alles versucht, um ihm zu helfen. Ihn aufgenommen, in der Therapie besucht, ihm Jobs besorgt und ihm doch immer wieder Geld gegeben, weil es nicht auszuhalten war, wie er litt, wenn er einen Affen schob.

Ein den 1920ern hatten nicht die Bewohner von New York oder Paris das höchste Pro-Kopf-Einkommen: die reichsten Menschen der Welt waren die Osage-Indianer im amerikanischen Bundesstaat Oklahoma. Das karge Land, das ihnen als Reservat zugewiesen worden war, barg gigantische Ölvorkommen. Doch der Reichtum brachte den Osage kein Glück: Eine mysteriöse Serie von Morden nahm ihren Anfang, der Dutzende Stammesmitglieder zum Opfer fallen sollten. Die Osage-Morde wurden zum ersten großen Fall für das noch junge FBI. Doch Korruption und Geldgier hatten auch hier bereits Einzug gehalten.

Selma Lagerlöf hade hunnit bli 33 år när hon debuterade med ”Gösta Berlings Saga”, och efter det levde hon sitt liv som en mycket produktiv författare som skrev flertalet välkända romaner och noveller. Idag räknas Lagerlöf som en av Sveriges främsta författare någonsin. Men vem var hon egentligen? Och vilka uppoffringar tvingades hon att göra för att tillslut bli den första kvinnliga ledamoten i Svenska Akademien? Litteraturvetaren och författaren Vivi Edström skildrar en av våra mest berömda och inflytelserika författares liv genom tiderna.

Germany's success in the Second World War was built upon its tank forces; however, many of its leading generals, with the notable exception of Heinz Guderian, are largely unknown. This biographical study of four German panzer army commanders serving on the Eastern Front is based upon their unpublished wartime letters to their wives. David Stahel offers a complete picture of the men conducting Hitler's war in the East, with an emphasis on the private fears and public pressures they operated under.

Fem unge politikere fortæller åbenhjertigt om deres opvækst, hvad der vækkede dem politisk og om deres vej til Folketinget. Hver især har de fem allerede gjort sig eftertrykkeligt bemærket i det politiske spil: Ida Auken Morten Messerschmidt Johanne Schmidt-Nielsen Simon Emil Ammitzbøll Sophie Løhde Portrætterne er skrevet af journalisterne Lea Klæstrup Andersen, Anders Wendt Jensen, Poul Bonke Justesen og Annika Yderstræde.

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