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From foreign Shores
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Foreign Shores
Author: Stuart Crocker
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 9781848763869
Category : Prisoners of war
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Foreign Shores is the true story of Theodor Terhorst, a former German soldier held as a prisoner-of-war in England. Growing up in a small village in Nazi Germany, Theodor, like many other impressionable boys of his age, was a willing participant in the rallies and events organized by the Hitler Youth.Called up in 1944 at the age of seventeen, he underwent training as a member of the elite parachute regiment before being posted to northern France. Wounded in heavy fighting during the allied invasion of Normandy, Theodor was evacuated to Guernsey in the Channel Islands where, after recovering from his wounds, he was subjected to the horror of gradual starvation. Eventually captured when the islands were liberated, he was shipped back to England as a prisoner-of-war. Weak and emaciated after his ordeal, he was hospitalized and given a special diet to gain weight before being sent to a POW camp in Shropshire.By the end of 1945 with hostilities over, prisoners were allowed to work outside the camps, but many were prevented from returning to Germany in contravention of the Geneva Convention. Theodor was one of those and sent to work as a labourer on a nearby farm where he met and fell in love with the farmer’s eldest daughter.Some years later Theodor returned to his homeland to try and settle down, but his experience was an unhappy one. Convinced that he is resented by many people for his healthy young family, his prosperity and even for the simple fact that he is still alive, he returns to England where he spends the remainder of his life, developing a sense of belonging and love for the land against which he had once fought.
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 9781848763869
Category : Prisoners of war
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Foreign Shores is the true story of Theodor Terhorst, a former German soldier held as a prisoner-of-war in England. Growing up in a small village in Nazi Germany, Theodor, like many other impressionable boys of his age, was a willing participant in the rallies and events organized by the Hitler Youth.Called up in 1944 at the age of seventeen, he underwent training as a member of the elite parachute regiment before being posted to northern France. Wounded in heavy fighting during the allied invasion of Normandy, Theodor was evacuated to Guernsey in the Channel Islands where, after recovering from his wounds, he was subjected to the horror of gradual starvation. Eventually captured when the islands were liberated, he was shipped back to England as a prisoner-of-war. Weak and emaciated after his ordeal, he was hospitalized and given a special diet to gain weight before being sent to a POW camp in Shropshire.By the end of 1945 with hostilities over, prisoners were allowed to work outside the camps, but many were prevented from returning to Germany in contravention of the Geneva Convention. Theodor was one of those and sent to work as a labourer on a nearby farm where he met and fell in love with the farmer’s eldest daughter.Some years later Theodor returned to his homeland to try and settle down, but his experience was an unhappy one. Convinced that he is resented by many people for his healthy young family, his prosperity and even for the simple fact that he is still alive, he returns to England where he spends the remainder of his life, developing a sense of belonging and love for the land against which he had once fought.
Arctic Expeditions from British and Foreign Shores
Author: David Murray Smith
Publisher: Glasgow, Scot. : M'Gready, Thomson & Niven
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Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
History of arctic expedition. Designed for broad appeal and was a 19th century best-seller. Includes accounts of expeditions by Franklin, Barentz, Ross, Parry, Rae, Pullen, Collinson, McClure, Anderson, McClintock, Kane, Hall, Hayes and others. (AB16282).
Publisher: Glasgow, Scot. : M'Gready, Thomson & Niven
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Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
History of arctic expedition. Designed for broad appeal and was a 19th century best-seller. Includes accounts of expeditions by Franklin, Barentz, Ross, Parry, Rae, Pullen, Collinson, McClure, Anderson, McClintock, Kane, Hall, Hayes and others. (AB16282).
The Ukrainian Night
Author: Marci Shore
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300231539
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
A vivid and intimate account of the Ukrainian Revolution, the rare moment when the political became the existential What is worth dying for? While the world watched the uprising on the Maidan as an episode in geopolitics, those in Ukraine during the extraordinary winter of 2013–14 lived the revolution as an existential transformation: the blurring of night and day, the loss of a sense of time, the sudden disappearance of fear, the imperative to make choices. In this lyrical and intimate book, Marci Shore evokes the human face of the Ukrainian Revolution. Grounded in the true stories of activists and soldiers, parents and children, Shore’s book blends a narrative of suspenseful choices with a historian’s reflections on what revolution is and what it means. She gently sets her portraits of individual revolutionaries against the past as they understand it—and the future as they hope to make it. In so doing, she provides a lesson about human solidarity in a world, our world, where the boundary between reality and fiction is ever more effaced.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300231539
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
A vivid and intimate account of the Ukrainian Revolution, the rare moment when the political became the existential What is worth dying for? While the world watched the uprising on the Maidan as an episode in geopolitics, those in Ukraine during the extraordinary winter of 2013–14 lived the revolution as an existential transformation: the blurring of night and day, the loss of a sense of time, the sudden disappearance of fear, the imperative to make choices. In this lyrical and intimate book, Marci Shore evokes the human face of the Ukrainian Revolution. Grounded in the true stories of activists and soldiers, parents and children, Shore’s book blends a narrative of suspenseful choices with a historian’s reflections on what revolution is and what it means. She gently sets her portraits of individual revolutionaries against the past as they understand it—and the future as they hope to make it. In so doing, she provides a lesson about human solidarity in a world, our world, where the boundary between reality and fiction is ever more effaced.
Echoes from Foreign Shores
Author: Peyton L. Stanton
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Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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Quicksands on foreign shores, ed. by the author of 'English life social and domestic'.
Author: Quicksands
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Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Pages : 280
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Arctic Expeditions from British and Foreign Shores from the Earliest to the Expedition of 1875
Author: D. Murray Smith
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385378206
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385378206
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
What Hitler Knew
Author: Zachary Shore
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199924074
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
What Hitler Knew is a fascinating study of how the climate of fear in Nazi Germany affected Hitler's advisers and shaped the decision making process. It explores the key foreign policy decisions from the Nazi seizure of power up to the hours before the outbreak of World War II. Zachary Shore argues persuasively that the tense environment led the diplomats to a nearly obsessive control over the "information arsenal" in a desperate battle to defend their positions and to safeguard their lives. Unlike previous studies, this book draws the reader into the diplomats' darker world, and illustrates how Hitler's power to make informed decisions was limited by the very system he created. The result, Shore concludes, was a chaotic flow of information between Hitler and his advisers that may have accelerated the march toward war.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199924074
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
What Hitler Knew is a fascinating study of how the climate of fear in Nazi Germany affected Hitler's advisers and shaped the decision making process. It explores the key foreign policy decisions from the Nazi seizure of power up to the hours before the outbreak of World War II. Zachary Shore argues persuasively that the tense environment led the diplomats to a nearly obsessive control over the "information arsenal" in a desperate battle to defend their positions and to safeguard their lives. Unlike previous studies, this book draws the reader into the diplomats' darker world, and illustrates how Hitler's power to make informed decisions was limited by the very system he created. The result, Shore concludes, was a chaotic flow of information between Hitler and his advisers that may have accelerated the march toward war.
Darkness on a Foreign Shore
Author: G R Jordan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781912153510
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Alone on a foreign shore. Enemies all around. Unsure of who your friends are. Dangerous missions that have to be successful. Can YOU overcome your fears, evade capture and make it home? The world has become a dark place with Europe in turmoil as Germany flexes its might and invades many countries including France. In Britain, operations are underway which seek to aid the French resistance and throw the German army out of the country on the road to winning a war. YOU have been chosen to be one of the many female spies who will enter France and work to assist the local fighters, performing necessary tasks to aid the war effort. Stealing plans, organising air drops, blowing up communication links, disrupting German units and running other spies are all within your sights as you bravely risk your life in a strange land. Will YOU survive? Will YOU succeed? Unravel YOUR destiny and find out! YOU make the choices! YOU are the hero! YOU face the consequences!
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ISBN: 9781912153510
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Alone on a foreign shore. Enemies all around. Unsure of who your friends are. Dangerous missions that have to be successful. Can YOU overcome your fears, evade capture and make it home? The world has become a dark place with Europe in turmoil as Germany flexes its might and invades many countries including France. In Britain, operations are underway which seek to aid the French resistance and throw the German army out of the country on the road to winning a war. YOU have been chosen to be one of the many female spies who will enter France and work to assist the local fighters, performing necessary tasks to aid the war effort. Stealing plans, organising air drops, blowing up communication links, disrupting German units and running other spies are all within your sights as you bravely risk your life in a strange land. Will YOU survive? Will YOU succeed? Unravel YOUR destiny and find out! YOU make the choices! YOU are the hero! YOU face the consequences!
Arctic Expeditions from British and Foreign Shores
Author: D. Murray Smith
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385223059
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385223059
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.