Author: Knut Flovik Thoresen
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1662463790
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
This book is about a different time. A time when the world was on fire. A time when a poor choice of a road taken could have dramatic consequences for the rest of one's life as it was for Bjarne Dramstad. During World War II, Bjarne was a front fighter in service with Hitler's Norwegian Legion on the Eastern front. He tells here of his ill-fated choice--about the horrors of war fought in the trenches and about the judgement that he received after the war. He tells of the treatment he got while in prison, which was considered this traitor's reward and the problems he faced upon his release. He was tormented with the long-lasting memories of his own past. Bjarne survived the bullet rain in the trenches surrounding Leningrad. But he had seen up close how many of his comrades had met death. For Bjarne Dramstad, the war had never ended.
A World in Flames
Author: Martha Byrd Hoyle
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780715353103
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780715353103
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
1940
Author: Richard Collier
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781800325913
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781800325913
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A World in Flames
Author: Martha Byrd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Emphasizing the military history of the war, this battle-by-battle survey recounts such campaigns as Stalingrad, Omaha Beach, and the Battle of the Atlantic.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Emphasizing the military history of the war, this battle-by-battle survey recounts such campaigns as Stalingrad, Omaha Beach, and the Battle of the Atlantic.
The World in Flames
Author: Frans Coetzee
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 9780195174410
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An edited volume of primary sources from the Second World War, The World in Flames: A World War II Sourcebook is the first of its kind to provide an ambitious and wide-ranging survey of the war in a convenient and comprehensive package. Conveying the sheer scale and reach of the conflict, the book's twelve chapters include sufficient narrative and analysis to enable students to grasp both the war's broad outlines and the context and significance of each particular source.
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 9780195174410
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An edited volume of primary sources from the Second World War, The World in Flames: A World War II Sourcebook is the first of its kind to provide an ambitious and wide-ranging survey of the war in a convenient and comprehensive package. Conveying the sheer scale and reach of the conflict, the book's twelve chapters include sufficient narrative and analysis to enable students to grasp both the war's broad outlines and the context and significance of each particular source.
A World in Flames
Author: Knut Flovik Thoresen
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1662463790
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
This book is about a different time. A time when the world was on fire. A time when a poor choice of a road taken could have dramatic consequences for the rest of one's life as it was for Bjarne Dramstad. During World War II, Bjarne was a front fighter in service with Hitler's Norwegian Legion on the Eastern front. He tells here of his ill-fated choice--about the horrors of war fought in the trenches and about the judgement that he received after the war. He tells of the treatment he got while in prison, which was considered this traitor's reward and the problems he faced upon his release. He was tormented with the long-lasting memories of his own past. Bjarne survived the bullet rain in the trenches surrounding Leningrad. But he had seen up close how many of his comrades had met death. For Bjarne Dramstad, the war had never ended.
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1662463790
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
This book is about a different time. A time when the world was on fire. A time when a poor choice of a road taken could have dramatic consequences for the rest of one's life as it was for Bjarne Dramstad. During World War II, Bjarne was a front fighter in service with Hitler's Norwegian Legion on the Eastern front. He tells here of his ill-fated choice--about the horrors of war fought in the trenches and about the judgement that he received after the war. He tells of the treatment he got while in prison, which was considered this traitor's reward and the problems he faced upon his release. He was tormented with the long-lasting memories of his own past. Bjarne survived the bullet rain in the trenches surrounding Leningrad. But he had seen up close how many of his comrades had met death. For Bjarne Dramstad, the war had never ended.
A World in Flames
Author: Martin Kitchen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317900952
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
A concise account of the war - including the war in Asia and the Pacific as well as the European arena. Covers the formation of the victorious Grand Alliance and to the problems that beset it, and to Nazi Germany's relations with its allies.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317900952
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
A concise account of the war - including the war in Asia and the Pacific as well as the European arena. Covers the formation of the victorious Grand Alliance and to the problems that beset it, and to Nazi Germany's relations with its allies.
The World in Flames
Author: Jerald Walker
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807036080
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
A lively memoir of growing up with blind African American parents in a segregated cult preaching the imminent end of the world—for fans of James McBride’s The Good Lord Bird. It’s 1970, and Jerry Walker is six years old. His consciousness revolves around being a member of a church whose beliefs he finds not only confusing but terrifying. Composed of a hodgepodge of requirements and restrictions—including a prohibition against doctors and hospitals—the underpinning tenet of Herbert W. Armstrong’s Worldwide Church of God was that its members were divinely chosen and all others would soon perish in rivers of flames. The substantial membership was ruled by fear, intimidation, and threats. Anyone who dared leave the church would endure hardship for the remainder of this life and eternal suffering in the next. The next life, according to Armstrong, would arrive in 1975, three years after the start of the Great Tribulation. Jerry would be eleven years old. Jerry’s parents were particularly vulnerable to the promise of relief from the world’s hardships. When they joined the church, in 1960, they were living in a two-room apartment in a dangerous Chicago housing project with the first four of their seven children, and, most significantly, they both were blind, having lost their sight to childhood accidents. They took comfort in the belief that they had been chosen for a special afterlife, even if it meant following a religion with a white supremacist ideology and dutifully sending tithes to Armstrong, whose church boasted more than 100,000 members and more than $80 million in annual revenues at its height. When the prophecy of the 1972 Great Tribulation does not materialize, Jerry is considerably less disappointed than relieved. When the 1975 end-time prophecy also fails, he finally begins to question his faith and imagine the possibility of choosing a destiny of his own.
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807036080
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
A lively memoir of growing up with blind African American parents in a segregated cult preaching the imminent end of the world—for fans of James McBride’s The Good Lord Bird. It’s 1970, and Jerry Walker is six years old. His consciousness revolves around being a member of a church whose beliefs he finds not only confusing but terrifying. Composed of a hodgepodge of requirements and restrictions—including a prohibition against doctors and hospitals—the underpinning tenet of Herbert W. Armstrong’s Worldwide Church of God was that its members were divinely chosen and all others would soon perish in rivers of flames. The substantial membership was ruled by fear, intimidation, and threats. Anyone who dared leave the church would endure hardship for the remainder of this life and eternal suffering in the next. The next life, according to Armstrong, would arrive in 1975, three years after the start of the Great Tribulation. Jerry would be eleven years old. Jerry’s parents were particularly vulnerable to the promise of relief from the world’s hardships. When they joined the church, in 1960, they were living in a two-room apartment in a dangerous Chicago housing project with the first four of their seven children, and, most significantly, they both were blind, having lost their sight to childhood accidents. They took comfort in the belief that they had been chosen for a special afterlife, even if it meant following a religion with a white supremacist ideology and dutifully sending tithes to Armstrong, whose church boasted more than 100,000 members and more than $80 million in annual revenues at its height. When the prophecy of the 1972 Great Tribulation does not materialize, Jerry is considerably less disappointed than relieved. When the 1975 end-time prophecy also fails, he finally begins to question his faith and imagine the possibility of choosing a destiny of his own.
A World After Liberalism
Author: Matthew Rose
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300243111
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
A bracing account of liberalism's most radical critics introducing one of the most controversial movements of the twentieth century "One of the best discussions of the extreme right's intellectual foundations that I have ever read."--George Hawley, author of Making Sense of the Alt-Right "One of the best books I've read this year. . . . Its importance at this critical moment in our history cannot be overstated."--Rod Dreher, American Conservative In this eye-opening book, Matthew Rose introduces us to one of the most controversial intellectual movements of the twentieth century, the "radical right," and discusses its adherents' different attempts to imagine political societies after the death or decline of liberalism. Questioning democracy's most basic norms and practices, these critics rejected ideas about human equality, minority rights, religious toleration, and cultural pluralism not out of implicit biases, but out of explicit principle. They disagree profoundly on race, religion, economics, and political strategy, but they all agree that a postliberal political life will soon be possible. Focusing on the work of Oswald Spengler, Julius Evola, Francis Parker Yockey, Alain de Benoist, and Samuel Francis, Rose shows how such thinkers are animated by religious aspirations and anxieties that are ultimately in tension with Christian teachings and the secular values those teachings birthed in modernity.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300243111
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
A bracing account of liberalism's most radical critics introducing one of the most controversial movements of the twentieth century "One of the best discussions of the extreme right's intellectual foundations that I have ever read."--George Hawley, author of Making Sense of the Alt-Right "One of the best books I've read this year. . . . Its importance at this critical moment in our history cannot be overstated."--Rod Dreher, American Conservative In this eye-opening book, Matthew Rose introduces us to one of the most controversial intellectual movements of the twentieth century, the "radical right," and discusses its adherents' different attempts to imagine political societies after the death or decline of liberalism. Questioning democracy's most basic norms and practices, these critics rejected ideas about human equality, minority rights, religious toleration, and cultural pluralism not out of implicit biases, but out of explicit principle. They disagree profoundly on race, religion, economics, and political strategy, but they all agree that a postliberal political life will soon be possible. Focusing on the work of Oswald Spengler, Julius Evola, Francis Parker Yockey, Alain de Benoist, and Samuel Francis, Rose shows how such thinkers are animated by religious aspirations and anxieties that are ultimately in tension with Christian teachings and the secular values those teachings birthed in modernity.
Valhalla in Flames
Author: Gary Lucas
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1456792784
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The nightmare scenario. Historys most vile mass murderer leaves the world a son, a twisted psychopath, pledged to carry on his fathers work and to once again bring forth dark forces to complete the unfinished task. Like his father, possession of the Holy Grail and the misuse of its mythical powers consumes him. Unlike his father, he succeeds in finding it. He hatches a shocking and audacious plan to forge the future of Europe with himself at its head. only the Grail Keepers can stop him. But the members of the ancient order, a once proud and noble fighting force, are weak and in disarray. Can they re-invent themselves in time to save the world from a second Adolf Hitler?
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1456792784
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The nightmare scenario. Historys most vile mass murderer leaves the world a son, a twisted psychopath, pledged to carry on his fathers work and to once again bring forth dark forces to complete the unfinished task. Like his father, possession of the Holy Grail and the misuse of its mythical powers consumes him. Unlike his father, he succeeds in finding it. He hatches a shocking and audacious plan to forge the future of Europe with himself at its head. only the Grail Keepers can stop him. But the members of the ancient order, a once proud and noble fighting force, are weak and in disarray. Can they re-invent themselves in time to save the world from a second Adolf Hitler?
Democratic Accountability
Author: Leif Lewin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674024755
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
It is common for political leaders to claim they have no control over bad outcomes. Indeed, they often cite the arguments of political theorists and public intellectuals as to why: history rushes onward oblivious of human will; force and violence overcome political aims; globalization undermines the actions of national leaders; the bureaucracy sabotages their intentions; bad outcomes are often the unintended result of actions. In Democratic Accountability, Leif Lewin examines these reasons and argues that they are unconvincing. He makes his case by describing and analyzing counterexamples in seven cases, including the prevention of a communist takeover in Europe after World War II, the European Union's preventing another European war, and Margaret Thatcher's taming of the bureaucracy in Britain. In a staunch defense of the possibility for meaningful and profound democratic decision making, Lewin finds that, in fact, not only do political leaders exert a good measure of control and therefore can be assigned responsibility, but the meaning of the functioning democracy is that the people hold their leaders accountable.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674024755
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
It is common for political leaders to claim they have no control over bad outcomes. Indeed, they often cite the arguments of political theorists and public intellectuals as to why: history rushes onward oblivious of human will; force and violence overcome political aims; globalization undermines the actions of national leaders; the bureaucracy sabotages their intentions; bad outcomes are often the unintended result of actions. In Democratic Accountability, Leif Lewin examines these reasons and argues that they are unconvincing. He makes his case by describing and analyzing counterexamples in seven cases, including the prevention of a communist takeover in Europe after World War II, the European Union's preventing another European war, and Margaret Thatcher's taming of the bureaucracy in Britain. In a staunch defense of the possibility for meaningful and profound democratic decision making, Lewin finds that, in fact, not only do political leaders exert a good measure of control and therefore can be assigned responsibility, but the meaning of the functioning democracy is that the people hold their leaders accountable.