Сюжет книги основан на потрясшей мир подлинной истории нашумевшего киднеппинга. Он повествует о трагедии отца, обычного жителя глубинки, который хотел вернуть домой похищенного сына. Автор исследовал тему на месте. Три поездки на Кубу и в Венесуэлу, изучение более 130 документальных источников, пролили свет на некогда темные стороны знаменитого судебного процесса. Команданте Фидель Кастро не случайно назвал возвращение 6-летнего Элиана на родину ...
Es hat geschneit. Auf den Wehrmauern liegt wei?er Schimmer, als der junge Barthel die Wartburg erreicht. Im Auftrag seines Meisters Lucas Cranach soll er Briefe an Martin Luther uberbringen. Darunter ein Hilferuf vom Wittenberger Stadtrat: Es herrscht Chaos, Tag fur Tag nimmt die Unruhe in der Stadt zu. Luthers Widersacher haben das Heft an sich gerissen – auch Thomas Muntzer, einstiger Verbundeter des Reformators, fordert den gewaltsamen Aufsta ...
Amusante und auch nachdenkliche Geschichten von bekannten bayrischen Autoren lassen die gute alte Zeit wieder aufleben. Aufwandig mit authentischen Gerauschen und passender Musik produziert. ...
Nach der Lekture von Frank Witzels preisgekrontem Roman «Die Erfindung der Roten Armee Fraktion durch einen manisch-depressiven Teenager im Sommer 1969» pragte der Historiker und Kulturwissenschaftler Philipp Felsch den Begriff «BRD Noir» fur die Epoche zwischen Nachkriegszeit und Wende. Im Studiogesprach spuren die beiden Autoren mit Witz und Verve der Dusternis und dem Grauen nach, die unter der glitzernden Oberflache der sich im Aufbau befind ...
It's the summer of 1936, and the writer Stefan Zweig is in crisis. His German publisher no longer wants him, his marriage is collapsing, and his home in Austria has been seized. He's been dreaming of Ostend, the Belgian beach town. So he journeys there with his new lover, Lotte Altmann, and reunites with his semi-estranged fellow writer and close friend Joseph Roth. For a moment, they create a fragile paradise. But as Europe begins to ...
After the death of his parents, Jim was sent to live with his grandparents in Black Hawk Nebraska. There he befriended Antonia, the daughter of Bohemian immigrants. Years later, Jim, now a successful lawyer in New York, returns to his childhood home and Antonia. Jim's love for Antonia has endured, much as she herself has endured tragic circumstances. ...
Alexandra Bergsons, the daughter of Swedish immigrants, inherits her family's ailing farm in Hanover, Nebraska upon the death of her father. Over the years, she turns the farm into a successful enterprise. However, success has not brought peace, as passion and love intervene. ...
Originally published anonymously in 1912, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man revealed as never before the color line dividing America, and the price it exacted on those souls who could traverse the two worlds. The book presents the fictional account of 'an ex-colored man' – an African-American who could pass for white – as he attempts to choose which side of the line will better suit his life, and his psyche. Later republished ...
Major Carteret is the white owner of the biggest newspaper in Wellington, a racially segregated city in the post-Civil War South. Carteret, along with other powerful white men in Wellington, are outraged that an editorial published the town's black newspaper has questioned the justification for lynchings. As racial tension mounts, Carteret struggles on the domestic front. His wife and child are unwell and his niece, Clara, is courted by Tom ...
