knopf doubleday publishing group okt 2005 (6 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One hundred years after the first publication of 'The Voysey Inheritance, 'David Mamet resurrects Harley Granville-Barker's classic investigation into the capitalist soul in this brilliant adaptation.For generations, the Voysey family business has been secretly skimming money from its clients' accounts. When Edward, designated to take over the firm from his aging father, discovers the embezzlement that has been keeping his relatives in a life of luxury, he must weigh the trappings of wealth and the imperative to preserve his family's good name against the better principles of his conscience. But moral righteousness turns to self-protection when he comes to understand fully the consequences of his 'inheritance.'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Fans of Thirteen Reasons Why, Running with Scissors, and Girl, Interrupted will be entranced by this remarkable true story of teenage despair and recovery. [The Burn Journals] describes a particular kind of youthful male desolation better than it has ever been described before, by anyone. Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday DemonIn 1991, fourteen-year-old Brent Runyon came home from school, doused his bathrobe in gasoline, put it on, and lit a match.He suffered third-degree burns over 85% of his body and spent the next year recovering in hospitals and rehab facilities. During that year of physical recovery, Runyon began to question what he d done, undertaking the complicated journey from near-death back to high school, and from suicide back to the emotional mainstream of life.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER A landmark work about grief, love, and survival from one of America s most iconic writersOne of The New York Times s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century One of The Guardian s 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyJoan Didion delivers a searing portrait of a marriage and a life in good times and bad that will speak to anyone who has ever loved and lost a husband or wife or child. In a work of electric honesty and passion, Didion explores how we all, somehow, will ourselves to survive. An utterly shattering portrait of loss and grief. The New York TimesSeveral days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana Roo, fall ill with septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later, the Dunnes were sitting down to dinner after visiting their daughter in the hospital when John suffered a fatal heart attack. In that one moment, their partnership of forty years came to an end. This powerful narrative is Didion's attempt to make sense of the weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness about marriage and children and memory about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself. Didion has transformed grief into literature. The Guardian.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - During the Nuremberg trials, Leon Goldensohn a U.S. Army psychiatrist monitored the mental health of two dozen Germans leaders charged with carrying out genocide. These recorded conversations went largely unexamined for more than fifty years, until Robert Gellately one of the premier historians of Nazi Germany made them available to the public in this remarkable collection. Here are interviews with the likes of Hans Frank, Hermann Goering, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, and Joachim von Ribbentrop the highest ranking Nazi officials in the Nuremberg jails. Here too are interviews with lesser-known officials essential to the inner workings of the Third Reich. Candid and often shockingly truthful,The Nuremberg Interviewsis a profound addition to our understanding of the Nazi mind and mission.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is epic story of the last eight months of World War II in Europe by one of Britain's most highly regarded military historians, whose accounts of past battles John Keegan has described as worthy 'to stand with that of the best journalists and writers' (New York Times Book Review).In September 1944, the Allies believed that Hitler's army was beaten, and expected that the war would be over by Christmas. But the disastrous Allied airborne landing in Holland, American setbacks on the German border and in the Hürtgen Forest, together with the bitter Battle of the Bulge, drastically altered that timetable. Hastings tells the story of both the Eastern and Western Fronts, and paints a vivid portrait of the Red Army's onslaught on Hitler's empire. He has searched the archives of the major combatants and interviewed 170 survivors to give us an unprecedented understanding of how the great battles were fought, and of their human impact on American, British, German, and Russian soldiers and civilians.Hastings raises provocative questions: Were the Western Allied cause and campaign compromised by a desire to get the Soviets to do most of the fighting Why were the Russians and Germans more effective soldiers than the Americans and British Why did the bombing of Germany's cities continue until the last weeks of the war, when it could no longer influence the outcome Why did the Germans prove more fanatical foes than the Japanese, fighting to the bitter end This book also contains vivid portraits of Stalin, Churchill, Eisenhower, Montgomery, and the other giants of the struggle.The crucial final months of the twentieth century's greatest global conflict come alive in this rousing and revelatory chronicle.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An updated edition that sheds new light on one of the most dramatic reversals of military fortune in modern history.The easing of Israeli military censorship after four decades has enabled Abraham Rabinovich to offer fresh insights into this fiercest of Israel-Arab conflicts. A surprise Arab attack on two fronts on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, with Israel's reserves un-mobilized, triggered apocalyptic visions in Israel, euphoria in the Arab world, and fraught debates on both sides. Rabinovich, who covered the war for The Jerusalem Post, draws on extensive interviews and primary source material to shape his enthralling narrative. We learn of two Egyptian nationals, working separately for the Mossad, who supplied Israel with key information that helped change the course of the war; of Defense Minister Moshe Dayan's proposal for a nuclear 'demonstration' to warn off the Arabs; and of Chief of Staff David Elazar's conclusion on the fifth day of battle that Israel could not win. Newly available transcripts enable us to follow the decision-making process in real time from the prime minister's office to commanders studying maps in the field. After almost overrunning the Golan Heights, the Syrian attack is broken in desperate battles. And as Israel regains its psychological balance, General Ariel Sharon leads a nighttime counterattack across the Suez Canal through a narrow hole in the Egyptian line -- the turning point of the war.