Download or read book Long Shadow of Finland s Fuehrer written by Iiro Nordling and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HIstory of Finland is not well understood by outsiders. Especially during the Cold War there was a special culture. Many things were underdstood between the lines - by Finns. Under President Kekkonen (1956-1981) Finland adapted to reality of the Soviet Union. Kekkonen managed to keep people behind his foreign policy. However, there was supressed anticommunist subculture flourishing. It was not found in the universities, but many patriotic people were not happy with the official propaganda. History was told in a new light. For example Finns were expected to thank Soviet Union for extorting heavy War compensations from Finland. Finns knew that it was Soviet Union that attacked Finland in 1939. Soviet Union had also pact with Germany. Truth was twisted. School books and TV programs gave credit to Soviet Union for helping Finland develope industrially through these War compensations - which would in normal conditions be considered unjust. Soviets demanded ships and other big industrial products. War veterans didn't have time to go to universities. They worked hard to save Finland after the war by paying these War compensations. It was a grand strategy created by our wise leaders. Finland defended herself by not giving any reason for Soviet Union to interfere more directly. Soviet Union had a military base near Helsinki in Porkkala until 1955. Finland became heavily dependent on Soviet trade. Level of trade with Soviet union was many times around 15-25% of total. That reality gave Soviets weapon to pressure Finland. Soviet Union for example reacted to rise of Finland trade with Western Germany in 1958. Finland's trade with West Germany had reached the level of trade with Soviet Union. Situation reached critical phase in the 1970s. Soviet Union squeezed Finland heavily. A security guard of Kekkonen remembered that they already prepared to use real bullits if communists try to take over the country. That time there was an overly ambitious Soviet ambassador who seemed to orchestrate a communist revolution in Finland. Finns were thinking that they have to fight again alone. No help from the Western powers was pouring to Chechs in 1968. This book is about Pekka Siitoin. He organized terror campaigns against communist newspapers. THey called and threatened editors and sent smoke bombs etc. It escalated and a member of his group burned down Soviet paid printing house in 1976. Siitoin was sentenced to prison for that. Finland was outwardly submissive. However, after Siitoin was realeased from prison he was even advocating Fascist authoritarian system for Finland. He appointed himself the Fuehrer of Finland. Swastika flag was placed on top of his house in Naantali. This all was tolerated by our government at that time. Germany and Austria and even Britain jailed rightticians in the eighties. Their crime had been only wrong opinions and perhaps support of Hitler. In Finland swastika is still allowed symbol. Some neighbour may complain if someone uses swastika flag as his curtain. However it is not crimilized. I saw israeli flags as curtains also 25 years ago. Nowadays immigrants would not tolerate such. There are always some who use swastika flags, mostly visibly to cause a reaction. Iiro Nordling, the author of this book has studied political history and also moved in poltical circles since the 1990s. Many insights in this book are gained through listening political gossips from left and right. He knew personally Pekka Siitoin who asked him to author an authorized biography of him. This book is a must for everyone who wants to understand Finland's political culture and recent rise of extrerme right wing. Finland elite tries to hide these ideas from outsiders. There are many projects to uplift the image of Finland. We are portrayed as the happiest people or our educational system is applouded. This book is bound to straighten that biased picture in everyone's mind.
Download or read book The Long Shadow written by David Reynolds and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Britain we have lost touch with the Great War. Our overriding sense now is of a meaningless, futile bloodbath in the mud of Flanders -- of young men whose lives were cut off in their prime for no evident purpose. But by reducing the conflict to personal tragedies, however moving, we have lost the big picture: the history has been distilled into poetry. In TheLong Shadow, critically acclaimed author David Reynolds seeks to redress the balance by exploring the true impact of 1914-18 on the 20th century. Some of the Great War's legacies were negative and pernicious but others proved transformative in a positive sense. Exploring big themes such as democracy and empire, nationalism and capitalism and re-examining the differing impacts of the War on Britain, Ireland and the United States,TheLong Shadowthrows light on the whole of the last century and demonstrates that 1914-18 is a conflict that Britain, more than any other nation, is still struggling to comprehend. Stunningly broad in its historical perspective, The Long Shadowis a magisterial and seismic re-presentation of the Great War.
Download or read book On the Other Side written by Mathilde Wolff-Mönckeberg and published by Persephone Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features letters written (but never posted) by a 60 year-old woman, to her children living abroad, about the experience of living in Hamburg during the war. Discovered in a drawer in the 1970s, they were translated by her daughter, the late Ruth Evans, and first published in England and Germany in 1979.
Download or read book To Dream of Shadows written by Steve N Lee and published by Blue Zoo. This book was released on 2023-04-13 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: >>> Special Discount Price for Book Launch <<< She’ll save hundreds of lives. But can she save her own? Inspired by a previously untold true story. 1943, Eastern Europe. 18-year-old Czech, Inge is torn from her family and imprisoned in some godforsaken hellhole. Starved and abused, she battles through month after month of torturous labor while praying for liberation by the Allies. But rescue never comes. And her dream of surviving the war dies. Heinz, an SS Sergeant, has been force-fed the Third Reich's poisonous philosophy since childhood. As a boy, he had no choice but to believe it, however, nowadays, he uses his position to covertly help prisoners. So when a random act of kindness thrusts Inge and Heinz together, they can't resist being drawn to one another. And it turns their world upside-down. Unable to deny their feelings, they dare to dream of a future, a life… together. But their relationship does not go unnoticed. For Inge and Heinz, falling in love becomes a death sentence. And not just for them, but for all those they care about. Unless… Inge can make an unthinkable sacrifice. Inspired by a previously untold true story of a forbidden love, To Dream Of Shadows is an epic tale of compassion, sacrifice, and the strength of the human spirit. For fans of Beneath a Scarlet Sky, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Schindler's List, and The Nightingale, To Dream Of Shadows is one of the most heartwarming, heartbreaking, and heroic tales of the Holocaust. Click Buy Now! Praise for Steve N Lee’s books: ★★★★★ “Emotional, heart-wrenching and heartwarming. I was lost in this story from the very beginning. It’s beautifully written and will stay with me for a long, long time.” Curled Up With A Good Book (book blog) ★★★★★ “A good fast-paced read with a fabulous female lead.” Julie Elizabeth Powell ★★★★★ “A beautiful, touching, and heartwarming story. The author is masterful at crafting a page-turning novel. He creates such real characters and scenes.” Paula Lopez ★★★★★ “I loved the strong female character. She kept me turning the pages fast.” DarcyYa ★★★★★ “A story that is equal parts intense beauty and heart wrenching agony… I know I’ll still think of this story years down the road.” Insatiable Readers (book blog) ★★★★★ “A great intro to a great character. There’s action a plenty as well as beautifully described scenes that really ‘take you’ to the places described.” Mr. Christopher A. Wells ★★★★★ “Simply wow! The author writes so descriptively you can hear, feel, smell and almost taste what is happening in the story.” Sheryl Painter Click Buy Now!
Download or read book NationEUrope written by Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha and published by Nomos Verlag. This book was released on 2018-10-29 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 60 Jahre nach ihren Anfängen sieht sich die EU heute nicht nur mit europäischen und globalen Herausforderungen, sondern auch mit der Möglichkeit ihres Zerfalls konfrontiert. In diesem Band befassen sich die Autorinnen und Autoren mit den Spannungen in Europa sowie deren Auswirkungen auf die globale Gemeinschaft und die Demokratie. Sie versuchen, Lösungen aufzuzeigen, die die 'Nation Europa' aus ihrer Existenzkrise herausführen können. Mit Beiträgen von Megha Amrith, Hatem Atallah, Benjamin R. Barber, Lajos Bokros, György Dalos, Jeroen Doomernik, Elisa Ferreira, Ulrike Guérot und Tim Kappelt, Pál Hatos, Ireneusz Paweł Karolewski und Roland Benedikter, Peter Murray, Werner J. Patzelt, Jordi Solé i Ferrando, Ece Temelkuran und Loukas Tsoukalis.
Download or read book German Northern Theater of Operations 1940 1945 Illustrated Edition written by Earl Ziemke and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Includes 23 maps and 31 illustrations] This volume describes two campaigns that the Germans conducted in their Northern Theater of Operations. The first they launched, on 9 April 1940, against Denmark and Norway. The second they conducted out of Finland in partnership with the Finns against the Soviet Union. The latter campaign began on 22 June 1941 and ended in the winter of 1944-45 after the Finnish Government had sued for peace. The scene of these campaigns by the end of 1941 stretched from the North Sea to the Arctic Ocean and from Bergen on the west coast of Norway, to Petrozavodsk, the former capital of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic. It faced east into the Soviet Union on a 700-mile-long front, and west on a 1,300-mile sea frontier. Hitler regarded this theater as the keystone of his empire, and, after 1941, maintained in it two armies totaling over a half million men. In spite of its vast area and the effort and worry which Hitler lavished on it, the Northern Theater throughout most of the war constituted something of a military backwater. The major operations which took place in the theater were overshadowed by events on other fronts, and public attention focused on the theaters in which the strategically decisive operations were expected to take place. Remoteness, German security measures, and the Russians’ well-known penchant for secrecy combined to keep information concerning the Northern Theater down to a mere trickle, much of that inaccurate. Since the war, through official and private publications, a great deal more has become known. The present volume is based in the main on the greatest remaining source of unexploited information, the captured German military and naval records. In addition a number of the participants on the German side have very generously contributed from their personal knowledge and experience.
Download or read book Half Blood Blues written by Esi Edugyan and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize Man Booker Prize Finalist 2011 An Oprah Magazine Best Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction Berlin, 1939. The Hot Time Swingers, a popular jazz band, has been forbidden to play by the Nazis. Their young trumpet-player Hieronymus Falk, declared a musical genius by none other than Louis Armstrong, is arrested in a Paris café. He is never heard from again. He was twenty years old, a German citizen. And he was black. Berlin, 1952. Falk is a jazz legend. Hot Time Swingers band members Sid Griffiths and Chip Jones, both African Americans from Baltimore, have appeared in a documentary about Falk. When they are invited to attend the film's premier, Sid's role in Falk's fate will be questioned and the two old musicians set off on a surprising and strange journey. From the smoky bars of pre-war Berlin to the salons of Paris, Sid leads the reader through a fascinating, little-known world as he describes the friendships, love affairs and treacheries that led to Falk's incarceration in Sachsenhausen. Esi Edugyan's Half-Blood Blues is a story about music and race, love and loyalty, and the sacrifices we ask of ourselves, and demand of others, in the name of art.
Download or read book Red Shadow written by Paul Dowswell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russia, 1940. Fifteen-year-old Misha's life is about to transform when his father is offered a job in Stalin's inner circle. They move into a luxurious apartment in the Kremlin, but doubts about the glorious new Russia quickly surface. Misha realises that the secret police can do whatever they like. His own mother is arrested and sent to prison, but Misha and his father daren't complain. Then as German troops advance on Moscow, the atmosphere in the Kremlin ignites. Misha and a friend find themselves at the heart of a battle against the mighty state in this powerful evocation of one of the most turbulent places and periods of the 20th century, told by a master storyteller.
Download or read book Bertolt Brecht A Literary Life written by Stephen Parker and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first English language biography of Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) in two decades paints a strikingly new picture of one of the twentieth century's most controversial cultural icons. Drawing on letters, diaries and unpublished material, including Brecht's medical records, Parker offers a rich and enthralling account of Brecht's life and work, viewed through the prism of the artist. Tracing his extraordinary life, from his formative years in Augsburg, through the First World War, his politicisation during the Weimar Republic and his years of exile, up to the Berliner Ensemble's dazzling productions in Paris and London, Parker shows how Brecht achieved his transformative effect upon world theatre and poetry. Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life is a powerful portrait of a great, compulsively contradictory personality, whose artistry left its lasting imprint on modern culture.
Download or read book Babson s Business Service written by Babson's Statistical Organization and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Olympic Studies written by H. Lenskyj and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-04-11 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, state-of-the-art reference collection, bringing together an authoritative and international line-up of scholars to examine key social and political issues related to the Olympics. An essential, 'one-stop' volume for a wide range of academics, students and researchers.
Download or read book The Guns at Last Light written by Rick Atkinson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the twentieth century's unrivaled epic: at a staggering price, the United States and its allies liberated Europe and vanquished Hitler. In the first two volumes of his bestselling Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson recounted how they fought through North Africa and Italy to the threshold of victory. Now he tells the most dramatic story of all--the titanic battle for Western Europe. D-Day marked the commencement of the European war's final campaign, and Atkinson's riveting account of that bold gamble sets the pace for the masterly narrative that follows. The brutal fight in Normandy, the liberation of Paris, the disaster that was Operation Market Garden, the horrific Battle of the Bulge, and finally the thrust to the heart of the Third Reich--all these historic events and more come alive with a wealth of new material and a mesmerizing cast of characters. With The Guns at Last Light, the stirring #1 New York Times bestseller and final volume of this monumental trilogy, Atkinson has produced the definitive chronicle of the war that unshackled a continent and preserved freedom in the West.
Download or read book Foreign Correspondence written by and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New Public Diplomacy written by J. Melissen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-11-22 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After 9/11, which triggered a global debate on public diplomacy, 'PD' has become an issue in most countries. This book joins the debate. Experts from different countries and from a variety of fields analyze the theory and practice of public diplomacy. They also evaluate how public diplomacy can be successfully used to support foreign policy.
Download or read book Is That a Fish in Your Ear written by David Bellos and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year People speak different languages, and always have. The Ancient Greeks took no notice of anything unless it was said in Greek; the Romans made everyone speak Latin; and in India, people learned their neighbors' languages—as did many ordinary Europeans in times past (Christopher Columbus knew Italian, Portuguese, and Castilian Spanish as well as the classical languages). But today, we all use translation to cope with the diversity of languages. Without translation there would be no world news, not much of a reading list in any subject at college, no repair manuals for cars or planes; we wouldn't even be able to put together flat-pack furniture. Is That a Fish in Your Ear? ranges across the whole of human experience, from foreign films to philosophy, to show why translation is at the heart of what we do and who we are. Among many other things, David Bellos asks: What's the difference between translating unprepared natural speech and translating Madame Bovary? How do you translate a joke? What's the difference between a native tongue and a learned one? Can you translate between any pair of languages, or only between some? What really goes on when world leaders speak at the UN? Can machines ever replace human translators, and if not, why? But the biggest question Bellos asks is this: How do we ever really know that we've understood what anybody else says—in our own language or in another? Surprising, witty, and written with great joie de vivre, this book is all about how we comprehend other people and shows us how, ultimately, translation is another name for the human condition.
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 1134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Download or read book Black Edelweiss written by Johann Voss and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a 20-year old Waffen-SS veteran of two years' combat against the Soviets and Americans is confronted with the awful, undeniable truth of the Holocaust, he must reconcile it with his pride in his comrades' battlefield sacrifices. The author served in SS Mountain Infantry Regiment 11 Reinhard Heydrich, part of 6th SS Mountain Division Nord. The book is mostly an account of his extensive combat service against the Soviets in northern Karelia and Finland, with a shorter section describing combat against the Americans in the Vosges and in the Saar-Moselle triangle. Voss reflects on the totality of his wartime experiences, from the origins of his reasons for enlisting in the Waffen-SS to his experiences in US captivity. The result is a compelling and honest account.
