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Book She Came from Mariupol

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  • Author : Natascha Wodin
  • Publisher : MSU Press
  • Release : 2022-04-01
  • ISBN : 1628954566
  • Pages : 307 pages

Download or read book She Came from Mariupol written by Natascha Wodin and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2022-04-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2017 LEIPZIG BOOK FAIR PRIZE—When Natascha Wodin’s mother died, Natascha was only ten years old—too young to find out what her mother had experienced during World War II. All the little girl knew was that they were detritus, human debris left over from the war. Years later, Natascha set out on a quest to find out what happened to her mother during that time. Why had they lived in a camp for “displaced persons”? Where did her mother come from? What had she experienced? The one thing she knew is that her parents had to leave Mariupol in Ukraine for Germany as part of the Nazi forced labor program in 1943. Armed with this limited knowledge, Natascha resolved to piece together the puzzle of her family’s past. The result is a highly praised, beautiful piece of prose that has drawn comparisons to W. G. Sebald in its approach. Like Sebald, Natascha’s aim is to reclaim the stories of those who can no longer speak for themselves. The author is not only in search of her own family’s history, but she is also aware that she is charting unmarked territory: accounts of the plight of forced laborers and displaced persons are still a rarity within literature about World War II and its atrocities. Natascha’s personal homage to her mother’s life story is an important lyrical memorial for the thousands of Eastern Europeans who were forced to leave their homes and work in Germany during the war, and a moving reflection of the plight of displaced peoples throughout the ages. This is a darkly radiant account of one person’s fate, developing momentous emotive power—its subject serves as a proxy for the fate of millions.

Book After Memory

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  • Author : Matthias Schwartz
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Release : 2021-06-08
  • ISBN : 311071387X
  • Pages : 460 pages

Download or read book After Memory written by Matthias Schwartz and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even seventy-five years after the end of World War II, the commemorative cultures surrounding the War and the Holocaust in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe are anything but fixed. The fierce debates on how to deal with the past among the newly constituted nation states in these regions have already received much attention by scholars in cultural and memory studies. The present volume posits that literature as a medium can help us understand the shifting attitudes towards World War II and the Holocaust in post-Communist Europe in recent years. These shifts point to new commemorative cultures shaping up ‘after memory’. Contemporary literary representations of World War II and the Holocaust in Eastern Europe do not merely extend or replace older practices of remembrance and testimony, but reflect on these now defunct or superseded narratives. New narratives of remembrance are conditioned by a fundamentally new social and political context, one that emerged from the devaluation of socialist commemorative rituals and as a response to the loss of private and family memory narratives. The volume offers insights into the diverse literatures of Eastern Europe and their ways of depicting the area’s contested heritage.

Book Edinburgh German Yearbook 15

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  • Author : Jenny Watson
  • Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
  • Release : 2022-09-20
  • ISBN : 1640141197
  • Pages : 297 pages

Download or read book Edinburgh German Yearbook 15 written by Jenny Watson and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconsidering the German tendency to define itself vis-à-vis an eastern Other in light of fresh debate regarding the Second World War, this volume and the cultural products it considers expose and question Germany's relationship with its imagined East.

Book Mariupol 2013 2022

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  • Author : Hana Josticova
  • Publisher : Central European University Press
  • Release : 2024-07-10
  • ISBN : 9633867657
  • Pages : 233 pages

Download or read book Mariupol 2013 2022 written by Hana Josticova and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-10 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chapters in this book represent successive phases of one story – that of Mariupol, formerly Ukraine’s tenth largest city, and the second largest in the Donbas region. The author, a young Slovak academic, conducted her ethnographic fieldwork in this coastal town between November 2018 and August 2021. She was one of the last academics to do research in Mariupol before its invasion and eventual occupation by Russia. During these years, Hana Jošticová was overwhelmed by acts of mobilization and resistance that went in opposite directions: support for a Western direction of Ukraine’s future, and support for the status quo that the victory of the Euromaidan seemed to threaten. She noted the sequence of events presented in the media and through the lens of individual frames and narratives. Her book is a collection and interpretation of memories and testimonies from both sides: those who actively resisted Russian influence; and those who sparked their own revolution, the ‘Russian Spring.’ Her focus is on self-mobilized individuals who resorted to action outside of established organizational structures spontaneously, autonomously, without resources and guarantees of safety. Her evidence indicates that popular support for the Russian Spring had less to do with Russia than with the social, economic, or cultural characteristics of the Donetsk region. Years of immersive research convinced the author that individuals are as important as masses, ideas are as powerful as material resources, and beliefs and emotions are as critical as weapons.

Book The Mediterranean Fleet  1919 1929

Download or read book The Mediterranean Fleet 1919 1929 written by Paul Halpern and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the end of the First World War the Mediterranean Fleet found itself heavily involved in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Sea of Marmora, the Black Sea and to a lesser extent, the Adriatic. Naval commanders were faced with complex problems in a situation of neither war nor peace. The collapse of the Ottoman, Russian and Habsburg empires created a vacuum of power in which different factions struggled for control or influence. In the Black Sea this involved the Royal Navy in intervention in 1919 and 1920 on the side of those Russians fighting the Bolsheviks. By 1920 the Allies were also faced with the challenge of the Turkish nationalists, culminating in the Chanak crisis of 1922. The 1923 Treaty of Lausanne enabled the Mediterranean Fleet finally to return to a peacetime routine, although there was renewed threat of war over Mosul in 1925-1926. These events are the subject of the majority of the documents contained in this volume. Those that comprise the final section of the book show the Mediterranean Fleet back to preparation for a major war, applying the lessons of World War One and studying how to make use of new weapons, aircraft carriers and aircraft.

Book Once I Lived

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  • Author : Natascha Wodin
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book Once I Lived written by Natascha Wodin and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The daughter of Russian refugees describes growing up in Germany, a country increasingly intolerant of refugees. The novel won the 1989 Brothers Grimm Prize in Germany. By the author of The Interpreter.

Book Destiny

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  • Author : Larysa Plawan Levycky
  • Publisher : Trafford Publishing
  • Release : 2016-07-22
  • ISBN : 1490772995
  • Pages : 503 pages

Download or read book Destiny written by Larysa Plawan Levycky and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the 1800s when a German military man and aristocrat, General Otto Von Shtatten, is gifted five thousand hectares of the richest land in the Eastern Ukraine. As the Von Shtattens prosper and multiply, their lives dramatically change as the future of Europe begins to unfold. As the third generation of the Von Shtattens is born at the height of the Communist Revolution, the family loses nearly all their wealth, forcing a series of events that lead the beautiful nineteen-year-old Lydia Von Shtatten to change her name to avoid Communist attention and eventually marry and have children with concert pianist, Leonid Leontev. But as Hitler moves through the Ukraine, Leonid is inducted into the Red Army and goes missing in action. Now Lydia must rely on help from her cousin to survive as the Gestapo terrorizes the innocent and changes her future once again. As Lydias destiny leads her across Europe and eventually to Canada, she must struggle to endure all her challenges amid the chaos of a brutal war. Destiny shares a tale of perseverance, love, and tragedy as a Ukrainian woman born of privilege is forced to rely on her inner-strength to survive World War II Germany and continue her familys legacy.

Book Tulips and Ashes

Download or read book Tulips and Ashes written by Iryna Kapitonova and published by Edmonds Press & Envision Berlin. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on a raw and moving journey through a year in war-torn Ukraine with Iryna Kapitonova. Iryna invites you to join her in grappling with the pain of loss, uncertainty, and the terrible degradations of evil. As she chronicles her daily life in her beloved homeland of Ukraine, she also invites you to look for hope, to find reasons to celebrate, and to believe that a better day is coming. Witness the depths of loss, uncertainty, and the resilience of the human spirit. Through the pages of her daily chronicle discover hope blooming amidst chaos and the unwavering strength that can be found in moments of despair. Join her in exploring the profound interplay between faith, loss, and the enduring pursuit of hope in the face of adversity. As Iryna leads you through the first year of the 2022 war, you will find yourself alternately weeping and rejoicing, ever aware that war continues on. Join Iryna in bearing witness to the horrible and awesome potential of the human spirit.

Book The War Came To Us

Download or read book The War Came To Us written by Christopher Miller and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-20 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A WATERSTONES AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A breathtaking exploration of Ukraine's past, present, and future, and a heartbreaking account of the war against Russia, written by a leading journalist who has lived and worked in Ukraine for over a decade. 'Vivid... Shocking... [Miller] brings a seasoned, personal perspective to his account of both the 16-month conflict and its wider roots.' Daily Telegraph 'A beautiful blend of memoir, reportage and history...superb.' Irish Times '...powerful and insightful...Miller provides a human dimension to a bloody conflict.' Kirkus Reviews When Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his unprovoked, full-scale invasion of Ukraine just before dawn on 24 February 2022, it marked his latest and most overt attempt to brutally conquer the country, and reshaped the world order. Christopher Miller, the Ukraine correspondent for the Financial Times and a foremost journalist covering the country, was there on the ground when the first Russian missiles struck and troops stormed over the border. But the seeds of Russia's war against Ukraine and the West were sown more than a decade earlier. This is the definitive, inside story of its long fight for freedom. Told through Miller's personal experiences, vivid front-line dispatches and illuminating interviews with unforgettable characters, The War Came To Us takes readers on a riveting journey through the key locales and pivotal events of Ukraine's modern history. From the coal-dusted, sunflower-covered steppe of the Donbas in the far east to the heart of the Euromaidan revolution camp in Kyiv; from the Black Sea shores of Crimea, where Russian troops stealthily annexed Ukraine's peninsula, to the bloody battlefields where Cossacks roamed before the Kremlin's warlords ruled with iron fists; and through the horror and destruction wrought by Russian forces in Bucha, Bakhmut, Mariupol, and beyond. With candor, wit and sensitivity, Miller captures Ukraine in all its glory: vast, defiant, resilient, and full of wonder. A breathtaking narrative that is at times both poignant and inspiring, The War Came To Us is the story of an American who fell in love with a foreign place and its people - and witnessed them do extraordinary things to escape the long shadow of their former imperial ruler and preserve their independence.

Book Go with the Flow

Download or read book Go with the Flow written by Karen Schneemann and published by First Second. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High school students embark on a crash course of friendship, female empowerment, and women's health issues in Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann's graphic novel Go With the Flow. Good friends help you go with the flow. Best friends help you start a revolution. Sophomores Abby, Brit, Christine, and Sasha are fed up. Hazelton High never has enough tampons. Or pads. Or adults who will listen. Sick of an administration that puts football before female health, the girls confront a world that shrugs—or worse, squirms—at the thought of a menstruation revolution. They band together to make a change. It’s no easy task, especially while grappling with everything from crushes to trig to JV track but they have each other’s backs. That is, until one of the girls goes rogue, testing the limits of their friendship and pushing the friends to question the power of their own voices. Now they must learn to work together to raise each other up. But how to you stand your ground while raising bloody hell?

Book Sie kam aus Mariupol

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  • Author : Natascha Wodin
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-02-17
  • ISBN : 9783498073893
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Sie kam aus Mariupol written by Natascha Wodin and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 16 Marriages That Made History

Download or read book 16 Marriages That Made History written by Gerard Castillo and published by Scepter Publishers. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Through Her Eyes

Download or read book Through Her Eyes written by Trevor Watson and published by Hardie Grant Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-07 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Through Her Eyes Australian women correspondents tell their own stories from the frontline – covering the breaking news, the issues and the events that are changing the world. They tell of Russian tanks and Ukrainian mothers fleeing with their children, vicious Afghan warlords, anti-government rebels in Central Africa, terrorist attacks in the United States, and the chaos faced by ordinary people caught up in disasters and political upheaval. While a woman strapping on a reporters’ flak jacket is now a common sight, there was a time when they were locked out of the big stories because of their gender. Unlike their male counterparts, they needed single-minded determination to score a plum assignment or win a posting to a foreign bureau. Through Her Eyes tells of the exhilaration that comes with a big story but also the dangers, the risks, the struggle and the big issues women still face, from vicious media trolling to threats of sexual violence. Through Her Eyes includes well-known women correspondents for major media organisations inside and outside Australia including the ABC, BBC, SBS, CNN, The Associated Press of America, UPI, Reuters, The Times of London, Al Jazeera, China Global Television Network, The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, and the Australian Financial Review.

Book Ukraine  Trip Five

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  • Author : Frank Keith
  • Publisher : Frank Keith
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1311303324
  • Pages : 97 pages

Download or read book Ukraine Trip Five written by Frank Keith and published by Frank Keith. This book was released on with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a travel biography about a journey to Ukraine in May and June 2015. Highlight of the tour was a road trip to Mariupol and being taken to the embattled town of Shyrokyne by members of the Azov Regiment. Cities visited: Kyiv, Boryspil, Kremenchuk, Dneprodzerzhinsk, Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporizhia, Mariupol, Shyrokyne and other towns and villages.

Book Why Soldiers Miss War

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  • Author : Nolan Peterson
  • Publisher : Casemate
  • Release : 2019-10-14
  • ISBN : 1612007740
  • Pages : 217 pages

Download or read book Why Soldiers Miss War written by Nolan Peterson and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2019-10-14 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The stories . . . are top-notch and engaging as soldiers and veterans grapple with big questions while seeking meaning in life and coping with war and PTSD.” —Booklist Ask combat veterans to name the worst experience of their lives, and they’ll probably tell you it was war. But ask them to choose the best experience, and they’ll usually say it was war, too. For those who haven’t served in combat, this is nearly impossible to understand. The spectrum of emotions experienced by a combat veteran is far wider than that experienced in civilian life, and for that reason it can be hard for a veteran to re-assimilate. What is it about war that soldiers miss? This is a question every civilian should try to understand. Weaving together a wide range of stories, from the flight deck of a U.S. aircraft carrier off Syria to climbing a forbidden Himalayan pass into Tibet, this moving, insightful book explains one of the most everlasting human pursuits—war. But it is also about coming home and confronting another kind of struggle, which we all share—the search for happiness. In this collection, Nolan Peterson writes of war from the perspective of both combatant and witness, taking us from missions over Afghanistan as an Air Force special ops pilot to the frontlines against ISIS in Iraq, and to trench and tank battles in Ukraine. Interweaving his reports with a narrative of his own transformation from combat pilot to war journalist, he explores a timeless paradox: Why does coming home from war feel like such a disappointment?

Book Fire Boll to the Moon

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  • Author : Yuriy Skoverko
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2015-09-28
  • ISBN : 1514405970
  • Pages : 83 pages

Download or read book Fire Boll to the Moon written by Yuriy Skoverko and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is fiction proposal. In early age, he is chosen to be the joker in Ukrainian circus. As he got older, he was introduced to the heir secrets that the country has. At his young age, he received a gift after meeting with Big Jon. The motor had challengers to jokers, one about to be dropped in the Fan Shaft, the other is apprentice in the power fate. Finally he grows up, living in USA, staying popular omens his fronds the Russian Chamber. He won a lottery ticket, making him very rich. He chased his dreams until he went back to his country, becoming a living legend. The circus finds him, letting him understand thats the only time for saving the country to rays for the beast of the world, new joker makes a design of to Ducatis, going in to the earth scariest raises, staying lake, for the beast his promoted fast to the rays of the life time to the moon to protect what meters the most. Finally resaving magic powers setting his dream in the cores of his dreams he finally becomes the ultimate joker of the circus. Many victories many dying moments only he gets trod setting new baleens for the Ukraine the country he rays for. Merit living the bilinear life he stayed on top of the underworld. Saving more secrets at his position.

Book No Panic  How To Adopt An Older Child

Download or read book No Panic How To Adopt An Older Child written by Bethany M. Gardiner and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Panic! How to Adopt an Older Child is a practical, hands-on guide, navigating readers through the sometimes complicated process of adopting an older child, from inception of the idea through to a final transformation into a happy, forever family. Covering topics such as how and when to decide to adopt, fundraising, picking agencies, domestic vs. international adoption, parenting your new child, and transitioning into a new family dynamic, No Panic! is an honest, positive, and uplifting account. Full of usable tips and tricks, resources, and ideas, parents are empowered to follow their hearts on integrating a new family member completely and permanently. Above all, No Panic! is an incredible love story in which one American family and one Ukrainian teenage boy fall in love, changing the course of both of their lives forever.