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Book The Edelweiss Pirates

Download or read book The Edelweiss Pirates written by Dirk Reinhardt and published by Pushkin Children's Books. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A HEART-STOPPING ADVENTURE BASED ON THE TRUE STORY OF THE TEENAGE REBELS WHO STOOD UP TO THE NAZIS When sixteen-year-old Daniel befriends Josef Gerlach, he feels the old man is haunted by a secret from his past. Sure enough when Josef gives him his teenage diary to read, Daniel discovers a shocking story of rebellion and struggle. The diary tells how Josef left the Hitler Youth for a gang called The Edelweiss Pirates. Their uniform: long hair and cool clothes. Their motto: freedom! At first the Pirates are only interested in hanging out and having a good time, but as the situation in Nazi Germany gets worse, they start to plan dangerous missions against Hitler's regime-soon they are fighting for their lives.

Book The Edelweiss  A Poem

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Rogers Bolles
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2024-05-01
  • ISBN : 3385441161
  • Pages : 138 pages

Download or read book The Edelweiss A Poem written by John Rogers Bolles and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Book The Edelweiss Pirates

Download or read book The Edelweiss Pirates written by Jennifer Elvgren and published by Kar-Ben Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of boys in Nazi Germany shows resistance by enjoying and playing jazz music. Back matter explains the real Edelweiss Pirates, a brave corps of some 5,000 teenagers who defied Nazi Germany and the Hitler Youth.

Book The Edelweiss Sisters

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kate Hewitt
  • Publisher : Bookouture
  • Release : 2021-06-08
  • ISBN : 9781800193000
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book The Edelweiss Sisters written by Kate Hewitt and published by Bookouture. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1938, Salzburg. A powerful story of hope, forbidden love, and incredible courage, about three sisters who will risk everything-even their own lives-as part of the resistance movement in Nazi-occupied Austria. Johanna, Birgit and Lotte Eder have always lived quiet lives, working in their father's clockmaking shop and helping their mother in the house. But like many other Austrians, they find it impossible to ignore the changes in the world around them. At first Johanna finds it hard to believe the Nazis pose a real threat. But then her father hires Franz to help in his shop. He's kind and soulful, with dark eyes that twinkle with intelligence. But he's Jewish, and as Johanna falls for him, she realizes that loving him puts them all in danger. Then comes the Anschluss-the reunification of Austria and Germany under Nazi rule. The three sisters' lives have become ever more separate with Lotte joining the convent at Nonnberg Abbey and Birgit's secret involvement with the Resistance. But as Johanna realizes how mistaken she was about the level of danger, she begins to see that it may be down to her to protect the man she loves. She knows that she can't do it alone though. She will have to turn to the people she trusts the most: her sisters. The three of them work together to try to get Franz to the safety of Switzerland, and they soon prove invaluable to the Resistance. But they're risking everything. Can three women who would die for each other, also be prepared to die for what is right? The sisters' subsequent journey from Nazi-occupied Salzburg to the devastating concentration camps of Ravensbruck and Mauthausen will show the strength of human spirit like never before. As, out of the darkness, a tiny seed of hope flowers... A totally heartbreaking and impossibly powerful story about love, tragedy, and the power of humanity. Perfect for fans of The Nightingale, The Lilac Girls and The Sound of Music. Readers are loving The Edelweiss Sisters: "A heart-breaking, tear-jerking and emotional book... I was so hooked into the story that I felt I was living with these sisters during that time!! The ending was so sad, heart-breaking that I felt like I wanted to cry... I stayed up all night reading this book and didn't want to let this book go!... A tear-jerking, heart-breaking emotional tale of three sisters who are brave and courageous women... Will keep you up all night." Tropical Girl Reads Books, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Soooo hauntingly raw & captivating, it was so hard to put it down. Reading this, I felt instantly transported... This is one novel I would 100% recommend putting on your TBR list this summer. You find instant connection with at least one of the sisters, if not all of them. It will completely move you & pull at your heart strings." Kate J Renee Book Reviews ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "What a wonderfully written book... Sobbed my eyes out... it should have come with a hankie-needed warning. Felt so much for each of the characters it was like they were also my family and friends. Highly recommended and worth more than a five-star rating." NetGalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Book Flowers in the Gutter

Download or read book Flowers in the Gutter written by K. R. Gaddy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of the Edelweiss Pirates, working-class teenagers who fought the Nazis by whatever means they could. Fritz, Gertrud, and Jean were classic outsiders: their clothes were different, their music was rebellious, and they weren’t afraid to fight. But they were also Germans living under Hitler, and any nonconformity could get them arrested or worse. As children in 1933, they saw their world change. Their earliest memories were of the Nazi rise to power and of their parents fighting Brownshirts in the streets, being sent to prison, or just disappearing. As Hitler’s grip tightened, these three found themselves trapped in a nation whose government contradicted everything they believed in. And by the time they were teenagers, the Nazis expected them to be part of the war machine. Fritz, Gertrud, and Jean and hundreds like them said no. They grew bolder, painting anti-Nazi graffiti, distributing anti-war leaflets, and helping those persecuted by the Nazis. Their actions were always dangerous. The Gestapo pursued and arrested hundreds of Edelweiss Pirates. In World War II’s desperate final year, some Pirates joined in sabotage and armed resistance, risking the Third Reich’s ultimate punishment. This is their story.

Book Edelweiss

    Book Details:
  • Author : J.L. Robison
  • Publisher : J.L. Robison
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 514 pages

Download or read book Edelweiss written by J.L. Robison and published by J.L. Robison. This book was released on with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eva Abrams thought leaving her relatively normal and uneventful life in suburban Utah for a summer internship in Europe was what she needed. A break from her normal everyday life and unwanted memories. She arrives in England excited for the next three months, but little does she know it will soon throw her into a time of war and chaos- where men fought and died for total domination. She soon learns that the real job is to travel back in time to the 1940s. She knows it will be an experience like no other, but she must first overcome her fears of the unknown. While living in the past her world is plagued with fear, loss, and uncertainty- revealing the hidden ugliness of war by a proud country who has once again engulfed the world in another conflict, allowing her eyes to see things she never thought they would. Unable to escape main land Europe before the Germans invade, her greatest fear materializes when she witnesses the arrival of the German army in the town square. All she wants now is to go home back to her mundane life, but she doesn’t know when or if that will ever happen. Now trapped in the 1940s France, she stumbles into an unexpected romance with the person she should keep firmly at a distance, one that opens her mind to the understanding that people are not always as they seem- good or bad, which gives rise to the decision that puts everything else into motion. Her life takes a drastic turn when the love she feels for the family she lives with and the suspicions of an SS Major put her in unimaginable danger, leaving the path in front of her treacherous and murky at best. She is now tangled in the grim realities imposed by war as the walls close in on her. She must choose between the life she knew and the past she now feels drawn to.

Book Edelweiss Pirates

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark A. Cooper
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2016-05-01
  • ISBN : 9781530804641
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book Edelweiss Pirates written by Mark A. Cooper and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of fun loving rebellious German teens calling themselves the Edelweiss Pirates witnesses something so deplorably sickening they decide to take action when a six-year old Jewish girl is left orphaned. Torn between patriotism for the country they love and their own rights and freedoms they have to try and do the unthinkable, but with the Gestapo and Hitler Youth hot on their trail, is it too late?

Book Alfred s Basic Adult Piano Course  Greatest Hits Book 1

Download or read book Alfred s Basic Adult Piano Course Greatest Hits Book 1 written by E. L. Lancaster and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series answers the often-expressed need for a variety of supplementary material in many different popular styles. What could be more fun for an adult than to play the music that everybody knows and loves? When the books in the Greatest Hits series are assigned in conjunction with the Lesson Books, these appealing pieces reinforce new concepts as they are introduced. In addition, the motivation the music provides could not be better. The emotional satisfaction students receive from mastering each popular song increases their enthusiasm to begin the next one. With the popular music available in the Greatest Hits series (Levels 1 and 2), the use of both books will significantly increase every adult's interest in piano study. Two selections from this book are featured on the Royal Conservatory of Music Popular Selection List (2007 Ed.): * The Rainbow Connection * Nadia's Theme

Book Black Edelweiss

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.

Book The Wrath   the Dawn

Download or read book The Wrath the Dawn written by Renée Ahdieh and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A #1 New York Times Bestseller! “A riveting Game of Thrones meets Arabian Nights love story.” - US Weekly Every dawn brings horror to a different family in a land ruled by a killer. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, takes a new bride each night only to have her executed at sunrise. So it is a suspicious surprise when sixteen-year-old Shahrzad volunteers to marry Khalid. But she does so with a clever plan to stay alive and exact revenge on the Caliph for the murder of her best friend and countless other girls. Shazi’s wit and will, indeed, get her through to the dawn that no others have seen, but with a catch . . . she’s falling in love with the very boy who killed her dearest friend. She discovers that the murderous boy-king is not all that he seems and neither are the deaths of so many girls. Shazi is determined to uncover the reason for the murders and to break the cycle once and for all.

Book Edelweiss

    Book Details:
  • Author : Madge Swindells
  • Publisher : Little Brown GBR
  • Release : 2000-12
  • ISBN : 9780316858076
  • Pages : 512 pages

Download or read book Edelweiss written by Madge Swindells and published by Little Brown GBR. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marietta von Burgheim is a woman of beauty and morality, and an heiress to a fortune. Turning her back on the responsibilities of her noble birth and her father's wrath, Marietta joins a student resistance group determined to overthrow the Nazis. Bill Roth, Reuters' correspondent based in pre-war Berlin, is the maverick heir to his uncle, an American industrialist. When Bill and Marietta meet they fall headlong in love, but their passion is overshadowed by the horror of the Nazi occupation and the outbreak of war. Hugo von Hesse, Marietta's step-brother, makes a meteoric rise through the ranks to become a powerful SS officer. Reaching the pinnacle of power in the New Order, Hugo uses his position to destroy the von Burgheims and take over the family fortune. As the Nazis tighten their grip on Europe, the struggle between Marietta, Bill and Hugo becomes a microcosm of the war itself - violent, bloody and treacherous.

Book Adult Piano Adventures Popular Book 2   Timeless Hits and Popular Favorites

Download or read book Adult Piano Adventures Popular Book 2 Timeless Hits and Popular Favorites written by Nancy Faber and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Faber Piano Adventures ). The appeal of popular music spans generations and genres. In this collection of 27 hits, enjoy folk tunes like "Ashokan Farewell" and "Bridge Over Troubled Water," movie themes from James Bond and Batman , Broadway numbers from Evita and A Little Night Music , and chart-toppers performed by Michael Jackson, Adele, Billy Joel, and more. Adult Piano Adventures Popular Book 2 provides this variety, yet with accessible arrangements for the progressing pianist. Students may advance through the book alongside method studies, or jump to all their favorites. Optional chord symbols above the staff guide understanding and personal expression.

Book The Flower Alphabet Book

Download or read book The Flower Alphabet Book written by Jerry Pallotta and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 1989-02-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roses are red, Violets are blue... And they're only two of the flowers in this book of bright colors and delightful information. Young readers will be fascinated to find out what flower can be used to make a doll, which flower flavors tea, and which flower farmers feed to chickens. Author Jerry Pallotta and illustrator Leslie Evans have collaborated to produce a stunning bouquet of words and pictures about the world of flowers–one of nature's most beautiful gifts.

Book Future State  Justice League

Download or read book Future State Justice League written by Joshua Williamson and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first Future State collections are here! In the far-flung future, an all-new Justice League must investigate the mysterious death of their greatest foes-the Legion of Doom! The Justice League Dark emerges from years of hiding to fight the villainous force stalking supernatural heroes and villains alike! John Stewart and his band of abandoned Green Lanterns must hold the line against an invasion of murderous zealots in an uncharted dark sector after their rings have stopped working! Barry Allen battles for the soul of his former Flash partner, Wally West! And Jackson Hyde and Andy Curry, son of Black Manta and daughter of Aquaman, must find each other again after being torn apart if they hope to escape the mysterious universe-spanning One Great Ocean!

Book Edelweiss Pirates

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark A. Cooper
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2017-02-14
  • ISBN : 9781530805822
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book Edelweiss Pirates written by Mark A. Cooper and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 13-year-old Lucas Mandel has it all: a loving family, nice home but nothing prepared him for what happened when the Nazi's take his entire family away to a concentration camp. Miraculously he escapes and survives by clinging to the one thing that gives him hope, his faith. But when he falls into the hands of the Hitler Youth he discovers they have a secret.... When the Edelweiss Pirates come across a death train packed with Jewish prisoners bound for a concentration camp they do the unthinkable... but at what cost?

Book Operation Edelweiss

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jane Ritzenthaler
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-08-08
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 80 pages

Download or read book Operation Edelweiss written by Jane Ritzenthaler and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-08 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Two of the OSS Files series continues with the story of Commander Bill Kemp, a Navy pilot, and his new wife, Carly. A freelance journalist in 2015, Carly was following the sounds of Big Band music in the basement hallways of the Del Coronado hotel, and opens the door to the Tail Hook Bar and Grill...finding herself in 1943. Bill is recruited by the OSS, and in Operation Edelweiss, he and Carly are sent to Switzerland, finding themselves transporting German top secret documents, rescuing Jews from occupied Paris, and extracting missile plans from a high ranking Nazi.

Book Modern Hospital

Download or read book Modern Hospital written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: