Download or read book The Gold Train written by Ronald W. Zweig and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1944, the great "Gold Train" headed west from Budapest, carrying gems, cash, furs, carpets, wedding rings, and even gold teeth -- all possessions stripped from Hungarian Jews before their murder. The Gold Train took on a legendary quality even as it steamed out of the station -- hundreds of millions of dollars in assets were on the move, accompanied by cunning, desperate, or gullible passengers trying to reach an illusory Nazi stronghold in the Alps. Drawing on a decade's worth of research into American, Israeli, and European archives, as well as private papers, eyewitness accounts, and other sources, Ronald Zweig tells the full story of the Gold Train. He introduces us to the large cast of players enmeshed in the drama, examines the myths that have developed around the journey, and places this incredible event within the annals of Holocaust and Cold War history, including its impact on restitution policies from the postwar years to today.

Download or read book The Gold Train Bandits written by Lee Roddy and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hildy befriends a shy new girl in town who confides that she's the daughter of a notorious bank robber and has been kidnapped away from her mother. She wants to return to her mother, but she is afraid of her father, whose gang plans to rob a train carrying millions in gold.

Download or read book Self Financing Genocide written by Gábor Kádár and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the process of the economic annihilation of the Jews in Hungary, who- from the economic point of view - were more influential than any other Jewish community in Europe. Following the German occupation in March 1944 the collaborating Hungarian government attempted to assert its claim concerning the complete confiscation of Jewish assets at all stages of the road leading to the extermination camps. The cooperation with the Germans proved to be the most problematic in this area. The story of the Jewish Gold Train is a relatively small but all the more emblematic chapter of the economic annihilation. The circumstances of the freight's assembling, the German-Hungarian conflicts concerning the train, the looting attempts, the fate of the assets seized by the Allies (double victimization of the survivors) provide the reader with an insight into the history of the repeated looting of the Hungarian Jewry.

Download or read book Nazi Gold Train written by Douglas V. DOLLARD and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a bitterly cold night in January 1945, a heavily armored train pulled into the station at Breslau in German occupied Poland. Here, ancient tapestries, priceless masterpieces and three hundred tons of gold looted from the treasuries of conquered countries were loaded aboard. Just before dawn, laden with treasure, the train pulled away from the station heading west and disappeared from history.Deep in the primeval forests of the Eulengebirge Mountains of southwestern Poland a secret Nazi fortress lies buried, untouched by the passage of time. Here, in a labyrinth of tunnels Hitler's most advanced weapons of mass destruction were assembled. Now, a group of private treasure hunters claim they have found it. But when the son of a wealthy real estate developer goes missing, Riley is called upon to find him.

Download or read book Ghost Train written by Bill Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HAS A NAZI GOLD TRAIN BEEN HIDDEN IN A MOUNTAIN TUNNEL SINCE WORLD WAR II? Paul Silver, an international businessman and amateur adventurer, arrives in Berlin looking for information about a fabled Nazi train full of priceless objects and gold. Along with answers he finds a deranged man who hated him in the past, a man who wants revenge more than life itself. There have been rumors for decades about a train filled with so much wealth it could fund Hitler's dream of a Fourth Reich. A Romanian family believes its patriarch, one of Hitler's trusted officers, possesses a coded diary - a book that will lead to vast treasure hidden somewhere in Europe at the end of the war. Paul soon learns nothing is as it should be. A hundred-year-old murderer, a gypsy fortune-teller, a trio of greedy relatives and a search for the mysterious Nazi train lead Paul Silver on the most exciting adventure of his life.

Download or read book The Great Train Robbery written by Michael Crichton and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-05-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Jurassic Park comes classic historical thriller about Victorian London’s most notorious gold heist. London, 1855, when lavish wealth and appalling poverty exist side by side, one mysterious man navigates both worlds with perfect ease. Edward Pierce preys on the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of his century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England’s industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive? Based on fact, but studded with all the suspense and style of fiction, here is a classic historical thriller, set a decade before the age of dynamite—yet nonetheless explosive…

Download or read book Hitler s Gold written by Norman Ridley and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War is a costly business and in 1939, Germany was almost broke with its economy overheating and heading for runaway inflation. Hitler needed hard foreign currency to pay for his war machine and the only way he could get this was by selling gold that he looted from the national banks of Austria, Czechoslovakia and all the countries that were occupied after September 1939. Another source of gold was the theft of personal gold especially from the Jews, most grotesquely, the haul of dental gold which came out of the concentration camps. No neutral country would accept Reichsmarks so the gold had to be laundered through Swiss banks. The story of Swiss complicity in German war crimes is still a subject of controversy, and lawsuits. There are also questions about the parts played by other countries, particularly Portugal, in laundering stolen gold for the Nazis. The Vatican’s dealings with Hitler have often been seen as ambiguous and this book investigates the Holy See’s role in helping ship Nazi gold to South America, and how that gold might have been used to re-create the German Reich. After the war a commission was set up to recover as much gold as possible and restore it to those from whom it was stolen. This, of course, was beset by huge problems especially with regards to gold that was looted from Holocaust victims. Enormous quantities of gold and other treasures were hidden in a mine at Merkers in Thuringia which was found by the US 3rd Army in 1945, but much gold remains unaccounted for, and attempts are still ongoing to uncover supposed hidden caches, the most recent in Poland where four tons are believed to have been found by the Silesian Bridge Foundation in May of 2022. The whereabouts and disposal of the remaining stolen gold has led to numerous investigations and countless conspiracy theories. In Hitler’s Gold the author analyzes these and uncovers many of the mysteries surrounding this continuing search for the missing millions.

Download or read book How to Train with a T Rex and Win 8 Gold Medals written by Michael Phelps and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his record-breaking eight gold medals won for swimming in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Phelps became an international sensation. In this picture book, Phelps explains the mind-boggling statistics of his years of training in terms young kids can understand. Full color.

Download or read book Ghosts of Gold Mountain written by Gordon H. Chang and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2019 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now.

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Download or read book The Treasure Train written by Bob Young and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-02-13 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Near the end of the American Civil War, the Confederate Treasury gives Special Agent Patrick Graham a vital mission. His main assignment: stop a counterfeit ring headed by the notorious Adolphus Roads in Augusta, Georgia. Then the Confederate treasury arrives by railroad with Union raiders in hot pursuit! Unfortunately, Patrick finds more than he bargains for on this mission -- a cunning nemesis, a treasure that must be protected, and a beautiful distraction he can't resist.

Download or read book Lionel Trains written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a unique look at the history of Lionel from a collector's point of view. It includes hundreds of photographs of individual train layouts, locomotives, rolling stock and accessories, plus engaging stories from Lionel enthusiasts nationwide.

Download or read book Call Me Babagbose written by Damola Taiwo and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My new book tells us how the animal affects ones nature (atmospheric condition). These animals are the termites, insects, bees, ants, spiders, etc. The actual name I used for my main character is known as Baba Bose. However, I decided to combine the words together and I added the letter G to the name to make it more unique. Its a great native African name if not changed or combined. Its a masculine name: Baba. Baba means father or a big man (Baba 0). Bose is a feminine name. For example: Baba Bose (The Father of Bose). However, it varies on how it is used. ABOUT THE CHARACTER: Babagbose has that characteristics of having pride and appreciation towards whatever comes around him. Although, he went through so many consequences and that made him stronger to withstand what was around him. However, he wasnt able to face everything that he encountered. He was getting familiar with the creative environment.

Download or read book Cases and Text on Property written by Susan F. French and published by Aspen Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 1282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This completely revised and streamlined Seventh Edition of Cases and Text on Property by Susan Fletcher French and Gerald Korngold is smart, compact, and thoughtful. The carefully selected and edited cases and problems give students what they need to learn about Property law in the 21st Century. In addition to ample coverage of traditional Property subjects, the text includes substantial coverage of intellectual property, modern servitudes law, common interest communities, and constitutional limits on governmental power to acquire and regulate property. New to the Seventh Edition: A reorganization of Chapter 4 (Property Rights in Creative Works) to begin with copyright, with notes on the Google and TVEyes cases, and an important new case on patent exhaustion, Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark Int’l, Inc. Important new cases Marbar, Inc. v. Katz; Craig Wrecking Co. v. S.G. Loewendick & Sons, Inc.; Vallely Investments, L.P. v. Bancamerica Commercial Corp; Sparks v. Fidelity Nat’l Title Ins. Co.; and Coons v. Carstensen A new subsection in Chapter 13 (The Takings Clause) that highlights coverage of the public trust doctrine with two new Supreme Court cases, Murr v. Wisconsin and Horne v. Dep’t of Agriculture The authors have continued to revise and streamline the casebook without adding additional pages to this new edition. Professors and students will benefit from: Traditional cases-and-notes pedagogy with integrated problems Introductory chapters that put contemporary property law in historical context A casebook renowned for its absorbing text and teachable cases that many users have stayed with for the entire span of their careers A casebook well-suited for a 4-unit Property course, but also with sufficient material that it can readily be adapted for a 5- or 6-unit course Teaching materials include: A comprehensive Teacher’s Manual with brief suggestions for teaching every case, answers to questions asked in the notes, and maps and diagrams to explain difficult cases and problems The purchase of this Kindle edition does not entitle you to receive access to the online e-book, practice questions from your favorite study aids, and outline tool available through CasebookConnect.

Download or read book The Train to Timbuctoo written by Margaret Wise Brown and published by Golden Books. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back in print for a new generation, a rollicking, rhyming train tale from the author of Goodnight Moon! From Kalamazoo to Timbuctoo, from Timbuctoo and back! This beloved story from 1951, about a big train and a little train that have just left Kalamazoo, has captured the imaginations of generations of children. Out of print for decades, it is back to delight little ones and their parents and grandparents again. "Clackety-clack—clackety-clack—pocketa-pocketa-pocketa"—down the track they go! Now a new generation of children will pore over the cheerful illustrations of bridges, tracks, and countryside, while listening to this rollicking tale.

Download or read book The Meek Cutoff written by Brooks Geer Ragen and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1845, an estimated 2,500 emigrants left Independence and St. Joseph, Missouri, for the Willamette Valley in what was soon to become the Oregon Territory. It was general knowledge that the route of the Oregon Trail through the Blue Mountains and down the Columbia River to The Dalles was grueling and dangerous. About 1,200 men, women, and children in over two hundred wagons accepted fur trapper and guide Stephen Meek's offer to lead them on a shortcut across the trackless high desert of eastern Oregon. Those who followed Meek experienced a terrible ordeal when his memory of the terrain apparently failed. Lost for weeks with little or no water and a shortage of food, the Overlanders encountered deep dust, alkali lakes, and steep, rocky terrain. Many became ill and some died in the forty days it took to travel from the Snake River in present-day Idaho to the Deschutes River near Bend, Oregon. Stories persist that children in the group found gold nuggets in a small, dry creek bed along the way. From 2006 to 2011, Brooks Ragan and a team of specialists in history, geology, global positioning, metal detecting, and aerial photography spent weeks every spring and summer tracing the Meek Cutoff. They located wagon ruts, gravesites, and other physical evidence from the most difficult part of the trail, from Vale, Oregon, to the upper reaches of the Crooked River and to a location near Redmond where a section of the train reached the Deschutes. The Meek Cutoff moves readers back and forth in time, using surviving journals from members of the 1845 party, detailed day-to-day maps, aerial photographs, and descriptions of the modern-day exploration to document an extraordinary story of the Oregon Trail.

Download or read book Train Dreams written by Denis Johnson and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 126 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 One of NPR's 10 Best Novels of 2011 From the National Book Award-winning author Denis Johnson (Tree of Smoke) comes Train Dreams, an epic in miniature, and one of Johnson's most evocative works of fiction. Suffused with the history and landscapes of the American West—its otherworldly flora and fauna, its rugged loggers and bridge builders—this extraordinary novella poignantly captures the disappearance of a distinctly American way of life. It tells the story of Robert Grainer, a day laborer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century—an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainer struggles to make sense of this strange new world. As his story unfolds, we witness both his shocking personal defeats and the radical changes that transform America in his lifetime.