Download or read book My Father s Iron Cross written by Renate Becker and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-07-21 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Father s Iron Cross Field Post Letters from the Front written by Renate Becker and published by . This book was released on 2021-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Father s Iron Cross written by Renate Becker and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Father's Iron Cross, Field Post Letters from the Front- authors Renate Becker and Helmut Becker-Wildenroth contains 23 letters. Fritz Becker - the father of the authors, has written the letters from the 18th of January, 1915 to the 11th of October, 1915 to his parents and siblings. The reader finds a short prehistory of the First World War, a time table about the war at the western front in Flanders in 1915 and a short history and description of the German Iron Cross. The book contains handwritten letters and photos. Fritz Becker is 20 years old when he writes the letters. The first letters still distinguish themselves by an optimism and are marked by the faith in victory and by devotion to duty. He does not mention yet the fright of fighting. Only in the letters from Douai the destruction of numerous villages is mentioned. He often thinks of all those at home. Then a change of events enters all of a sudden. Fritz Becker has to go to the front. Now he experiences the war with all its dangers, among other things the first hostile air raids in which a small girl and soldier are killed. One lives under the most primitive conditions, and starves. Now Fritz Becker is assigned to the pioneers. He must dig trenches and install barbed wire. The battalion marches past common graves of fallen comrades. He describes a visit of the Holy Mass. The church is full of praying soldiers. He feels he is in God's hands. In a storm attack on English positions, a British rifle bullet strafed his head. An English soldier places him in a shell-crater to protect him against direct bombardment. He gives him water to drink from his canteen and a piece of biscuit. The wounded soldier looses a lot of blood and becomes unconscious. After rescue by comrades he awakes in the military hospital. In a letter out of the field hospital he lets his parents know that he has a light strafing wound in the head. In another card he informs his parents that all is well with him. In reality the wound is very serious. More operations become necessary by brains specialists in a military hospital. The letters present the war action in all its cruelty from the point of an directly affected combatant. In spite of all frights the letters show a deep trust in God. The letters remind us to strive for peace so that such an event cannot happen again. That this war was the oldest military catastrophe of the 20th century is not known to many people today. It is good that the authors of the book keep up the memory of this awful event.
Download or read book The Things They Carried written by Tim O'Brien and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. Taught everywhere—from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing—it has become required reading for any American and continues to challenge readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, courage and fear and longing. The Things They Carried won France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Download or read book Liebe K ck written by Peter Lubrecht Sr. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-03-28 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred years ago, the world suffered a brutal and destructive conflict. The Great War, World War I, or the War to End All Wars, by whatever name, cost the lives and the fortunes of millions of people. The modern world, now concerned with its own problems and conflicts, has pushed the memory of it deep into the recesses of collective memory. The veterans and the war dead are honored and memorialized annually; however, the ongoing destructive influence of this time on the personal lives, fates, and fortunes of individuals and families is forgotten. Liebe Kck! A German Soldiers Story from the Great War is based on the letters Vice Feldwebel (Staff Sergeant) Alwin Ficke of the Seventy-Fourth Reserve German Infantry, stationed on the Western Front of the War, wrote home to his wife and family from August 1914 until his death in France in February 1915. Sergeant Fickes viewpoint was contrary to the popularized media reports of German military actions in Belgium and the Champagne Valley. This ugly war is best understood not through popularized media reports but as it is seen though the personal wars of soldiers and their families. His is the story of the journey taken from home to battle representing the struggles and turmoil in the lives of legions of others.
Download or read book Quentin Roosevelt A Sketch With Letters written by Quentin Roosevelt and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quentin Roosevelt was the youngest son of President Theodore Roosevelt, a man greatly admired by his colleagues, popular with his fellow World War One fliers, possessed with great ability, flair and intellectual ability. Sadly his life was destined to be brash, brave, brilliant and all too short. On the entry of America in to the First World War in 1917, Quentin dropped out of college to join the newly formed 1st Reverse Aero Squadron. His first services were on the ground at the famous Issoudun training base, but he demanded and received his pilot’s wings transferring into 95th Aero Squadron part of 1st Pursuit Group, the aerial gladiators of the American Airforce. His flying career was not to last long, his contemporary, the famous flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker commented his flying style was bordering on the suicidal with a great contempt for danger; "He was reckless to such a degree that his commanding officers had to caution him repeatedly about the senselessness of his lack of caution. His bravery was so notorious that we all knew he would either achieve some great spectacular success or be killed in the attempt. Even the pilots in his own flight would beg him to conserve himself and wait for a fair opportunity for a victory. But Quentin would merely laugh away all serious advice." He claimed his first victory only a day after his squadron was posted to Touquin and the front lines; but he was shot down a mere four days later. His letters were collected by his brother Kermit, who lovingly and carefully edited into this book which gives a picture of his headstrong, dashing brother poignantly including the many letters of tribute from Quentin’s fellow flyers. An excellent and vivid excellent snapshot of a young tyro in the American Air Force of the First World War.
Download or read book German Reich 1933 1937 written by Wolf Gruner and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 1468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Executive editor: Wolf Gruner; English-language edition prepared by: Caroline Pearce and Dorothy Mas This volume documents the persecution of the Jews in the German Reich between 1933 and 1937. The documents illustrate the ways in which the Jews in Germany were thrown out of their jobs and excluded from public institutions and public life, and how the Nuremberg Laws reduced the status of German Jews to second-class citizens and set out to sever the ties between Jewish and non-Jewish Germans. It documents the political calculations and strategy of the Nazi ruling elite in relation to antisemitic measures, and the local outbreaks of violence and terror against the Jewish population. It also illustrates the widespread indifference of non-Jewish Germans. In 1935 the Berlin rabbi Joachim Prinz described how the circumstances for the Jewish population had changed: ‘The Jew’s lot is to be neighbourless. We would not find it all so painful if we did not have the feeling that we once did have neighbours.’ Learn more about the PMJ on https://pmj-documents.org/
Download or read book Luftwaffe Fighter Ace written by Norbert Hanning and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2009-09-17 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Action-packed memoir of aerial combat. Inside the cockpits of Bf 109, Fw 190, and Me 262 fighters. Candid photos taken by the author himself.
Download or read book Issues and Events written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sniper from Stalingrad written by W. T. Wallenda and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-02 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stalingrad 1942 - 19-year-old Alfred Miller is a member of the 100th Panzer Division and learns to know and hate the cruel horrors of war during the fierce and costly battles for the "Red October" factory. Thanks to his marksmanship, he becomes a sniper. After the encirclement of the 6th Army, the young Austrian wanders through the ruins of the dying city on the Volga in the coldest winter for years, both hunter and hunted. Hunger, cold, misery, death and fear are his constant companions. The war hits hard and merciless every day. The soldiers are brutalized, the hope of salvation dies. Ultimately, there are only two ways to escape suffering and a grim fate: either get on one of the planes out of the cauldron, or die. - realistic, unsparing novel - Information about the sniper system of the Wehrmacht - Original photos from WW II
Download or read book To Die for Germany written by Jay W. Baird and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1992-10-22 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baird (history, Miami U., Ohio) illuminates the political culture of the Third Reich by focusing on the regime's fascination with motifs of death. He traces the development of Nazi propaganda from the fields of Flanders in 1914 to the cult of death created by Hitler, Goebbels, and others during World War II. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Five Germanys I Have Known written by Fritz Stern and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-07-24 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaving together interpretative narrative, acute analysis, and dramatic personal anecdote, Stern brings to life the Germany's he has experienced: Weimar, the Third Reich, postwar West and East Germany, and the unified country after 1990.
Download or read book Illustrated Naval and Military Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fighting the Kaiser s War written by Andrew Lucas and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal accounts of the Great War experiences of British soldiers are well known and plentiful, but similar accounts from the German side of no man's land are rare. This highly original book vividly describes the wartime lives and ultimate fates of ten Saxon soldiers facing the British in Flanders, revealed through their intimate diaries and correspondence. The stories of these men, from front-line trench fighters to a brigade commander, are in turn used to illustrate the wider story of thousands more who fought and died in Flanders 'for King and Country, Kaiser and Reich' with the Royal Saxon Army. This ground-breaking work is illustrated with over 300 mostly unseen wartime photographs and other images, recording the German experience of the war in human detail and giving a rounded picture of how the Saxons lived and died in Flanders.
Download or read book Issues and Events written by Francis J. L. Dorl and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Issues Events written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rebuilt from Broken Glass written by Fred Behrend and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Symbolized by a three-hundred-year-old Seder plate, the religious life of Fred Behrend's family had centered largely around Passover and the tale of the Jewish people's exodus from tyranny. When the Nazis came to power, the wide-eyed boy and his family found themselves living a twentieth-century version of that exodus, escaping oppression and persecution in Germany for Cuba and ultimately a life of freedom and happiness in the United States. Behrend's childhood came to a crashing end with Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass) and his father's harrowing internment at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. But he would not be defined by these harrowing circumstances. Behrend would go on to experience brushes with history involving the defeated Germans. By the age of twenty, he had run a POW camp full of Nazis, been an instructor in a program aimed at denazifying specially selected prisoners, and been assigned by the U.S. Army to watch over Wernher von Braun, the designer of the V-2 rocket that terrorized Europe and later chief architect of the Saturn V rocket that sent Americans to the moon. Behrend went from a sheltered life of wealth in a long-gone, old-world Germany, dwelling in the gilded compound once belonging to the manufacturer of the zeppelin airships, to a poor Jewish immigrant in New York City learning English from Humphrey Bogart films. Upon returning from service in the U.S. Army, he rose out of poverty, built a successful business in Manhattan, and returned to visit Germany a dozen times, giving him unique perspective into Germany's attempts to surmount its Nazi past.
