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Providing a comprehensive view of Golden Age piracy, this edition
includes descriptions of the actions of individuals alongside
contemporary discussions of the piracy problem through books,
journals, newspaper articles, essays, reviews, proposals, pamphlets
and sermons from Britain and its colonies.
Through rare primary resources and new editorial matter, this
four-volume facsimile edition moves away from the personality cult
of the pirate to encourage a more comprehensive view of Golden Age
piracy. This new approach explores how and why crews actually arose
and how they responded to the complexities of 18th century life.
Providing a comprehensive view of Golden Age piracy, this edition
includes descriptions of the actions of individuals alongside
contemporary discussions of the piracy problem through books,
journals, newspaper articles, essays, reviews, proposals, pamphlets
and sermons from Britain and its colonies.
Providing a comprehensive view of Golden Age piracy, this edition
includes descriptions of the actions of individuals alongside
contemporary discussions of the piracy problem through books,
journals, newspaper articles, essays, reviews, proposals, pamphlets
and sermons from Britain and its colonies.
Providing a comprehensive view of Golden Age piracy, this edition
includes descriptions of the actions of individuals alongside
contemporary discussions of the piracy problem through books,
journals, newspaper articles, essays, reviews, proposals, pamphlets
and sermons from Britain and its colonies.
Life in the trenches for German soldiers during World War I was
every bit as hellish as it was for Allied troops. Arthur Boer
survived almost four years of continual fighting on both the
Eastern and Western fronts as a sapper (combat engineer) who found
himself in the thick of major battles. He laid barbed wire in
no-man's land under machine gun fire, bet money on aerial combat
above the trenches between Baron von Richthofen and the English,
faced starvation and crushing boredom. His war diary describes all
in gritty detail, including the horror of gas warfare, doomed
vainglorious charges and his return home to a ruined Germany.
Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer
Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfangen des Verlags
von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv
Quellen fur die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche
Forschung zur Verfugung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext
betrachtet werden mussen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor
1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen
Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.
Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer
Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfangen des Verlags
von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv
Quellen fur die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche
Forschung zur Verfugung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext
betrachtet werden mussen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor
1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen
Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.
Rising pop singer Shannon Kistler never expected to see college
student Kevin Derow on a Manhattan street wearing her concert
shirt. But she offers gratitude in her own way, leaving her biggest
fan in shock. When the two teenagers meet again six days later,
Shannon slips Kevin her phone number, and the unlikely romance
begins. Soon they find they have several things in common: lonely
childhoods, a passion for music, and making unpopular choices about
their own lives. The public cannot take Shannon seriously as a
teenaged recording artist, but she risks her sudden success by
making some public mistakes after breaking into a soulless music
industry with unusual ease. Meanwhile Kevin loses the respect of
family, friends and coworkers over the girl he idolizes-and
unwittingly blows the lid off a payola scheme devised by Shannon's
record label, threatening her career and possibly his own freedom.
A Song Apart revolves around two young people from distinct
backgrounds who choose to follow their hearts rather than their
peers and find a greater reward at the end of their paths.
A Republished and Annotated Edition of "Passing It On: Short Talks
on Tribal Fighting on the North-West Frontier of India" with new a
Forward and Lessons Learned. Republished by the Foreign Military
Studies Office, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Illustrated. From the
foreword: "This book, originally published as a guide for British
lieutenants and captains, demonstrates that improvements in
technology-much of it available to both sides - have had only a
modest impact on infantry fighting in this rugged terrain. However,
it also demonstrates that the key to enhancing basic infantry
effectiveness is using the terrain effectively, maintaining force
security and understanding the mountain people. General Sir Andrew
Skeen spent decades dealing with this frontier. His combat
experience in the Afghanistan frontier region was extensive, but he
also saw action against the Boxers in China, in Somaliland,
Gallipoli and the trenches of the Western Front in World War I. His
final field posting was as the Chief of the General Staff of the
Army of India. "Passing it on" is about passing on his experience
in this turbulent region to the lieutenants and captains who were
then dealing with the problems of mountain combat against Pushtun
tribesmen. His advice is still relevant to what our soldiers are
facing today. The mission of the Foreign Military Studies Office is
to esearch and present foreign ideas and perspectives to better
understand present and future problems. Occasionally we visit the
past to find those ideas and perspectives. This 1932 book is not so
much a step backwards as the (re)discovery of a useful map for now
and the future. We hope it will be of value to our readers."
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere
Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,7, Universitat Potsdam, Veranstaltung:
Nachkriegsliteratur, 23 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache:
Deutsch, Anmerkungen: Uberzeugende Anlage, Textanalysen waren
ausbaufahig. 19 Seiten Hausarbeit plus Anhang. Dichter Text -
einzeiliger Zeilenabstand., Abstract: Fur die deutschsprachige
Literatur der unmittelbaren Nachkriegszeit haben sich Bezeichnungen
wie Trummerliteratur, Heimkehrerliteratur oder Literatur des
Kahlschlags eingeburgert, die in jedem Fall das Programm einer
realistischen, auf die Probleme der unmittelbaren Gegenwart
bezogenen Literatur meinen. Ihre Entwicklung muss unter
Berucksichtigung der territorialen Bedingungen gesehen werden.
Demnach unterscheidet man zwischen der westdeutschen Literatur und
der Literatur der sowjetischen Besatzungszone (SBZ). Johannes R.
Becher gehorte neben Bertolt Brecht, Friedrich Wolf, Arnold Zweig,
Stefan Heym, Bruno Apitz et al. zu jenen Autoren, die nach 1945 aus
dem Exil nach Deutschland und hier nahezu ausnahmslos in die
damalige sowjetische Besatzungszone zuruckkehrten und einen
bedeutenden Einfluss auf die Entwicklung der ostdeutschen Literatur
nahmen. Die deutsche Literatur der westlichen Zonen wurde
uberwiegend von den Autoren der so genannten Inneren Emigration
bestimmt, von Schriftstellern also, die Deutschland wahrend des
NS-Regimes nicht verlassen hatten. Die in dieser Zeit entstandene
Literatur, wie zum Beispiel die Naturlyrik von Gottfried Benn oder
Werke von Oskar Loerke und Elisabeth Langgasser, war in der Regel
apolitisch und bar jeglicher Kritik." Neben den inneren Emigranten
bestimmten auch Autoren der Jungen Generation das literarische
Leben in den westlichen Besatzungszonen. Zu ihnen zahlen nicht nur
die Anhanger der Gruppe 47 und Wolfgang Borchert, sondern auch der
Einzelganger Arno Schmidt sowie Ilse Aichinger und Peter Weiss, um
nur einige weitere Namen zu nennen. Zu ihren zentralen Themen
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