Ergebnis für "August" in Nord-, Mittel- & Südamerika

August Gottlieb Meißner hat Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts Kriminalfälle gesammelt und aus ihnen kurze packende Erzählungen gemacht. Es wurden die ersten deutschsprachigen Krimis. Er nannte sie "Skizzen" und wusste worüber er schrieb, denn er war Jurist, so wie sein später Nachfolger Ferdinand von Schirach.

Lizzie Borden took an axe...or did she? Forget everything you already think you know about this compelling case and discover what did - and what did not - happen in the story of Lizzie Borden! What dark secrets have never been told? What happened in the grim aftermath of the murder trial? Do the spirits of the dead still linger in the house where the Bordens were killed? You’ll find these answers and more and you’ll never look at this chilling story in the same way again!

"In der ganzen Geschichte des Menschen ist kein Kapitel unterrichtender für Herz und Geist als die Annalen seiner Verirrungen." Das ist der erste Satz aus Friedrich Schillers Erzählung Der Verbrecher aus verlorener Ehre, die gemeinhin als erster deutscher Krimi gilt. Er selbst aber schreibt, er habe darin das Meiste August Gottlieb Meißner zu verdanken.

In less than six hours in August 1942, nearly 1,000 British, Canadian, and American commandos died in the French port of Dieppe in an operation that, for decades, seemed to have no real purpose. Canadian historian David O’Keefe uses hitherto classified intelligence archives to prove that this catastrophic and apparently futile raid was, in fact, a mission set up by Ian Fleming of British Naval Intelligence as part of a “pinch” policy designed to capture material relating to the four-rotor Enigma Machine.

The ninth book in the Canadian Battle Series, Breakout from Juno, is the first dramatic chronicling of Canada's pivotal role throughout the entire Normandy Campaign following the D-Day landings.

A courageous and intimate memoir, The Education of Augie Merasty is the story of a child who faced the dark heart of humanity, let loose by the cruel policies of a bigoted nation. A retired fisherman and trapper who sometimes lived rough on the streets, Augie Merasty was one of an estimated 150,000 First Nations, Inuit, and Metis children who were taken from their families and sent to government-funded, church-run schools, where they were subjected to a policy of aggressive assimilation.

The stories of 15 combat veterans featured in this audiobook tell of the experiences of average Americans who fought US enemies on Pacific islands, in China, and in Burma during World War II. They relate much previously unavailable information about the military in which they served and the battles they fought. The possibility of death and permanent physical and mental injury was a common experience. This audiobook is a "must listen" for those who think they have learned all there is to know about World War II.

Approved by the Constitutional Convention on September 17, 1787, the US Constitution was to become law only if ratified by nine of the thirteen states then comprising the United States. The eighty-five letters in support of the Constitution collected here have become recognized as the most...

This work by James Williams is one of very few autobiographical texts by Caribbean slaves or former slaves. It became one of the most powerful abolitionist tools for ending the system of apprenticeship which had replaced slavery. Williams argues that apprenticeship worsened the conditions of Jamaican ex-slaves as former owners used the legal system against them.

Estas biografias do Marquês de Olinda e do Viconde de Cairú têm a peculiaridade de terem sido escritas por um quase contemporâneo deles, Sébastien Auguste Sisson, francês radicado no Rio de Janeiro. Pedro de Araújo Lima, o Marquês de Olinda, tem destacada sua atuação política – deputado, senador, ministro – nos complexos tempos iniciais do Brasil Império. José da Silva Lisboa, o Visconde de Cairú, autor do livro "Princípios de Economia Política" (influenciado por Adam Smith), é reconhecido por seu conhecimento do Direito Comercial, aplicado ao Brasil.

Esta biografia de José Bonifácio tem a peculiaridade de ter sido escrita por um quase contemporâneo seu, Sébastien Auguste Sisson, francês radicado no Rio de Janeiro. Nela, Sisson destaca a infância influenciada pela mãe, que cobrava dedicação aos estudos, sua formação acadêmica em Portugal, seu fervor pela causa brasileira – que o levou a julgamento quando defendeu inconfidentes –, sua amizade com figuras ilustres como Kant e Humboldt, até sua morte, depois de ter cuidado dos filhos de D. Pedro I.

Listen as Dee Brown weaves humorous, richly detailed stories of his early years as a youthful entrepreneur and teenaged newspaperman.