Ergebnis für "Das Tor" in Biografien & Erinnerungen

Haben die Orks etwas mit den Nazis zu tun. Ist Tolkiens großes Epos von Mittelerde eine Allegorie auf den Ersten Weltkrieg? Diese und andere Fragen beschäftigen von jeher die Leser. John Garth stellt diesen Spekulationen ein fundiertes und faszinierend argumentierendes Buch über den großen Autor Tolkien entgegen. "1914 als junger Mann in all das hineinzugeraten, war eine keineswegs weniger schreckliche Erfahrung als 1939 … 1918 waren alle meine engen Freunde mit nur einer Ausnahme tot." So äußerte sich Tolkien zu Deutungen, die im "Herrn der Ringe" eine Reaktion auf den Zweiten Weltkrieg sahen. John Garth beschreibt hier zum ersten Mal ausführlich, wie Tolkien in seiner Jugend erlebte, dass die Welt um ihn in der Katastrophe versank. Gerade diese Erfahrungen prägten Tolkiens mythologische Erfindungen maßgeblich, in denen er seine eigene literarische Tradition begründete. Mittelerde und seine Anziehungskraft sind daher nicht aus Eskapismus entstanden, sondern aus dem Drang, das Erlebnis der Verwüstung dichterisch in eine Form zu bringen, die bis heute nachwirkt und fasziniert.

Eine mitreißende Erzählung über die Reise zum eigenen Ich Leonie Maßmann berichtet über ihre abenteuerliche Weltreise auf einem kleinen Segelboot. Und davon, was es heißt, seinen Traum zu leben – mit allen Höhen und Tiefen.

Viele von uns sind Kinder der Bundesliga. Unsere Erinnerungen an die Fußball Bundesliga reichen von den engen Meisterschaften der Bayern mit Borussia Mönchengladbach in den 70ern dann mit dem HSV und Werder Bremen und den 11er von Kutzop bis in die letzten 15 Jahren mit den engen Titelkämpfen mit dem BvB. Wir hörten die Bundesliga im Freibad oder beim Auto waschen im Radio oder pünktlich um 18.00 Uhr mit Heribert Faßbender, Reinold Beckmann oder Jessy Wellmer. 61 Jahre Fußball Bundesliga, fast 57.000 Tore.

One of the most influential books of the past fifty years, Team of Rivals is Pulitzer Prize–winning author and esteemed presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s modern classic about the political genius of Abraham Lincoln, his unlikely presidency, and his cabinet of former political...

A real life Queen’s Gambit, this captivating memoir tells the story of one of the most renowned women in chess history, Susan Polgar, taking on a sexist establishment and rewriting the rules of what women could achieve against the oppressive backdrop of Cold War Eastern Europe. Born to a poor...

The incomparable Civil War diarist Mary Chesnut wrote that she had the luck “always to stumble in on the real show.” Married to a high-ranking member of the Confederate government, she was ideally placed to watch and to record the South’s headlong plunge to ruin, and she left in her journals an unsurpassed account of the old regime’s death throes, its moment of high drama in world history. With intelligence and passion she described the turbulent events of politics and war, as well as the complex society around her.

With an introduction by Harriet McDougal, Origins of The Wheel of Time by Michael Livingston explores the inspirations behind the acclaimed series The Wheel of Time, including a biography of Robert Jordan for the first time. ‘Jordan has come to dominate the world Tolkien began to reveal’ –...

On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside government buildings in central Oslo, killing eight people. He then proceeded to a youth camp on the island of Utøya, where he killed 69 more, most of them teenage members of Norway's governing Labour Party. In One of Us, the journalist Åsne Seierstad tells the story of this terrible day and what led up to it. What made Breivik, a gifted child from an affluent neighborhood in Oslo, become a terrorist?

An astonishing journey into the heart of Nazi evil: a portrait of one of the darkest figures of Hitler’s Nazi elite—Reinhard Heydrich, the designer and executor of the Holocaust, chief of the Reich Main Security, including the Gestapo—interwoven with commentary by his wife, Lina, from the...

A probing biography of world-renowned Jewish singer and actor Al Jolson and the history of his performance in and the making of The Jazz Singer Al Jolson, born Asa Yoelson, immigrated from a shtetl in Lithuania to the United States in 1894 after his father secured a job as a rabbi in Washington...

Cien años de odio desembocan en tres asesinatos en una aldea de trece casas.

A feminist biography of the only woman to become prime minister of Israel In this authoritative and empathetic biography, Pnina Lahav reexamines the life of Golda Meir (1898-1978) through a feminist lens, focusing on her recurring role as a woman standing alone among men. The Only Woman in the Room is the first book to contend with Meir’s full identity as a woman, Jew, Zionist leader, and one of the founders of Israel, providing a richer portrait of her persona and legacy.  

Zippi Spitzer and David Wisnia were captivated by each other from the moment they first exchanged glances across the work floor. It was the beginning of a love story that could have happened anywhere. Except for one difference: this romance was unfolding in history's most notorious death camp, between two young prisoners whose budding intimacy risked dooming them if they were caught. Incredibly, David and Zippi survived for years beneath the ash-choked skies of Auschwitz.

Sally Hobart Alexander continues the story of her journey into blindness in this uplifting tale of a life rebuilt and love renewed. Suzanne Toren’s perceptive narration perfectly expresses the emotions of Sally’s sometimes fun, often arduous, and always interesting journey. Also available is Taking Hold, My Journey Into Blindness, which tells the first half of Sally’s story.

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019 National Book Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants and revealing secrets of the...

La caduta del Regno di Napoli e gli inizi del neostato unitario, che già allora scendeva a patti con la criminalità organizzata, fanno da sfondo al percorso criminale e umano di Tore 'e Crescienzo, il primo camorrista dell'età moderna. Un romanzo storico documentato e avvincente, corredato da stampe d'epoca, che getta nuova luce su eventi di straordinaria rilevanza e quanto mai attuali nello scacchiere sociale ed economico odierno. Chi è Salvatore De Crescenzo detto Tore 'e Crescienzo: un delinquente incallito, capo della camorra.

The gripping tale of three Sudanese boys who were driven from their homes by civil war and began an epic odyssey of survival, ultimately finding their way to a new life in America. “A moving, beautifully written account, by turns raw and tender.” —Los Angeles Times 1987 and 1989, Alepho...

The riveting true story of mother-and-daughter queens Catherine de' Medici and Marguerite de Valois, whose wildly divergent personalities and turbulent relationship changed the shape of their tempestuous and dangerous century. Set in magnificent Renaissance France, this is the story of two...

‘Effervescent’ New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So Far ‘Bursts with colour and incident’ FT Best Books of Summer Read this prize-winning historian’s “immersive” ( New York Times) account of the famous writers who, in the run-up to World War II, took on dictators and rewrote the rules...

Winning strategies from the three-time European Championship winner and the only football coach ever to reach the final of five international tournaments. As FIFA's most decorated female football manager and a former player, Sarina Wiegman has led both the Netherlands and England women's...