Ergebnis für "Erster Weltkrieg" in Coming of Age

Im Londoner East End verkauft der junge Charlie Trumper Obst und Gemüse auf der Straße. In sehr ärmlichen Verhältnissen lebend, träumt er davon, einmal das größte Kaufhaus der Welt zu besitzen. Aber die Zeiten sind hart, und der Erste Weltkrieg reißt Charlie zunächst aus seinen Träumen. Doch auch die schlimmsten Feinde und Widerstände, selbst eine große tragische Liebe können ihn nicht aufhalten …

In the spring of 1914, renowned photographer August Sander took a photograph of three young men on their way to a country dance. This haunting image, capturing the last moments of innocence on the brink of World War I, provides the central focus of Powers' brilliant and compelling novel. As the fate of the three farmers is chronicled, two contemporary stories unfold.

1913, un paquebot quitte l'Europe. À son bord, trois jeunes en quête d'une seconde chance. Rosetta, jeune femme indépendante et rebelle, fuit son village italien. À la mort de ses parents, harcelée et violentée par la pègre, ayant perdu son honneur, elle n'a eu d'autre choix que d'abandonner la ferme familiale. Rocco, fier et fougueux jeune homme, laisse derrière lui sa Sicile natale. Il cherche à échapper à la Mafia locale, à laquelle il a refusé de se soumettre.

Un sogno di libertà. Una città in rivolta. Un ragazzo alla ricerca di sé stesso. Settembre 1919. L'eco della guerra ancora risuona in un'Europa ferita, mentre in una città assediata nasce un sogno rivoluzionario. Leo, diciassettenne inquieto e determinato, lascia la sua casa tra le montagne della Carnia per unirsi all'impresa di Fiume, guidata da Gabriele D'Annunzio. Spinto dall'irrequietezza e dal desiderio di far parte di qualcosa di grande, Leo si immerge in un mondo fatto di ideali rivoluzionari, discorsi infuocati e sogni di giustizia sociale.

Settembre 1919. L’eco della guerra ancora risuona in un’Europa ferita, mentre in una città assediata nasce un sogno rivoluzionario. Leo, diciassettenne inquieto e determinato, lascia la sua casa tra le montagne della Carnia per unirsi all’impresa di Fiume, guidata da Gabriele D’Annunzio. Spinto dall’irrequietezza e dal desiderio di far parte di qualcosa di grande, Leo si immerge in un mondo fatto di ideali rivoluzionari, discorsi infuocati e sogni di giustizia sociale.

Arthur Stannard was just 17 years old when he was transported more than 11,000 miles from his home in rural England to the rugged open landscapes of North Island, New Zealand. The son of a naval officer, Arthur was one of hundreds of boys and girls who were taken from their families and shipped to locations around the Dominions. Arthur’s destination was Flock House, a residential home and farm training school, set up and run by New Zealand farmers as a debt of gratitude to The Royal Navy for protecting their merchant ships during the First World War.

In the summer of 1914, sixteen-year-old Evan Sinclair leaves home to join the Great War for Civilization. Little does he know that, despite the war raging in Europe, the true source of conflict will emerge in Ottoman Palestine, since it's from Jerusalem where the German Kaiser dreams to rule as Holy Roman Emperor.

Set between 1918 and 1931, Jessie comes of age on the heels of the Spanish flu epidemic, in a time where skirt hems rose, marriageable men were in short supply, and compliance with temperance laws fell. As modern medical, dental, and training programs strove to restore the lives of the war’s injured, Jessie is a student at the University of Toronto, a mourner in the fields of France, a tourist in European capitals, a love struck guide in the hills of Caledon, and a devoted family member in her home town of Brampton.

The Sojourn is the story of Jozef Vinich, who was uprooted from a 19th-century mining town in Colorado by a family tragedy and returns with his father to an impoverished shepherd’s life in rural Austria-Hungary. When World War One comes, Jozef joins his adopted brother as a sharpshooter in the Kaiser’s army, surviving a perilous trek across the frozen Italian Alps and capture by a victorious enemy. A stirring tale of brotherhood, coming-of-age, and survival, this novel evokes a time when Czechs, Slovaks, Austrians, and Germans fought on the same side while divided by language, ethnicity, and social class.