Ergebnis für "Vera" in Geschichte

Frauen haben schon immer die Welt verändert: Sie haben geforscht, Weltliteratur geschrieben und neue Epochen in der Kunst eingeläutet. Doch die Namen dieser Frauen sucht man vergeblich in unseren Geschichtsbüchern. In Wahrheit hat nicht Walt Disney den Zeichentrickfilm erfunden, sondern eine Frau. Es waren auch Frauen, die die DNA, den ersten Algorithmus und die Kernspaltung beschrieben haben. Dank Vera Weidenbach erfahren wir nun endlich mehr über diese für die Weltgeschichte so wichtigen Frauen – wie Lilly Reich, Clara Immerwahr, Lucia Moholy, Nellie Bly und Margarete Steffin.

Ein Winter, der alles verändert. Eine Flucht, die eine ganze Familie prägt. Eine wahre Geschichte, die berührt.Im eisigen Januar 1945 muss eine Familie alles zurücklassen — ihr Zuhause, ihre Sicherheit, ihre Kindheitsträume. Was als gewöhnlicher Wintertag beginnt, verwandelt sich in eine dramatische Flucht vor Krieg und Zerstörung. Mit wenigen Habseligkeiten und einem einzigen Koffer treten sie eine Reise an, die durch Schnee, Kälte und Ungewissheit führt.

»Viel wurde über 9/11 geschrieben, so etwas noch nie.« The Messenger Kein Tag hat sich stärker ins kollektive Gedächtnis gebrannt. Die Bilder, die Geschichten, die Konsequenzen. Doch die Worte derer, die den 11. September tatsächlich erlebt haben, fehlten fast zwanzig Jahre lang. Garrett M...

'An electric biography' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Thrilling' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'A masterclass in the possibilities of biography' FINANCIAL TIMES Vera Gedroits was a towering, sweet-faced lesbian princess, an ardent supporter of workers’ rights who regularly performed true medical miracles of surgery. On...

Vlad Tepes, l'impalatore, nel XV secolo fu il principe della Valacchia, regione situata nel cuore dell'Europa Orientale. Personaggio leggendario per la sua ferocia e crudeltà, ben presto venne chiamato "Dracula", e cioè drago o demonio. Ma chi è stato veramente l'uomo che la cultura popolare prima e la letteratura gotica poi hanno reso immortale con il nome di Conte Dracula? Un paladino della sua nazione e della fede cristiana, oppure un pazzo sadico e feroce, un bestiale e sanguinario torturatore?

A story of courage, unconventionality and lust for life. Vera Wasowski was just seven years old when German soldiers marched her family into the Lvov Jewish ghetto in Poland. She watched her father take his own life and her mother accede to sexual blackmail in order to ensure her and Vera’s survival. With unsparing honesty and the blackest humour, she recalls a world where the desire to survive was everything.

Dai conflitti con i Mapuche alla morte di Santiago Maldonado, ovvero tutto quello che i media italiani mainstream non hanno mai voluto raccontare sulla potente dinastia italiana e su come è diventata la padrona della Patagonia. Un audiolibro di denuncia sull'operato della famiglia Benetton in Argentina, ma anche una testimonianza sulla lotta degli indios Mapuche, il popolo originario della Patagonia, per i suoi diritti. Una testimonianza dalla "fine del mondo" che ci fa conoscere le profonde storture, ingiustizie, di un sistema socioeconomico.

C'è stato un tempo in cui, nella Sicilia lacerata da una furiosa guerra di mafia, si fecero largo gruppi di picciotti senza regole e senza padroni, che si misero in testa di arricchirsi con le rapine e con le estorsioni. Presto vennero coinvolti nelle faide tra vecchi e nuovi boss di Cosa nostra e si trasformarono in killer spietati. Li chiamavano stiddari. Tra la fine degli anni Ottanta e gli inizi dei Novanta seminarono il terrore nelle province di Agrigento, Caltanissetta, Enna, Ragusa e Trapani.

This classic memoir of the First World War is now a major motion picture starring Alicia Vikander and Kit Harington. In 1914 Vera Brittain was 20, and as war was declared she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the lives of her whole generation - had changed in a way that would have been unimaginable in the tranquil prewar era.

En levende skildring af opvæksten med en kompromisløs, idealistisk mor i et moderne, rettighedsløst Rusland, skrevet af hendes datter fra et skjult eksil i Europa. Anna Politkovskaya, Ruslands verdenskendte journalist, afdækkede Kadyrovs forbrydelser mod menneskeheden i Tjetjenien...

Riding the Storm chronicles Africa’s resilience and determination during a borderless crisis. Through the actions of heroes like HE Cyril Ramaphosa, Mr Strive Masiyiwa, Dr Vera Songwe, Dr John Nkengasong, and Professor Benedict Oramah, a narrative of leadership, duty and sacrifices emerges. From securing vaccines to complex negotiations, this book tells of the journey to an outcome that surprised the world. In this book, the author presents the facts in an illustrative manner that highlights African innovation, competence and spirit.

Vera Atkins is one of the many unsung heroes and heroines of World War II. She carried out her life with great care and due diligence, quietly becoming the perfect spy when no one was watching. Beneath her polished exterior was a mind built for strategy, secrecy, and survival. But Vera wasn’t just a spy—she was a Spymistress. That’s what her operatives in Britain’s military intelligence unit, the Special Operations Executive, called her.

Die dramatische Lebensgeschichte eines Mannes, der mehr erlebt hat als gut für einen Menschen ist und trotzdem ein erfolgreicher Unternehmer wurde. Seine innere Unruhe und das Fluchtverhalten haben ihn ein Leben lang nicht verlassen. Abenteuerlich, spannend, dramatisch.

From an award-winning journalist comes this real-life cloak-and-dagger tale of Vera Atkins, one of Britain’s premiere secret agents during World War II. As the head of the French Section of the British Special Operations Executive, Vera Atkins recruited, trained, and mentored special...

This is a collection of poems by Vera M. Brittain, an Englishwoman, who served in World War I as a member of the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD). She worked as a nurse during the war. These poems are based on her wartime experiences. - Summary by mleigh

Vera Brittain and the First World War tells the remarkable story of the author behind Testament of Youth while charting the book's ascent to become one of the most loved memoirs of the First World War period. Such interest is set to expand even more in this centenary year of the war's outbreak.

“Vera – Una storia collettiva” è una docuserie audio in otto episodi scritta e prodotta da Francesco Tanini.La serie ricostruisce gli eventi che portarono alla strage di Berceto del 17 aprile 1944, dove 11 persone vennero uccise in circostanze mai del tutto chiarite e i cui mandanti non sono mai stati individuati. Vera è una degli ultimi sopravvissuti a quegli eventi. Questo è il racconto della vita di poche persone, ma è anche un cammino lungo la scia di dolori e speranze che hanno segnato l'identità di una comunità. È una questione privata, ma che riguarda tutti.Ideato e ...

Máxima de Holanda escaló hasta el mundo más alto aspirado por todas las mujeres de su entorno y su generación: la realeza europea. Y lo hizo gracias a una ambición y a una tenacidad que la llevaron a convertirse en parte de la Historia.

"If war spares me," wrote Vera Brittain to her brother, Edward, in 1916, "it will be my one aim to immortalise in a book the story of us four." Seventeen years later, Vera was to achieve her aim with the acclaimed Testament of Youth. This series of letters was the inspiration behind Testament. Written between Vera; her brother; her fiancé, Roland Leighton; and their two best friends, Victor Richardson and Geoffrey Thurlow, they give a unique perspective on the most horrifying conflict the world has ever seen.

READ BY DAME VERA LYNN AND HER DAUGHTER VIRGINIA LEWIS-JONES. Forbidden love and family secrets In World War Two Liverpool in the heartrending new saga from the author of Goodnight Sweetheart. Born Vera Welch on 20 March, 1917 in the East End of London, Dame Vera Lynn’s career was set from an...