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Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life
by Robert E. LernerThe first complete biography of an influential historian whose dramatic life intersected with many great events and thinkers of the twentieth centuryThis is the first complete biography of Ernst Kantorowicz (1895–1963), an influential and controversial German-American intellectual whose colorful and dramatic life intersected with many of the great events and thinkers of his time. A medieval historian whose ideas exerted an influence far beyond his field, he is most famous for two books—a notoriously nationalistic 1927 biography of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and The King's Two Bodies (1957), a classic study of medieval politics.Born into a wealthy Prussian-Jewish family, Kantorowicz fought on the Western Front in World War I, was wounded at Verdun, and earned an Iron Cross; later, he earned an Iron Crescent for service in Anatolia before an affair with a general’s mistress led to Kantorowicz being sent home. After the war, he fought against Poles in his native Posen, Spartacists in Berlin, and communists in Munich. An ardent German nationalist during the Weimar period, Kantorowicz became a member of the elitist Stefan George circle, which nurtured a cult of the "Secret Germany." Yet as a professor in Frankfurt after the Nazis came to power, Kantorowicz bravely spoke out against the regime before an overflowing crowd. Narrowly avoiding arrest after Kristallnacht, he fled to England and then the United States, where he joined the faculty at Berkeley, only to be fired in 1950 for refusing to sign an anticommunist “loyalty oath.” From there, he “fell up the ladder” to Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study, where he stayed until his death.Drawing on many new sources, including numerous interviews and unpublished letters, Robert E. Lerner tells the story of a major intellectual whose life and times were as fascinating as his work.
Ernst Lubitsch: Laughter in Paradise
by Scott Eyman"Highly recommended" (Library Journal): The only full-length biography of legendary film director Ernst Lubitsch, the director of such Hollywood classics as Trouble in Paradise, Ninotchka, and The Shop Around the Corner.In this groundbreaking biography of Ernst Lubitsch, undeniably one of the most important and influential film directors and artists of all time, critic and biographer Scott Eyman, author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller John Wayne, examines not just the films Lubitsch created, but explores as well the life of the man, a life full of both great successes and overwhelming insecurities. The result is a fascinating look at a man and an era--Hollywood's Golden Age. Born in Berlin and transported to Hollywood in the 1920s with the help of Mary Pickford, Lubitsch brought with him a level of sophistication and subtlety previously unknown to American movie audiences. He was quickly established as a director of unique quality and distinction. He captivated audiences with his unique "touch," creating a world of fantasy in which men are tall and handsome (unlike Lubitsch himself) and humorously adept at getting women into bed, and where all the women are beautiful and charming and capable of giving as well as receiving love. He revived the flagging career of Marlene Dietrich and, in Ninotchka, created Greta Garbo's most successful film. When movie buffs speak of "the Lubitsch touch," they refer to a sense of style and taste, humor and humanity that defined the films of one of Hollywood's all-time great directors. In the history of the medium, no one has ever quite equaled his unique talent. Written with the cooperation of an extraordinary ensemble of eyewitnesses, and unprecedented access to the files of Paramount Pictures, this is an enthralling biography as rich and diverse as its subject--sure to please film buffs of all types, especially those who champion Lubitsch as one of the greatest filmmakers ever.
Ernst Mach: His Life, Work, and Influence
by John T. BlackmoreThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972.
Eroi Caduti. Le vite di Galileo, Michelangelo e Gutenberg
by Anna Bennicelli Borja Loma BarrieRomanzo storico. Le vite dell'astronomo perseguitato dall'Inquisizione, dell'artista autore della Cappella Sistina tormentato dai demoni interiori e del pover'uomo che inventò la stampa e che con questa voleva diventare ricco.
Erotic Memoirs and Postfeminism: The Politics of Pleasure
by Joel GwynneThis book analyses the impact of postfeminist discourse and the mainstreaming of pornography on our understanding of intimacy and female sexuality. It is a broad critical survey of a recent publishing phenomenon - the female-authored erotic memoir - and positions the texts under analysis as complex and contradictory expressions of popular feminism.
Erotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor
by Roger LewisThe comic genius of English writing takes on Hollywood, delusion, celebrity and last century's ultimate glamour couple: Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were a Sixties supercharged couple in an era of supercharged couples. As a pairing they were fantasy figures, impossibly desirable. Liz supple and soft, in perfumes and furs - yet with something demonic and lethal about her. Dick, in turn, with his ravaged, handsome face, looked as though lit by silver moonlight - poised to turn into a wolf.Roger Lewis uses this glamorous and damaged pair as the starting point to tell the story of an age of excess: the freaks and groupies, the private jets and jewels and the yachts sailing in an azure sea; the magnificent bad taste and greed. It is about the clash of worlds: the filth and decay of South Wales and the grandeur and elegance of Old Hollywood; the fantasies we have about film stars and the fantasies the Burtons had about each other.'Brilliantly funny . . . the book of the year' - Sunday Times'By turns, funny, tragic, tender and vicious . . . a word-of-mouth sensation' - Guardian(P) 2023 Quercus Editions Ltd
Erotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor
by Roger Lewis'One of the very best biographies I have ever read' STEPHEN FRY'A hot thunderstorm of a book' DAVID HARE'Erotic Vagrancy gave me a week of pure joy' CRAIG BROWN'Unputdownable' TONY PALMER'A genius writer' LYNN BARBERRichard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were a Sixties supercharged couple in an era of supercharged couples. As a pairing they were fantasy figures, impossibly desirable. Liz supple and soft, in perfumes and furs - yet with something demonic and lethal about her. Dick, in turn, with his ravaged, handsome face, looked as though lit by silver moonlight - poised to turn into a wolf. Roger Lewis uses this glamorous and damaged pair as the starting point to tell the story of an age of excess: the freaks and groupies, the private jets and jewels and the yachts sailing in an azure sea; the magnificent bad taste and greed. It is about the clash of worlds: the filth and decay of South Wales and the grandeur and elegance of Old Hollywood; the fantasies we have about film stars and the fantasies the Burtons had about each other.
Erotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor
by Roger Lewis'One of the very best biographies I have ever read' STEPHEN FRY'A hot thunderstorm of a book' DAVID HARE'Erotic Vagrancy gave me a week of pure joy' CRAIG BROWN'Unputdownable' TONY PALMER'A genius writer' LYNN BARBERRichard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were a Sixties supercharged couple in an era of supercharged couples. As a pairing they were fantasy figures, impossibly desirable. Liz supple and soft, in perfumes and furs - yet with something demonic and lethal about her. Dick, in turn, with his ravaged, handsome face, looked as though lit by silver moonlight - poised to turn into a wolf. Roger Lewis uses this glamorous and damaged pair as the starting point to tell the story of an age of excess: the freaks and groupies, the private jets and jewels and the yachts sailing in an azure sea; the magnificent bad taste and greed. It is about the clash of worlds: the filth and decay of South Wales and the grandeur and elegance of Old Hollywood; the fantasies we have about film stars and the fantasies the Burtons had about each other.
Erratic North: A Vietnam Draft Resister's Life in the Canadian Bush
by Mark FrutkinIn geology an erratic is a "boulder or rock formation transported some distance from its original source, as by a glacier." In award-winning novelist Mark Frutkin’s case, his movement from his native Cleveland. Ohio, was instigated by his wish to protest and resist the U.S. military draft during the Vietnam War, and his destination was Canada.An estimated 50,000 to 100,000 American Vietnam War draft resisters sought sanctuary in Canada. Many of these men stayed, became Canadian citizens, and have made significant contributions to the country, including writers such as William Gibson, George Fetherling, Keith Maillard, and Jay Scott; musicians Jesse Winchester and Jim Byrnes; children’s performer Eric Nagler; and radio personality Andy Barrie.Although this first nonfiction work by Mark Frutkin looks back at the circumstances and culture of the late 1960s and early 1970s that prompted the author to relocate to Canada, Erratic Northis about many other things. It’s also a lyrical meditation about "returning to nature" in the bush country of Quebec and an account of the crucible that forged one writer. Tying everything together, though, is the overarching theme of the book: a contemplation of humanity’s embrace of war and violence and the countervailing impulse to resist that embrace, specifically as seen in the experience of Frutkin himself; his grandfather Simon, who escaped Tsarist Russia and its military in the 1890s; and Louis Drouin, the Quebec farmer Frutkin bought his original farm from and who resisted conscription in World War II.
The Erratics: A Memoir
by Vicki Laveau-Harvie"...a searing, brilliantly-written memoir about a destructive and cunning mother; reads like a novel..." --Margaret Atwood via Twitter In this award-winning memoir, two sisters reckon with the decline and death of their outlandishly tyrannical mother and with the care of their psychologically terrorized father, all relayed with dark humor and brutal honesty.When her elderly mother is hospitalized unexpectedly, Vicki Laveau-Harvie and her sister travel to their parents' ranch home in Alberta, Canada, to help their father. Estranged from their parents for many years, they are horrified by what they discover on their arrival. For years their mother has camouflaged her manic delusions and savage unpredictability, and over the decades she has managed to shut herself and her husband away from the outside world, systematically starving him and making him a virtual prisoner in his own home.Rearranging their lives to be the daughters they were never allowed to be, the sisters focus their efforts on helping their father cope with the unending manipulations of their mother and encounter all the pressures that come with caring for elderly parents. And at every step they have to contend with their mother, whose favorite phrase during their childhood was: "I'll get you and you won't even know I'm doing it."Set against the natural world of the Canadian foothills ("in winter the cold will kill you, nothing personal"), this memoir--at once dark and hopeful--shatters precedents about grief, anger, and family trauma with surprising tenderness and humor.
The Erratics: A Memoir
by Vicki Laveau-HarvieIn this award-winning memoir, two sisters reckon with the convalescence and death of their outlandishly tyrannical mother and the care of their psychologically terrorized father, all relayed with dark humour and brutal honesty.When Vicki and her sister learn their mother has been hospitalized for a broken hip, they return to their parents' home in Alberta to put things back in order. Though their parents disowned them years before, the sisters now reassert themselves in the dysfunctional household: their father, undernourished and suffering from Stockholm syndrome, is unable to see that he is in danger from his outlandish and vindictive wife. Rearranging their lives to be the daughters they were never allowed to be, the sisters focus their efforts on helping their father cope with the unending manipulations of their mother, and must encounter all the characters common in the circus of caretaking--oddball nurses and home helpers; over-opinionated hospital staff who have fallen for their mother's compulsive lies--along with the pressures that come with caring for elderly loved (and sometimes unloved) ones.Set against the natural world of remotest Alberta ("in winter the cold will kill you, nothing personal"), this memoir--at once dark and hopeful--shatters precedents about grief, anger and family trauma with surprising tenderness and humour.
Error humano
by Chuck PalahniukUna antología de crónicas, retratos e historias por el autor de El club de la lucha Compendio de crónicas, retratos de estrellas e historias íntimas, Error humano nos permite entrever el insólito mundo del autor y nos invita a destapar algunas de las realidades más sórdidas que alimentan sus novelas. Destacan en este universo el capítulo "Combate de cosechadoras", una crónica sobre la América profunda donde se mezclan el absurdo y la aberración, el retrato de un Marilyn Manson que habla sin tapujos de sí mismo a través de una sesión de tarot o la curiosa descripción del rodaje de El club de la lucha, en la que se habla del potenciador de labios de Brad Pitt. Reseñas: «Tal vez nuestra generación haya encontrado otro Don DeLillo.» Bret Easton Ellis «Como Edgar Allan Poe, Palahniuk es un incansable proveedor tóxico de un creciente horror. En su caso, convierte el nihilismo en diversión.» Henry Alford, Vanity Fair «Palahniuk siempre ha dicho que sus libros son mera observación y, cuando uno lee sobre los lugares a los que va y la gente a la que conoce, es fácil creerlo.» Alice Fisher, Time Out London
The Error World: An Affair with Stamps
by Simon GarfieldAn obsessively readable memoir about the passions—and perils—of collecting, from the New York Times–bestselling author of Just My Type. From the Penny Red to the Blue Mauritius, generations of collectors have been drawn to the mystique of rare stamps. Once a widespread pastime of schoolboys, philately has increasingly become the province of older men obsessed with the shrewd investment, the once-in-a-lifetime find, the one elusive beauty that will complete a collection and satisfy an unquenchable thirst. As a boy, Simon Garfield collected errors—rare pigment misprints that create ghostly absences in certain stamps. Then, in his mid-forties, this passion reignited—and it began to consume him. In the span of a couple of years, he amassed a collection of errors worth upwards of forty thousand British pounds. But as he was pursuing this secret passion, he was also pursuing a romantic one—while his marriage disintegrated. In this unique memoir, Simon Garfield twines the story of his philatelic obsession with an honest, engrossing exploration of the rarities and absences that both limit and define us. The end result is a thoughtful, funny, and enticing meditation on the impulse to possess.
Eruption: Conversations with Eddie Van Halen
by Brad Tolinski Chris GillGet a completely new look at guitar legend Eddie Van Halen with this groundbreaking oral history, composed of more than fifty hours of interviews with Eddie himself as well as his family, friends, and colleagues. When rock legend Eddie Van Halen died of cancer on October 6, 2020, the entire world seemed to stop and grieve. Since his band Van Halen burst onto the scene with their self-titled debut album in 1978, Eddie had been hailed as an icon not only to fans of rock music and heavy metal, but to performers across all genres and around the world. Van Halen&’s debut sounded unlike anything that listeners had heard before and remains a quintessential rock album of the era. Over the course of more than four decades, Eddie gained renown for his innovative guitar playing, and particularly for popularizing the tapping guitar solo technique. Unfortunately for Eddie and his legions of fans, he died before he was ever able to put his life down to paper in his own words, and much of his compelling backstory has remained elusive—until now. In Eruption, music journalists Brad Tolinski and Chris Gill share with fans, new and old alike, a candid, compulsively readable, and definitive oral history of the most influential rock guitarist since Jimi Hendrix. It is based on more than 50+ hours of unreleased interviews they recorded with Eddie Van Halen over the years, most of them conducted at the legendary 5150 studios at Ed&’s home in Los Angeles. The heart of Eruption is drawn from these intimate and wide-ranging talks, as well as conversations with family, friends, and colleagues. In addition to discussing his greatest triumphs as a groundbreaking musician, including an unprecedented dive into Van Halen&’s masterpiece 1984, the book also takes an unflinching look at Edward&’s early struggles as young Dutch immigrant unable to speak the English language, which resulted in lifelong issues with social anxiety and substance abuse. Eruption: Conversations with Eddie Van Halen also examines his brilliance as an inventor who changed the face of guitar manufacturing.As entertaining as it is revealing, Eruption is the closest readers will ever get to hearing Eddie&’s side of the story when it comes to his extraordinary life.
Erwin Rommel: Leadership, Strategy, Conflict
by Pier Paolo BattistelliA short biography of General field marshal Erwin Rommel, the legendary 'Desert Fox', who ranks amongst the most famous generals of World War II. A daring infantry officer during World War I, in the early months of World War II Rommel took over command of a Panzer division, which he led in one of the most crucial areas of the German offensive in the West. It was as commander of the Afrikakorps from 1941 that he fought his most famous battles and came close to driving the British out of Egypt. Defeated by Montgomery at El Alamein, he later led the German forces during the battle for Normandy in 1944, but after being implicated in the plot against Hitler, he was forced to commit suicide. Lionized by British historians of the post-war period as representing all that was good in the German military tradition, this title re-assesses his role as a battlefield commander, analysing his strengths and weaknesses.
Es lo que hay
by Irene LozanoUn recorrido de Rosa Díez por los temas candentes de la actualidad y su ideario político. El político mejor valorado de España es una política: Rosa Díez. Las encuestas no precisan el porqué de ese aprecio ciudadano, aunque no resulta difícil aventurar que sus cualidades han quedado de manifiesto en momentos cruciales de la reciente vida política española: su coraje, en la lucha contra el terrorismo y el nacionalismo obligatorio; su coherencia, como disidente del PSOE; la fuerza de sus convicciones, en el proyecto colectivo de UPyD; su sinceridad, en el desempeño como diputada. La labor de Rosa Díez no ha contado con la fabulosa maquinaria propagandística de un gran partido, ni con el favor de los bancos -que se negaron a financiar a UPyD en su nacimiento-, ni con la complicidad de medios de comunicación amigos. De ahí que se haya acostumbrado a hacer política dirigiéndose a la gente sin intermediarios. En este libro, una suerte de diario político, escrito entre la urgencia cotidiana y la tranquilidad de saber que la siembra de ideas siempre se recoge años después, Rosa Díez sale una vez más al encuentro de los ciudadanos: los interesados en su pensamiento y los escépticos, los admiradores y los detractores, los ilusionados con sus aspiraciones y los que temen albergar esperanzas respecto a la política. Habrá a quien no le guste, pero es lo que hay.
Es mi turno: Un viaje en busca de mi voz y mis raíces (Atria Espanol)
by Ilia CalderónLas memorias inspiradoras, pertinentes y provocadoras de Ilia Calderón—la primera presentadora afrolatina en un noticiario hispano de preeminencia en los Estados Unidos—acerca de seguir sus sueños, superar prejuicios y acoger su identidad.De niña, Ilia Calderón se sentía como una típica niña colombiana. En el Chocó, la provincia afrolatina donde se crio, tu piel podría ser de cualquier tono y aún serías considerado familia. Pero cuando dejó su comunidad para asistir a la escuela secundaria y la universidad en Medellín, todo cambió. A partir de ese momento, resolvió volverse &“sorda&” al racismo, decidida a superar el prejuicio, incluso cuando le repetían que los trabajos prominentes de presentador de noticias no eran para ella. Cuando un giro del destino le presentó una oportunidad única en la cadena noticiera Telemundo en Miami, estaba emocionada de comenzar una nueva vida —e identidad— en los Estados Unidos, donde las fronteras raciales, creía, se habían disuelto hace mucho tiempo y la igualdad era la regla. Sin embargo, se enfrentó a otro tipo de discriminación racial como una mujer inmigrante de color que le hablaba en español a la comunidad latinx cada vez más marginada. En los últimos nueve años, Ilia ha reportado desde la primera línea de eventos históricos como el huracán Katrina, los terremotos en México, las elecciones presidenciales de los Estados Unidos de 2016 y la crisis pandémica del COVID-19. Ahora, Ilia corre el telón de los altibajos de su extraordinaria vida y carrera. Desde luchas internas personales hasta problemas profesionales analiza cómo construyó su identidad en medio de la violencia con carga de motivos raciales y la polarización política. Sobre la marcha, ella muestra cómo ha superado el miedo y enfrentado el odio de cara a cara, todo en nombre de crear un mundo mejor para su joven hija, Anna.
Es mi turno: Un viaje en busca de mi voz y mis raíces
by Ilia CalderonLAS MEMORIAS INSPIRADORAS, PERTINENTES Y PROVOCADORAS DE ILIA CALDERÓN -LA PRIMERA PRESENTADORA AFROLATINA EN UN NOTICIARIO HISPANO DE PREEMINENCIA EN LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS- ACERCA DE SEGUIR SUS SUEÑOS, SUPERAR PREJUICIOS Y ACOGER SU IDENTIDAD. De niña, Ilia Calderón se sentía como una típica niña colombiana. En el Chocó, la provincia afrolatina donde se crio, tu piel podría ser de cualquier tono y aún serías considerado familia. Pero cuando dejó su comunidad para asistir a la escuela secundaria y la universidad en Medellín, todo cambió. A partir de ese momento, resolvió volverse "sorda" al racismo, decidida a superar el prejuicio, incluso cuando le repetían que los trabajos prominentes de presentador de noticias no eran para ella. Cuando un giro del destino le presentó una oportunidad única en la cadena noticiera Telemundo en Miami, estaba emocionada de comenzar una nueva vida -e identidad- en los Estados Unidos, donde las fronteras raciales, creía, se habían disuelto hace mucho tiempo y la igualdad era la regla. Sin embargo, se enfrentó a otro tipo de discriminación racial como una mujer inmigrante de color que le hablaba en español a la comunidad latina cada vez más marginada. En los últimos nueve años, Ilia ha reportado desde la primera línea de eventos históricos como el huracán Katrina, los terremotos en México, las elecciones presidenciales de los Estados Unidos de 2016 y la crisis pandémica del COVID-19. Ahora, Ilia corre el telón de los altibajos de su extraordinaria vida y carrera. Desde luchas internas personales hasta problemas profesionales analiza cómo construyó su identidad en medio de la violencia con carga de motivos raciales y la polarización política. Sobre la marcha, ella muestra cómo ha superado el miedo y enfrentado el odio de cara a cara, todo en nombre de crear un mundo mejor para su joven hija, Anna. "Existen muy pocas historias de superación que se acerquen siquiera a las de Ilia como madre y periodista. Qué suerte la mía de trabajar con ella y ser testigo de esta mujer cambiando al mundo."-Jorge Ramos, presentador principal de Noticiero Univision "Esta es la historia de una niñita quién creció con grandes carencias en una humilde casa de madera, que se inundaba cada vez que el río crecía, y quién aprendió a luchar y prepararse para llegar a ser la primera afrolatina en el noticiero más importante en la televisión en español de los EE. UU. La lección que Ilia Calderón aquí nos enseña es clara: ¡todo se puede!" -María Antonieta Collins, autora de bestsellers y corresponsal principal de Noticiero Univisión
Esa poderosa luz: La apasionante historia del Hermano Pablo
by Linda FinkenbinderEn este libro se plasma la vida del Hermano Pablo. Es en sí la historia de cómo Dios ha usado una vida consagrada a él para llevar la luz del evangelio al mundo. Su ejemplo, sencillez y testimonio dicen realmente del amor que siente por su Señor, al que ha servido durante toda su vida con amor y entrega total.
Esaú e Jacó
by Machado De Assis"Esaú e Jacó" from Machado de Assis. Escritor brasileiro, amplamente considerado como o maior nome da literatura nacional (1839-1908).
The Escape: The Escape
by Rashid Ben AddiIt is the cry of a whole generation, unable to get out of the cycle of inertia, and still sees the ray of hope coming from behind the border When we are assured of the low level of images that were exposing the boats of death that lead the young to die, just as butterflies go to the Holocaust and follow the beam of light, shaking the narrator reassured, and tells us that death boats are still fine It is only the destination of the butterflies that have differed, but their burning is still going on in front of the sight of a homeland that is in dire need of its wings and its lava, which withers without price. Young people flee to bars and endless hell, or sink into the belly of the Ghoul, to become a hand to strike terrorism, or leave to Turkey, and cut all ties to the homeland .. <P><P>Or live endless dreams of escape may be in the coffin, may be a reminder to America For eternal migration And if all these manifestations of escape, lived by one hero, is "Yazid" hero of the novel, but in fact pictures of a whole generation, feels that he is outcast, and does not trust much that anyone will reach the truth of his feelings, so the young writer from the beginning anger In Manfesto opens his novel and says: Our feelings and feelings we are outcasts, uglier than words described in a novel or even in a poem Let the novel begin with infinite circles from Taha, Rabat, that harsh city. <P><P>The bus is scattered between the bus (life), the cafe, and the sea The dream of a revolution comes fleeting, not for a better tomorrow, but for equal losses, or to lose the winners in this grim reality At the peak of despair lies the false hope more than once, on the establishment of a dream, or promise a way worse than the current way. Hope may appear in the spectrum of a woman appearing and disappearing, or in the pregnancy of a child aborting harshly, and remains just a painful memory, or loss added to the rest of the losses Even after escaping to Turkey, fate continues to play with a desperate yo
Escape
by G. V. CoraESCAPE… is a historical recounting of one unique family's journey of strength and love across four generations. When the Second World War crossed Romania's borders, the changes were drastic and disorienting, transitioning from a monarchy to Communism, from a "good life" to poverty while moving through a range of emotions from love to the heavy burden of lost hope, to being asked to give up your child because of her physical handicap and, ultimately, to achieving independence. This book will take you through all the struggles, tears, and pain from the dark hell of lost love, unexpected sacrifices, and a regime that nearly suffocated a once beautiful country hanging like a dark shadow above all. Come and share the journey one family took to reach the light, to survive, and succeed.
Escape: A Memoir
by Carolyn Jessop Laura PalmerThe dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one woman's courageous flight to freedom with her eight children.When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger: a man thirty-two years her senior. Merril Jessop already had three wives. But arranged plural marriages were an integral part of Carolyn's heritage: She was born into and raised in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), the radical offshoot of the Mormon Church that had settled in small communities along the Arizona-Utah border. Over the next fifteen years, Carolyn had eight children and withstood her husband's psychological abuse and the watchful eyes of his other wives who were locked in a constant battle for supremacy.Carolyn's every move was dictated by her husband's whims. He decided where she lived and how her children would be treated. He controlled the money she earned as a school teacher. He chose when they had sex; Carolyn could only refuse--at her peril. For in the FLDS, a wife's compliance with her husband determined how much status both she and her children held in the family. Carolyn was miserable for years and wanted out, but she knew that if she tried to leave and got caught, her children would be taken away from her. No woman in the country had ever escaped from the FLDS and managed to get her children out, too. But in 2003, Carolyn chose freedom over fear and fled her home with her eight children. She had $20 to her name.Escape exposes a world tantamount to a prison camp, created by religious fanatics who, in the name of God, deprive their followers the right to make choices, force women to be totally subservient to men, and brainwash children in church-run schools. Against this background, Carolyn Jessop's flight takes on an extraordinary, inspiring power. Not only did she manage a daring escape from a brutal environment, she became the first woman ever granted full custody of her children in a contested suit involving the FLDS. And in 2006, her reports to the Utah attorney general on church abuses formed a crucial part of the case that led to the arrest of their notorious leader, Warren Jeffs.
Escape: Our journey home through war-torn Germany
by Barbie Probert-WrightTwo sisters.One extraordinary true story.Germany, 1945. Trapped between advancing armies, stranded hundreds of miles from their mother, and with their father missing in action, sisters Barbie and Eva were confronted with an impossible choice.Should they stay and face invasion or risk their lives to find their mother?Together, they set out on a perilous three-hundred mile journey on foot across a country ravaged by war. Fuelled by courage and love, Eva and seven-year-old Barbie encounter incredible hardship, extraordinary bravery, and overwhelming generosity.Against all odds, they both survived.But neither sister came out of the journey unscathed . . .This is the powerful true story of their escape.(Previously published as Little Girl Lost)
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
by Jonathan FreedlandThe astonishing, forgotten story of the hero who escaped from Auschwitz to reveal the truth of the Holocaust.In April 1944 a teenager named Rudolf Vrba was planning a daring and unprecedented escape from Auschwitz. After hiding in a pile of timber planks for three days while 3,000 SS men and their bloodhounds searched for him, Vrba and his fellow escapee Fred Wetzler would eventually cross Nazi-occupied Poland on foot, as penniless fugitives. Their mission: to tell the world the truth of the Final Solution.Vrba would produce from memory a breathtaking report of more than thirty pages revealing the true nature and scale of Auschwitz - a report that would find its way to Roosevelt, Churchill and the Pope, eventually saving over 200,000 Jewish lives.A thrilling history with enormous historical implications, THE ESCAPE ARTIST is the extraordinary story of a complex man who would seek escape again and again: first from Auschwitz, then from his past, even from his own name. In telling his story, Jonathan Freedland - the journalist, broadcaster and acclaimed, multi-million copy selling author of the Sam Bourne novels - ensures that Rudolf Vrba's heroic mission will also escape oblivion.(P) 2022 Hodder & Stoughton Limited