Memoirs

Source: rodohforum.yuku.com --- 7 days ago
Sorry to bother you again with this "kapo" stuff, asked about them also earlier, but: Does anybody know any recommendable studies or Memoirs concerning the role of the kapos, about their role in the camps from sosiological or other perspectives, or their faith after the war, trials etc.? I've done some searches from the online library catalogues here in Berlin, at least stichwort "kapo" gives me very little results. Here is something I've found earlier or via these... ...

Source: www.suntimes.com --- 2 days ago
Dreams die hard, especially athletic ones. The difference is today you can do something about it. That's the upbeat if sometimes exasperating message of Off the Deep End, the story of author W. Hodding Carter's attempt at age 45 to attain his long-sought goal of swimming in the Olympics. ...

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 1 day ago
Sometimes, it's simply remarkable just how worthless our media is when it comes to putting remarks into perspective, especially in the context of politics, particularly presidential politics. It's hard not to wonder whether they are professional stenographers who sometimes double as journalists. One example that perfectly illustrates this failure are the recent attacks by John McCain (R) on Barack Obama (D) for harboring ambitions to be president, as McCain describes it. Here's what McCain said during his remarks before the VFW yesterday: “Behind all of these claims and positions by Senator Obama lies the ambition to be president." What our media seems to either ignore or believes isn't relevant is McCain's own words in his own political memoir describing why he ran for president in 2000: "I didn't decide to run for president to start a national crusade for the political reforms I believed in or to run a campaign as if it were some grand act of patriotism. In truth, I wanted to be president because it had become my ambition to be president. . . . In truth, I'd had the ambition for a long time. " Of course, McCain's self-confessed "ambition to be president" isn't part of any media analysis when it comes to his own attacks against Obama on the same issue. In fact, it's remarkable how few people even know that McCain wrote those words in his book "Worth the Fighting For." I had no idea until a month or two ago when a reader dropped ...

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Disgraced pop star GARY GLITTER is to write a book about his "innocence". The 64-year-old singer - real name Paul Gadd - walked free from prison on Tuesday (19Aug08) ... ...

Source: www.post-gazette.com --- 2 days ago
Book editor Bob Hoover's selection of the week ... ...

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Source: www.associatedcontent.com --- 7 days ago
Diana Ross life journey thus far told as only she could convey ...

Source: www.kansascity.com --- 10 days ago
Ever wish your life was exciting, inspiring or just plain bizarre enough to be worthy of a memoir? Whether your exploits are memoir-ready, Book Lover’s Day, which is today, is the perfect time to celebrate all the books you love, from nonfiction to pulp fiction. ...

Source: cs.silverpop.com --- 11 days ago
Neil Simon's autobiographical Broadway smash hit comes to life. Jonathan Silverman is 15-year-old Eugene, an aspiring writer with two things on his mind: baseball & sex. ...

Source: www.floridatoday.com --- 6 days ago
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Source: blogcritics.org --- 9 days ago
An engrossing first-hand historical account of a violent time that many have overlooked. When I think back to the early 1990s, I was in high school and worried about boys and where I should apply to college. Being a teenager, I, like so many other teens, would melodramatically label our lives as "hellish" since we were going through that typical adolescent rebellion and complaining about too much homework. Add to that the... ...

Source: www.wnyc.org --- 9 days ago
In Gregor von Rezzori's semi-autobiographical satire, Memoirs of an Anti-Semite , the narrator looks back on a lifetime of fascination with and hatred of Jews. Elie Wiesel has said that Rezzori's voice "echoes with the disturbing and wonderful magic of a true storyteller." Deborah Eisenberg , who wrote the introduction to the New York Review of Books edition of the novel, joins us to explain why this book should be on your summer reading list. ...

Source: www.livingstondaily.com --- 3 days ago
It wasn't the job that Bill Hanford wanted when he signed up to serve in the Army during World War II. ...

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Source: muddydogcoffee.wordpress.com --- 9 days ago
A Haiku to Panama La Esmeralda Hacienda Gesha, frequently spelled (or misspelled, I’m not sure) Geisha, as in Japanese geisha Fleeting like a glimpse Your beauty is like no other Now gone forever And so it is. Today I sold my last 227 grams of roasted gesha. It was a magnificent coffee, one that I was fortunate enough [...] ...

Source: www.freebooksource.info --- 6 days ago
  Commanding the Red Army’s Sherman Tanks: The World War II Memoirs of Hero of the Soviet Union Dmitriy Loza By Dmitriy Loza (Author) and James F. Gebhardt University of Nebraska Press | Oct. 1996 | ISBN: 0803229208 | 173 Pages | HTML & Pics in RAR | 1,1Mb Midwest Book Review Hero of the Soviet Union Dmitriy [...] ...

Source: www.coldplaying.com --- 5 days ago
Matt McGinn has been Jonny's guitar tech for eight years. He's recently written a book, Roadie, documenting his time with Coldplay. We thought you might like to read an entertaining excerpt explaining how Matt came to meet the band. (Oh, and for the record, Matt is not Roadie #42.), courtesy of Coldplay.com: A Roadie Meets A Band As kids in the ‘70s, we all used to whisper the words "The Year 2000" as if when the new century arrived the sun would blow up and Earth’d change colour/go off course/wet its pants, etc. Once we all actually got there though, I’d been bald for nearly five years, so as far as I was concerned my big cosmic side-swipe had already happened and I was absolutely up for anything. Millennium bug? Pah! I’m a slaphead, bring it on! ...

Source: moviemusicreviews.blogspot.com --- 8 days ago
Before turning to the criminal life, running a onewoman forgery scam out of an Upper West Side studio shared with her tortoiseshell cat, and dodging the FBI, Lee Israel enjoyed a celebrated reputation as an author. When her writing career suddenly took a turn for the worse, she conceived of the astonishing literary scheme that fooled even many of the experts. Forging hundreds of letters from ...

Source: www.smithmag.net --- 9 days ago
Our first book of six-word Memoirs, Not Quite What I Was Planning, featured life stories from “I’m ten and have an attitude” to “Seventy years, few tears, hairy ears.” Clearly it’s a concept that spans generations. But some of our very favorite responses came from teenagers, those smart, sassy, angst-filled truth-tellers whose lives are changing [...] ...

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