Showing results for "With Love" in 20th Century

Der er startet en ny pige i Jonnies klasse. Hun hedder Lotte og vil helst bare være for sig selv. Det er der ikke nogen, der kan forstå, og heller ikke Jonnie er i starten helt med på hvorfor. Men så lærer han Lotte lidt bedre at kende, og finder ud af, hvorfor hun holder sig for sig selv. Det er bare lidt ærgerligt, når nu Jonnie er gået hen og blevet forelsket i hende. Hans-Eric Hellberg (f. 1927) er en svensk forfatter, der har skrevet en lang række børnebøger, hvoraf mange er oversat til dansk.

Margot Asquith was perhaps the most daring and unconventional Prime Minister's wife in British history. Known for her wit, style and habit of speaking her mind, she transformed 10 Downing Street into a glittering social and intellectual salon. Yet her last five years at Number 10 were a period...

Sie malen alte Schuppen bunt an, schmücken sich mit billigen Perlen und Blumen, sie tanzen und berauschen sich an Sex und LSD. Im Sommer 1967 findet die Hippiebewegung ihren Höhepunkt. Tausende junge Menschen strömen nach San Francisco, um non-konformes Leben, freie Liebe und anti-materialistische Prinzipien auszuleben.

In the summer of 1942, the Rabinowitz family narrowly escaped the Nazi ghetto in their Polish town by fleeing to the forbidding Bialowieza Forest. They miraculously survived two years in the woods—through brutal winters, Typhus outbreaks, and merciless Nazi raids—until they were liberated by the Red Army in 1944. After the war, they trekked across the Alps into Italy, where they settled as refugees before eventually immigrating to the United States.

In this gripping memoir, Jack and Rochelle Sutin recount their experiences as Jewish resistance fighters during World War II, a story that ranges from extreme horror to poignant triumph. Told through their son Lawrence, the book brings alive the reality of months spent hidden in a dank underground bunker infested with lice and disease.

This is a story of the most well documented, most commented on love affair of our times. Yet the personalities behind the facade remain elusive and the nature of their relationship is an enigma. This is the first major biography of Charles and Camilla, two people who have battled against the curious lot that fate has thrown their way. Gyles Brandreth returns to the same ground as his last book, the bestselling "Philip and Elizabeth"; "Portrait of a Marriage".

In the spring of 1933, more than 8,000 Jewish musicians, actors, and other artists were expelled from their positions with German orchestras, opera companies, and theater groups. Later that year, the Jüdische Kulturbund, or Jewish Culture Association, was created to allow Jewish artists to perform for Jewish audiences.

Based on the true story of her mother, Mona Golabek describes the inspirational story of Lisa Jura's escape from Nazi-controlled Austria to England on the famed Kindertransport. Jewish musical prodigy Lisa Jura has a wonderful life in Vienna. But when the Nazis start closing in on the city, life...

Three young Jewish sisters from Leipzig, Germany huddle together in the cold darkness of night waiting for their smugglers to rescue them and bring them to freedom in Belgium. Their mother, in a state of shock following Kristallnacht, is left behind, sedated in a psychiatric hospital. November 1938 begins the four year ordeal of the seven member Kroch family who endure unfathomable conditions in their fight for survival: imprisonment in French internment camps, hiding in a tiny tool shed, and adapting to the deplorable conditions of a Nazi prison.