Wiggins, Melanie:U-Boat Adventures : Firsthand Accounts from World War II
- Taschenbuch 2019, ISBN: 9781557509505
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Warner Home Video, 1995-02-21. VHS. Very Good/Good. 7x4x1. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. vg tape in worn sleeve; Mel Gibson made his feature film directing debut with thi… Mehr…
Warner Home Video, 1995-02-21. VHS. Very Good/Good. 7x4x1. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. vg tape in worn sleeve; Mel Gibson made his feature film directing debut with this drama, loosely based on the book by Isabel Holland, which combines elements from The Elephant Man, Mask, Scent of a Woman, and The Karate Kid in a study of the capacity for human trust and compassion. Gibson plays Justin McLeod, a former teacher who, after having his face and his body terribly disfigured in an automobile accident, has taken to living alone in a big house in an island off the coast of Maine. McLeod works as a free-lance artist who undergoes the humiliation of being shunned by his neighbors and called "hamburger head" behind his back. McLeod keeps to himself and wants nothing to do with his neighbors. But one day an adolescent boy, Chuck Norstadt (Nick Stahl), comes knocking at his door desperate for a tutor. At first suspicious, McLeod gradually warms up to Chuck and they become pals. But their burgeoning friendship is frowned upon by Chuck's family and the local police chief, Stark (Geoffrey Lewis), apparently because of rumors circulating that McLeod had a record concerning child molestation. This piece of gossip threatens Chuck with the loss of his teacher and a new-found friend. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi, Warner Home Video, 1995-02-21, 2.75, Now the subject of a film by Richard Linklater, Eric Schlosser's explosive bestseller Fast Food Nation: What the All-American Meal is Doing to the World tells the story of our love affair with fast food. Britain eats more fast food than any other country in Europe. It looks good, tastes good, and it's cheap. But the real cost never appears on the menu. Eric Schlosser visits the lab that re-creates the smell of strawberries; examines the safety records of abattoirs; reveals why the fries really taste so good and what lurks between the sesame buns - and shows how fast food is transforming not only our diets but our world. ' Fast Food Nation has lifted the polystyrene lid on the global fast food industry ... and sparked a storm' Observer 'Has wiped that smirk off the Happy Meal ... Thanks to this man, you'll never eat a burger again' Evening Standard 'Startling ... Junk food, we learn, is just that ... left this reader vowing never to set foot in one of those outlets again' Daily Mail 'This book tells you more than you really want to know when you're chomping on that hamburger ... Have a nice day? Listen - you should live so long' The Times Eric Schlosser is a correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly. His first book, Fast Food Nation, was a major international bestseller. His work has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Rolling Stone and the Guardian. He has received a number of journalistic honours, including a National Magazine Award for an Atlantic Review article on the drug trade, which was later adapted into the book Reefer Madness. ., 0, US: Knopf, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. From a writer of astonishing versatility, this wonderfully rich collection of pieces is both a memoir of Philip Hamburger's writing life and a vivid a nd various record of the world he has lived in. Hamburger first went to wor k for The New Yorker in 1939, under the aegis of Harold Ross, and he is sti ll there--six decades and four editors later. He has wandered all over its pages as Our Man Stanley or Reporter at Large, doing Talk of the Town, Casu als, and Notes & Comment, writing Profiles, and more. And he has wandered a ll over the map, unearthing the secret souls of some fifty-five American to wns and cities (from Hot Springs, Arkansas, to Butte, Montana) and bearing witness to the horrors of war and fascism (from Mussolini's bloody corpse h anging upside down in a Milan public square, to the hungry, hollow-eyed mar chers bearing pro-Tito posters through the wrecked streets of Belgrade afte r the war). An old-fashioned liberal--and proud of it-- Hamburger has witnessed almost every inauguration since 1933 (at Roosevelt's first he was perched on the i cy branch of a tree), has spied shamelessly on a succession of New York Cit y mayors (he used to live conveniently across from Gracie Mansion), and has constantly championed the voices of liberty (Judge Learned Hand, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Judge William Henry Hastie, Edward R. Murrow). Insatiably curious, Hamburger strikes for the heart of whatever subject he approaches--whether it's the famous (Truman, Toscanini, Evita Perón, Eleanor Roose., Knopf, 1999, 3, NM Classics, 1993. Softcover. As New. CD: total timing: 61:17; Live recording, NM Classics, 1993, 5, Manchester, VT: Hudson Hills, 2000. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 144 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Adja Yunkers's life and career spanned six continents and nearly the entire 20th century with all its various art movements. Born in Lativia, he lived in St Petersburg, Berlin and Paris, before finally settling in New York. He lived through Russian constructivisim and suprematism, Italian Futurism, surrealism, and abstract expressionsism, absorbing everything in his own style. His painting, prints and pastels are currently housed in collections aroung the world, including the V&A in London, the MoMA in New York and the Hamburger Kunsthalle in Hamburg. Record # 353128, Hudson Hills, 2000, 3, Guinness World Records. New. Guinness World Records, 2018-08-28 New The world's most popular record book is back with thousands of new categories and newly broken records, covering everything from outer space to sporting greats via Instagram, fidget spinners and all manner of human marvels Inside you'll find hundreds of never-before-seen photographs and countless facts, figures, stats and trivia waiting for you on every action-packed page Guinness World Records 2019 is the ultimate snapshot of our world todayPlus, this year we celebrate the incredible "Maker" movement with a special feature devoted to the inventors, dreamers, crafters and creators who devote their lives to amazing record-breaking projects such as the largest water pistol, a jet-powered go-kart and an elephant-sized hamburger (think you could eat a whole one ?) We take a sneak peek into their workshops to explore these epically big builds, and ask them what inspires them to go really, really largeAnd if you like creating, and you like LEGO(R), then you'll love our "Making History" pages that use the world's most famous interlocking plastic bricks to illustrate and explain an important record-breaking object - such as the Statue of Liberty or the Apollo mission's Saturn V rocket We examine their designs, structure and technical specifications in fully illustrated and colorful, poster-style pagesFinally, you can jump into both the making and record-breaking action with a "Do Try This At Home" section Challenge yourself and your family with five fun record-breaking maker-inspired records you can attempt involving origami, balloon sculptures, ring pulls and rubber bands Who knows, your creation might just make it into the record books, Guinness World Records, 6, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1999. A beautiful copy. Fine condition in a Fine dust jacket. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. Bright, shiny, clean, square, and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Illustrated with old photos and portraits. List of chapter notes/sources. Bibliography. Index. Bound in the original grayish-green cloth, lettered in shiny silver on the spine. From the Dust Jacket: "Twenty-two U-boat veterans tell their stories in this collection of their experiences, recorded by the author during several years of travel throughout Germany. While many books have been written about the U-boat war, this is one of the few that focuses on the lives of the submariners, and rarer still is its concentration on the crewmen rather than the officers. Melanie Wiggins interviewed seventeen men of the enlisted ranks, along with five commanders, to take readers into the terrifying world of underwater warfare, where every single crewman made a crucial difference in the fate of his boat. As she searched for and interviewed U-boat men, Wiggins also collected photographs from scrapbooks and archives. She consulted war-era personnel records and secret diaries. Her attendance at a reunion of the crew of U-682 netted a wealth of information, as did her interviews with submarine veterans in Görlitz, in the former East Germany. Her interviews with Admiral Otto Kretschmer just two months before his death and ninety-four-year-old Cdr. Jürgen Wattenberg in Hamburg add important dimensions to the work. Among the individual sagas included are Radioman Hans Burck's description of U-67's attack on oil refineries at Aruba; Fireman 2nd Class Josef Erben's explanation of how his boat, U-128, got stuck on a large rock and had to be hauled free; Battle Station Helmsman Hermann Frubrich's account of U-845's near sinking of the Queen Mary... Herman Wien's description of U-180 transporting Indian anarchist Subhas Chandra Bose to Madagascar. These accounts provide new details about the crews' activities at sea and their experiences in prisoner of war camps." . Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. 8vo. xv, 253pp., Naval Institute Press, 1999, 5<
