Glenn Frank Boeken
Glenn Franks primaire passie is het schrijven van fictie, waarbij zijn vroegste literaire erkenning kwam van een kort verhaal dat het voorgaande jaar werd gepubliceerd. Zijn debuutroman duikt met een genuanceerde en inzichtelijke aanpak in de complexiteit van de menselijke ervaring. Franks proza kenmerkt zich door zijn scherpe psychologische diepgang en authentieke portrettering van personages. Lezers verbinden zich met zijn werk vanwege de emotionele resonantie en meeslepende vertelstijl.
Stakes Of The War
Summary Of The Various Problems, Claims, And Interests Of The Nations At The Peace Table (1918)
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- 14 uur lezen
The book offers a thorough analysis of the peace negotiations following World War I, focusing on the diverse claims and interests of nations like the United States, Great Britain, France, and Germany. It delves into critical topics such as the League of Nations, reparations, and territorial disputes, while providing insights into the challenges and compromises faced by negotiators. Stoddard presents a balanced view, considering multiple perspectives, making this work a valuable resource for understanding the complexities of international relations and post-war diplomacy.
From Broken Glass
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- 12 uur lezen
On August 14, 2017, two days after a white-supremacist activist rammed his car into a group of anti-Fascist protestors, killing one and injuring nineteen, the New England Holocaust Memorial was vandalized for the second time in as many months. At the base of one of its fifty-four-foot glass towers lay a pile of shards. For Steve Ross, the image called to mind Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass in which German authorities ransacked Jewish-owned buildings with sledgehammers. Ross was eight years old when the Nazis invaded his Polish village, forcing his family to flee. He spent his next six years in a day-to-day struggle to survive the notorious camps in which he was imprisoned, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Dachau among them. When he was finally liberated, he no longer knew how old he was, he was literally starving to death, and everyone in his family except for his brother had been killed. Ross learned in his darkest experiences--by observing and enduring inconceivable cruelty as well as by receiving compassion from caring fellow prisoners--the human capacity to rise above even the bleakest circumstances. He decided to devote himself to underprivileged youth, aiming to ensure that despite the obstacles in their lives they would never experience suffering like he had. Over the course of a nearly forty-year career as a psychologist working in the Boston city schools, that was exactly what he did. At the end of his career, he spearheaded the creation of the New England Holocaust Memorial, a site millions of people including young students visit every year. Equal parts heartrending, brutal, and inspiring, From Broken Glass is the story of how one man survived the unimaginable and helped lead a new generation to forge a more compassionate world