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The famous journalist and author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich documents his front row seat at the pivotal events leading up to World War II. In the second of a three-volume series, William L. Shirer tells the story of his own eventful life, detailing the most notable moments of his career as a journalist stationed in Germany during the rise of the Third Reich. Shirer was there while Hitler celebrated his new domination of Germany, unleashed the Blitzkrieg on Poland, and began the conflict that would come to be known as World War II.

When three colleagues die violently during a single wartime election day in Central America, two female journalists, best friends, are hurled into a torrent of change in their personal and professional lives and in their relationship with each other. The author, bedeviled by stress and feelings of abandonment, hangs on by her fingernails to reporting while her dear friend "just can't take another picture of a dead body" and throws herself into teaching photography to children who live in a garbage dump.

A giant in American journalism in the vanguard of "The Greatest Generation" reveals his World War II experiences in this National Geographic book. More than 100 of Cronkite's letters from 1943-45 (plus a few earlier letters) survive. They reveal surprising and little-known facts about this storied public figure in the vanguard of "The Greatest Generation". They chronicle both a great love story and a great war story.

A story of a young woman left behind and a young reporter coming of age in a world of war; a gripping memoir of Cambodia and Vietnam in the 1970s. As brutal wars in Cambodia and Vietnam come to swift and cataclysmic ends, a young reporter plans a last minute rescue of a woman he loved. The rescue fails.

A stirring true story of the journalists who dared to oppose Hitler - and the campaign waged against them. After serving in the First World War, Adolf Hitler encountered a serious obstacle to his plotting for power when the Munich Post, drawing on sources within the Nazi Party, began tracking the corruption and dark dreams of his inner circle. With leaked documents from Hitler's political rivals, who were shocked by his violent rhetoric and fearing the worst, the Post battled Hitler for ownership of the truth.

One of America's best-known rock and entertainment journalists describes his journey from his childhood, cooped up in the "rice room" of his family's restaurant in Oakland's Chinatown, where he did chores, to the major role he played as a writer and editor at Rolling Stone. It is a story of teen worship of Elvis, but also of Chinese customs and the tragic murder of his brother, and of the '60s scene in San Francisco, where he found freedom - and his career.

I’m a married father of nine: six girls, three boys. From Ocala, FL, raised in Ocklawaha, FL. My audiobook is about my coming up in a less-fortunate place. It’s basically about the different things I went through as I grew up. How my mom and grandma struggled to keep food, clothes, and a roof over the head of my sister and I. I was young and wanting to help. "So, what to do?" I thought. All that’s around me is drug dealers, nobody going to school. My going to prison changed my outlook on my life, made me want to do more in life.

We are facing an alarming upsurge in the spread of misinformation and attempts by powerful figures to discredit facts so they can seize control of narratives. These are threats American journalist Sigrid Schultz knew all too well. The Chicago Tribune's Berlin bureau chief and primary foreign correspondent for Central Europe from 1925 to January 1941, Schultz witnessed Hitler’s rise to power and was one of the first reporters—male or female—to warn American readers of the growing dangers of Nazism.

In Bearing Witness, John Carpenter explores how across the world, those who experienced the war tried to make sense of it both during and in its immediate aftermath. The digestion of a cataclysmic event can take generations. But in this fascinating audiobook, Carpenter brings together all those who did their best to communicate what they saw in the moment so that it could never be lost.

On New Year's Eve, 1941, just three weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese were bombing the Philippine capital of Manila, where journalists Mel and Annalee Jacoby had married just a month earlier. The couple had worked in China as members of a tight community of foreign correspondents with close ties to Chinese leaders; if captured by invading Japanese troops, they were certain to be executed. Racing to the docks just before midnight, they barely escaped on a freighter.

El 9 de agosto de 2001, veintidós días después de que Jeffrey, ahora conocido como Prisionero FF8282, fuese condenado a cuatro años de prisión por perjurio, fue transferido de una prisión de máxima seguridad de Londres al Centro Penitenciario Wayland de Su Majestad, una prisión de media seguridad en Norfolk. Durante los siguientes sesenta y siete días que Jeffrey Archer aguardó a que lo asignasen a una penitenciaría "abierta" de mínima seguridad.

In the fall of 1943, armed with only his notebooks and pencils, Time and Life correspondent Robert L. Sherrod leapt from the safety of a landing craft and waded through neck-deep water and a hail of bullets to reach the shores of the Tarawa atoll with the US Marine Corps. Living shoulder to shoulder with the marines, Sherrod chronicled combat and the marines' day-to-day struggles as they leapfrogged across the Central Pacific, battling the Japanese on Tarawa, Saipan, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa.

Der zweite Teil von Lotte Bormuths Erinnerungen setzt ein mit der Geburt ihres ersten Kindes in den fünfziger Jahren. Sie lässt uns teilhaben an den wichtigen und heiteren, aber auch den schweren Ereignissen ihres bewegten Lebens. Hautnah vermittelt sie uns das Lebensgefühl eines Volkes zwischen Wiederaufbau, Wirtschaftswunder und Wiedervereinigung. Viel wichtiger als die bundesdeutsche Geschichte aber ist ihr die Heilsgeschichte. Nahezu jedes Erlebnis lenkt unseren Blick über ihre bessarabische und hessische Heimat hinaus in unsere ewige Heimat, die Herrlichkeit Gottes.