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    • Trusted Partner
      1989

      Elsass

      Ein Reisebuch in den Alltag. (Anders reisen)

      by Beckmann, Dagmar; Strauch, Ulrike

    • Trusted Partner
      September 2019

      Tödliches Elsass

      Kreydenweiss & Bato ermitteln

      by Jules Vitrac

    • Trusted Partner
      August 2016

      Mord im Elsass

      Kreydenweiss & Bato ermitteln

      by Vitrac, Jules

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      Forestry & related industries
      February 2011

      Innovation in Forestry

      Territorial and Value Chain Relationships

      by Kadri Ukrainski, Américo M. S. Carvalho Mendes, Diana Feliciano, Thomas Rimmler, Peter Elsasser, Anne Matilainen, Tomas Nord, Erlend Nybakk, Laura Bouriaud, Filip Aggestam, Daria Maso. Edited by Gerhard Weiss, Davide Pettenella, Pekka Ollonqvist, Bill Slee.

      Innovation is increasingly recognised as a key factor in environmental protection and balanced sustainable development within the forestry sector. This volume provides a comprehensive theoretical foundation for the analysis of innovation processes and policies in a traditional, rural sector as well as presenting empirical analyses of innovation processes from major innovation areas. Territorial services of the forest sector are examined, including various types of forest ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration or recreation and wood value chains, including timber frame construction and bioenergy.

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      Last Paths to Freedom. French Girl Guides in resistance to Nazi Germany

      by Thomas Seiterich

      Summer 1940. Nazi Germany annexes Alsace, but not without resistance: in the Catholic parish of St. Jean, very close to the Great Synagogue, six French Girl Guides opened an underground border crossing for opponents of the regime, Jews, Communists and the military. They explored and found secret routes across the Vosges to the west, and south to Switzerland. By the time the Gestapo picked them up in 1942, they had brought around 500 people to safety. Freisler tried them in 1943 and sentenced six of them to death by guillotine. Pope Pius XII demanded that the women be spared. And Hitler did indeed pardon them – with the proviso that they were not allowed to know. They all survived.

    • August 2016

      Bühlerhöhe

      by Glaser, Brigitte

      In 1952, Rosa Silbermann is sent on a secret mission to the exclusive Bühlerhöhe Hotel in the Black Forest. As a Jew she emigrated from Cologne to Palestine in the 1930s, and is now working for the Israeli Secret Service. However, she soon finds she is up against the mistrustful hotel housekeeper, Sophie Reisacher, who was forced to leave Alsace in 1945 and is now looking for a chance to climb the social ladder. Both women know what it feels like to live in a country that wants to reinvent itself. And neither of them trusts the tranquillity of the Black Forest countryside. They both know about a planned assassination attempt on Chancellor Adenauer, and yet the two women are sticking to their own plans. Bühlerhöhe is about two women in a man’s world, where the things that matter are power, business deals, and the old boys’ network – and, ultimately, the struggle for life or death.

    • The Franco-Prussian War

      by Stephen Badsey

      Updated and revised, with full-colour maps and new images throughout, this concise study examines the Franco-Prussian war, a significant conflict which led to the collapse of the Second Empire and the creation of a unified Germany. The Franco-Prussian War broke out in 1870 when Otto von Bismarck engineered a war with the French Second Empire under Napoleon III. This was part of his wider political strategy of uniting Prussia with the southern German states, excluding Austria. In this book, Dr Stephen Badsey examines the build-up, battles, and impact of the war, which was an overwhelming Prussian victory with massive consequences. The French Second Empire collapsed, Napoleon III became an exile in Britain, and King Wilhelm I was proclaimed Emperor of the new united Germany. In the peace settlement with the French Third Republic in 1871 Germany gained the eastern French provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, areas that were to provide a bone of contention for years to come.

    • Virus ou la mort des oiseaux

      by Dominique Persoons

      En sortant de l’hôpital, le docteur Bernard Petersen buta sur un grand corbeau. La taille de l’animal l’impressionna. Il remarqua l’humidité de son plumage et le filet de sang qui s’échappait de son énorme bec. La pensée lui vint que cet oiseau mort n’était pas à sa place et il revint sur ses pas pour avertir la réceptionniste qui rédigea aussitôt une fiche et appela le gardien pour qu’il enlève la carcasse. C’est à partir de ce moment-là que des événements inattendus vinrent troubler la quiétude de la petite ville de Saverne. Si les cigognes venaient à convulser en battant des ailes et que des cadavres de canards étaient emportés en longues files par les rivières et les canaux, alors un grand malheur endeuillerait à nouveau l’Alsace et la Lorraine. Personne n’imaginait que le fléau frapperait tous les habitants du pays et que l’envahisseur était dix mille fois plus petit qu’un cheveu. L’humanité est mise à l’épreuve. Et si la nature reprenait ses droits ? Par ce récit haletant, Dominique Persoons nous livre des réflexions essentielles sur la société, sur les rapports humains et sur la nature.

    • Biography: science, technology & engineering
      August 2012

      Interpreter

      by Marcelle Kellermann

      Set during the occupation of France of 1940 – 44 during which time the author fought as a member of the resistance. The story follows her interrogation imprisonment and subsequent unexpected release by the German Nazi Officer Frank Van Heugen, the official interpreter in the German Kommandatur of Vichy France.

    • September 2013

      The Begum's Millions

      by Jules Verne, translated by Stanford L. Luce, Arthur B. Evans

      Verne’s first cautionary tale about the dangers of science -- first modern and corrected English translation.

    • Humanities & Social Sciences
      May 2023

      PERISCOPING WAR AND PEACE ON THE DIPLOMATIC CHESS BOARD

      by Korieocha Emmanuel Uwaozuruonye

      This compendium strives to confront the teething problems faced by students of international politics in respect of the complex issues of war and peace. This exercise is a deliberate attempt designed to unravel the tremor and illusion associated with the subject matter, to the benefit of the student. The target readerships of this book are students of history, international and diplomatic studies, political science, military science, strategic studies and sociology.

    • Biography: historical, political & military
      August 2012

      Packhorse Called Rachel

      by Marcelle Kellermann

      A story of courage, fear and defiance based on the authors own personal experience. A Pack Horse Called Rachel is the remarkable tale of a young woman, half Jewish, caught in the extraordinarily brutal world of France in 1944. Rachel moves through the pages of the book with her faithful dog Nourse, touching lives as her work with the Maquis based in the Auvergne takes her perilously close to danger on a day to day basis.The story is based on personal experience, the description of historical events is as true as memory will allow, it is an elegantly written story capturing first hand Kellermann’s painful and lonely life as a resistance fighter within the ‘Maquis’, amidst the harsh beauty of the Auvergne. Beset by the freezing cold climate prevailing in winter, the Vichy traitors amongst the normal French Population and the hostility of ordinary people afraid for their own lives. Rachel overcomes the initial animosity and mistrust of the lecherous and alcoholic farmer Raboullet on whom she comes to rely; the wrath of the Gestapo, the betrayal of St Pré, a full and passionate love affair, tragic loss and yet she survives. Marcel Kellermann notes, with descriptive talent, and intricate detail that only someone especially observant could recall. From the opening raid to the closing trial, the book gives an incisive view, as we understand the mind and soul of the resistance better with each page. This is the story of a young woman paralleled with the struggle of a nation as it regains its courage to fight back.

    • Humanities & Social Sciences
      October 2018

      Danube Swabians

      German Settlers in Southeast Europe

      by Gerhard Seewann, Michael Portmann

      In the 18th century, ships regularly sailed downstream from German Danube ports. People who promised themselves a better future in Southeastern Europe allowed themselves to be embarked. Most of them came from the southwestern countries of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. Their destination was the Kingdom of Hungary, where after liberation from Turkish occupation manpower was needed. The immigrants were called “Swabians” regardless of their origin. They were economically successful and left their mark on large areas of the country. After 1918 these groups, now called “Danube Swabians”, belonged to three different states: Romania, Hungary and Yugoslavia. Starting in 1944, hundreds of thousands lost their homes and thousands their lives through flight, expulsion, persecution and deportation. The majority of the uprooted found refuge in southern Germany. Only the Swabians in Romania and a part of the Hungarian Germans were allowed to stay. Many of them came to Germany as late repatriates, the remaining ones today form active German minorities in their home countries.

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