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The Twentieth Train
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Author : Marion Schreiber
language : en
Publisher: Grove Press
Release Date : 2005-02-11
The Twentieth Train written by Marion Schreiber and has been published by Grove Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-02-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From the publisher. Marion Schreiber's gripping book about the only Nazi death train in World War II to be ambushed draws on private documents, photographs, archive material, and police reports, as well as original research, including interviews with the surviving escapees. One day in April, 1943, resistance fighter Youra Livchitz, a young doctor, discovered the departure date of the next transport train and recruited two school friends to pull off one of the most daring rescues of the entire war. Equipped with only three pairs of pliers, a hurricane lamp covered in red paper, and a single pistol, the men ambushed the train, which was transporting 1,618 Jews to Auschwitz. These three lone men freed seventeen men and women before the German guards opened fire. Miraculously, by the time the convoy had reached the German border another 225 prisoners had managed to escape unharmed and found shelter with the locals. In a testament to the solidarity of the Belgians, no one was betrayed. No one, that is, except the three young rescuers, who were turned in by a double agent, imprisoned, and killed. Like Schindler's List, The Twentieth Train creates a vivid, moving portrait of heroism under impossible circumstances.
The Twentieth Train The Remarkable True Story Of The Only Successful Ambush On The Journey To Auschwitz
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Author : Marion Schreiber
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
The Twentieth Train The Remarkable True Story Of The Only Successful Ambush On The Journey To Auschwitz written by Marion Schreiber and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with categories.
The Twentieth Train
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Author : Marion Schreiber
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
The Twentieth Train written by Marion Schreiber and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) categories.
On 19 April 1943, three young men stopped a train. The train was transporting 1,631 Jew to Auschwitz. Equipped only with four pairs of pliers, a hurricane lamp and a single pistol, the trio carried out a plan that had been hatched by Jewish members of the resistance but rejected as too dangerous by the armed partisans. The three friends managed to free seventeen men and women before German guards opened fire. By the time the convoy had reached the German border another 214 prisoners had managed to escape. Marion Schreiber's gripping book draws on private documents, archive material and police reports, as well as original research, including interviews with escapees, to create a vivid, and often very moving, portrait of this unique event, and the world that engendered it.
Silent Rebels
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Author : Marion Schreiber
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Silent Rebels written by Marion Schreiber and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) categories.
This work tells the amazing true story of how three young people stopped a train and rescued more than 200 Jews on their way to the Auschwitz death camp. It draws on private documents, archive material and police reports.
The American Steam Locomotive In The Twentieth Century
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Author : Tom Morrison
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2018-07-24
The American Steam Locomotive In The Twentieth Century written by Tom Morrison and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-24 with Transportation categories.
Between 1900 and 1950, Americans built the most powerful steam locomotives of all time--enormous engines that powered a colossal industry. They were deceptively simple machines, yet, the more their technology was studied, the more obscure it became. Despite immense and sustained engineering efforts, steam locomotives remained grossly inefficient in their use of increasingly costly fuel and labor. In the end, they baffled their masters and, as soon as diesel-electric technology provided an alternative, steam locomotives disappeared from American railroads. Drawing on the work of eminent engineers and railroad managers of the day, this lavishly illustrated history chronicles the challenges, triumphs and failures of American steam locomotive development and operation.
Revisiting The Twentieth Century
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Author : Fred Metcalfe
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2001-03-22
Revisiting The Twentieth Century written by Fred Metcalfe and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-03-22 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Revisiting the Twentieth Century, as the title suggests, is a collection of the author's experiences from his childhood in St. Paul, Minnesota, to those of him and his family before their move to New Jersey from North Carolina in 1955. The story covers amusing anecdotes he experienced in his student years, in a variety of summer laboring jobs, his early days with 3M in St. Paul, his bachelor life in New York, the courtship of his wife, their life in the High Point, NC and his job as salesman and sales manager. These anecdotes illustrate what life was like during this period which was marked by two shooting world wars, a depression and the threat of nuclear destruction. Against this background of international tumult, a great transformation in lifestyle occurred in the United States. At the beginning of the story, no one in his neighborhood has a car or a radio. Even the telephone and the record player were of recent origin. Families or churches took care of relatives and the poor went to the poorhouse . The work week was sixty hours and payment for over-time was unheard of. Unions were fighting to improve the working man's lot in life, but were in their infancy. Neighborhood interdependency disappeared as the automobile shrunk distances and people achieved greater mobility. The change in lifestyle that occurred in this brief period seem somewhat unique in our history.
The Twentieth Century
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Author : Albert Robida
language : en
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Release Date : 2004-03-17
The Twentieth Century written by Albert Robida and has been published by Wesleyan University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03-17 with Fiction categories.
Humorous, illustrated novel by the “father of science fiction illustration”.
Kent In The Twentieth Century
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Author : Nigel Yates
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2001
Kent In The Twentieth Century written by Nigel Yates and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Business & Economics categories.
This is the sixth volume of the ten-volume history of the county of Kent. Each of the 10 chapters begins by evoking a picture of Kent on the eve of World War I and looks at the changes between then and the present day in the area under construction.
Kasztner S Train
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Author : Anna Porter
language : en
Publisher: Walker Books
Release Date : 2008-03-18
Kasztner S Train written by Anna Porter and has been published by Walker Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Documents the divisive efforts by Hungarian Rezso Kasztner and a group of Zionist activists to rescue Jewish deportees during World War II, tracing his efforts to aid Schindler, bargains with Eichmann, and assassination in Israel.
Business In Britain In The Twentieth Century
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Author : Richard Coopey
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2009-08-13
Business In Britain In The Twentieth Century written by Richard Coopey and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-13 with Business & Economics categories.
This collection of fresh, incisive scholarship, by some of the leading business historians, critically examines the nature of economic recovery in Britain in recent years. Covering the key issues for business history in this period, the book confronts the traditional literature on conclusions of relative decline, and monocausal, simplistic explanations. It provides an impressive range of studies forming a platform for a new debate on the nature of British business in the 20th century. Themes include productivity, management, research and development, marketing, regional clusters and networks, industrial policy, the use of technology, and gender. Sector studies include newer, post-war hopefuls and successes including: * aerospace, * IT, * retail, * banking, * overseas investment, * the creative industries. The book demonstrates that our understanding of the historic strengths and weaknesses of business in Britain, and the shifting balance between sectors of the economy, has until now been poorly understood, and that British business history needs a fundamental reappraisal.