Sala's Gift: My Mother's Holocaust Story

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For nearly fifty years, Sala Kirschner kept a secret: She had survived five years as a slave in seven different Nazi work camps. Living in America after the war, she kept hidden from her children any hint of her epic, inhuman odyssey. She held on to more than 350 letters, photographs, and a diary without ever mentioning them. Only in 1991, on the eve of heart surgery, did she suddenly present them to Ann, her daughter, and offer to answer any questions Ann wished to ask.

When Sala first reported to a camp in Geppersdorf, Germany, at the age of sixteen, she thought it would be for six weeks. Five years later, she was still at a labor camp and only she and two of her sisters remained alive of an extended family of fifty.

Sala's Gift is a heartbreaking, eye-opening story of survival and love amidst history's worst nightmare.

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Sala's Gift - Carolina Girl - North Carolina
I've read lots of books on the holocaust and while I rated Sala's Gift a four, I'd like to explain the reason. Sala was a wonderful and warm young lady and her sacrifice was beyond belief. However, to me the thing that kept it from being a five star was the fact that it was told in the second person by her daughter. I think it would have been much more intriguing had she told it herself. However, it was still a very interesting read.

When Montana and I Were Young: A Frontier Childhood (Women in the West)

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Lost for almost half a century and never before published, When Montana and I Were Young is a remarkable primary account of a child’s life in the early part of the twentieth century. Margaret Bell (1888–1982) was a rancher and horse breaker whose memoir tells the story of a frontier childhood on the high plains of Montana and Canada. Hers was not a typical childhood. Bell was barely seven when her mother died, and her stepfather, Hedge Wolfe, moved Bell and her three younger half-sisters far from their nurturing grandmother to the Canadian plains and a life of extreme poverty, hardship, and abuse.

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The definitive guide to writing a good advertising

For some reason that I'm not exactly clear, I do not know where or autobiographies, biographies are interesting to know that this does not mean that there are interesting people out there. For some reason I can not read that others are interesting. This book is an exception.

It is in fact two books, not one: My Life in Advertising and Scientific Advertising. The first is the autobiography. The second is Hopkins' advice and strategies forthe most of your advertising and marketing.

For once, I enjoyed reading a biography. I think the reason that Hopkins did not spend a lot of time talking about his life. He wants to talk about his life, he just does not work a lot of time and what it actually does is to tell. Another thing that made his biography is really interesting about the different advertising campaigns on which he has done and how successfully.

In otherWords that did not make the same fatal error as autobiographies: Do not go on and on you until you are bored to pieces.

The second book is a scientific publicity, and this is the most important classic in the field of advertising and copywriting. This book is so important for anyone who writes copy that legendary copywriter David Ogilvy, says that one should read at least seven times.

Many of the techniques described in this book demonstrates that today's writers useTechniques that Hopkins invented. Hopkins covers all the important elements of writing your copy, headlines, art and a story to tell in your copy. He also shows how the campaigns so you do not spend your money in campaigns that do not work for testing.

If you need a copywriter or an entrepreneur who wants to get more advertising, this book is a classic and a must.

My Life in Advertising, by Claude scientificHopkins is a must for anyone serious about writing your ads to make money to read.

Cultural references in the biography of Napoleon

There are many points of view on a biography. The historical perspective is one that the biography of Napoleon, written by André Maurois dominated. But there is another view of how this culture is the axis around which the story can be explained. Maurois revealed in history, there are many cultural references, although many of them have not fully functioned.

The story begins when Napoleon's France led to a transitional period of the French Revolution came, when the monarchywas abolished. This context is the first key to understanding the rise of Napoleon. A cultural period is over, but a new cultural identity and national identity must be "found."

Interesting in this context is the fact that Napoleon was not French. He was born in Corsica and the French army came only a year after the annexation of the island by the French. One of his first goals was to leave the island, but he soon learned that he needed the French toachieve its ambitions.

Napoleon did not share France's subjective cultural problem, which was divided into groups, of which the Jacobins was one of them. That made it easier for him to be objective to focus a great general has become. If his (Corsica) was positive at the bottom of this remains unclear. This is his personal strength, he helped his cultural background to it by ancient and modern texts on military strategy, and his interest in a wideArray of other literature (such as Rousseau, etc) ... This can be seen as further evidence of the influence of culture to see: his personal development, wants to be in opposition to freedom on the part of the political hierarchy at that time.

One of his first achievements was Egypt, which showed his intelligence in accordance with the cultural habits Islamic you, but a French stamp on the country at the same time.

Later, Napoleon reconciled with representatives of the Catholic ChurchThink with the Pope, who leaves his power, but Napoleon was hidden from official tradition and crowned emperor. Additionally, you may ask, how does this action impact on the culture of France at that time?
The history of France at the time of Napoleon is about the monarchy (of Bourbon) against the republican armed forces and other liberal forces.

A special note about the culture of the battlefield. Napoleon moves to farmers to recruit the army as"The children of the city, just walk." Farmers know how to fight ...

Culture is part of its strategy. We see it in the mergers and acquisitions in progress, finding a place or disproportionate to a problem. Napoleon did not live in the sea. At that time, Britain is dominated by the oceans and Nelson defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Trafalgar. This is totally different from the battles of infantry. Much the same happened in Russia, where his troops have experienced with the freezingcold. A few years later, the pride factor will be charged (by his brother in Spain), Spanish in the resistance ...

And when the question is, how could it be his kingdom destroyed so easily? Why Napoleon was banned (twice). If he was unable to create a new culture?

Probably not. But his influence was very important to understand in this day and thus began the man who had influenced the current culture of Napoleon in France. E 'was only a few years later, after his deathPeople are starting to realize it.

HJB

Muffled Drums and Mustard Spoons: Cecil County, Maryland, 1860-1865

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Muffled Drums and Mustard Spoons - Gale Edger - Colton Point, Maryland
It's great! It tells a Civil War story of my Great-Great Grand-father and
Great-Great Grand-mother (William and Sophia Jeffries). Jerre Garrett did a wonderful job in researching and telling the story of how the Civil War affected so many lives.

Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life

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Adam Smith is celebrated all over the world as the author of "The Wealth of Nations" and the founder of modern economics. A few of his ideas - that of the 'Invisible Hand' of the market and that 'It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest' - have become icons of the modern world. Yet Smith saw himself primarily as a philosopher rather than an economist, and would never have predicted that the ideas for which he is now best known were his most important. This book, by one of the leading scholars of the Scottish Enlightenment, shows the extent to which "The Wealth of Nations" and Smith's other great work, "The Theory of Moral Sentiments", were part of a larger scheme to establish a grand 'Science of Man', one of the most ambitious projects of the European Enlightenment, which was to encompass law, history and aesthetics as well as economics and ethics. Nicholas Phillipson reconstructs Smith's intellectual ancestry and formation, of which he gives a radically new and convincing account. He shows what Smith took from, and what he gave to, the rapidly changing and subtly different intellectual and commercial cultures of Glasgow and Edinburgh as they entered the great years of the Scottish Enlightenment. Above all he explains how far Smith's ideas developed in dialogue with those of his closest friend, the other titan of the age, David Hume. This superb biography is now the one book which anyone interested in the founder of economics must read.

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The Hiding Place (Walker Large Print Books)

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The true story of two sisters sent to a Nazi concentration camp for helping Jews, and how they survived.

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Genell's Review - Genell A. Perez -
The book was sad in the fact that doing good led them to be put into prison camps in Germany for trying to save lives of their friends and others they did not know. On the other hand, it taught you a lot about faith, how strong their faith was even when they were being ill treated. It was a wonderful book and they were wonderful people who did not seem to know strangers, certainly followed the good book.