1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452234103321

Autore

Samuel Wolfgang W. E

Titolo

German boy [[electronic resource] ] : a refugee's story / / Wolfgang W.E. Samuel ; with a foreword by Stephen E. Ambrose

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2000

ISBN

1-282-91727-7

9786612917271

1-60473-134-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (374 p.)

Collana

Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography

Disciplina

940.54/8143/092

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Germany

World War, 1939-1945 - Refugees

Electronic books.

Germany (East) Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Continued by: Coming to Colorado.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 January 1945; Chapter 2 Flight from Sagan; Chapter 3 The Train; Chapter 4 161 Schòˆnhauser Allee, Berlin; Chapter 5 A Town Called Strasburg; Chapter 6 A Brave German Soldier; Chapter 7 The Face of Death; Chapter 8 Surrender; Maps; Chapter 9 The Americans; Chapter 10 The Russians; Chapter 11 Messenger of Death; Chapter 12 The List; Chapter 13 A Winter Nightmare; Chapter 14 Summer 1946; Chapter 15 Escape to the West; Chapter 16 The Trauen Barracks; Chapter 17 Refugee Life; Chapter 18 Winter of Despair; Chapter 19 Return of the Americans

Chapter 20 Sergeant Leo FergusonChapter 21 Baker's Apprentice; Chapter 22 Looking West; Epilogue

Sommario/riassunto

A refugee child's witness to Nazi defeat, Soviet occupation, and his family's debacle in war What was the experience of war for a child in bombed and ravaged Germany? In this memoir the voice of innocence is heard. ""This is great stuff,"" exclaims Stephen E. Ambrose. ""I love this book."" In this gripping account a boy and his mother are wrenched from their tranquil lives to forge a path through the storm of war and the rubble of its aftermath. In the past there has been a spectrum of



books and films that share other German World War II experiences. However, told from the perspective of a ten

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782256303321

Titolo

Contemporary spiritualities [[electronic resource] ] : social and religious contexts / / edited by Clive Erricker and Jane Erricker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Continuum, 2001

ISBN

1-281-78383-8

9786611783839

0-8264-8437-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

Issues in contemporary religion

Altri autori (Persone)

ErrickerClive

ErrickerJane <1948->

Disciplina

291.4

Soggetti

Religion and sociology

Spirituality

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Introduction; Part I: Influential Writers and Thinkers; Part II: Faith Communities; Bibliography; Name index; Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

Spirituality can be understood within both a religious and secular context. Fuelled by the controversy that surrounds different understandings of human identity and notions of progress, knowledge and truth in modernist and postmodernist contexts, the concept of spirituality is a hotly contested topic of debate as to its relevance within contemporary culture and its meaning within religious traditions. This book aims to inform readers on this debate and contextualize it within these different frames of reference. It approaches the topic of spirituality with an identification of the major influe