Editore: Simon + Schuster UK Jan 2015, 2015
ISBN 10: 1471124398 ISBN 13: 9781471124396
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: NEW. Neuware - This characteristically powerful novel follows eighteen-year-old Cody Reynolds in the months following her best friend's shocking suicide. As Cody numbly searches for answers as to why Meg took her own life, she begins a journey of self-discovery which takes her to a terrifying precipice, and forces her to question not only her relationship with the Meg she thought she knew, but her own understanding of life, love, death and forgiveness.
Editore: Simon + Schuster UK Jan 2015, 2015
ISBN 10: 0857205293 ISBN 13: 9780857205292
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: NEW. Neuware - A completely fresh look at the culture clash between Britain and Germany that all but destroyed Europe.Half a century before 1914, most Britons saw the Germans as poor and rather comical cousins - and most Germans looked up to the British as their natural mentors. Over the next five decades, each came to think that the other simply had to be confronted - in Europe, in Africa, in the Pacific and at last in the deadly race to cover the North Sea with dreadnoughts.But why Why did so many Britons come to see in Germany everything that was fearful and abhorrent Why did so many Germans come to see any German who called dobbel fohltwhile playing Das Lawn Tennisas the dupe of a global conspiracy Packed with long-forgotten stories such as the murder of Queen Victoria's cook in Bohn, the disaster to Germany's ironclads under the White Cliffs, bizarre early colonial clashes and the precise, dark moment when Anglophobia begat modern anti-Semitism, this is the fifty-year saga of the tragic, and often tragicomic, delusions and miscalculations that led to the defining cataclysm of our times - the breaking of empires and the womb of horrors, the Great War. Richly illustrated with the words and pictures that formed our ancestors' disastrous opinions, it will forever change the telling of this fateful tale.
Editore: Simon + Schuster UK Jan 2015, 2015
ISBN 10: 147115100X ISBN 13: 9781471151002
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: NEW. Neuware - In January 1988, aged twelve, Martin Pistorius fell inexplicably sick. Within eighteen months he was mute and wheelchair-bound, being cared for at centres for severely disabled children. What no-one knew is that while Martin's body remained unresponsive, his mind slowly woke up, yet he could tell no-one, a prisoner inside his own body. During this time, he suffered abuse of a kind that is barely imaginable, yet still he kept the spirit of hope alive. It wasn't until he was twenty-three that a gentle therapist realised he was alert to everything and, along with his parents, assisted his road to recovery. Since then, against all odds, he has fallen in love, married, and now runs a thriving web design business. Martin's extraordinary story is a deeply moving account of the power of love.
Editore: Simon + Schuster UK Jan 2015, 2015
ISBN 10: 1471124398 ISBN 13: 9781471124396
Da: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: NEW. Neuware -This characteristically powerful novel follows eighteen-year-old Cody Reynolds in the months following her best friend's shocking suicide. As Cody numbly searches for answers as to why Meg took her own life, she begins a journey of self-discovery which takes her to a terrifying precipice, and forces her to question not only her relationship with the Meg she thought she knew, but her own understanding of life, love, death and forgiveness. 270 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Simon + Schuster UK Jan 2015, 2015
ISBN 10: 0857205293 ISBN 13: 9780857205292
Da: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: NEW. Neuware -A completely fresh look at the culture clash between Britain and Germany that all but destroyed Europe.Half a century before 1914, most Britons saw the Germans as poor and rather comical cousins - and most Germans looked up to the British as their natural mentors. Over the next five decades, each came to think that the other simply had to be confronted - in Europe, in Africa, in the Pacific and at last in the deadly race to cover the North Sea with dreadnoughts.But why Why did so many Britons come to see in Germany everything that was fearful and abhorrent Why did so many Germans come to see any German who called dobbel fohltwhile playing Das Lawn Tennisas the dupe of a global conspiracy Packed with long-forgotten stories such as the murder of Queen Victoria's cook in Bohn, the disaster to Germany's ironclads under the White Cliffs, bizarre early colonial clashes and the precise, dark moment when Anglophobia begat modern anti-Semitism, this is the fifty-year saga of the tragic, and often tragicomic, delusions and miscalculations that led to the defining cataclysm of our times - the breaking of empires and the womb of horrors, the Great War. Richly illustrated with the words and pictures that formed our ancestors' disastrous opinions, it will forever change the telling of this fateful tale. 437 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Simon + Schuster UK Jan 2015, 2015
ISBN 10: 147115100X ISBN 13: 9781471151002
Da: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: NEW. Neuware -In January 1988, aged twelve, Martin Pistorius fell inexplicably sick. Within eighteen months he was mute and wheelchair-bound, being cared for at centres for severely disabled children. What no-one knew is that while Martin's body remained unresponsive, his mind slowly woke up, yet he could tell no-one, a prisoner inside his own body. During this time, he suffered abuse of a kind that is barely imaginable, yet still he kept the spirit of hope alive. It wasn't until he was twenty-three that a gentle therapist realised he was alert to everything and, along with his parents, assisted his road to recovery. Since then, against all odds, he has fallen in love, married, and now runs a thriving web design business. Martin's extraordinary story is a deeply moving account of the power of love. 288 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Simon + Schuster UK Jan 2015, 2015
ISBN 10: 1471124398 ISBN 13: 9781471124396
Da: Wegmann1855, Zwiesel, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: NEW. Neuware -This characteristically powerful novel follows eighteen-year-old Cody Reynolds in the months following her best friend's shocking suicide. As Cody numbly searches for answers as to why Meg took her own life, she begins a journey of self-discovery which takes her to a terrifying precipice, and forces her to question not only her relationship with the Meg she thought she knew, but her own understanding of life, love, death and forgiveness.
Editore: Simon + Schuster UK Jan 2015, 2015
ISBN 10: 0857205293 ISBN 13: 9780857205292
Da: Wegmann1855, Zwiesel, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: NEW. Neuware -A gripping social, cultural and political history of how Britain and Germany, two nations with such close ties, ended up fighting World War One.