The story of Gunther, abandoned and abused by his family, finding a place of love and safety among Christians who care for all is so moving. The story is told from Gunther's perspective as he grapples with rejection and feelings of worthlessness. Pastor Fritz's love for him as well as all the others is remarkable. The whole community embraces those society rejects. All of this takes place during Nazi Germany when the Nazis are killing all who don't measure up. Yet Pastor Fritz, through prayer and courage, protects them all.

This is a book that I have read and reread. It was one we read at the dinner table and discussed. If you can locate the book, it is a "must read".

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After the war, Alfons Heck, then 17 is captured by the Americans and given to the French. Since he isn't yet 18, he is spared death. But he will go on the rest of his life in bewilderment about what happened to him and the many young Hitler Youth. His book, The Burden of Hitler's Legacy, is his soul searching

autobiography that provides more understanding of what happened in Hitler's Germany than anything else I've seen. In addition, it is an eye-opener that demonstrates how vulnerable children are. I have read many books and articles about the holocaust and continue to be shaken by all accounts. This book makes more complete the story of what happened to the children of WWII. While I cannot condone what Mr. Heck did in his youth, as a teacher, mother, and former child, I can certainly understand how it happened. I applaud your courage, Mr. Heck, and the concern you feel for the other children in the Hitler Youth.

Beautiful book of snapshots of Susi Bradfield's life, arriving in the UK on the Kindertransport, all the joys and sorrows leading up to the present day, where she is still more than evidently surrounded by her loving family. A must read!

In architecture and engineering we often see the finished product of the masters. The strength of this book is the sketches, architectural models and interview with Calatrava which explain the projects. The projects are Spandau Station, Jahn Sports Park, Kronprinzenbrücke (bridge), Oberbaumbrücke (bridge), and the Reichstag. The book has beautifully reproduced hand drawn ink drawings-plans, sections, details, elevations (presumably from Calatrava's office), as well as photos, engineering explanations, and historical background. I compared Calatrava's Reichstag to Sir Norman Fosters. I would like to see the two built bridges in Berlin and compare them to the nuts and bolts details in the book. And after I studied the hardlined ink drawings, something always draws me back to the napkin sketches-they capture the essence .

In the stories in "The Art of Cartography," his delightfully original earlier book, Marcus made an artform of a constantly shifting focus, stories that began as an account of one person but then shifted to another, then another, rather like the meanderings of a bubble-headed gossip on speed. That chattering, miniaturist style, with its interweaving threads and outlandish divagations, has metamorphosed here to an interior monologue par excellence, darker and at the same time more substantive, with a seemingly undisciplined series of digressions, wheels within wheels, to make even "Wittgenstein's Nephew" sound linear and conventional by comparison. The narrator, a bookish young American Jew living in post-wall Berlin, full of observations variously geographic, familial and intellectual, was no doubt too worldly and literate to appeal to much of the American reading public, and this may account for the book's relative lack of success, in spite of a bookjacket encomium by Walter Abish. But make no mistake: Marcus is a major talent, a heavyweight in a generation with seemingly few of them, and moreover one of few writers around with the wherewithal to push language and novelistic form in a bracingly new direction. This work is a success in every important way.

Why wait until the world catches up with Marcus? Buy a remaindered copy of "The Captain's Fire" and enjoy him now.

Although it may seem a bit dated by todays standards, this book, I feel, sheds a great deal of light on the who, what, when, where, why, and how of our love-hate relationship with the car,especially in the USA. For those of you out there who have fond memories of your father's old La Salle, Bel Air, or yes even his Edsel, you'll be pleasantly surprised at what this tome has to offer. And for those who want to know what happened to the "Big Three," you just might find a clue or two here as well.

Anyone interested in thehistory of nazi espionage will find that this book is a must-read. Absolutely riveting. Highly recommended.

This is a delightful slim volume giving a complete picture of one of the most important mathematicians of all time. The biographical information is accurate and clear, the organization is easy to follow, the translation into English is good, and the illustrations are magnificent and plentiful.

The summaries of Gauss' work are clear to any reader who is tuned into mathematics in general, and Gauss the man comes across as eccentric but basically good and definitely productive.

I have read this book..The author is a very special woman who is interested in the past history of Jewish life in Hamburg.My Grandmother attended english classes in this girls school,with the intention to be able to speak english to her grandchildren with the hope of coming to New York during the holocaust period. Unfortunately she only made it to Auchwitz.
The author has captured the hope and dreams of the girls who did attend this school who,were deported,never to return again to their beloved school.

On the Continent, the 9th century was a period of extended struggle among the children and grandchildren of Charles the Great, constant coastal raiding by northern pirates, and tedious quarrels among theologians. This now-classic collection of biographical essays chronicles the rise and decline of Charles's empire through the careers of such men as Einhard of Seligenstadt. But our interest here is in the scholarly but very readable piece on Louis the Pious, the solitary and monastic son and successor of Charles, whose inability to cope with his legacy resulted in profound changes in political and religious relationships, especially between the king/emperor and the diverse military aristocracy.