383 Ergebnisse für: recounts
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Dmitri Shostakovich - Into the Cold Dawn (Documentary, 2008) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnCvkLT5g5s
The film recounts the life of the composer Dmitri Shostakovich from the perspective of a film director, played by Armin Mueller-Stahl, who is shooting a movi...
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A butcher's tale of the Armenian genocide - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSh1uFW2Jrw
Halil Berktay, a historian at Sabanci University, recounts an anecdote about a time when the subject of the Armenian genocide came up at a dinner party in Tu...
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Regional Powers and Small State Security: India and Sri Lanka, 1977-1990 - K. M. De Silva, Kingsley M.. De Silva - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=2oobA_ymXCgC&pg=PA295#v=onepage&q&f=false
Regional Powers and Small State Security recounts India's involvement in the affairs of its much smaller neighbor, Sri Lanka, over the question of Tamil separatists in the northern and eastern parts of the island.
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Double Ghosts: Oceanian Voyagers on Euroamerican Ships - David A. Chappell - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=FntyfsjsaScC&lpg=PA130&ots=coOdZFlXpK&dq=harry%20maitey&hl=de&pg=PA130#v=onepage&q=harry%20maite
This narrative recounts the 18th and 19th century shipping out of Pacific islanders aboard European and American vessels, a kind of counter-exploring, that echoed the ancient voyages of settlement of their island ancestors.
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De León, a Tejano Family History - A. Carolina Castillo Crimm - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=Hq3aPtfDjEUC&pg=PA133&dq=%22General+Jos%C3%A9+Antonio+Mex%C3%ADa,+who+had+accumulated%22&hl=de&e
Combining the storytelling flair of a novelist with a scholar's concern for the facts, Ana Carolina Castillo Crimm here recounts the history of three generations of the de Leon family, one of the founding families of Texas.
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Theresienstadt: Hitler's Gift to the Jews - Norbert Troller - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=tRn9Mp-s5S8C&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69&dq=tonka+troller&source=bl&ots=Q0ebA-6990&sig=JPJbqNf0y-LnRQp9bwnw
Norbert Troller's unique account of life in Theresienstadt combines his intimate knowledge of the inner workings of the camp with two dozen of his own drawings and watercolors. Troller recounts his two years in Theresienstadt from early 1942 until Septemb
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Iceland's 1100 Years: The History of a Marginal Society - Gunnar Karlsson - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=4eRLXJpf2EoC
Iceland is unique among European societies in being founded as late as the Viking age, and in surviving for centuries without any central power after Christianity had introduced writing. This book recounts the history of a society on the margin.
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They Came to East Texas, 500-1850: Immigrants and Immigration Patterns - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=Ejj9vODIi_8C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_navlinks_s#v=onepage&q=&f=false
This volume recounts the history of East Texas, focusing on the names of the early settlers. It is the story of the Caddos and associated Indian tribes who arrived about A.D. 500, followed by the Spanish colonials in the seventh and eighteenth centuries,
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Petra and the Lost Kingdom of the Nabataeans - Jane Taylor - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=FcAoBq4_EnEC&pg=PA73#v=onepage
The Nabataean Arabs were one of the most remarkable peoples of the Ancient World but are today known only for their hauntingly beautiful rock-carved capital Petra. This vividly illustrated book recounts the story of a lost civilization, remembering both…
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An Encyclopedia of Fairies: Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies, and Other ... - Katharine Mary Briggs - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=da3WAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA254#v=onepage
A complete guide to fairy lore from the Middle Ages to the present that recounts and examines fairy tales, describes the food, sports, sizes, and powers of fairies, and calls attention to the traditional ways in which people protected themselves against…