Thirty Four - Couverture rigide

Burke, William Hastings

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Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0956371205 ISBN 13 : 9780956371201

Editeur : Wolfgeist Ltd, 2009

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Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

Amidst the giddy chaos of Berlin, Hitler toys with death in his bunker. The golden boy of Nazism, Hermann G�ring, looks set to succeed as F�hrer. But his bid for power ends with a cyanide capsule in a gaol cell in Nuremberg. And there history signs off on Hermann. Yet buried in the footnotes sits the extraordinary story of Hermann G�ring's little brother, Albert.

A defiant anti-Nazi, Albert G�ring spent the war years busting the persecuted out of concentration camps, smuggling them across borders and funnelling aid to refugees throughout Europe. He did everything to undermine his brother's regime. But by 1944 the Gestapo were hunting him down like a dog. Did Hermann step in and save his brother?

Enter William, a twentysomething from Sydney, Australia, who stumbles upon the tattered pieces of Albert's history. Shelving plans for a Ph.D., William sets off on a three year odyssey across eight countries and three continents to piece together the puzzling life of Albert G�ring.

Forget staid biography. Think seat of your pants travelogue mixed with a Spielberg eye for storytelling and you start to get a taste for the energy William brings to the page. Delivering the kind of must-read story that turns history on its head, Thirty Four gives us a new hero. Standing alongside Oskar Schindler and Raoul Wallenberg is the G�ring history forgot.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Born in 1983, William Hastings Burke grew up on Sydney Harbour. He has since lived in the U.S., Germany, Norway and the U.K.. After graduating with an honours degree in Economics Soc. Sc. from the University of Sydney, he set up base in the student town of Freiburg, Germany. Living on sachet-mashed potato mix, kebabs and a few shifts at the local pub, he began a three year, self funded journey to uncover the story of Albert G�ring.

Fed up with the stuffy academic approach to history, he is part of a new generation bringing history up to speed. This is his first book. William currently lives in London.

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