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BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND DEEP BLUE SEA - Couverture souple

Steinberger, Emil

 
9781420880489: BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND DEEP BLUE SEA
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1420880489 ISBN 13 : 9781420880489
Editeur : AuthorHouse, 2005

Synopsis

Between the Devil and Deep Blue Sea is the first volume of a trilogy entitled The Journey. This volume deals with a boy's perception of life and the drama evolving around him. Although born in Germany shortly before Hitler's rise to power, he immigrates with his family to Poland as a small child. He is then trapped in Poland by the Nazi invasion in 1939. After surviving the siege of Lwow that ultimately falls to the Soviet rule, he ends up, at the age of twelve, in a Soviet Gulag. As seen through the critical eye of a thirteen-year-old boy, the story describes the Nazi attack on Poland, the occupation of Lwow by the Soviets, his transport through Russia in cattle cars and barges, his arrival at the Soviet Gulag, and his journey after liberation. From the labor camp, he treks through the Volga River, Caspian Sea, and the deserts of central Asia to Alma Ata. The adventures in Alma Ata include two close brushes with death, once from starvation and once as a result of a knife attack. These years are shadowed by his own self-exploration and awakening as a maturing teenager. The conditions in wartime Alma Ata, the drive for acquiring education and the longing to find a way back to Europe are discussed in depth. Upon return to Europe, specifically to Poland he finds death and destruction left by the Germans as well as hostility of the native non Jewish population. He and his family cross the borders to the west illegally and ultimately end up in a D.P. (Displaced Persons) camp in Germany. There he is able to gain admission to a medical school where he studies while waiting for a visa to the USA. The volume ends with his arrival in Manhattan.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Between the Devil and Deep Blue Sea is the first volume of a trilogy entitled The Journey. This volume deals with a boy's perception of life and the drama evolving around him. Although born in Germany shortly before Hitler's rise to power, he immigrates with his family to Poland as a small child. He is then trapped in Poland by the Nazi invasion in 1939. After surviving the siege of Lwow that ultimately falls to the Soviet rule, he ends up, at the age of twelve, in a Soviet Gulag. As seen through the critical eye of a thirteen-year-old boy, the story describes the Nazi attack on Poland, the occupation of Lwow by the Soviets, his transport through Russia in cattle cars and barges, his arrival at the Soviet Gulag, and his journey after liberation. From the labor camp, he treks through the Volga River, Caspian Sea, and the deserts of central Asia to Alma Ata. The adventures in Alma Ata include two close brushes with death, once from starvation and once as a result of a knife attack. These years are shadowed by his own self-exploration and awakening as a maturing teenager. The conditions in wartime Alma Ata, the drive for acquiring education and the longing to find a way back to Europe are discussed in depth. Upon return to Europe, specifically to Poland he finds death and destruction left by the Germans as well as hostility of the native non Jewish population. He and his family cross the borders to the west illegally and ultimately end up in a D.P. (Displaced Persons) camp in Germany. There he is able to gain admission to a medical school where he studies while waiting for a visa to the USA. The volume ends with his arrival in Manhattan.

Biographie de l'auteur

Emil Steinberg was born in Berlin, and lived in Europe and Central Asia before and during the Second World War. He personally witnessed the Nazi triumphs in Germany and Poland as well as the rape of central Europe by the partnership of fascists and communists in the late thirties. Subsequent to immigration to the United States in 1948, he completed graduate and medical studies at the University of Iowa. Throughout his biomedical career, he focused primarily on academic medicine and research. He quickly rose to professorial ranks and became a departmental chairman. While in this capacity, he wrote over 400 scientific articles and book chapters and edited a number of scientific books. This book is his first venture outside the scientific publishing world. Currently he is retired and lives in Houston with his wife, also a retired professor of biomedical sciences.

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Éditeur
AuthorHouse
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1420880489
ISBN 13 
9781420880489
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
424
Coordonnées du fabricant
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