1980, ISBN: 9781130048452

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RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 344 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.7in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: . . . women, and children toil not only all day, but part of the night in close, narrow quarters, . . . there we shall find miserable, anamic bodies with every symptom of nervous enfeeblement, in the greatest numbers. In general, many cases come under observation where sleep has been insufficient, or, by nature of the occupation, irregular, as with waiters and railroad men. And also, as Mobius has correctly pointed out and emphasized, those workers are especially liable to nervous disease whose tasks require an excessive precision, excessive attention to fine details, this making exhausting demands upon the nervous centres. (Page 127. ) Cher die Ursachen der Neurasthenie und Hysterie hei Arheitern. The Causes of Neurasthenia and Hysteria among Working People. Paul Schonhals. A Study of 200 Cases in the Workingmans Sanitarium at Sche and now Zehlendorf. Berlin, 1906. The opinion that nervous affections resulting from mental overstrain are confined to the well-to-do classes has long been disproved by practical experience. It was however, for a long time, not easy to bring ample proofs that the lower working classes shared to a considerable extent in the distribution of nervous diseases, because such data lay solely in the Germany hands of private practitioners or hospitals. The State compulsory insurance has now given the needed opportunity. (Pages 5-6. ) Amtliche Mittheilungen aus den Jahres-Berichten der Gewerhe-Aufsichtsheamtcn. XXII. 1897. Official Information from Reports of the (German) Factory Inspectors. Berlin, Bruer, 1898. Hours of work in the industrial establishments of Reuss i. L. are, on an average, yi. Nervous diseases and lung diseases are stated to be the results of occupation. The same diseases have been observed by the officers of the sickness insur. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub, Nielsen Press. Paperback. New. Paperback. 436 pages. Dimensions: 8.4in. x 5.4in. x 1.1in.JEAN HiUQN THEY SHALL NOT HAVE ME ne mauient pa The Capture, Forced Labor, and Escape of a French Prisoner of War BOOKS NC. DISTRIBUTED BY E. P. DUTTON COMPANY, INC. NEW rORK f 1943 TO MY COMRADES IN CAPTIVITY WHOM I HAVE LEFT IN GERMANY DIGGING POTATOES ON THE FARMS WORKING FOR LONG HOURS AS LITTLE AS THEY CAN IN FACTORIES THIS BOOK THEIR STORY IS DEDICATED BINDERY M 271949 OC7 2 2 CONTENTS Part I Downfall CHAPTER PAGE 1. War Game to Us . . . n 2. Days of Rout . 14 3. Capture 44 K Captivity 4. Days of Hunger 53 5. A Prison Camp in France . . . . 65 6. Live Cargo for Germany 93 7 . Stalag II B, a Concentration Camp for War Prisoners in Pomerania 101 III Forced A A PHISOM OH THE POLISH 8. Fail 119 9. Winter 154 E A PRISON CAMP IN A BIG HARBOUt i o. Bound for Nowhere on a Banana Freighter 175 ii. Life around the Ko mmndofuhrer . 179 Contents CHAPTER PAGE 12. Life around the Lagerfiibrer . . . . 223 13. The Vertrmienmmnn 234 14. Nazi Propaganda in the Camp . . . 237 15. The Prisoners 256 1 6. Distractions and Intellectual Life . . 275 17. 87, 461 Justice of the Peace . . . . 294 8. Letters, Packages and Red Cross Gifts . 304 1 9. Night Life on SS. Nordenham . . . 316 20. Story and Midnight Trial of a Barber . 347 21. My Last Kommmdofuhrer . . . . 355 IV Escape 22. Exit One Kriegsgefangene . . . . 373 23. Veillee DArmes . . . . . . . 384 24. Berlin Express . . . . . . . 394 25. In the Shade of Swastika Blossoms . . 399 26. With Thanks to the German Police . . 406 17. Reserved Quarters . . . . . . 423 28. A Sick City . . . . . . . 427 29. The Last Border . . . . . . 434 PART DOWNFALL CHAPTER 1 to Us I WAS not sent to war. It came to me in Aiezieres en Drouais, a charming village west of Paris, where, for months, I had crawled upon the hills, ducked under blank shots, dug model trenches, and absorbed soporific chapters from the infantry sergeant handbook, very peacefully. Early one June morning, with the sixty men of my training platoon, I was sketching from a hill the valley beneath, accord ing to the military convention of perspective, when a slow column appeared in the hollow of my model vehicles of all descriptions buggies, farm wagons drawn by four, six, some times eight horses strangely loaded. Cattle and pedestrians followed. It dragged on towards the south, uninterrupted. Then cars, with trailers and carts in tow, shot by the horses and formed a dotted line to their left. I recognized it. It seemed to jump out of my past. Twenty two years ago, after a maddening night of bombing, I, too, fled from the north, hauling a cart. My mother pushed, her feet soon bled. Red and blue flares and explosions tore the sky beyond the city. Enormous and scarlet, the sun came up and washed out the lights of the battle of the Somme. Then I saw that the woman ahead of us wore a dressing gown, and carried an alarm clock, a beauty kit, and a ladle. Next to her, a girl pulled a wheelbarrow with her mother in it. Bundles were piled in the emaciated arms of the old woman, but her jaw hung open. She was dead, and the bundles fell on the road, one after the other. The girl didnt know it. 11 Downfall This was the same fatal hemorrhage, miming, flowing out of the deep wound that the invasion had, once more, Inflicted on my country. As if the exodus had propagated a plague, the villages around became devitalized. The popukticn disappeared, deserting crops, stock, cellars. Training was Interrupted. We spent days ardently combing the woods for parachutists, and found none. Formed into regu lar companies, we expected to leave for the front, and were eager to fight but our train never came. On the ninth of June, the next railway station, at Dreux, was neatly sprinkled with bombs by fifteen German dive bombers, hardly bothered by a weak antiaircraft fire. Where were the Allied airplanes We never saw them This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN., Nielsen Press, Rubbed. Spine label. Good. Indo-European Philology Walter de Gruyter Berlin / Leipzig 1927-1929 1/4-cloth 23x15cm, 154,111 pp, Rubberstamps to title-pages and numerous page margins. Contemporary binder's quarter-cloth. This is a single volume containing parts 1 & 2 of "Die Erforschung der indogermanischen Sprachen : IV : Indisch, Iranisch, Armenisch", bound together. Part 1 consists of Walter Wüst "Indisch". Part 2 consists of Hans Reichelt "Iranisch" and Heinrich Zeller "Armenisch". The index for part two [pages 105-111] has been bound at the end of part one., Walter de Gruyter, 1927-1929, Minor rubbing. VG. 5pp photoplates. Greek Vases G. Reimer Berlin 1912 1/4-cloth 29x22cm, 40,(8),(5)pp., Contemporary binder's quarter-cloth. Greek vase study. Mit 5 Tafeln und 19 Abbildungen im Text. Series: Programm zum Winckelmannsfeste der Archæologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin, 72., G. Reimer, 1912, Rubbed. Exterior hinges scuffed & tender. Just Good. Russian Mathematicians Bonniers Stockholm (1892) 1/4-leather 20x12cm, 194 pp., Contemporary binder's quarter-leather. A long thin mark to cover. Text entirely in Swedish. "Sonja Kovalevsky: What I experienced together with her and what she told me about her self". Biographical study of the Russian mathematician exiled in Sweden Sofia Vasilievna Kovalevskaia [1850-1891]. ["Kovalevskaya..,.the first major Russian female mathematician, responsible for important original contributions to analysis, differential equations and mechanics, and the first woman appointed to a full professorship in Northern Europe...,.After two years of mathematical studies at Heidelberg under such teachers as Helmholtz, Kirchoff and Bunsen, she moved to Berlin, where she had to take private lessons from Karl Weierstrass, as the university would not even allow her to audit classes. In 1874 she presented three papers - on partial differential equations, on the dynamics of Saturn's rings and on elliptic integrals - to the University of Göttingen as her doctoral dissertation. With the support of Weierstrass, this earned her a doctorate in mathematics summa cum laude, bypassing the usual required lectures and examinations. She thereby became the first woman in Europe to hold that degree. Her paper on partial differential equations contains what is now commonly known as the Cauchy-Kovalevski theorem, which gives conditions for the existence of solutions to a certain class of those equations. The Kovalevskys returned to Russia, but failed to secure professorships because of their radical political beliefs...,." - wikipedia]., Bonniers, Minor wear. Good. German Political History Carl Heymanns Verlag Berlin 1933 1/4-cloth 22x15cm, 875 pp., Contemporary binder's quarter-cloth. Weighs 1.4 kilos., Carl Heymanns Verlag, 1933, 48 pages with diagrams, tables and photographs. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter blue cloth in stiff boards. Annotations by F D Yates and W Winter. (Betts: 27-32) First edition.Contains short biographies of the players, with a brief history of the Championship matches, followed by the 25 annotated games and a theoretical review.A few days after Alexander Alekhine won the Capablanca - Alekhine World Championship Match (1927), both masters made a general agreement to play a rematch sometime within the next year, under the same rules as they had played the first match. Jose Raul Capablanca did not, however, issue a formal challenge at this time. On February 10, 1928 Capablanca wrote FIDE president Alexander Rueb, explaining his ideas about future changes to the world chess championship. Capablanca recommended altering the playing times and reducing the number of games to 16. He also forwarded this letter to Alekhine. Alekhine interpreted this as a wish to change the conditions for their planned rematch, and wrote Capablanca that he refused to play under any new conditions. Capablanca answered publicly, explaining that he had been talking about future matches, not the match with Alekhine, which "he hoped to arrange... under precisely the same conditions as those which obtained at Buenos Aires." In the meantime, on August 24, 1928 Efim Bogoljubov now challenged Alekhine to a world title match. Alekhine accepted in principle, provided that Bogoljubov could "give the guarantees provided for under the rules of London of 1922," which included a guaranteed $10,000 purse. On October 8, 1928 Capablanca now formally challenged Alekhine to a rematch. Alekhine wrote Capablanca that he would give Bogoljubov until January 15, 1929 to "arrange for and give me the guarantees provided for under the rules of London of 1922... In January 1929, Alekhine announced that "The match with Bogoljubow interests me far more than the battle with Capablanca... Bogoljubow is a much more serious opponent." In August 1929, when it became clear that Bogoljubov could not guarantee a $10,000 purse, Alekhine agreed to play him for a smaller amount. The match began September 6, 1929 under the following conditions: Alekhine would get $6,000 dollars win or lose, with any surplus going to Bogoljubov. A winner would be declared if he scored 15½ points with 6 wins from a maximum of 30 games. Unlike the Capablanca-Alekhine 1927 match, which had been played in private, the Alekhine-Bogoljubov match would be played in public. The organizers insisted on this, in order to raise money from ticket sales. Only those cities that contributed to the purse would be allowed to host the match: Wiesbaden (games 1-8; 24-25), Heidelberg (games 9-11), Berlin (games 12-17), The Hague (games 18-19; 23), Rotterdam (game 20), and Amsterdam (games 21-22). Emanuel Lasker served as arbiter in the Berlin games. Alekhine won the 1st game, but Bogoljubov kept pace, evening the score 1-1 after a win in Game 4. The world champion won the next game, and Bogoljubov came right back again to win Game 6, tying the score at 2-2. Alekhine attributed this loss to an "enforced exchange of queens" on move 15 which produced a position that "could not be defended against by accurate play." The world champion now began to draw away with two consecutive victories. Alekhine regarded his win with the black pieces in Game 8 to be among his best, featuring an incisive mating combination beginning with 26...g3+! The match was now interrupted by a scheduled two week break so that Alekhine could attend the 6th FIDE congress in Venice. On resumption, Alekhine extended his lead to four games, but Bogoljubov clawed back to win games 13 and 14. This would be the challenger's last real resistance. Alekhine now won five of the next eight games, putting the match well out of reach. The final game proved a fitting example of the whole match, which featured exciting, but risky tactical chess throughout. The Wiener Schachzeitung commented that the games were played in "Wild West style," and that Alekhine had won by adapting himself to Bogoljubov's specialty, "the field of tactics.Condition:Book plate on front board verso. Some age toning to extremities else a better than very good copy., Printing Craft Ltd, 1930, Berlin/Wien: Urban & Schwazenberg, 1912., 1912. 4to. xxi, [1], 232 pp., 86 color images on 48 inserted plates, illustrations in text. Quarter bound in grey cloth with decorated papers over boards. Wear at the extremities, name front free endpaper and title page else a tight, very good book.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good., Berlin/Wien: Urban & Schwazenberg, 1912., 1912, Leipzig; KF Koehler. 1891. Hardcover. Publishers cloth. 8vo. IV, 248 pages. 22 cm. Second edition. In German and Hebrew, with some notes in English and Latin. First volume only, letters A-M. Catalog of modern Hebrew works (1789-1890) . Compiled by William Zeitlin, a “Russian scholar and bibliographer; born at Homel, government of Moghilef, about the middle of the nineteenth century. He is known especially as the author of ‘? Iryat Sefer, ’ or ‘Bibliotheca Hebraica Post-Mendelssohniana’ (Leipsic, 1891-95) , a bibliographical dictionary of modern Hebrew literature from the beginning of Mendelssohn's epoch until 1890. The compilation of this work occupied Zeitlin for twenty years. He made extensive use of Benjacob's ‘O? Ar ha-Sefarim’ and of Fürst's ‘Bibliotheca Judaica, ’ and visited Wilna and Warsaw, the centers of the Hebrew book market, as well as many university cities—as Königsberg, Berlin, Geneva, and Paris—from the libraries of which he gathered additional material for his work. The ‘? Iryat Sefer’ indexes not only works in book form, but also important periodical articles, biographical sketches, and scientific essays, in addition to giving biographical notes on several authors. Zeitlin had previously prepared an index of works written on the Jewish calendar, in which he enumerates seventy-seven Hebrew works; this index was published by ? Ayyim Jonah Gurland in ‘Yevreiski Kalendar’ (St. Petersburg, 1882) . In the ‘Zeit. Für Hebr. Bibl. ’ (ix. 3-4) Zeitlin has recently published an alphabetical list of anagrams and pseudonyms of modern Hebrew writers; and he is a contributor to several Hebrew periodicals, writing mostly biographical articles. ” (1906 Jewish Encyclopedia) Bound in original quarter leather and boards. Subjects: Hebrew literature - Bibliography. Jews - Bio-bibliography. Includes stamp of Rabbi Hymen Ezra Cohen, and bookstamp of Rabbi David H. Panitz. Edges of cloth bumped, leather rubbed, with top and bottom panels on spine absent, internally very clean and fresh. Very good + condition. (BIBLIOG-33-57) ., Leipzig; KF Koehler, 1891, Rubbed. Spine sunned & scuffed. Good. Economic History Allgemeiner Verein Berlin 1904 1/4-leather 22x15cm, viii,366 pp, A 2cm crack to front exterior hinge. Rubberstamps to reverse of title-page. Publisher's quarter-leather. Contents: Zur Entwicklung der Weltwirtschadt; Zollkriege; Nationales Kapital in Auslande; Nationale Verrufserklärungen gegen die Erzeugnisse anderer Staaten; Bankerottierende Staaten; Die Versorgnis vor einer Aushungerung Englands im Kriegsfalle; Der grösserbritische Zollverband; In den Mittelmeerfragen; Was wir von Amerika lernen können; Die Amerikanisierung der Erde; Die allamerikanische Gefahr; Die alte und die neue Welt; Seewege und Überlandbahnen; Das Problem des Stillen Meeres; Weltreiche einst und jetzt., Allgemeiner Verein, 1904, Springer-Verlag, Berlin., 1980.. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to, hardcover. Vol. XV/1A. Vg condition, bound in maroon quarter-leather with grey cloth-covered boards, gilt spine lettering. Moderate spine lean, front board corner bumped, causing slightest bend to pg corners; contents bright & clean, binding tight. 722 pp., Springer-Verlag, Berlin., 1980., RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 510 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 1.0in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: . . . to restore the works of the old masters--is not this the only true way of preserving them Hard Lot of the German Workman. --A rather depressing picture of the conditions surrounding the German laboring classes is presented by the Berlin correspondent of the Worlds Work and Play (London). He admits that the masses of the German people have undoubtedly advanced in wealth and well-being during the last generation. Their wages are higher, their savings have enormously increased, the working day is shorter, and social legislation has done much to insure them against accident and the disabilities of old age. But, though the German workingmans prosperity has increased, it will take another quarter of a century to place him on the British level. His wages are lower, his hours are longer, his life is harder, his prospects are less bright, and, above all and beyond all, he is crushed to the earth by the burden of militarism, and by the class feelings of his race. German labor is still largely unorganized. The writer says that he knows the German coal-miner; he has been in his home and spoken with his wife and children, and if there is any class of men in the world more than ever deserving pity, it is he. His wages average 41 to 00 in the year. The iron-ore miners receive an average of 35 to 45 a year; these averages are based on the last three years; 2. 19 per thousand of German miners are killed annually at theirwork, against 1. 29 of British miners. The health of the German miners is growing feebler. The glassworkers in the Upper Palatinate work 110 to 112 hours, --an average of over IT hours a day, sometimes receiving as low as 12s. or 14s. a week. Compare this with the 4(5 to 54 hours a week of the British gla. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub, RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 482 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 1.0in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 Excerpt: . . . to June, . 1835, inclusive. . . . . . 263 THB FOEEIGN QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. XXIX. FOR MARCH, 1835. Art. I. --Reise nm die Erde, ausgefiikrt auf dent Koniglich Preussiscken Seekandlungs-Sckiffe, Prinzess-Louise, commandirt von Capitain W. Wendt, in den Jahren 1830, 1831, 1832. (Voyage round the World in the Prussian Ship the Princess Louise, by Dr. F. J. F. Meyen. ) 2 vols. 4to. Berlin. 1834. Notwithstanding the numerous narratives of Voyages round the World, the successful accomplishment of which, instead of being matter of wonder, is now an every-day occurrence, such accounts are still looked for with impatience if they re known to have been conducted by men from whose labors new information may be expected, and are read with interest if they afford any real addition to our stock of knowledge. It might, indeed, be supposed that preceding adventurers had left little to be told respecting most of the countries which navigators, not bound on a voyage of discovery, but on a commercial enterprise, had occasion to visit. Thus, for instance, with regard to the work before us, it may be asked, what novelty can we expect from Brazil, Chili, Peru, or China We have not only accounts of voyages to all these countries, but numerous and authentic narratives of travels in the interior, which must have anticipated all, and more than all, that a transient visiter of the coast can hope to learn. May we not almost say of such a voyager in the words which Schiller puts into the mouth of Max Piccolomini: --We have been But voyaging along the barren coasts, Like some poor ever-roaming horde of pirates, VOL. XV. 1 That, crowded in the rank and narrow ship, House on the wild sea, with wild usages, Nor know aught of the main land, but the bays. --Whateer in In inland dales the land. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<

ISBN: 9781130048452

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 482 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 1.0in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Pur… More...

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 482 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 1.0in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 Excerpt: . . . to June, . 1835, inclusive. . . . . . 263 THB FOEEIGN QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. XXIX. FOR MARCH, 1835. Art. I. --Reise nm die Erde, ausgefiikrt auf dent Koniglich Preussiscken Seekandlungs-Sckiffe, Prinzess-Louise, commandirt von Capitain W. Wendt, in den Jahren 1830, 1831, 1832. (Voyage round the World in the Prussian Ship the Princess Louise, by Dr. F. J. F. Meyen. ) 2 vols. 4to. Berlin. 1834. Notwithstanding the numerous narratives of Voyages round the World, the successful accomplishment of which, instead of being matter of wonder, is now an every-day occurrence, such accounts are still looked for with impatience if they re known to have been conducted by men from whose labors new information may be expected, and are read with interest if they afford any real addition to our stock of knowledge. It might, indeed, be supposed that preceding adventurers had left little to be told respecting most of the countries which navigators, not bound on a voyage of discovery, but on a commercial enterprise, had occasion to visit. Thus, for instance, with regard to the work before us, it may be asked, what novelty can we expect from Brazil, Chili, Peru, or China We have not only accounts of voyages to all these countries, but numerous and authentic narratives of travels in the interior, which must have anticipated all, and more than all, that a transient visiter of the coast can hope to learn. May we not almost say of such a voyager in the words which Schiller puts into the mouth of Max Piccolomini: --We have been But voyaging along the barren coasts, Like some poor ever-roaming horde of pirates, VOL. XV. 1 That, crowded in the rank and narrow ship, House on the wild sea, with wild usages, Nor know aught of the main land, but the bays. --Whateer in In inland dales the land. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<