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Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts
21 August 2022

Book Review: The Good German of Nanking (1998) by John Rabe, edited by Erwin Wickert, *****

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Synopsis The personal journals of German businessman John Rabe describe the infamous 1937 Japanese siege of Nanking and his efforts to prote...
28 December 2020

Recensione libro: Caduti dal Muro (2009) di Paolo Ciampi e Tito Barbini, *****

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Sinossi   C'era una volta il Muro e sembrava dovesse esarci per sempre. Poi però il Muro si sbriciolò e con esso crollò un impero che da...
27 December 2018

Beyond the Wall, my book on a Polish and Soviet adventure available on all Amazon sites.

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My latest book: Beyond the Wall: Adventures of a Volkswagen Beetle Beyond the Iron Curtain has just been published a...
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03 December 2016

Film review: Eroica (2003) by Simon Cellar Jones, *****

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Synopsis By the time the first public performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 ('Eroica') took place in Vienna in 1805, a pri...
18 July 2012

Film review: Olympia (1936), by Leni Riefenstahl ***

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Synopsis A documentary of the 1936 Summer Olympic games held in Berlin . Review This is undoubdtedly great photography, and controve...
24 May 2012

American Cemetery and Memorial in the Ardennes

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Today I visited the American Cemetery and Memorial in the Ardennes . A quiet place where several thousand Americans who died during WW II ...
26 March 2012

Recensione film: Operazione Valchiria (2008) di Bryan Singer, ****

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Sinossi Tratto da una stupefacente storia vera, Operazione Valchiria , è la cronaca del coraggioso e ingegnoso piano per eliminare uno ...

Film Review: Valkyrie (2008), by Brian Singer, ****

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Synopsis On the front lines in North Africa, German Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise) grows increasingly opposed to Adolf Hitler...
26 May 2010

Film Review: Katyn, by Andzrej Wajda, *****

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Synopsis KATYN is the story of Polish army officers murdered by the Soviet secret police in the Katyn forest during the Second World ...
14 September 2006

Film Review: The Lives of Others (2006), by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, *****

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Synopsis In the former East Germany, no-one was above suspicion. Like George Orwell's vision of the future come to life, art and ...
11 May 1989

18° g - 11 MAG: sulla Germania, Europa, disarmo

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Incontro con Sergeij Karaganov, vice-direttore dell'Istituto per l'Europa dell'Accademia delle Scienze Persona interessante. L...
12 April 1980

Both sides of Berlin and return to Poland

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Wake up around 8. Our landlady serves us a most welcome large breakfast and while we eat she tells us stories from her fading but still luci...
11 April 1980

Visiting Berlin

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Lazy wake up call at 9:30 and long walk in the Tiergarten. Tiergarten and Victoria column We see the Victoria tower, enjoy a great pan...
10 April 1980

Exploring West Berlin

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Early in the morning we are ejected from our guesthouse and start looking for another place to spend the night. We found a couple of rooms f...
09 April 1980

East Berlin taster and move to West Berlin

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Hotel Stadt Berlin in Alexanderplatz Arrive in East Berlin at about 7:15am, it is raining hard and it's damn cold! Good start! T...
08 April 1980

Departure for Berlin

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In the evening we board our long desired train for East Berlin. It's taken us so long to get the tickets, visas and legal cash we almost...