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Author : Charles Ota Heller
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ISBN 13 : 9781458201225
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)
Download or read book Prague written by Charles Ota Heller and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "True story of a man who, at the age of nine, shot a Nazi"--Cover.
Author : Charles Ota Heller
Publisher : Abbott Press
ISBN 13 : 1458201201
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)
Download or read book Prague: My Long Journey Home written by Charles Ota Heller and published by Abbott Press. This book was released on 2011-12-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Charles Ota Hellers early childhood in Czechoslovakia was idyllic, but his safe and happy world didnt last long, Three years after his birth, Germany forced an occupation of his country; afterward, most of his young life consisted of running and hiding. His life, just like those of the other youths who lived in Europe during the late 1930s and early 1940s, was shaped forever by the dangers, horrors, and unsettling events he experienced. In this memoir, Heller, born Ota Karel Heller, narrates his familys storya family nearly destroyed by the Nazis. Son of a mixed marriage, he was raised a Catholic and was unaware of his Jewish roots, even after his father escaped to join the British army and fifteen members of his family disappeared. Prague: My Long Journey Home tells of his Christian mother being sent to a slave labor camp and of his hiding on a farm to avoid deportation to a death camp. With the war coming to a close, Heller tells of how he picked up a revolver and shot a Nazi when he was just nine years old. Heller, now an assimilated American, left the horrors of the pastalong with his birth namebehind to live the proverbial American Dream. In his memoir, he recalls how two cataclysmic events following Czechoslovakias Velvet Revolution brought him face-to-face with demons of his former life. On his personal journey Heller discovered and embraced his heritageone which he had abandoned decades earlier.
Author : Helen Notzl
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525508180
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)
Download or read book Long Journey Home written by Helen Notzl and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2018-06-06 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A four-year-old girl survives a harrowing escape across the heavily armed border of Czechoslovakia with her mother and brother after the Communist takeover in 1948. The family leaves everything behind to flee to freedom in Canada. Years later, as a young woman living in Toronto, she finds herself drawn to the country of her birth and returns to Prague, along the way finding love, danger, heartbreak, and her family's legacy. Helen Notzl's poignant memoir takes readers on a voyage between two starkly different and conflicting worlds - from affluence and fulfillment in Canada to passion and revolution in Prague. Must she choose between the two? With intense drama, vivid narration, and brilliant detail, Long Journey Home tells the story of a woman's quest for those things that truly matter to all of us: love, family, identity and homeland.
Author : Charles Ota Heller
Publisher : Abbott Press
ISBN 13 : 1458211452
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)
Download or read book Name-Droppings written by Charles Ota Heller and published by Abbott Press. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Clint Eastwood spend his Thursday evenings? What caused one of Americas greatest basketball coaches to scream the n-word at the author? How did Heller become an early witness to the Clinton-Lewinsky affair? Why did jazz singer Helen OConnell proposition the young, innocent Charlie Heller? What led the author to insult the leader of Americas space program? How did Heller and a TV star/sex therapist develop immediate rapport? How did the author and the leader of a famous rock band become friends? These are some of the interesting vignettes told by Charles Ota Heller, a former CEO entrepreneur, educator, venture capitalist, athlete, and engineer who came to America as an immigrant from Czechoslovakia at the age of thirteen and who now looks back at a life of chasing the proverbial American Dream, chronicling the famous and near-famous people he met along the way.
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Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Downside Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Pupin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)
Download or read book From Immigrant to Inventor written by Michael Pupin and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author tells of his life story coming from Serbia as an immigrant arriving in Castle Garden with five cents in his pocket. His objective for writing the book was to describe the rise of idealism in American science, and particularly in physical sciences.--Publisher's description.
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Total Pages : 970 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)
Download or read book Town Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harold Wallace Ross
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Total Pages : 1218 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)
Download or read book The New Yorker written by Harold Wallace Ross and published by . This book was released on 1949-08 with total page 1218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aleko Konstantinov
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299236935
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)
Download or read book Bai Ganyo written by Aleko Konstantinov and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2010-05-06 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comic classic of world literature, Aleko Konstantinov’s 1895 novel Bai Ganyo follows the misadventures of rose-oil salesman Ganyo Balkanski (“Bai” is a Bulgarian title of intimate respect) as he travels in Europe. Unkempt but endearing, Bai Ganyo blusters his way through refined society in Vienna, Dresden, and St. Petersburg with an eye peeled for pickpockets and a free lunch. Konstantinov’s satire turns darker when Bai Ganyo returns home—bullying, bribing, and rigging elections in Bulgaria, a new country that had recently emerged piecemeal from the Ottoman Empire with the help of Czarist Russia. Bai Ganyo has been translated into most European languages, but now Victor Friedman and his fellow translators have finally brought this Balkan masterpiece to English-speaking readers, accompanied by a helpful introduction, glossary, and notes. Winner, Bulgarian Studies Association Book Prize Finalist, Foreword Magazine’s Multicultural Fiction Book of the Year Winner, John D. Bell Book Prize, Bulgarian Studies Association Best Books for Special Interests, selected by the American Association for School Libraries Best Books for High Schools, selected by the American Association for School Libraries Best Books for Special Interests, selected by the Public Library Association
Author : Charles Ota Heller
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ISBN 13 : 9781639883547
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)
Download or read book Cowboy from Prague written by Charles Ota Heller and published by . This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Charles Ota Heller's newest memoir, Cowboy from Prague, is a gripping and hauntingly beautiful exploration... required reading for a generation that often forgets that the struggle is the most important part of the journey." --Major General (Res.) Doron Almog, Israel Prize Laureate From the author of the acclaimed memoir, Prague: My Long Journey Home, comes an inspiring account of a refugee who boarded a ship toward hope-toward the United States-where he began a pursuit of the American Dream. After losing 25 members of their family in the Holocaust, the author and his parents escape a brutal Communist regime in Czechoslovakia, transforming themselves in a single day from one of their native country's wealthiest families to stateless refugees with all their assets contained in three suitcases. Young Charlie's father orders him to speak English without an accent and to become a "100% American." His obedient son complies and, despite struggles with anti-immigrant prejudice and the discovery that America is not the perfect nation he had imagined, Charlie succeeds beyond even his own dreams. His struggles and triumphs-as a student, athlete, engineer, academic, entrepreneur, investor, author, and family man-serve as a reminder that America is still the land of opportunity, one that beckons to those looking for a better life. Cowboy from Prague is a tender, enthralling, compelling, and powerful story that will resonate with all Americans who, together, make up a nation unique in the world-a nation of immigrants.
