Résultats pour "Down" dans Fiction biographique

In reality one, Dee goes to California. Her new beginning pushes aside the past and the trauma she escaped. In reality two, life in her home country lulls her into a feeling of safety as she embarks upon the most important task of her lifetime: taking care of her baby. As the two paths push Dee deeper into her survival journey, one path threatens suffocation, the other exhaustion. Which offers a chance of salvation?

In a riveting novel rooted in one of American history's great "what ifs," Jim Lehrer tells the story of two men haunted by the events leading up to John F. Kennedy's assassination. November 22, 1963. As Air Force One touches down in Dallas, ambitious young newspaper reporter Jack Gilmore races to get the scoop on preparations for President Kennedy's motorcade. Will the bubble top on the presidential limousine be up or down? Down, according to veteran Secret Service agent Van Walters.

Ronny Allard has held down several jobs, but one stands out more than the others. His role as an undertaker exposed him to a world of death, rotting flesh and sadness. The Undertaker Down Under is a collection of short stories written from the undertaker's perspective. In each story, Ronny describes the scene and imagines the life lost and lived.

Siebenbürgen, 1920: Hermann Oberth hat den Traum, eine Mondrakete zu bauen. Dafür geht er nach Göttingen, um Physik zu studieren. Als der Durchbruch zum Greifen nah ist, wird er von seinen Professoren fallen gelassen. Doch dann glaubt jemand an Hermanns Forschung: Wernher von Braun, Mitglied der SS. Statt der Mondrakete soll Hermann die V2 mitentwickeln, die sogenannte "Vergeltungswaffe" der Nazis. Mit voller Wucht stellt sich ihm und auch seiner Frau Tilla die Frage nach der eigenen Verantwortung vor der Geschichte, die immer von Menschen gemacht wird. Umso mehr, als sie zwei ihrer Kinder an den Krieg verlieren.