von Sabine Anders | 6. Juli 2015
Most history books focus on the ideas of great thinkers, the bravery of warriors, the charity of saints and the creativity of artists. They have much to tell about the weaving and unravelling of social structures, about the rise and fall of empires, about the...
von Sabine Anders | 23. März 2015
Werner is succeeding. He is being loyal. He is being what everybody agrees is good. And yet every time he wakes and buttons his tunic, he feels that he is betraying something. Werner Pfennig, ein Waisenkind mit weißem Haar, wächst in den 1930er-Jahren zusammen mit...
von Detlef Knut | 16. März 2015
Der Roman des amerikanischen Schriftstellers Craig Johnson folgt vom Erzählstil her dem eines Detektivromans. Protagonist ist Sheriff Walt Longmire vom Absaroka County Sheriff Department, der die Geschichten in der ersten Person erzählt. Sein Amt übt er hier seit...
von Sabine Anders | 9. März 2015
These were the years when, to the distress of many a young male European, Europe was at peace. For a young man looking for battle, especially battle against a poorly armed enemy, the Congo was the place to go. For a white man, the Congo was also a place to get rich...
von Sabine Anders | 8. Dezember 2014
»No rules,« he shouted, »no zoning laws, no taxes, no county dicks and ordinances. You want to build, you build. You want to take down some trees and put up a cabin by the most righteous far-out turned-on little lake in the world, you go right ahead and do it and you...
von Sabine Anders | 13. Oktober 2014
He now faced an adversary so formidable that his own strength was nothing in comparison, and he did not enjoy being in a position where boldness and determination count for almost nothing, and in which victory is measured only in survival. Die Geschichte klingt wie...