Vienna on Fire - Don Gabor

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Auteur(s) : Don Gabor

Editeur : Blue Danube Press

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/05/2024

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 290

Dimensions : 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1

ISBN : 1879834014

Résumé :

Much of Vienna is on fire or will be soon.

Eighteen-year-old Greta Kolbe would like nothing better than to savor her youth, her happy home life with her mother and father, to look forward to university in the fall, romance and scholarship. But she lives in Vienna in 1938, and the Nazis have just invaded Austria. Vienna on Fire brings to startling life the awful reality of what happens to normal people when their lives are completely undone by an evil that, months, weeks, days before, would have been unthinkable. To survive, Greta must leave everything she knows behind, leave everyone she loves to their own unknown fate. Her parents have sacrificed everything to see that she gets transport on a ship to America. The problem is, and there are many of them on her perilous journey, she is wanted by the SS and the Gestapo for murder.

Greta has been raised a secular Jew who has attended church and celebrated Christmas. Now, she is simply a Jew, a criminal on the run. Can she make it to the Netherlands before she is detained and sent to one of the new German camps? Vienna on Fire is a fast-paced Olympian sprint mined with dangers every mile of the way. Evil is palpable. Trust a thing of the past. Greta's life has become a nightmare where the next instant can bring salvation or calamity. Her only hope is her ingenuity, courage and will to survive.

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Biographie:
Don Gabor is the son of a holocaust survivor, but he didn't uncover his mother's family secret until 1997 during a trip to Austria. That's when he was inspired to write his first solo novel, Vienna on Fire: A WWII Story of Survival. Don is also the author of How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends, plus other books and audio programs on communication skills. Since 1981, he has been published by Simon and Schuster, Crown/Random House, McGraw-Hill Education, and others. His titles have also been translated into fifteen languages and have sold twenty-nine foreign rights. Don Gabor's books have been featured in dozens of traditional and social media publications including 60 Minutes: A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and others. The New Yorker called Don a gifted conversationalist.Don has presented workshops to corporations, associations, small businesses, and colleges. Don was also a member of the National Speakers Association (NSA) for twenty years and was the 2010-2011 president of the NSA NYC chapter. An avid history buff, urban gardener, and guitarist, he lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, Eileen, and their cat, Ruby....

Sommaire:

Much of Vienna is on fire or will be soon.

Eighteen-year-old Greta Kolbe would like nothing better than to savor her youth, her happy home life with her mother and father, to look forward to university in the fall, romance and scholarship. But she lives in Vienna in 1938, and the Nazis have just invaded Austria. Vienna on Fire brings to startling life the awful reality of what happens to normal people when their lives are completely undone by an evil that, months, weeks, days before, would have been unthinkable. To survive, Greta must leave everything she knows behind, leave everyone she loves to their own unknown fate. Her parents have sacrificed everything to see that she gets transport on a ship to America. The problem is, and there are many of them on her perilous journey, she is wanted by the SS and the Gestapo for murder.

Greta has been raised a secular Jew who has attended Catholic schools and celebrated Christmas. Now, she is simply a Jew, a criminal on the run. Can she make it to the Netherlands before she is detained and sent to one of the new German camps? Vienna on Fire is a fast-paced Olympian sprint mined with dangers every mile of the way. Evil is palpable. Trust a thing of the past. Greta's life has become a nightmare where the next instant can bring salvation or calamity. Her only hope is her ingenuity, courage and will to survive.