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Death of an Assassin: The True Story of the German Murderer Who Died Defending Robert E. Lee (True Crime History) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 317min
From the depths of German and American archives comes a story one soldier never wanted told. The first volunteer killed defending Robert E. Lee’s position in battle was really a German assassin. After fleeing to the United States to escape prosecution for murder, the assassin enlisted in a German company of the Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Mexican-American War and died defending Lee’s battery at the Siege of Veracruz in 1847. Lee wrote a letter home, praising this unnamed fallen volunteer defender. Military records identify him, but none of the Americans knew about his past life of crime.Before fighting with the Americans, Lee’s defender had assassinated Johann Heinrich Rieber, mayor of Bönnigheim, Germany, in 1835. Thirty-seven years later, another suspect in the assassination who had also fled to America found evidence in Washington, DC, that would clear his own name, and he forwarded it to Germany. The German prosecutor Ernst von Hochstetter corroborated the story and closed the case file in 1872, naming Lee’s defender as Rieber’s murderer.Relying primarily on German sources, Death of an Assassin tracks the never-before-told story of this German company of Pennsylvania volunteers. It follows both Lee’s and the assassin’s lives until their dramatic encounter in Veracruz and picks up again with the surprising case resolution decades later.The book is published by The Kent State University Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.Praise for the book:“An entertaining look at very human characters in a world on the edge of radical change.” (New York Journal of Books)“An Edgar-worthy true crime masterpiece of astonishing investigative skill and irresistible narrative flow.” (Burl Barer, NYT best-selling author of Murder in the Family and Man Overboard)“A great, fun read, spinning intrigue with historical facts.” (Emerging Civil ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jean Ann Douglass. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/184334/bk_acx0_184334_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Bell Records artists
Bell Records artists ab 28.49 € als Taschenbuch: The Partridge Family David Cassidy Davy Jones Jimmy Webb The 5th Dimension Bay City Rollers Cab Calloway Burl Ives Rodney Dangerfield Al Green The Delfonics Solomon Burke Ronny & the Daytonas Tommy Dorsey Quincy Jones. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Naturwissenschaft,- Shop: hugendubel
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Actors from Illinois
Actors from Illinois ab 44.49 € als Taschenbuch: Ronald Reagan Gary Coleman Charlton Heston Denise Richards Calista Flockhart Howard Keel William Christopher Rock Hudson Burl Ives Sam Shepard Karen Black Susan Dey LaVern Baker John Barrowman Peter Sarsgaard Betty White. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,- Shop: hugendubel
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1963 albums (Music Guide)
1963 albums (Music Guide) ab 26.99 € als Taschenbuch: Please Please Me With The Beatles War Requiem The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan Days of Wine and Roses and Other TV Requests Little Deuce Coupe Burl Ives Presents America's Musical Heritage The Barbra Streisand Album Blues. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Kunst & Musik,- Shop: hugendubel
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People from Skagit County Washington
People from Skagit County Washington ab 15.99 € als Taschenbuch: People from Anacortes Washington People from Mount Vernon Washington Edward R. Murrow Burl Ives William Cameron McCool Glenn Beck Joe Shell James Caviezel Mark Hendrickson Lawrence Colburn Graham Kerr Fred Schacht. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Wirtschaft & Soziales,- Shop: hugendubel
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In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks...: . . . And Other Complaints from an Angry Middle-Aged White Guy, Hörbuch, Digital, 402min
A couple years back, I was at the Phoenix airport bar. It was empty except for one heavy-set, gray bearded, grizzled guy who looked like he just rode his donkey into town after a long day of panning for silver in them thar hills. He ordered a Jack Daniels straight up, and that's when I overheard the young guy with the earring behind the bar asking him if he had ID. At first the old sea captain just laughed. But the guy with the twinkle in his ear asked again. At this point it became apparent that he was serious. Dan Haggerty's dad fired back, 'You've got to be kidding me, son.' The bartender replied, 'New policy. Everyone has to show their ID.' Then I watched Burl Ives reluctantly reach into his dungarees and pull out his military identification card from World War II. It's a sad and eerie harbinger of our times that the Oprah-watching, crystal-rubbing, Whole Foods-shopping moms and their whipped attorney husbands have taken the ability to reason away from the poor schlub who makes the Bloody Marys. What we used to settle with common sense or a fist, we now settle with hand sanitizer and lawyers. Adam Carolla has had enough of this insanity and he's here to help us get our collective balls back. In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks is Adam's comedic gospel of modern America. He rips into the absurdity of the culture that demonized the peanut butter and jelly sandwich, turned the nation's bathrooms into a lawless free-for-all of urine and fecal matter, and put its citizens at the mercy of a bunch of minimum wagers with axes to grind. Peppered between complaints Carolla shares candid anecdotes from his day to day life as well as his past Sunday football at Jimmy Kimmel's house, his attempts to raise his kids in a society that he mostly disagrees with, his big showbiz break, and much, much more. Brilliantly showcasing Adam's spot-on sense of humor, this book cements his status as a cultural commentator/comedian/complainer extraordinaire. Language: English. Narrator: Adam Carolla. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002448/bk_rand_002448_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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1960s album Introduction
1960s album Introduction ab 28.49 € als Taschenbuch: Pongo en tus manos abiertas Scott 2 The Original Spinners Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre Basta Walt Disney Presents Burl Ives' Animal Folk People Let the Sunshine In Going Places Keep on Moving Sophisticated Soul My Way. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Wirtschaft & Soziales,- Shop: hugendubel
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Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe (film) winners
Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe (film) winners ab 25.49 € als Taschenbuch: Brad Pitt Sean Connery Laurence Olivier Tom Cruise Eddie Murphy Gene Hackman Fred Astaire Oskar Werner Denzel Washington Burl Ives Edward Norton George Clooney Robert Duvall Sal Mineo Peter Ustinov Clifton Webb. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,- Shop: hugendubel
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People associated with the Boy Scouts of America
People associated with the Boy Scouts of America ab 31.49 € als Taschenbuch: Theodore Roosevelt Thomas J. Watson Norman Rockwell Ernest Thompson Seton Burl Ives John F. Kennedy List of recipients of the Silver Buffalo Award Steve Fossett David Archuleta William D. Boyce Béla H. Bánáthy Thomas S. Monson. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Wirtschaft & Soziales,- Shop: hugendubel
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