Bøger af Andrew Steinmetz

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The book "" The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Volume 1) , has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable.

The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims, edition in two volumes, represents history of gambling from ancient times in India, Egypt and Greece to modern days England, France and United States. The book covers all sorts of gaming and gambling, including card games, board games, lotteries, tricks, frauds and many more schemes that developed throughout the ages.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE $60,000 HILARY WESTON WRITERS TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTIONWhat the hell kind of great escape is this? No one escapes!L.B. Mayer, on the 1963 filmHe had fifty-seven seconds of screen time in the most lavish POW film Hollywood ever produced. He was blond. A Gestapo agent. Sauntering down the aisles of a speeding train, he speaks in terse German to Richard Attenborough, Gordon Jackson, David McCallum. The film is The Great Escape (by John Sturges, starring Steve McQueen); the actor, though uncredited, is Michael Paryla. He was part Jewish. Shortly after filming he died.In This Great Escape, Andrew Steinmetz tenderly reconstructs the life of a man seen by millions yet recognized by no one, whose historyfrom childhood flight from Nazism to suspicious death twenty years laterintersects bitterly, ironically, and often movingly with the plot of Sturgess great war film. Splicing together documentary materials with correspondence, diary entries, and Steinmetzs own travel journal, This Great Escape does more than reconstruct the making of a cinema classic: it is a poignant and moving testament to the complexity of human experience, a portrait of a family for whom acting was a matter of survival, and proof that our most anonymous, uncredited, and undocumented moments can brush against the zeitgeist of world history.

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