Rosemary Sullivan is a Canadian poet and biographer. Her work delves deeply into the human experience, exploring its complexities through both poetry and prose. Sullivan brings a keen insight and literary craftsmanship to her writings, captivating readers and prompting reflection.
This book about love and addictive relationships begins with a fable about one woman's experience with obsession, and succeeding chapters also use fables to explore the various components of obsession. Throughout, Sullivan uses examples of famous love stories, real and fictional, to illustrate her examination, as she attempts to answer the question, "Why are people, women in particular, addicted to romantic, obsessive love?"
Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept The mystery has haunted generations since the Second World War: Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family? And why?
'Compassionate and compelling, this is not a political story but a quest for love in the heart of darkness' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'A biography on an epic scale, with a combination of tragedy and history worthy of a Russian novel' Independent 'Superbly well told' Sunday Times Who was Svetlana Alliluyeva? A little girl, her father's only daughter, his "little sparrow"; instructed to bury her secrets in her heart by her mother, who shot herself soon after. An observer as her relatives were mercilessly killed and her first love exiled. A woman who tore through relationships with men, joined and abandoned various religions, and became the most famous defector to the United States. The victim of an inescapable truth: "You are Stalin's daughter. . . . You can't live your own life. You can't live any life. You exist only in reference to a name."
Using new technology, recently discovered documents and sophisticated investigative techniques, an international team—led by an obsessed former FBI agent—has finally solved the mystery that has haunted generations since World War II: Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family? And why? The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation is the team’s riveting story.Over thirty million people have read The Diary of a Young Girl, the journal kept by the teenaged Anne Frank while living in an attic with her family in Amsterdam during World War II, until they were sent to their deaths by the Nazis. But despite the many works—journalism, biographies, plays and novels—devoted to Anne’s story, none has conclusively explained how the Franks and four other people managed to hide undetected for over two years, and who or what finally brought the Nazis to their door.With painstaking care, former FBI agent Vincent Pankoke and a team of indefatigable investigators pored over tens of thousands of pages of documents—some never before seen—and interviewed scores of descendants of the people involved, both Nazi sympathizers and resisters, who were familiar with the Franks. Utilizing methods developed by the FBI, the cold case team painstakingly pieced together the months leading up to the Franks’ arrest—and came to a shocking conclusion.
Exploring the profound connection between personal narratives and understanding a place, the author emphasizes the importance of listening to individual stories. Drawing from her experiences as a poet and writer, she illustrates how life is shaped by lived experiences rather than abstract theories. This approach highlights the richness of human experience and the insights gained through genuine engagement with others.
"Wer verriet Anne Frank?" untersucht die Frage nach dem Verräter, der Anne und ihre Familie entdeckte. Ein Team von Wissenschaftlern, geleitet von Vince Pankoke, durchforstete Archive und entwickelte Theorien. Rosemary Sullivan begleitet das Team und verbindet Vergangenheit mit neuen Erkenntnissen in einer ergreifenden Erzählung über Menschlichkeit und Tragik.
Kniha na základě deníků a osobních vzpomínek pojednává o málo známé kapitole novodobé historie. Po obsazení německými vojáky v roce 1940 byla Paříž pro příslušníky francouzské elity velmi nebezpečným místem. André Breton, Max Ernst, Henry Matisse, Hannah Arendtová, Heinrich Mann, Victor Serge, Marc Chagall, Consuelo de Saint-Exupéryová a další se proto rozhodli odejít do domu poblíž Marseille, kde se jich ujala skupina mladých lidí.
