£45.46

Repeated Attempts of a Life

Political

Price data last checked 95 day(s) ago - refreshing...

View at Amazon

We'll watch every seller, every day. One email when your price arrives.

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

£45 today · previous high £45 · all-time low £36

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 385 days • 385 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 385 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £45 (318 days, 82.6%)

Price range: £36 - £45

Price levels: 2 different prices over 385 days

Description

This is Part One of the exceptional life story of Wolfgang Harmann, an East German research scientist covering the period from his birth to imprisonment as a prisoner of conscience in East Germany. Based on his diary and extensive research, it is both personal biography and a literary Polaroid of life in the bipolar era of the totalitarian fascist and communist societies during his life at that time.The book begins by describing his early life and the hardships surrounding his abandonment at war’s end and aftermath and goes on to describe his difficult life as the adoptive son of a miller in East Germany. His difficult family situation in his adoptive family and the challenges his family and others who owned small businesses faced at the hands of corrupt local communist officials is described in detail. Against the odds Wolfgang able to leave the mill, receive a college education, and rise to become a prominent scientist in East Germany.When the East German secret police (Stasi) tried to recruit him to help entrap visiting American scientists for espionage on East Germany’s behalf, Wolfgang was able to warn the Americans off without being arrested by the Stasi himself.When Wolfgang protested his denial to visit his terminally ill biological mother, though, he was imprisoned in secret service prisons where he did forced prison labor and endured protracted solitary confinement in a “tiger cage” for protesting his unsafe working conditions.Part Two of this book will detail how Wolfgang was eventually bought out of the East and his new life in the West as a statistician in North Carolina.This first person account of life and resistance in a surveillance state contains many pictures of life in East Germany. Extreme care has been taken to document Wolfgang’s story from official records released after German reunification.

Product Specifications

Format: paperback
ASIN: 1794037004
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Political
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 22 January 2019
Listed Since: 23 January 2019

Barcode

No barcode data available

Repeated Attempts of a Life

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia 2005

The Secret Police and the Revolution: The Fall of the German Democratic Republic

Resistance with the People: Repression and Resistance in Eastern Germany 1945–1955 (The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series)

Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia 2007

Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia (Hardcover)

The Miracle Years: A Cultural History of West Germany, 1949-1968

The Universe behind Barbed Wire: Memoirs of a Ukrainian Soviet Dissident: 26 (Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe)

The Lieutenant Reim Collection Set (Reim 1 - 5): An East German Spy Series

My Seven Lives: Jana Juráňová in Conversation with Agneša Kalinová

Im Umgang mit der Macht: Herrschaft und Selbstbehauptung in einem autoritären politischen System

Down Memory Lane: Peter Ellinger's Memoirs

Twenty Years On: Competing Memories of the GDR in Postunification German Culture (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)

Experience and Memory: The Second World War in Europe: v. 7 (Studies in Contemporary European History)

Ambiguous Memory: The Nazi Past and German National Identity

Zwischen Überwachung und Repression ― Politische Verfolgung in der DDR 1971 bis 1989: 5 (Am Ende des Realen Sozialismus, 5)

KGB Operations against the USA and Canada in Soviet Ukraine, 1953-1991 (Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe)

Love in the Time of Communism: Intimacy and Sexuality in the GDR

Pushing at Boundaries: Approaches to Contemporary German Women Writers from Karen Duve to Jenny Erpenbeck: 64 (German Monitor, 64)

East German Foreign Intelligence: Myth, Reality and Controversy (Studies in Intelligence)

Histories of the Aftermath: The Legacies of the Second World War in Europe

Carrying a Secret in My Heart: Children of the Victims of the Reprisals after the Hungarian Revolution in 1956 - An Oral History

Handbuch Zum Widerstand Gegen Nationalsozialismus Und Faschismus in Europa 1933/39 Bis 1945

First Class Comrades: The Stasi in the Cold War, 1945-1961

Philip Roth: American Pastoral, the Human Stain, the Plot Against America (Continuum Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction)