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Fatherland

A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets

By: Burkhard Bilger

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Fatherland

A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets

By: Burkhard Bilger

A New Yorker staff writer investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in “a finely etched memoir with the powerful sweep of history” (David Grann, #1 bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon) “Fatherland maintains the momentum of the best mysteries and a commendable balance.”—The New York Times “Unflinching and illuminating . . . Bilger’s haunting memoir reminds us, the past is prologue to who we are, as well as who we choose to be.”—The Wall Street Journal A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Kirkus Reviews One spring day in northeastern France, Burkhard Bilger’s mother went to the town of Bartenheim, where her father was posted during the Second World War. As a historian, she had spent years studying the German occupation of France, yet she had never dared to investigate her own family’s role in it. She knew only that her father was a schoolteacher who was sent to Bartenheim in 1940 and ordered to reeducate its children—to turn them into proper Germans, as Hitler demanded. Two years later, he became the town’s Nazi Party chief. There was little left from her father’s era by the time she visited. But on her way back to her car, she noticed an old man walking nearby. He looked about the same age her father would have been if he was still alive. She hurried over to introduce herself and told him her father’s name, Karl Gönner. “Do you happen to remember him?” she said. The man stared at her, dumbstruck. “Well, of course!” he said. “I saved his life, didn’t I?” Fatherland is the story behind that story—the riveting account of Bilger’s nearly ten-year quest to uncover the truth about his grandfather. Was he guilty or innocent, a war criminal or a man who risked his life to shield the villagers? Long admired for his profiles in The New Yorker, Bilger brings the same open-hearted curiosity to his family history and the questions it raises: What do we owe the past? How can we make peace with it without perpetuating its wrongs?

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Fatherland

A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets

By: Burkhard Bilger

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Noodling for Flatheads

Moonshine, Monster Catfish, and Other Southern Com

By: Burkhard Bilger

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Noodling for Flatheads

Moonshine, Monster Catfish, and Other Southern Com

By: Burkhard Bilger

The Old South is slow to give up its secrets. Though satellite dishes outnumber banjo players a thousand to one, most traditions haven't died; they've just gone into hiding. Cockfighting is illegal in forty-eight states, yet there are three national cockfighting magazines and cockpits in even the most tranquil communities. Homemade liquor has been outlawed for more than a century, yet moonshiners in Virginia still ship nearly one million gallons a year. Some of these pastimes are ancient, others ultramodern; some are illegal, others merely obscure. But the people who practice them share an undeniable kinship. Instead of wealth, promotion, or a few seconds of prime time, they follow dreams that lead them ever deeper underground. They are reminders, ultimately, that American culture isn't as predictable as it seems-that the weeds growing between its cracks are its most vital signs of life. In these masterfully crafted essays, Burkhard Bilger explores the history and practice of eight such clandestine worlds. Like John McPhee and Ian Frazier, he introduces us to people whose spirit of individualism keeps traditions alive, from a fifty-something female coon hunter who spends 340 nights a year in the woods to a visionary frog farmer and a man whose arms are scarred by the eighty-pound catfish he catches by hand. A fluid combination of adventure, history, and humor, Noodling for Flatheads is evocative, intelligent, and wonder-fully weird-a splendid antidote to the sameness of today's popular culture.

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Simon and Schuster

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0743205642

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Noodling for Flatheads

Moonshine, Monster Catfish, and Other Southern Com

By: Burkhard Bilger

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Environmental Awareness Case Studies

By: Burkhard Bilger,Robert F. Ehrhardt,Gloria J. Dyer

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Environmental Awareness Case Studies

By: Burkhard Bilger,Robert F. Ehrhardt,Gloria J. Dyer

The case studies in this book deal with issues that hinge upon the wise use and protection of Earth's environment. You are well aware of how important decisions about environmental issues can be. You also may be aware of just how "complicated" those decisions can be. Taking an educated position on environmental issues requires getting the facts, evaluating what you are being told, and thinking critically about all points of view. [This book is] designed to help you dig deeper into areas of environmental concern. The features in each case study should help you analyze the problems and decide on possible solutions. -Becoming environmentally aware.

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D C Heath & Company

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066930820X

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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2001

By: Edward O. Wilson,Burkhard Bilger

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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2001

By: Edward O. Wilson,Burkhard Bilger

Collects nature- and science-based essays by such authors as Anne Fadiman, Brian Hayes, Cullen Murphy, and Gary Taubes.

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Mariner Books

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0618153594

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