Hans Raeder has woken up in a German military hospital in France. Nothing out of the ordinary after having been wounded in combat. The problem is, he's convinced he's an American pilot by the name of James O'Brady. Since he can't tell anyone—especially not Theo, the young pilot who idolizes him—Hans will have to find his own way of discovering who he really is...
Recovering his strength but still in search of himself, Hans Raeder finds his way from the Pacific to... England, where he joins the RAF. For him, it is an opportunity to fly back to Germany, where he soon regains his status as the Luftwaffe's ace pilot. But why is he no longer convinced by the Nazis' beliefs? What are these strange feelings he cannot seem to control? Before he can find answers, Hans learns of the Allied landings in Normandy and prepares to defend his country...
Hans Raeder lost both his father and his younger brother in 1918. To cope with the pain he, like Germany itself, takes refuge in fantasies—not only the fantasies of others, but also those of his own creation. In a country rebuilding itself on myths and deception, Hans is prepared to do anything to become the idol he worships: a fighter pilot... even if it means turning into a Nazi monster. What he doesn't realize is that his destiny is linked to another young pilot, on the other side of the Atlantic...
Whether he really is Hans Raeder, or whether he is in fact the young American pilot James O'Brady inside the German's body, Hans decides to accept himself as he is. But if James has taken over Hans's body, is the opposite also true? Is James's body inhabited by the spirit of Hans Raeder? And has he also accepted his fate, or is he trying to reverse it? It is time for both men to unravel the truth, and to choose their destinies once and for all. Their journey will take them to a remote island in the Pacific...
This innovative history argues that we can understand important facets of the Mexican Revolution by analyzing the architecture designed and built in Mexico City during the formative years from 1920 to 1940. These artifacts allow us to trace and understand the path of the consolidation of the Mexican Revolution. Each individual building or development, by providing indelible evidence of the process by which the revolution evolved into a government, offers important insights into Mexican history. Seen in aggregate, they reveal an ongoing urban process at work; seen as a "composition," they reveal changes over time in societal values and aspirations and in the direction of the revolution. This book focuses on structure, change, and process for this remarkable city "in the true image of the gigantic heaven." The changes described in Fuentes' narrative are man-made, not wrought by impersonal or natural forces except on the rare occasions of earthquake and flood. Patrice Elizabeth Olsen views Mexico City as an artifact of those who created it—representing their ardor, humanity, and religion, as well as their politics. Individual chapters detail the expression of revolutionary values and aims in the physical form of Mexico City's built environment between 1920 and 1940, examining direction and meaning in terms of who is given license to design and build structures in the capital city, and equally important, who is excluded. Through the reshaping of the capital the revolution was extended and institutionalized; physical traces of the process of negotiation that enabled the revolution to be "fixed" in the Mexican polity appear in the city's skyline, parks, housing developments, and other new construction, as well as in modifications to existing colonial-era buildings. In this manner, the author argues, Mexico City's urban form crystallized as a product of the revolution as well as a part of the revolutionary process, as it has been of other conquests throughout its history.
Thoroughly revised and updated, this foundational text provides the basic economic tools for students to understand the problems facing the countries of Latin America. In the fourth edition, Patrice Franko analyzes challenges to the neoliberal model of development and highlights recent macroeconomic changes in the region. Including charts and tables with the most current data available, the book also offers a wealth of new boxed discussions and vignettes.
Provides the basic economic tools for students to understand the problems in the countries of Latin America. This third edition analyzes challenges to the neoliberal model of development and highlights macroeconomic changes in the region. It explores the contradictions of growth, and focuses on factors of competitiveness.
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