Résultats pour "Hansen" dans Historiques

Neil Hansen began his aviation career as a pilot for Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa. He spent more than a decade in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War as a captain for Air America, the CIA's airline that operated there during the Vietnam era and the Secret War in Laos. Neil reveled in the risky flying that fed his adrenaline addiction. Upon returning to the States, ultimately unable to find work and unable to let go of the Air America exhilaration rush, he saw the profession he loved come to an end when his trajectory veered off course.

Lane Evans was arguably one of the most progressive members of the US Congress during his 12-term tenure in a Midwestern swing district. In Guts: The Lane Evans Story, author Devin Hansen explores Lane's career as a man who had the guts to vote his conscience rather than what was politically expedient.

Venstre-manden Uffe Ellemann-Jensen er en af dansk politiks mest kendte figurer. Han gjorde kometkarriere på Christiansborg og befandt sig allerede få år efter sin indtræden i Folketinget i toppen af sit partis hierarki. Som udenrigsminister markerede han sig især som forgangsmand ved at byde nye østlande velkomne i det europæiske fællesskab. Uffe Ellemann-Jensen er også en politiker, der til tider har været meget udskældt. Han er rekordindehaver af politiske ’næser’, dvs.

Brunhilde Pomsel described herself as an 'apolitical girl' and a 'figure on the margins', but, employed as a stenographer during the Second World War, she worked closely with one of the worst criminals in world history: Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. She was one of the oldest surviving eyewitnesses to the internal workings of the Nazi power apparatus until her death in 2017.

"Jeg husker det, som var det i går. Vi sad inde i stuen, som vi altid gjorde om vinteren, og jeg spurgte, om han nogensinde havde skudt en mand. "Ja, én," svarede han. "Nej, har du?!" råbte jeg ivrigt. "Hvordan ved du, at det var dig, der skød ham?" "Jo, for jeg sigtede på ham." "Næh. Var det sådan, at enten gjaldt det ham eller dig, at hvis du ikke havde ramt ham, havde han skudt dig?" Jeg sad på hans skød med armene om hans hals og hoppede af iver, men pludselig tabte han besindelse og råbte op.

How does a man become a monster? This isn’t just a book about Hitler — it’s a psychological descent. How a Man Becomes a Monster: The Rise of Adolf Hitler is an, unflinching examination of the 20th century’s most infamous figure — not as a caricature of evil, but as a man who was broken, angry, and shaped by a world willing to listen to his rage. From childhood trauma to art school rejection, from the trenches of World War I to the gas chambers of Auschwitz, this book follows the slow transformation of Adolf Hitler with brutal clarity. It doesn’t just tell you what he did.