This book could have started with "Once upon a time there was a Jewish boy who had a dream...." because it describes the life of a personality who was driven by a strong destiny, fueled by the discovery...

Die Menschwerdung Gottes bezieht sich nicht nur auf seine helle Seite, die für uns Christen in Jesus repräsentiert wird. Auch die dunkle Seite Gottes, für viele im Teufel manifest, wählt den Menschen...

A German Paradise in Texas – The Fate of German Emigrants to Texas in the 1840's is a gripping historical novel about the Germans who left their home country more than 150 years ago.False promises of...

Texas is well known to everyone as the setting for Indian tales and Wild West romances and most have also heard of the oil wells and sulfur pits, cattle herds, and cotton fields that secure it a place...

There are yet among us men and women who braved the dangers and hardships of a frontier life in order that we may be enjoying the advantages and wealth of the present. Some of these have not great wealth...

No longer a very young man, Philipp Wilhelm Sack, is discharged from Frederick the Great's army after battling and getting wounded fighting Napoleon. Before starting a new career in the government, he...

So many heroes have been lost to history and this book attempts to bring the reader's attention to two great men who by working in harmony were able to transform the fate of Prussia. Gertha von Dieckmann...

Anyone who is as fascinated about the era surrounding the establishment of the Republic of Texas as I am, will understand my excitement on discovering this book in German written in 1840. G.A. Scherpf...

'The Engelking Letters' is a collection of letters written by or pertaining to Ferdinand Friedrich Engelking 1810-1885.They tell their own story of the struggles of this early Texas pioneer who, despite...

Die Engelking Briefe enthält Briefe von und über Ferdinand Friedrich Engelking 1810-1885. Sie erzählen eine eigene Geschichte über die Schwierigkeiten und den Überlebenskampf des Texas-Pioniers. Er schaffte...