The Resource The miracle typist : the powerful true story of one soldier's long journey home, Leon Silver
The miracle typist : the powerful true story of one soldier's long journey home, Leon Silver
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The item The miracle typist : the powerful true story of one soldier's long journey home, Leon Silver represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City of Stirling Library Services.
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
- Summary
- Conscripted into the Polish army as Hitler's ground and air forces are bearing down on his country, Jewish soldier Tolek Klings vows to return to his wife, Klara, and son, Juliusz. However, when the Luftwaffe's bombs start falling and the Polish cause looks hopelessly lost, Tolek finds himself under fire from his supposed brothers in arms. The Polish army is rife with anti-Semitism and he is relentlessly tormented. As the Germans cross the border, he is faced with a terrible dilemma: flee to protect his family - and risk being shot as a deserter - or ride out the war, hoping rumours of women and children being spared in the concentration camps are true. What follows is an odyssey that will take Tolek from a Hungarian internment camp, where his ability to type spares him from the frontline, on to Palestine, Beirut, Egypt, Tobruk and Italy. A broken telegram from Klara, ending with the haunting words, 'We trouble', pushes him to the brink
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xii, 320 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781760854355
- Label
- The miracle typist : the powerful true story of one soldier's long journey home
- Title
- The miracle typist
- Title remainder
- the powerful true story of one soldier's long journey home
- Statement of responsibility
- Leon Silver
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Conscripted into the Polish army as Hitler's ground and air forces are bearing down on his country, Jewish soldier Tolek Klings vows to return to his wife, Klara, and son, Juliusz. However, when the Luftwaffe's bombs start falling and the Polish cause looks hopelessly lost, Tolek finds himself under fire from his supposed brothers in arms. The Polish army is rife with anti-Semitism and he is relentlessly tormented. As the Germans cross the border, he is faced with a terrible dilemma: flee to protect his family - and risk being shot as a deserter - or ride out the war, hoping rumours of women and children being spared in the concentration camps are true. What follows is an odyssey that will take Tolek from a Hungarian internment camp, where his ability to type spares him from the frontline, on to Palestine, Beirut, Egypt, Tobruk and Italy. A broken telegram from Klara, ending with the haunting words, 'We trouble', pushes him to the brink
- Biography type
- individual biography
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1941-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Silver, Leon
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- portraits
- plates
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Klings, Tolek
- Klings family
- Jewish soldiers
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945
- Jews
- Antisemitism
- Jews, Polish
- World War, 1939-1945
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The miracle typist : the powerful true story of one soldier's long journey home, Leon Silver
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
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- text
- still image
- Content type code
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- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
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- rdacontent.
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- p2251582856
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xii, 320 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781760854355
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, map, portraits (some colour)
- Label
- The miracle typist : the powerful true story of one soldier's long journey home, Leon Silver
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent.
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- p2251582856
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xii, 320 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781760854355
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, map, portraits (some colour)
Subject
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland
- Jewish soldiers -- Biography
- Jews -- Persecutions
- Jews, Polish -- Biography
- Klings family
- Klings, Tolek
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish
- Antisemitism
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Poland
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish
- Biographies
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