audiobook Secret Cures of Slaves: People; Plants; and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World by Londa Schiebinger in History

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The story of a young boy who escaped Hitler and the Holocaust—and lived happily ever after. Escaping Hitler is the true story; covering ninety years; of Günter Stern who; at fourteen; when Adolf Hitler threatened his family; education; and future; resolved to escape from his rural village of Nickenich in the German Rhineland. In July 1939; Günter boarded a bus to the border of Luxembourg; illegally crossed the river; and walked alone for seven days through Belgium and into Holland. He was intent on catching a ferry to England and freedom; but the outcome of his journey was not exactly as he had planned. Scrivens gathered her information through interviews with Günter; now known as Joe Stirling; and with those closest to him. During an emotional ‘foot-stepping’ journey in September 2013; Scrivens also visited Günter’s birthplace; met with a school friend; discovered the apartment in Koblenz where he fled following Kristallnacht in 1938; drove the route of Günter’s walk through Europe; and retraced the final steps of his parents prior to their deportation to a Nazi death camp in Poland during 1942. Skyhorse Publishing; along with our Arcade; Good Books; Sports Publishing; and Yucca imprints; is proud to publish a broad range of biographies; autobiographies; and memoirs. Our list includes biographies on well-known historical figures like Benjamin Franklin; Nelson Mandela; and Alexander Graham Bell; as well as villains from history; such as Heinrich Himmler; John Wayne Gacy; and O. J. Simpson. We have also published survivor stories of World War II; memoirs about overcoming adversity; first-hand tales of adventure; and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller; we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.