The Watchmakers

Author : Harry Lenga
Publisher : Citadel Press
ISBN 13 : 0806541938
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Watchmakers written by Harry Lenga and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2022 National Jewish Book Award Finalist “Inspiring. Exhilarating. Astonishing. An epic tale of brotherhood, ingenuity, and survival.” —Heather Dune Macadam, International Bestselling author of 999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz Told through meticulous interviews with his son, this is an extraordinary memoir of endurance, faith, and a unique skill that kept three brothers together—and alive—during the darkest times of World War II. “A truly extraordinary book.” —Damien Lewis, #1 international bestselling author Harry Lenga was born to a family of Chassidic Jews in Kozhnitz, Poland. The proud sons of a watchmaker, Harry and his two brothers, Mailekh and Moishe, studied their father’s trade at a young age. Upon the German invasion of Poland, when the Lenga family was upended, Harry and his brothers never anticipated that the tools acquired from their father would be the key to their survival. Under the most devastating conditions imaginable—with death always imminent—fixing watches for the Germans in the ghettos and brutal slave labor camps of occupied Poland and Austria bought their lives over and over again. From Wolanow and Starachowice to Auschwitz and Ebensee, Harry, Mailekh, and Moishe endured, bartered, worked, prayed, and lived to see liberation. Derived from more than a decade of interviews with Harry Lenga, conducted by his own son Scott and others, The Watchmakers is Harry’s heartening and unflinchingly honest first-person account of his childhood, the lessons learned from his own father, his harrowing tribulations, and his inspiring life before, during, and after the war. It is a singular and vital story, told from one generation to the next—and a profoundly moving tribute to brotherhood, fatherhood, family, and faith. “Deeply moving.” —Jesse Kellerman, bestselling author “Vivid and compelling.” —Christopher R. Browning, Frank Porter Graham Professor of History Emeritus, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and author of Ordinary Men

Author : Technical College of the Vallee de Joux
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782940025497
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Theory of Horology written by Technical College of the Vallee de Joux and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : C. J. Archer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781922554574
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Watchmaker's Daughter written by C. J. Archer and published by . This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India Steele is desperate. Her father is dead, her fiancé took her inheritance, and no one will employ her, despite years working for her watchmaker father. Indeed, the other London watchmakers seem frightened of her. Alone, poor, and at the end of her tether, India takes employment with the only person who'll accept her - an enigmatic and mysterious man from America. A man who possesses a strange watch that rejuvenates him when he's ill. Matthew Glass must find a particular watchmaker, but he won't tell India why any old one won't do. Nor will he tell her what he does back home, and how he can afford to stay in a house in one of London's best streets. So when she reads about an American outlaw known as the Dark Rider arriving in England, she suspects Mr. Glass is the fugitive. When danger comes to their door, she's certain of it. But if she notifies the authorities, she'll find herself unemployed and homeless again - and she will have betrayed the man who saved her life. With a cast of quirky characters, an intriguing mystery, and a dash of romance, THE WATCHMAKER'S DAUGHTER is the start of a thrilling new historical fantasy series from the author of the bestselling Ministry of Curiosities, Freak House, and Emily Chambers Spirit Medium books.

Author : G. H. Baillie
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1447496019
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World written by G. H. Baillie and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World” is a comprehensive reference book of the most notable makers of clocks and watches in the world at the time when this book was first published. It is presented as a series of lists, each containing different information pertaining to the industry and the main companies involved in the manufacture of timepieces. Contents Include: “Conventions Abbreviations”, “List of Names with Alternative Spellings”, “List of Watch and Clockmakers”, “List of Initials and Monograms”, “List of Place Names”, “Maps”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on clockmaking.

Author : Sonia Taitz
Publisher : McWitty PressInc
ISBN 13 : 9780975561881
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Watchmaker's Daughter written by Sonia Taitz and published by McWitty PressInc. This book was released on 2012 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Watchmaker's Daughter tells the story of a child of two refugees: a watchmaker who saved lives within Dachau prison, and his wife, a gifted concert pianist about to make her debut when the Nazis seized power. In this memoir, Sonia Taitz is born into a world in which the Holocaust is discussed constantly by her insular concentration camp-surviving parents. This legacy, combined with Sonia's passion and intelligence, leads the author to forge an adventurous life in which she seeks to heal both her parents and herself through travel, achievement, and a daring love affair. Ironically, it is her marriage to a non-Jew that brings her parents the peace and fulfillment they would never have imagined possible. Sonia manages to combine her own independence with a tender dutifulness, honoring her parents' legacy while forging a new family of her own.

Author : George Daniels
Publisher : Philip Wilson Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780856677045
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Watchmaking written by George Daniels and published by Philip Wilson Publishers. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first and most comprehensive step-by-step guide on the subject, Watchmaking has become a classic in its own right. This new edition is updated to include a new section which discusses and illustrates a variety of the author's own watches. The author's principal aim in writing this book has been to inspire and encourage the art of watchmaking, especially among a new generation of enthusiasts. The making of the precision timekeeper is described, step by step, and is illustrated at each stage with line drawings and brief explanatory captions. Great care has been taken to ensure the text is easy to follow and to avoid complicated technical descriptions.

Author : G M T. SCHUILLING
Publisher : Authorhouse UK
ISBN 13 : 9781546291114
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Watchmaker's Doctor written by G M T. SCHUILLING and published by Authorhouse UK. This book was released on 2018-04 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anaya, a disillusioned thirty-five-year-old doctor, has been looking after Gregory, a retired watchmaker and resident of an aged care facility. On her last visit, he gifts her his final creation, an exquisitely crafted watch, knowing she will die tragically that very day. What he doesnt reveal is that it will turn back time, with one condition: she must choose the time and place to reset the clock and redo just one thing in her life. Regrets, it seems, are easy to realize when youre dying or trying to stop it from happening. But what if, after one small change, her life would become much worse than it was? Or if this one decision shed made was meant to be? Would changing her course lead her to be punished in other unimaginable ways? When the alternative is to die now, her choice makes itself. And so Anayas story begins with her last thought. Would she have done this if she had any option but the grave? Would you?

Author : Natasha Pulley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620408333
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Watchmaker of Filigree Street written by Natasha Pulley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1884, Thaniel Steepleton returns home to his London apartment to find a new watch on his pillow. But he has bigger things to worry about than generous burglars; he is a telegraphist at the Home Office, where he has just received a bomb threat. Six months later, the watch saves his life, warning him of a blast that destroys Scotland Yard. At last, he goes in search of its maker. Keita Mori, the artisan behind the mysterious watch, is a Japanese immigrant who remembers the future. Mori and Thaniel bond quickly, and as their friendship deepens, Mori uses his gift to tweak Thaniel's daily life in his favor. But then Grace Carrow, an Oxford physicist attracted to the telegraphist's refreshingly direct nature, unwittingly interferes. Soon, events spiral beyond Thaniel's control, and nothing is certain-not the present, and definitely not the future. The Watchmaker of Filigree Street is a sweeping, atmospheric narrative that takes the reader on an unexpected journey through Victorian London, Japan as its civil war crumbles long-standing traditions, and beyond. It breathes a new authenticity into the era of Sherlock Holmes, exploring historical moments in a new light-as well as the prevailing social and scientific views of the age-and plays speculatively with time and destiny, ushering in a new kind of magic.

Author : Michael Clerizo
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0500514852
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Masters of Contemporary Watchmaking written by Michael Clerizo and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009-11-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminates the craftsmanship and ingenuity of contemporary craft watchmaking. The advent of quartz technology had a huge effect on traditional watchmaking. In Switzerland, in the 1970s, tens of thousands lost their jobs in the watch industry, and for a time it looked as if a 500-year-long tradition of skills would be lost forever. Today, against the odds, artist craftsmen have triumphantly brought about the renaissance of the mechanical handmade watch. The aesthetic agenda is being set by a group of remarkable independents. This book tells their story, and it is beautifully illustrated with hundreds of examples of their virtuoso work. Here is George Daniels, who systematically set out to surpass the skills of the most celebrated watchmaker of all time, Abraham Louis Breguet. Daniels, the world’s most renowned watchmaker, has even improved upon those eighteenth-century skills by inventing a lever escapement requiring no lubrication. Svend Andersen (Denmark), Vincent Calabrese (Italy), Alain Silberstein and Vianney Halter (France), Aniceto Jiménez Pita (Spain), Marco Lang (Germany), Philippe Dufour, Antoine Preziuso, and Franck Muller (Switzerland), and Roger Smith (England) are among the other participants. In addition to the major interviews, other craftsmen and workshops from Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Holland, Finland, Ireland, and Hungary are introduced and illustrated.

Author : Claudius Saunier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.5D/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Watchmakers' Handbook written by Claudius Saunier and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: