The Teacher E-Book

Stefano Carloni

• Herausgeber: Youcanprint
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

Germany, Autumn 1945. Fausto Tancredi, a young teacher in history of philosophy, an Italian-American of Jewish descent, is chosen by the State Department to re-educate a group of young Germans imprisoned in a castle in the Black Forest. He will have to face the contempt of the guys, the distrust of a rude US Army major, and the more insidious enemy: the difficulty in reconciling the duty to remember with the need for a forgiveness that opens the doors of the future to a whole people.

Leseprobe

INDEX

Day One

Day Two

Day Three

Day Four

Historical-biographical Notes

Stefano Carloni

Titolo | The Teacher

Autore | Stefano Carloni

ISBN | 9791221402223

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Day One

Germany, November 7, 1945

I awake with a jolt. “An air pocket”, I think as I look out the window. The Black Forest stretches below the Douglas C-47 Skytrain. We're about to land in Stuttgart, now under control of the US Army, as well as the rest of West Germany. After all, this part of the trip was short and comfortable, less than two hours. Much shorter and comfortable than the trip from New York to London, on a C-54 Skymaster streaking at top speed: that airborne giant, capable of carrying up to 50 soldiers and 5,200 kg of cargo, brought me as the only passenger, for sixteen hours, from one side of the Atlantic to the other. While I rest back in my seat, I think back to the events that led me to become the most important payload in the history of the United States Air Force, with the exclusion of Little Boy...

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Washington, State Department, November 5, 1945

The Vice Secretary of State had thoroughly cleaned his glasses before speaking to me: “Mr. Tancredi, you are certainly well aware of the esteem and gratitude the US government has for you, acknowledged by, among other things, your speedy granting of US citizenship ...”

“With all due respect, Mr. Vice Secretary” I cut him short, clearing my voice, “I don’t think you brought me here from Tucson with an escort worthy of a head of state just to renew the gratitude of your government for the ‘Constantine’ affair …”