Beon Yves (33 results)

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Softcover. Condition: Très bon. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Very good. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

Softcover. Condition: Très bon. Ancien livre de bibliothèque. Petite(s) trace(s) de pliure sur la couverture. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Very good. Former library book. Slightly creased cover. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardcover in dust jacket. No names, underlining, notes or highlighting. f6.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No DJ. Marble paperboards with black spine has some shelf wear. Pages are bright and unmarked, good binding.

Softcover. Condition: Très bon. Ancien livre de bibliothèque avec équipements. Edition 2003. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Very good. Former library book. Edition 2003. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations. …

Softbound. Condition: Very Good. Octavo, glossy paper covers, xxxviii, 250 pp., map, b/w photos.

Condition: Very Good. Envoi rapide Très Bon Etat. in8. 2003. Broché. 110 pages. Very Good.

Trade paperback. Condition: Very good. Second Printing [stated]. xxviii, [10], 250, [2] pages. Sticker residue on back cover. An extraordinary memoir by a survivor of the Nazi camps, Yves Béon. Planet Dora is a recollection of life and death in a concentration camp like no other. Dora was a cavernous underground factory cut out of solid rock, where thousands of prisoners beaten, starved, killed, and living underground for weeks at a time. The purpose of all this brutality was to build the world's first operational rockets: the V-1 and V-2 missiles, Hitler's vengeance weapons. Some of Germany's most brilliant engineers were involved with production at Dora, including Werner von Braun, who after the war went on to become the father of the American space program. It was his Saturn V rocket, designed with the help of his wartime comrades, that put the first man on the moon; while the Saturn V project was headed by the same man who had been the director of slave labor in Dora. In fact, some of the very rockets built in Dora were packed up after the war and shipped to New Mexico to serve as the seeds of the U.S. space program. The greatest technological achievement of the twentieth century had its origins in the enslavement and murder of thousands of innocent people, the down payment of a Faustian bargain that still tarnishes the foundation of our reach for the stars. Yves Beon, a slave laborer forced to build V1 and V2 rockets, discusses his former German masters who went on to run the NASA space project. A memoir by Yves Beon, a 71-year-old retired shipping merchant from Brittany, is about to challenge one of the United States' most powerful myths - the glorious record of a national space program that reaches to the stars and put man on the moon. The American edition of his book is a raw account of death and survival in the Dora concentration camp. In the 20 months before it was liberated, an estimated 20,000 prisoners drafted in from nearby Buchenwald perished in atrocious conditions at the underground Mittelbau-Dora camp, the only SS camp formed explicitly for weapons production. The V2's technical director, SS officer Wernher von Braun, led the Saturn booster programme for NASA. From Dora, where a third of inmates died of disease, exhaustion or were brutally killed, von Braun visited Buchenwald to select more inmates to work on the ballistic missile. Arthur Rudolph, production manager at Dora and Nazi party member as early as 1931, became manager of the Saturn V launch vehicle. He finally fled back to Germany rather than face a denaturalization hearing in the US in 1984. Michael Neufeld, curator of world war two history at the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, has written that Rudolph "was not just the manager of slave labor but also an advocate of it". Another former SS member, Kurt Debus, was director of the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. The whitewashing of the Nazi issue continued long after the official end of Operation Paperclip. In his introduction to Planet Dora, Neufeld explains how an East German expose of von Braun's SS record and links to Dora in the early 1960s were ignored by the US press. "Only the efforts of French and Belgian Dora survivors in the late 1960s and 1970s brought this suppressed history back to light,'' he writes. Beon is discovering how different the perspective can be across the Atlantic. "The American edition of Planet Dora uses the word Nazis throughout - I only used Germans because that is who I was fighting. The US entered the war to fight the Nazis,'' he says. "On the jacket, they call the book a memoir of the Holocaust. Here, that means the mass murder of Jews - perhaps it's broader in the US." At Dora, there were no Jews as such, says Beon, who was imprisoned for activities in the French Resistance. But the biggest gulf is that between Beon's view of Dora scientists and the American view of the same men. "Our Dora prisoners' association has fought constantly but it's difficult because von Braun is a hero in the US - I went. Alvin Gilens (Cover Art) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: VERY GOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: VERY GOOD. Inscribed by author; 298 clean, unmarked, tight pages in GERMAN; cover is clean and sturdy; very light shelf and corner wear on dust jacket.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

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Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Français, couverture souple, moyen état, des dommages à et les petites taches sur la couverture, 283 pages.

Condition: Very Good. Review copy. Some pencil notes on inside front page. Encased in plastic dust jacket. Pre-loved books in generally excellent condition. May have minor scuffs consistent with shelf wear. Pages are neat and clean, free from underlining, highlighting and other forms of annotation. Sold by the U.K Charity Kisharon Langdon. Offering Opportunities and Support for People within the Autism and Learning Disability Community. …

Condition: acceptable. Ausreichend/Acceptable: Exemplar mit vollständigem Text und sämtlichen Abbildungen oder Karten. Schmutztitel oder Vorsatz können fehlen. Einband bzw. Schutzumschlag weisen unter Umständen starke Gebrauchsspuren auf. / Describes a book or dust jacket that has the complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc. (which must be noted). Binding, dust jacket (if any), etc may also be worn.…

Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. 1st ed. 250p. Photos. In mylar. Jacket priced. Fine/Fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. DJ in archival cover. with a full number line staring with 1.

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Hardcover. Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo.pp. 287. ISBN:2-02-008-6824. Signed presentation copy: "To Reg Lewis, member of the RAF E. S. One day you landed in France, just for a quick visit to your French friends Ðand now it's our turn to pay you a visit. Between these two dates, a Sejour at Dora took place Ðit was nice to meet you. All the best. Yves Beon. 16.6.89." Neat name in pencil on front end paper of Reg Lewis. Loosely inserted House of Commons Menu Card for a dinner held for the political prisoners of the resistance at Dora/Ellrich, June 1989. Handwritten notes in French cover the front of the invitation. World War Two. An autobiographical account of the Nazi concentration camp 'Dora,' cousin to Buchenwald. The author was 28 years old when he was arrested for acts of resistance and transported to Dora on the 13th of March 1944. Original publishers glossy white card binding in red, lettered black, featuring an abstract painting. Very good. Signedes.…

Condition: Used: Acceptable. Occasion - Etat Correct - Ancien livre de Bibliothèque - La planète dora (1985) - Grand Format.

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. RO20206093: 2003. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 110 pages. . . . Classification Dewey : 940.53-Seconde Guerre mondiale 1939-1945.

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. RO20205132: 2003. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 110 pages. . . . Classification Dewey : 840.092-XXI ème siècle.

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. RO20204155: 2003. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 110 pages. . . . Classification Dewey : 840.092-XXI ème siècle.

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. R160184031: 1985. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 281 Pages. . . . Classification Dewey : 843.083-Le roman social, psychologique, réaliste.

1st edition dust jacket Fine octavo xxviii + 250pp., b/w pls., maps, glossary, Account of the slave labour camp under the earth in Thuringen, in which the V2 rocket, the Genesis of the US Space program was developed. The head of slave labour at the camp going on to head the Saturn V project.

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. R240101751: 1985. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 283 pages - envoi de l'auteur sur la page de faux titre - 2 photos disponibles. . . . Classification Dewey : 97.2-Dédicace, envoi.

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. R160061200: 1985. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 283 pages; envoi de l'auteur sur page de faux titre. . . . Classification Dewey : 940.53-Seconde Guerre mondiale 1939-1945.