Mary Platt Parmelle brings to life the history of Germany and it's rise to prominence in Europe. From scheming nobles to treaties created under the guise of peace, the reader is transported to the years before a cohesive group of city-states that became Germany. She shows us how the power of the Catholic church stoked the fires of revolution, and caused the great schism between the Catholic people and the newly forming Protestant sects. The book begins by discussing the origins of the Aryan race (framed as describing people of Indo-European heritage as a racial grouping, or distinctive race/sub-race of the Caucasians) and ends around 1871 when Germany was united after the fall of Napoleon.
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Keywords that describe the book: German, history, Protestant, Martin Luther, Kaiser, goths, central european, hessians
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edit: I cleaned up the template a bit. Part of the author's name was in the title field. Let me know if any other changes are needed. Do you want to advertise for a DPL? I'm tempted but would defer to anyone who offered.
Sorry I have been away from this for a few days, just recovering from being sick all week. I will keep an eye out for another DPL and I so appreciate your initial offer April.
Natalie/ VioletBleu
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"She believed she could, so she did"--R.S. Grey
laughingcat302 wrote: ↑September 13th, 2020, 10:41 am
Sorry I have been away from this for a few days, just recovering from being sick all week. I will keep an eye out for another DPL and I so appreciate your initial offer April.
The section titles will be truncated at the Archive.org site and on most mp3 players because of their length. I believe they will appear in full on the LV site when the book is "published." There's not much you can do about it but I wanted you to know. The section and chapter numbers appear to be identical so it will be easy for anyone to know which chapter they are listening to by looking at the file number.
craigdav1 wrote: ↑September 13th, 2020, 11:41 am
The section titles will be truncated at the Archive.org site and on most mp3 players because of their length. I believe they will appear in full on the LV site when the book is "published." There's not much you can do about it but I wanted you to know. The section and chapter numbers appear to be identical so it will be easy for anyone to know which chapter they are listening to by looking at the file number.
Thank you, I was wondering about that. Some of them are going to be like reading an entire paragraph just to list off all the people/places from the chapter! I also added a section for the Preface, that wasn't in my original submission. I hope that won't throw anything off.
Natalie
Violet Bleu
"She believed she could, so she did"--R.S. Grey
