Sirius : the story of a little dog who changed the world / Jonathan Crown ; translated from the German by Jamie Searle Romanelli.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: German Publisher: London : Head of Zeus, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: 247 pages ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781784081997 (xtpb)Uniform titles: Sirius. English Subject(s): 1900-1999 | German fiction -- Translations into English | Historical fiction | Dogs -- Fiction | Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) - History - 20th century - Fiction | Berlin (Germany) - History - 1918-1945 - Fiction | California -- Los Angeles -- Hollywood | Germany -- Berlin | Berlin (Germany) -- History -- 1918-1945 -- Fiction | Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- FictionGenre/Form: Fiction. | History. | Historical fiction DDC classification: 823.92 LOC classification: PR6103Summary: Germany, 1938. In Berlin, his owners christened him Levi. A good Jewish dog with a good Jewish name. When they fled to America, he became Hercules. Star of the silver screen in Hollywood's golden age. Then he caught the eye of Hitler, who called him Hansi. A pure-bred lapdog; privy to all the Fuhrer's secrets. But he was known to the Resistance as Sirius. The insider who could bring peace to a world at war...Now it is time for his story to be told. SIRIUS: the little dog who almost changed history.
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Originally published in the German language as Sirius by Jonathan Crown in 2014 by Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne, Germany.
Germany, 1938. In Berlin, his owners christened him Levi. A good Jewish dog with a good Jewish name. When they fled to America, he became Hercules. Star of the silver screen in Hollywood's golden age. Then he caught the eye of Hitler, who called him Hansi. A pure-bred lapdog; privy to all the Fuhrer's secrets. But he was known to the Resistance as Sirius. The insider who could bring peace to a world at war...Now it is time for his story to be told. SIRIUS: the little dog who almost changed history.
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