Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1455 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: What's in a Name Author: Thomas Cook Narrator: Paul Boehmer Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr Language: English Release date: 01-30-14 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical Publisher's Summary: Fifty years after the signing of the Armistice Treaty, amateur historian and rare book collector Franklin Altmans native city of Berlin stands in dilapidated contrast to the Manhattan of the victorious United States. A series of financial and familial blessings post WWI allowed him the luxury of retreat from his native country to America, where he changed his name from Ziegfried to Altman and thus secured a position among New Yorks intellectuals. On the evening of November 11th, 1968, a talk by Altman in honor of the anniversary of the Armistice Treaty takes a dark turn upon the haunting arrival of a classmate from his past. It becomes clear as the two men discuss their lives after the Realschule that they are two sides of the same coin: both born and raised in Germany with a melancholy adoration of the homeland, but whereas Altmans role in the war elevated his position, his comrades life was destroyed on the faceless, mechanized battlefields. This strange encounter leaves Altman in possession of the mans personal manuscript, his mysterious lifes work, whose contents could have changed the course of history. Thomas H. Cooks re-imagined history of the dangerously spinning maelstrom of post WWI is a contemplation on mans ability to affect the world around him and brings to light the delicate relationship between circumstance, individual action, and destiny.
