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It hasn’t been (and probably won’t be) translated in German, but here is a link.
The author is also active on Facebook and shares a lot of information there.
*Paramedic to the Prince" is also illuminating.
https://www.amazon.com/Paramedic-Prince-American-Paramedics-Mysterious-ebook/dp/B004H8G5FA
"Let's say," I suggest to him, "that it's like in Afghanistan when you were fighting the Russians, and you run up and fight and you're killed, and it was a jihad so you go to heaven, like the best place, the best level of heaven?"
"Right," he says, "yes."
"And," I say, "you get 72 virgins."
"Yes."
"You really believe that?"
"Of course," he says, "if it is in the Quran, it is so."
"So what do the girls get?"
"What?" He looks bewildered.
"Just last week, that 28-year-old Palestinian girl blew herself up in Nablus, on the west bank of Israel. What will she get? Will she get the best place?"
"I suppose so."
"What about the virgins? Does she get 72 husbands?"
"No!"
"Well, she's getting ripped off, then."
warning: the above link, thanks to dubious design choices by Amazon, will flip all amazon interactions to Spanish. If you don't speak Spanish, this might be inconvenient.
This might be less destructive:
To this day, I'm shocked that I made it past the pilot with this little gem.
I think my disgust with the show came from the fact that it premiered a month before I graduated with my undergrad. I'd been trying to figure out what the next step for me was going to be, and here's this character who has the balls to ask her parents to put her up in Brooklyn.
The sense of entitlement reminds me of Wallis Simpson. Fun history fact: she and Edward VIII (the one who abdicated 325 days after he became king of England) had a home in Nice, France. In 1940, she and David (he was called David by his family and close friends) were about to sail to Bermuda from Portugal, where he was going to be installed as the governor (this was basically to get him away from Europe). She had left her favorite swimsuit at their Nice house and didn't want to go to Bermuda without it. American agents and diplomats were sent to France (look at the date; shit was kinda crazy in France at the time) to deliver her swimsuit. The Americans privately called it "Operation Cleopatra's Whim." Read about it in this book.
Anyway, yeah. I couldn't stomach the spoiled brattiness of the show.
This is about my football team, Leicester City!
Lots of people are talking about them because they are one more win away from winning the English Premier League. Their story is special because the club is not super rich and many of their players came from the lower leagues. Everybody expected the team to finish last this year, but against all the odds (5000-1) they are on the cusp of one of the greatest sporting achievements of all time.
The story is even more incredible because they were bottom of the league for the majority of last season until they suddenly started winning, avoiding relegation.
In 2012, King Richard III's remains were discovered underneath a car park in Leicester, and he was given a public, televised reburial at Leicester Cathedral in March 2015... One week later, the hopeless Leicester team started winning football matches! This has led many people to connect Richard's peaceful resting place with Leicester's incredible change of fortunes. And the story is made extra spooky because in 2011 our new Thai owners changed the name of Leicester's football stadium and shirt sponsor to the name of their duty-free company: "King Power."
Everyone's talking about Leicester in the UK so I guess Colin is interested in the story too. He tweeted the back cover of a book about Leicester City, which pertains to be written by the dead king himself: http://www.amazon.co.uk/King-Power-Leicester-Remarkable-Season-ebook/dp/B01E58VPIS
Best historical fiction I've found was I, the Sun by Janet Morris. Incredible amount of research and very well written.
It's a terrible conspiracy, and they should be ashamed of themselves.
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman is a great book, if you're interested! I need to get his other books on the family.
Catherine the Great has a number of good biographies on her, Amazon should be able to list a few. Her reign and most of her life are well documented. I liked this one. Vlad the Impaler might be a little more difficult, I've never looked though.
Well, in any case here's a link to where you can get the kindle version:
And here's the paperback version:
Seems like an interesting book, I'll have to give it a go.