The language of thieves : my family's obsession with a secret code the Nazis tried to eliminate
Item details
- ISBN: 9781324005919
- ISBN: 1324005912
- ISBN: 9781324005926
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Physical Description:
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278 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2020]
Contents / Notes
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-259) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: Language Games -- Camouflage Names -- The Book of Vagrants -- A Picture Comes into View -- The Rotwelsch Inheritance -- The King of the Tramps -- The Farmer and the Judge -- An Attic in Prague -- When Jesus Spoke Rotwelsch -- Igpay Atinlay for Adults -- The Story of an Archivist -- Judgment at Hikels-Mokum -- Error-Spangled Banner -- Your Grandfather Would Have Been Proud of You -- Rotwelsch in America -- The Laughter of a Yenish Chief. |
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Genre: | Biographies. Autobiographies. Biographies. History. |
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Flint River Regional Library System: Peachtree City Library |
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