Böcker av Matt Dipalma

"She ambled into her cabin just as the landline vidphone chimed an incoming call. Nemara's left hand drew the glove from off her right, the hot, sticky plant sap blending with the sweat of her palm. "Her right hand reached out to tap the answer button on the phone, but never got there. "All sense of controlled motion in her body failed her. She slid into a drifting freefall that terminated sharply on the cold terrazzo floor." Dr. Nemara Mervyn had much to learn about Nineball, a distant planet on the edge of human-colonized space. As the planet's only xenobiologist, it was her job to determine whether crops could be safely grown there before any colonists actually arrived... but the Bushmen had other plans. Humans had not made official contact with the primitive intelligent species native to Nineball, and accidental contact with them had been lethal. That is, until a Bushman befriended Nemara and taught her their ways. Now, compelled to help a government agent locate a missing dignitary following a plane crash, Nemara must rely on her Bushman friends to locate the survivor and return her to safety before an assassin murders them all. If she fails, the resulting war might envelop all of human space, killing billions in the first week alone.

At once an examination of gender ideology in the Third Reich, a history of women in uniform as photographic theme, and an analysis of the functions of wartime photography, The Woman in My Uniform compiles original Third Reich photos of German women wearing men's military uniforms--often their husband's, boyfriend's, or family member's--nearly all never before published. Photography, especially portraiture, reveals the people and cultures they portray in immediate, intimate ways: these photos show a personal, often-amusing practice in one of the most oppressive regimes in human history. Prefacing the photos with a history of depictions of women in uniform, as well as an overview of the growth in popularity of photography in Germany both before and during the war, DiPalma's meticulous research offers context and insight into these original photographs.

"In every movie, every television show, every novel of wartime intrigue, one phrase stands out as typically German: 'Show me your papers.' The German Wehrmacht ran on paperwork, evidenced by the complicated maze of interrelated forms necessary for troops to move either on leave or for official business from one end of the Third Reich to another. This work, a unique and thorough compendium of original paperwork carried by the soldiers themselves, documents the forms required for German soldiers to travel, go home on leave, or visit the spoils of occupation. A methodically detailed collection that parallels the meticulous nature of the era that produced it, this work is the most thorough collection of original travel ephemera from Nazi Germany assembled to date, one that any collector would be proud to add to his or her collection"--Publisher description.