Search results for ""Author Miller Caldwell""

Hilda Campbell was born in the north of Scotland in 1889. She married a German national, Dr. Willy Buntner Richter in 1912. They honeymooned in Scotland and lived in Hamburg. Dr. Richter died in 1938. Later that year she decided to visit her ailing parents in Scotland. 1938. After visiting her ailing parents, she returned to Germany just before the Second World War began. She became a double agent, controlled by Gerhard Eicke in Germany and Lawrence Thornton in Britain. How could she cope under the strain, with her son Otto in the German Army?Hilda went on to give evidence against her German handler at the Nuremburg trials. Soon after, she married a British Ambassador in Helsinki and joined her husband abroad. Hilda died in 1956.This is an extraordinary story based on the life of the author's great aunt, Hilda, including several authentic accounts.

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Billy Hansen was born with Polydactyly. He has extra fingers, twelve fingers instead of ten.His parents aren't wealthy, and they can't afford the expensive surgery to fix his hands, but they do love him and try their best to make him forget about his disability. But when he ties his shoelaces or holds his fork, those extra fingers always get in the way, making it difficult to forget.When Billy starts school, the other children make fun of him and call him names, which makes him feel sad and alone. But when Billy finds a piano in his classroom, he realises that he can use his extra fingers to his advantage.Can Billy defy the odds and become the piano player he dreams to be?

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