How Long to Read Repeated Attempts of a Life

How Long Does it Take to Read Repeated Attempts of a Life?

It takes the average reader 8 hours and 21 minutes to read Repeated Attempts of a Life by Phillip K. Wood

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This is Part One of the exceptional life story of Wolfgang Harmann, an East German research scientist covering the period from his birth to imprisonment as a prisoner of conscience in East Germany. Based on his diary and extensive research, it is both personal biography and a literary Polaroid of life in the bipolar era of the totalitarian fascist and communist societies during his life at that time.The book begins by describing his early life and the hardships surrounding his abandonment at war's end and aftermath and goes on to describe his difficult life as the adoptive son of a miller in East Germany. His difficult family situation in his adoptive family and the challenges his family and others who owned small businesses faced at the hands of corrupt local communist officials is described in detail. Against the odds Wolfgang able to leave the mill, receive a college education, and rise to become a prominent scientist in East Germany.When the East German secret police (Stasi) tried to recruit him to help entrap visiting American scientists for espionage on East Germany's behalf, Wolfgang was able to warn the Americans off without being arrested by the Stasi himself.When Wolfgang protested his denial to visit his terminally ill biological mother, though, he was imprisoned in secret service prisons where he did forced prison labor and endured protracted solitary confinement in a "tiger cage" for protesting his unsafe working conditions.Part Two of this book will detail how Wolfgang was eventually bought out of the East and his new life in the West as a statistician in North Carolina.This first person account of life and resistance in a surveillance state contains many pictures of life in East Germany. Extreme care has been taken to document Wolfgang's story from official records released after German reunification.

How long is Repeated Attempts of a Life?

Repeated Attempts of a Life by Phillip K. Wood is 494 pages long, and a total of 125,476 words.

This makes it 167% the length of the average book. It also has 153% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Repeated Attempts of a Life Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 25 minutes to read Repeated Attempts of a Life aloud.

What Reading Level is Repeated Attempts of a Life?

Repeated Attempts of a Life is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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