by Ernest Hemingway. Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway Summary and Analysis of Fathers and Sons. The narrator, 38-year-old Nick Adams, is driving through a small town with his son and admiring the fall scenery. It is farming and timber country, and Nick speculates where he would find coveys of quail in the thickets. Thinking about quail hunting reminds him of his father, who taught him to hunt and who has recently died.
Third Reich: Meaning third regime or empire, the Nazi designation of Germany and its regime from 1933-45. Historically, the First Reich was the medieval Holy Roman Empire, which lasted until 1806. The Second Reich included the German Empire from 1871-1918.
The Second Reich was Imperial Germany (1871-1918),  as unified by Bismarck in 1871.   Note. During the Weimar period (1919-33) the official name of  Germany was still Deutsches Reich..    ________     Hitler's regime was never officially known as the Third  Reich. The term was first discussed in 1923 by German historian  Arthur Moeller van den Bruck in his Book Das dritte Reich  (The Third Empire), which he hoped would soon come into beling.