Author: Marcus Clark
Publisher: DOWNLOAD eBOOKS
ISBN: 0980421942
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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EXIT VISA is a factual novel about the aftermath of the Vietnam war, a vivid and gripping narrative, it chronicles the horrors experienced by those who fled after the fall of Saigon We have all seen movies about Vietnam. But have you ever noticed, none of them tell you what happened when the war ended? What happened to the population when the communists took over? Why did hundreds of thousands of people flee? What happened in Kampuchea that led to two million people dying? EXIT VISA gives vivid descriptions of the last days of the Vietnam war; the murder of the Kampucheans during Year Zero; working on the Ho Chi Minh Trail; living in Saigon after the communists took over; the fleeing of ’boat people’ from Vietnam; the boat journey to Malaysia; resettlement in Australia. This is one of the few books published (in English) that describes these events through Vietnamese eyes.
Author: Sheila Rosenberg
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1838600280
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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6th September, 1942: a middle-aged Jewish refugee stands on the Swiss side of the Franco-Swiss border above Geneva. He has been living in Switzerland since he fled Vienna in November 1938, as the Nazi persecution of the city's Jewish population intensified. He is now waiting for the arrival of the wife he has not seen for nearly four years. Against all odds he has managed to get an entry permit for her to join him in Switzerland. She appears on the French side. They see each other. Call out. She begins to cross the few yards of no-mans-land that separate them. An official calls her back. She hesitates, turns, goes back - and is lost forever. This book tells the story of the wartime journey of Toni Schiff, as she ventured across Europe to the this fateful near-meeting at the Franco-Swiss border – and what happened next. Based on the extensive research of her daughter, Kindertransportee Hilda Schiff, and told by Sheila Rosenberg, who shared much of the later research and many of the research journeys, this book sheds light on the lives of one family – caught up in, and ultimately separated by, the tragic and tumultuous events of World War II.
Author: Paul Panish
Publisher: Coward McCann
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Author: Colin Shindler
Publisher: Bachman & Turner
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Monograph on human rights relating to the Jewish social movement for emigration from the USSR - discusses effects of improving international relations (detente) with regard to rights' violations (incl. The political behaviour of presidents nixon and carter), and examines the cases of ginsberg and shcharansky. Bibliography pp. 288 to 291, photographs, references and statistical tables.
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Category : Immigrants
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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Author: Meredith Hindley
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1610394062
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 693
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This rollicking and panoramic history of Casablanca during the Second World War sheds light on the city as a key hub for European and American powers, and a place where spies, soldiers, and political agents exchanged secrets and vied for control. In November 1942, as a part of Operation Torch, 33,000 American soldiers sailed undetected across the Atlantic and stormed the beaches of French Morocco. Seventy-four hours later, the Americans controlled the country and one of the most valuable wartime ports: Casablanca. In the years preceding, Casablanca had evolved from an exotic travel destination to a key military target after France's surrender to Germany. Jewish refugees from Europe poured in, hoping to obtain visas and passage to the United States and beyond. Nazi agents and collaborators infiltrated the city in search of power and loyalty. The resistance was not far behind, as shopkeepers, celebrities, former French Foreign Legionnaires, and disgruntled bureaucrats formed a network of Allied spies. But once in American hands, Casablanca became a crucial logistical hub in the fight against Germany -- and the site of Roosevelt and Churchill's demand for "unconditional surrender." Rife with rogue soldiers, power grabs, and diplomatic intrigue, Destination Casablanca is the riveting and untold story of this glamorous city--memorialized in the classic film that was rush-released in 1942 to capitalize on the drama that was unfolding in North Africa at the heart of World War II.
Author: League of Nations
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Category : Passports
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Author: League of Nations. Assembly. Second Committee
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Author: Margaret Stansgate
Publisher: Arrow
ISBN: 9780091746063
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Before she died last October at the age of 94, Margaret Stansgate, the mother of Tony Benn and a striking political radical in her own right, had completed work on her memoirs. A lifelong campaigner for the rights of women, she first visited the House of Commons in 1910 at the age of 13, and was allowed into the gallery only after promising not to make any unseemly demonstrations. A pioneer campaigner for a variety of religious and social causes, including the ordination of women and the reconciliation of Christians and Jews, she and her MP husband, Captain William Wedgewood Benn, left the Liberal Party for Labour in 1927 and played an important part in the history of the Labour movement.
Author: League of Nations
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Languages : en
Pages : 298
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