Author: Anne Angelo
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1669888398
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This is a continuation of the story of Anne Angelo, as published in the companion book: A Sprig of White Heather and a Scottish Lass. It is a heart-warming story that completely justifies the researching and writing. It demonstrates how inexorably lives can be shaped and directed by the circumstances of birth and the environment in which the formative years are spent. Born in Invergordon, Ross-shire, in the Highlands of Scotland, to parents utter opposites in cultural and social backgrounds, education, heredity, and race—and further, tragically, in conflict since the very day of their wedding—her world until the age of twenty was one of hatred and heartbreak, fear, and disillusionment and despair. Released at that age, by entirely fortuitous circumstances over which she had no control, she enjoyed a period of blissful living in France. The coming of the War brought an end to that. The actions of the German Forces of Occupation against her drove her into her activities with the French Resistance. It was inevitable she would be betrayed. She was forced to flee to the only place where she could be sure enemy agents could not reach her—her father’s house in the Scottish Highlands, where the security for the old naval base was still effective, but where she had no protection from her father’s wiles and hostile intentions. In many ways, her story outdoes that of Hatter’s Castle. Clinging to the slender thread of the love she found in France, she endures. Until the sun shines and, in a surprising revelation, shows that motives and intents are not always what they are thought to be.
The Forbidden Zone 1940
Author: Anne Angelo
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1669888398
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This is a continuation of the story of Anne Angelo, as published in the companion book: A Sprig of White Heather and a Scottish Lass. It is a heart-warming story that completely justifies the researching and writing. It demonstrates how inexorably lives can be shaped and directed by the circumstances of birth and the environment in which the formative years are spent. Born in Invergordon, Ross-shire, in the Highlands of Scotland, to parents utter opposites in cultural and social backgrounds, education, heredity, and race—and further, tragically, in conflict since the very day of their wedding—her world until the age of twenty was one of hatred and heartbreak, fear, and disillusionment and despair. Released at that age, by entirely fortuitous circumstances over which she had no control, she enjoyed a period of blissful living in France. The coming of the War brought an end to that. The actions of the German Forces of Occupation against her drove her into her activities with the French Resistance. It was inevitable she would be betrayed. She was forced to flee to the only place where she could be sure enemy agents could not reach her—her father’s house in the Scottish Highlands, where the security for the old naval base was still effective, but where she had no protection from her father’s wiles and hostile intentions. In many ways, her story outdoes that of Hatter’s Castle. Clinging to the slender thread of the love she found in France, she endures. Until the sun shines and, in a surprising revelation, shows that motives and intents are not always what they are thought to be.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1669888398
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This is a continuation of the story of Anne Angelo, as published in the companion book: A Sprig of White Heather and a Scottish Lass. It is a heart-warming story that completely justifies the researching and writing. It demonstrates how inexorably lives can be shaped and directed by the circumstances of birth and the environment in which the formative years are spent. Born in Invergordon, Ross-shire, in the Highlands of Scotland, to parents utter opposites in cultural and social backgrounds, education, heredity, and race—and further, tragically, in conflict since the very day of their wedding—her world until the age of twenty was one of hatred and heartbreak, fear, and disillusionment and despair. Released at that age, by entirely fortuitous circumstances over which she had no control, she enjoyed a period of blissful living in France. The coming of the War brought an end to that. The actions of the German Forces of Occupation against her drove her into her activities with the French Resistance. It was inevitable she would be betrayed. She was forced to flee to the only place where she could be sure enemy agents could not reach her—her father’s house in the Scottish Highlands, where the security for the old naval base was still effective, but where she had no protection from her father’s wiles and hostile intentions. In many ways, her story outdoes that of Hatter’s Castle. Clinging to the slender thread of the love she found in France, she endures. Until the sun shines and, in a surprising revelation, shows that motives and intents are not always what they are thought to be.
France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944
Author: Julian Jackson
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191622885
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
The French call them 'the Dark Years'... This definitive new history of Occupied France explores the myths and realities of four of the most divisive years in French history. Taking in ordinary people's experiences of defeat, collaboration, resistance, and liberation, it uncovers the conflicting memories of occupation which ensure that even today France continues to debate the legacy of the Vichy years.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191622885
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
The French call them 'the Dark Years'... This definitive new history of Occupied France explores the myths and realities of four of the most divisive years in French history. Taking in ordinary people's experiences of defeat, collaboration, resistance, and liberation, it uncovers the conflicting memories of occupation which ensure that even today France continues to debate the legacy of the Vichy years.
France Under Fire
Author: Nicole Dombrowski Risser
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110702532X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
A social, military and political history of the French refugee crisis tracing the impact of government responses upon civilian lives.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110702532X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
A social, military and political history of the French refugee crisis tracing the impact of government responses upon civilian lives.
The Forbidden Zone
Author: Mary Borden
Publisher: Hesperus Press
ISBN: 1843919966
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Mary Borden worked for four years in an evacuation hospital unit following the front lines up and down the European theater of the First World War. This beautifully written book, to be read alongside the likes of Sassoon, Graves, and Remarque, is a collection of her memories and impressions of that experience. Describing the men as they march into battle, engaging imaginatively with the stories of individual soldiers, and recounting procedures at the field hospital, the author offers a perspective on the war that is both powerful and intimate.
Publisher: Hesperus Press
ISBN: 1843919966
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Mary Borden worked for four years in an evacuation hospital unit following the front lines up and down the European theater of the First World War. This beautifully written book, to be read alongside the likes of Sassoon, Graves, and Remarque, is a collection of her memories and impressions of that experience. Describing the men as they march into battle, engaging imaginatively with the stories of individual soldiers, and recounting procedures at the field hospital, the author offers a perspective on the war that is both powerful and intimate.
The Forbidden Zone
Author: Michael Hetzer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684854082
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
An American woman scientist makes a desperate attempt to save a Soviet astrophysicist from his own personal hell with a revelation that threatens his career, his politics, and his life.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684854082
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
An American woman scientist makes a desperate attempt to save a Soviet astrophysicist from his own personal hell with a revelation that threatens his career, his politics, and his life.
Between Capital and Land
Author: Eric Engel Tuten
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135767017
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This book provides a detailed examination of the Jewish National Fund's internal development and analyzes the relationship between Jewish National Fund finances and land purchase priorities during the Second World War.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135767017
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This book provides a detailed examination of the Jewish National Fund's internal development and analyzes the relationship between Jewish National Fund finances and land purchase priorities during the Second World War.
Mussolini's Army in the French Riviera
Author: Emanuele Sica
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252097963
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
In contrast to its brutal seizure of the Balkans, the Italian Army's 1940-1943 relatively mild occupation of the French Riviera and nearby alpine regions bred the myth of the Italian brava gente, or good fellow, an agreeable occupier who abstained from the savage wartime behaviors so common across Europe. Employing a multi-tiered approach, Emanuele Sica examines the simultaneously conflicting and symbiotic relationship between the French population and Italian soldiers. At the grassroots level, Sica asserts that the cultural proximity between the soldiers and the local population, one-quarter of which was Italian, smoothed the sharp angles of miscommunication and cultural faux-pas at a time of great uncertainty. At the same time, it encouraged a laxness in discipline that manifested as fraternization and black marketeering. Sica's examination of political tensions highlights how French prefects and mayors fought to keep the tatters of sovereignty in the face of military occupation. In addition, he reveals the tense relationship between Fascist civilian authorities eager to fulfil imperial dreams of annexation and army leaders desperate to prevent any action that might provoke French insurrection. Finally, he completes the tableau with detailed accounts of how food shortages and French Resistance attacks brought sterner Italian methods, why the Fascists' attempted "Italianization" of the French border city of Menton failed, and the ways the occupation zone became an unlikely haven for Jews.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252097963
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
In contrast to its brutal seizure of the Balkans, the Italian Army's 1940-1943 relatively mild occupation of the French Riviera and nearby alpine regions bred the myth of the Italian brava gente, or good fellow, an agreeable occupier who abstained from the savage wartime behaviors so common across Europe. Employing a multi-tiered approach, Emanuele Sica examines the simultaneously conflicting and symbiotic relationship between the French population and Italian soldiers. At the grassroots level, Sica asserts that the cultural proximity between the soldiers and the local population, one-quarter of which was Italian, smoothed the sharp angles of miscommunication and cultural faux-pas at a time of great uncertainty. At the same time, it encouraged a laxness in discipline that manifested as fraternization and black marketeering. Sica's examination of political tensions highlights how French prefects and mayors fought to keep the tatters of sovereignty in the face of military occupation. In addition, he reveals the tense relationship between Fascist civilian authorities eager to fulfil imperial dreams of annexation and army leaders desperate to prevent any action that might provoke French insurrection. Finally, he completes the tableau with detailed accounts of how food shortages and French Resistance attacks brought sterner Italian methods, why the Fascists' attempted "Italianization" of the French border city of Menton failed, and the ways the occupation zone became an unlikely haven for Jews.
France and Its Spaces of War
Author: P. Lorcin
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230100767
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
This book offers a critical study of the cultural and social phenomena of war in the French and French-speaking world through a number of lenses, including memory, gender, the arts, and intellectual history.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230100767
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
This book offers a critical study of the cultural and social phenomena of war in the French and French-speaking world through a number of lenses, including memory, gender, the arts, and intellectual history.
Johnny Magory in the Magical Wild
Author: Emma-Jane Leeson
Publisher: Johnny Magory
ISBN: 1739165705
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Johnny Magory in the Magical Wild is the first in the series of adventures of Johnny Magory. Join Johnny as he has the time of his life at the forest party with his magical woodland friends. In this book, we meet the badger, fox, corncrake, hedgehog, red and gray squirrel, frog and swan. The boy is told to be back for lunch, he has so much craic at the forest party, will he remember?
Publisher: Johnny Magory
ISBN: 1739165705
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Johnny Magory in the Magical Wild is the first in the series of adventures of Johnny Magory. Join Johnny as he has the time of his life at the forest party with his magical woodland friends. In this book, we meet the badger, fox, corncrake, hedgehog, red and gray squirrel, frog and swan. The boy is told to be back for lunch, he has so much craic at the forest party, will he remember?
Crime Fighting Heroes of Television
Author: Vincent Terrace
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786484454
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Superheroes and characters who fight crime by extraordinary means have populated the television airwaves from the beginning. This broad-ranging reference contains a trove of information on shows featuring such characters as Superman and Black Scorpion to programs like The A-Team and Knight Rider. Regular police and detective shows have been excluded. Alphabetical entries on 125 network, cable and syndicated series broadcast from 1949 to 2001, plus 26 pilot films, deliver information about story premises, characters, and myriad elements that add flavor and interest to the shows, as well as cast listings and broadcast data. A handy index of performers is included as well as appendices listing the crime fighting superheroes and machines that appear in the programs.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786484454
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Superheroes and characters who fight crime by extraordinary means have populated the television airwaves from the beginning. This broad-ranging reference contains a trove of information on shows featuring such characters as Superman and Black Scorpion to programs like The A-Team and Knight Rider. Regular police and detective shows have been excluded. Alphabetical entries on 125 network, cable and syndicated series broadcast from 1949 to 2001, plus 26 pilot films, deliver information about story premises, characters, and myriad elements that add flavor and interest to the shows, as well as cast listings and broadcast data. A handy index of performers is included as well as appendices listing the crime fighting superheroes and machines that appear in the programs.