Author: Samuel Huston Goodfellow
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780875802381
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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An examination of 1920s and 1930s Alsace, to reveal the many faces of fascism. The study of the region, with its interplay of French, German and Alsatian nationalities, proves a framework for understanding how this ideology has matured over time to fit changing contexts.
Author: Arthur H. Joel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Author: Jay A Cornils
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781957387277
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 522
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In the pages of The Cross of Lorraine, France's darkest hours of occupation come to life in this historic novel of love and hate, loyalty and betrayal, suffering and survival. Here we meet the villains, the martyrs and the heroes of the French Resistance- itself a frail child born from the ashes of bitter defeat. The German villains are men like Klaus Barbie- the Butcher of Lyon- and his one-eyed adjutant- Heinrich Biebischeimer. The martyrs include Jean Moulin, who survived his own throat slashing only to die at the Butcher's hand; Boris Vilde, whose courage inspired a natio; and Lisette Arnout, who despite imprisonment and rape still fought to defend the honor of her loved-one's memory. The list of heroes is even longer. But none of them, not the boy from the Village of Rainbows, nor the rail worker from St. Lazare, nor the spoiled child from the Avenue Foch; not even the wine merchant, nor the talented athlete from the shores of Lake Michigan- none of them ever thought that survival made them heroes. For them, Resistance was the only choice. And in time, each of them helped give a nation back its freedom.
Author: United States. Army. Infantry Division, 79th
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Author: John Lawrey
Publisher: Canberra : Journal of Pacific History
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Author: Hans Habe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Semi-fictional narrative of his experiences as a Nazi prisoner following the fall of France.
Author: Hugh Marshall Cole
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 740
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This account focuses on the tactical operations of the Third Army and its subordinate units between 1 September and 18 December 1944.
Author: Lorraine Orman
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 1775531422
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177
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A gripping young adult novel that sweeps from the pioneer past to the present. In the late 1820s, Lizzie Dawson, only sixteen, was forced to be the child bride of a notorious whaler in the remote Marlborough Sounds of New Zealand. There began a living hell — until she met Matthew, a young Maori preacher, and with love came defiance. Flash forward to today. Bel, also sixteen, is sent to a remote farm in the Sounds. Her parents are in the throes of divorce and Bel's turbulent thoughts attract an uneasy force. '"At last," says a voice in my head. "You're here." And I know without a doubt that Lizzie has come for me, and me alone.' Lizzie has an urgent story to tell. Past events drive her to reach across time, across worlds. In this extraordinary first novel, Lorraine Orman evokes the nineteenth-century whalers' lives as vividly as the contemporary story. Cross Tides sweeps you into its double world with eerie, irresistible power.
Author: James Baldwin
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307275965
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 401
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From one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the past century—a collection of essays, articles, reviews, and interviews that have never before been gathered in a single volume. “An absorbing portrait of Baldwin’s time—and of him.” —New York Review of Books James Baldwin was an American literary master, renowned for his fierce engagement with issues haunting our common history. In The Cross of Redemption we have Baldwin discoursing on, among other subjects, the possibility of an African-American president and what it might mean; the hypocrisy of American religious fundamentalism; the black church in America; the trials and tribulations of black nationalism; anti-Semitism; the blues and boxing; Russian literary masters; and the role of the writer in our society. Prophetic and bracing, The Cross of Redemption is a welcome and important addition to the works of a cosmopolitan and canonical American writer who still has much to teach us about race, democracy, and personal and national identity. As Michael Ondaatje has remarked, “If van Gogh was our nineteenth-century artist-saint, Baldwin [was] our twentieth-century one.”
Author: François Kersaudy
Publisher: Scribner Paper Fiction
ISBN: 9780689706417
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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