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The first book to tell the full story of how a traveling road show of artists wielding imagination, paint, and bravado saved thousands of American lives-now updated with new material.
In the summer of 1944, a handpicked group of young GIs-artists, designers, architects, and sound engineers, including such future luminaries as Bill Blass, Ellsworth Kelly, Arthur Singer, Victor Dowd, Art Kane, and Jack Masey-landed in France to conduct a secret mission....
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In peacetime cartoonists are a diverse collection of individuals with their own styles and projects, but when the trumpets of war blow it is like unleashing the dogs of war. Hitler, Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt and Mussolini were a gift for them and, as this collection shows, one they weren't about to turn down. This book shows that humor was one of the key weapons of war, with countries using cartoons to demoralize their opponents and maintain morale....
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In 1943, while the world was convulsed by war, a few visionaries, in the private sector and in the military, committed to protect Europe's cultural heritage from the indiscriminate ravages of World War II.
In the midst of the conflict, the Allied Forces appointed the monuments officers-a motley group of art historians, curators, architects, and artists, to ensure that the great masterworks of European art and architecture were not looted or bombed...
4) Pin-up Girls
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The image most indelibly linked to the term Pin-Up Girl is a busty, longlegged, beautiful woman posing provocatively on calendars, posters, and in magazines primarily during the World War II years, most often in the U.S. military's Yank magazine. These images make up the quintessential and most recognizable Pin-Up Girls, although they are only representative of a specific era in pin-up history. The Pin-Up Girl has actually been around since the late...
5) Trench Art
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Engraved shell-cases, bullet-crucifixes, letter openers and cigarette lighters made of shrapnel and cartridges, miniature airplanes and tanks, talismanic jewelry, embroidery, objects carved from stone, bone and wood all of these things are trench art, the misleading name given to the dazzling array of objects made from the waste of war, in particular the Great War of 1914—1918 and the inter-war years. And they are the subject of Nicholas Saunders’s...
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A WWII combat artist shares his recollections-and his arresting artwork-from the frontlines of the Italian campaign in this military memoir.
Many artists have fought in wars and later recorded heroic scenes of great battles. Yet few artists have created their work on the frontlines as they fought alongside their comrades. Edward Reep, as an official combat artist in World War II, painted and sketched while the battles of the Italian campaign raged...
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“Salt Mines and Castles”, originally published in 1946, is a first-hand account of the work of the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section of U.S. Forces, European Theatre (MFA&A), immediately following the end of World War II in 1945. Often simply referred to as the “Monuments Men,” this group of unlikely soldiers included art curators, scholars, architects, librarians, and archivists from the U.S. and Great Britain. Their war-time mission...
8) Pollak's arm
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October 16, 1943, inside the Vatican as darkness descends upon Rome. Having been alerted to the Nazi plan to round up the city's Jewish population the next day, Monsignor F. dispatches an envoy to a nearby palazzo to bring Ludwig Pollak and his family to safety within the papal premises. But Pollak shows himself in no hurry to leave his home and accept the eleventh-hour offer of refuge. Pollak's visitor is obliged to take a seat and listen as he recounts...
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In September 1979, at age fifty-six, writer and artist Arturo Benvenuti fueled up his motor home and set forth on what he knew would be an emotional journey. His plan-his own Viae Crucis-was to meet with as many former prisoners of Nazi-fascist concentration camps as he could. He wanted not only to learn their stories, but to learn from their stories.
He met with dozens of survivors from Auschwitz, Terezín, Mauthausen-Gusen, Buchenwald, Dachau,...
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"The true story of an audacious resistance campaign undertaken by an unlikely pair: two French women -- Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe -- who drew on their skills as Parisian avant-garde artists to write and distribute wicked insults against Hitler and calls to desert, a PSYOPs tactic known as "paper bullets," designed to demoralize Nazi troops occupying their adopted home of Jersey in the British Channel Islands."--
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur le maréchal Pétain en moins d'une heure!
L'histoire de France est jalonnée de grands personnages qui ont façonné son destin. Philippe Pétain, quoi qu'on en dise, est l'un d'eux. Adulé par ses soldats pour sa clairvoyance tactique, particulièrement lors de la bataille de Verdun, ou abhorré par ses concitoyens pour l'autoritarisme antisémite du régime de Vichy, le maréchal Pétain continue...
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre el mariscal Pétain, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá:
• Descubrir el misterio que rodea a Pétain, que gana la batalla de Verdún gracias a sus tácticas militares innovadoras, pero que firma un armisticio con Hitler que conduce al régimen de Vichy
• Conocer todos los acontecimientos mayores en Francia,...
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