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An arranged marriage, a wartime struggle, a once-beautiful impoverished land... will the Stavrolaki family be shattered or persevere by supporting one another? From the everyday to the dramatic, Greek island culture in the 1900s brought laughter and tears, hard work and celebration, historic significance and passion for life. Escape to another time, another place to feel the struggles and experience the miraculous redemption in this riveting saga...
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Devenu le symbole de la Résistance française, Le Silence de la mer raconte le quotidien perturbé d'un oncle et de sa nièce qui voit leur maison réquisitionnée par un officier allemand. Épris de culture française, ce dernier doit faire face au mutisme de ses htes qui ont choisi d'exprimer leur patriotisme par cette voie. L'homme ne se décourage pas pour autant et, dès qu'il le peut, il se lance dans de longs monologues dans lesquels on découvre...
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This volume contains a series of predictions made by H. G. Wells as to the ramifications of World War I, covering such areas as politics, economics, border changes, education, media, law, and more.
Contents include:
"Forecasting The Future",
"The End Of The War",
"Nations In Liquidation",
"Braintree, Bocking, And The Future Of The World",
"How Far Will Europe Go Toward Socialism?",
"Lawyer And Press",
"The New Education",
"What The War Is...
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During WWII, Gino was active with the Italian resistance movement, building radios for the partisans. He was arrested, imprisoned, and ended up in the concentration camp in Bolzano on his way to Dachau.It is the story of how his technical knowledge avoided him the otherwise fatal leg of the trip, how the German commander of the camp wanted him to build a radio to illegally receive Radio London, and how he was finally liberated by the arrival of the...
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In this first US publication of celebrated Italian poet Bianca Tarozzi, narrative poems (presented bilingually in both English and the original Italian) carry us through the poet's childhood memories of World War II under Mussolini, harsh post-war conditions, and mid-century changes that transformed Italian life, specifically for women. A unique figure in contemporary Italian poetry, Tarozzi draws significant influence from acclaimed American poets,...
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Allied Encounters uniquely explores Anglo-American and Italian literary, cinematic, and military representations of World War II Italy in order to trace, critique, and move beyond the gendered paradigm of redemption that has conditioned understandings of the Allied–Italian encounter. The arrival of the Allies' global forces in an Italy torn by civil war brought together populations that had long mythologized one another, yet "liberation" did not...
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En 1942, alors que la répression se fait de plus en plus forte, Otto Frank, le père d'Anne, décide d'emmener sa famille et quelques proches se cacher dans une annexe de son entreprise dissimulée par une porte-bibliothèque pivotante. Durant deux ans, ils vivront dans la clandestinité et dans la peur d'être découverts par les SS. Bien décidée à raconter ce qu'elle vit, Anne rédige quotidiennement dans son journal intime, offrant ainsi un...
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Growing up in Berlin, Germany, during World War II, Ingrid Dickson was an open-eyed child with a curious mind and a sensitive nature. She watched and questioned everything around her with child-like transparency. She witnessed first-hand society's departure from human decency and the force of overwhelming political power.
Ingrid's unusual upbringing placed her squarely between a mother who was raised in the creative life of a circus family and a...
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Ernst Jünger was one of twentieth-century Germany's most important-and most controversial-writers. Decorated for bravery in World War I and the author of the acclaimed western front memoir Storm of Steel, he frankly depicted war's horrors even as he extolled its glories. As a Wehrmacht captain during World War II, Jünger faithfully kept a journal in occupied Paris and continued to write on the eastern front and in Germany until its defeat-writings...
10) Mein Kampf d'Adolf Hitler (Analyse de l'oeuvre): Comprendre la littérature avec lePetitLittéraire.fr
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Décryptez Mein Kampf d'Adolf Hitler avec l'analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr !
Que faut-il retenir de Mein Kampf, considéré comme le manifeste du nazisme ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cet ouvrage dans une analyse complète et détaillée.
Vous trouverez notamment dans cette fiche :
• Un résumé complet
• Des éclairages sur la biographie d'Hitler, le contexte historique et de rédaction du texte
• Une analyse des spécificités...
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Décryptez Si c'est un homme de Primo Levi avec l'analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr !
Que faut-il retenir Si c'est un homme, le célèbre récit autobiographique d'un homme rescapé du nazisme ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une analyse complète et détaillée.
Vous trouverez notamment dans cette fiche :
• Un résumé complet
• Des éclairages
• Une analyse des spécificités de l'œuvre : au fil du temps,...
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The Second World War casts a long shadow, portrayed as a necessary and paradigmatic war that defeated fascism. During recent wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, US presidents and British prime ministers have tried to claim they were following in the footsteps of Winston Churchill by standing up to dictators.
In The Second World War Chris Bambery tests this position in a thorough account of the war and demonstrates why it continues to dominate...
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Ambientada en Francia durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un hombre le pide a otro soldado que le ayude a poner en palabras lo que siente para cortejar a su amada. El hombre sin talento para escribir logra casarse con la chica, hasta que una fatídica noche confiesa que no escribió las cartas y termina con un cuchillo en la espalda. El hombre que r
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In this original and engaging work, author Kent Puckett looks at how British filmmakers imagined, saw, and sought to represent its war during wartime through film. The Second World War posed unique representational challenges to Britain's filmmakers. Because of its logistical enormity, the unprecedented scope of its destruction, its conceptual status as total, and the way it affected everyday life through aerial bombing, blackouts, rationing, and...
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It has been said that during times of war, the Muses fall silent. However, anyone who has read the major figures of mid-twentieth-century literature-Samuel Beckett, Richard Hillary, Norman Mailer, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and others-can attest that it was through writing that people first tried to communicate and process the horrors that they saw during one of the darkest times in human history even as it broke out and raged on around them.
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In this elegant memoir, Swift traces the interstices between the bombers of the Royal Air Force, his grandfather's service before his death at the age of 30, and selected passages from Dylan Thomas, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden and other writers working during World War II. Meticulously researched, Bomber County chronicles the London Blitz and bombing raids in Germany. Notes from logs kept by crews mingle with the author's recollection of...
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From Vacillation to Resolve tells the little-known story of the French Communist Party's role in the Resistance movement against the Nazis during World War II. Author Julian McPhillips Jr. researched this story and published it as his senior thesis at Princeton University in 1968. It is being published in book form for the first time on the fiftieth anniversary of his graduation.
McPhillips divides the behavior of the French Communist resisters into...
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"For myself I am an optimist," said legendary British politician Winston Churchill. "It does not seem to be much use being anything else."
Have you ever wanted to deliver the ultimate Churchillian wisecrack? Give sound advice to a peer on how to deal with life's problems? Or contribute to a heated discussion on international politics? The Smart Words and Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill is the perfect pocket book to carry around in your arsenal as...
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