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From an exciting new voice in WWII historical fiction comes a tale of love, loss and a betrayal that echoes through generations…
Paris, 1940: War is closing in on the city of love. With his wife forced into hiding, Jacques must stand by and watch as the Nazis take away everything he holds dear. Everything except his last beacon of hope: his beloved bookshop, La Page Cachée.
But when a young woman and her child knock on his door one night and...
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Perhaps this book will be understood only by someone who has himself already had the thoughts that are expressed in it-or at least similar thoughts.
-So it is not a textbook.
-Its purpose would be achieved if it gave pleasure to one person who read and understood it.
The book deals with the problems of philosophy, and shows, I believe, that the reason why these problems are posed is that the logic of our language is mis-understood. The whole sense...
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The Black Russian is the incredible true story of Frederick Bruce Thomas, born in 1872 to former slaves who became prosperous farmers in Mississippi. After his father was brutally murdered, Frederick left the South and worked as a waiter in Chicago and Brooklyn. Seeking greater freedom, he traveled to London, then crisscrossed Europe, and-in a highly unusual choice for a black American at the time-went to Russia. Because he found no color line there,...
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Las élites urbanas sufrieron un proceso de transformación en el paso del Antiguo Régimen al liberalismo que se dejó sentir a lo largo de Europa. Pero la importancia de las revoluciones liberales en este proceso es un debate aún abierto en la historiografía. En este libro se analiza el problema de la formación de las élites liberales en España durante el siglo XIX. Una comparación asimétrica entre los casos de Valladolid y Magdeburgo sirve...
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Mining disasters attracted the attention of the public and the press during the twentieth century, just as they had done a few generations earlier. This interest was made even more immediate and certainly more graphic through the increasing use of photographic images and film; and the impact of broadcasting via radio and, eventually, television was immense. The disasters also demonstrated and underlined the tremendous courage that miners had for their...
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Surgido a finales del siglo XIX, el reformismo social es un componente fundamental de la historia contemporánea de España, pues constituye la etapa inicial del proceso de gestación e implantación del Estado del Bienestar. El objetivo de este libro es ofrecer un detallado análisis de la génesis y la naturaleza del reformismo social español, con el fin de arrojar nueva luz sobre los orígenes y las causas de aparición del Estado del Bienestar...
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As the U.S. Army shrinks, a private army steps into the breach. A Bloody Business offers an unprecedented look behind the scenes and into the ranks of this mercenary force (numbering as many as 15,000 today) who guard supply convoys, train foreign soldiers, provide security for foreign leaders and dignitariesand whose workplaces are the most dangerous hot spots on the planet. With its insights into who these men are, what drives them, where they...
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Durante el inicio de la época contemporánea, el capitalismo agrario se desarrolló en tierras valencianas de manera peculiar. En las zonas de agricultura más dinámica, una masa importante de labradores desposeídos accedió al cultivo a través del arrendamiento de tierras y se desarrollaron unas complejas relaciones entre los dueños de la tierra y sus colonos. En ellas se entremezclaban las variaciones del mercado, las prácticas cotidianas...
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Desde el último cuarto del siglo XVII hasta el final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, se extiende la época de referencia de la historia intelectual del trabajo. A lo largo de estos casi trescientos años, el trabajo se convirtió en un tema central de los análisis y las polémicas de estudiosos y activistas reconocidos, al tiempo que su práctica era igualmente objeto de minucioso escrutinio. Homo Faber es una historia intelectual del trabajo que...
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Falkland Islanders were the first British people to come under enemy occupation since the Channel Islanders during the Second World War. This book tells how islanders' warnings were ignored in London, how their slim defenses gave way to a massive invasion, and how they survived occupation.
While some established a cautiously pragmatic modus vivendi with the occupiers, some Islanders opted for active resistance, using banned radios to transmit intelligence...
11) The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America
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The invention of mass marketing led to cigarettes being emblazoned in advertising and film, deeply tied to modern notions of glamour and sex appeal. It is hard to find a photo of Humphrey Bogart or Lauren Bacall without a cigarette. No product has been so heavily promoted or has become so deeply entrenched in American consciousness. And no product has received such sustained scientific scrutiny. The development of new medical knowledge demonstrating...
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The small village of Rennes-le-Chateau has been the center of an enigma ever since a century ago a local village priest, Berenger Sauniere, spent millions of dollars on decorating the church and surrounding buildings. For decades – despite claims to the contrary by some authors – no-one has been able to explain where Sauniere got the money to pay for the extravagant building works, which have attracted millions of visitors to this small hilltop...
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For most people, climbing a ladder to clear the gutters is a challenge. Jack Williams and his colleagues in the specialist signals unit supporting the SAS in Northern Ireland had to climb towers and maintain vital communications - often in full view and under fire from terrorists.
This is the gripping insider story of the tension, fear and comradeship of these specialists, who needed more than just a head for heights.
Written in a racy popular style...
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The Color of Time spans more than one hundred years of world history-from the reign of Queen Victoria and the American Civil War to the Cuban Missile Crisis and the beginning of the Space Age. It charts the rise and fall of empires, the achievements of science, industrial developments, the arts, the tragedies of war, the politics of peace, and the lives of men and women who made history.
This illustrated narrative is a collaboration between a gifted...
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This book, following a weekend on the Somme with Mary Freeman as she visits the old front line and back areas, is about the soldiers who wrote poetry and those with whom they lived, fought and, in many cases died. It takes the reader to the places where they saw action and to the cemeteries and memorials where those who did not survive, rest or are commemorated. Her uncanny knowledge of the battlefields and her deep understanding of poetry, brings...
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Este libro pretende contribuir a la comprensión de las estructuras de poder de la España decimonónica mediante nuevos enfoques que pongan en cuestión las formas más tradicionales de aproximarse al estudio de esta centuria. Lo que se plantea aquí es una discusión en torno a la articulación del poder político y social en la España del siglo XIX en una escala múltiple que conjuga el nivel del Estado nación con el regional y el transnacional....
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El 23 de mayo de 1808 la población de Valencia se alza contra la ocupación del ejército de Napoleón. Se inicia entonces un período de enfrentamiento bélico contra un poder extranjero e invasor. Sin embargo, ésta no es una guerra al uso, convencional. En el trasfondo de esta rebelión se vislumbra el ahínco de todo un pueblo por desprenderse de sus propias lacras, la lucha contra todo aquello que impedía la construcción de una nación avanzada....
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In 1940 two scientists, refugees from Nazi Germany, wrote a memorandum which has to prove one of the most significant documents of the twentieth century. In it, they outlined proposes for the manufacture of a uranium fuelled 'super bomb'. The paper propelled Britain into the forefront of research into nuclear weapons and lead, through the collaboration of British and American scientists in the Manhattan Project, to the decisive ending of the Second...
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With the sudden Argentine invasion of the remote Falkland Islands on 2 April 1982 the United Kingdom found itself at war. Due to the resolve of a determined Prime Minister and the resourcefulness of the Armed Forces, a Task Force, code named Operation Corporate, was quickly dispatched.
Remarkably just over two months later, the Islands were liberated and the invaders defeated. By any standards this was a remarkable feat of all arms cooperation made...
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This is the story of the 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles from the Regiment raising in 1817 as the Cuttack Legion in the service of the Honourable East India Company until it's amalgamation with the 2nd King Edward VII's Gurkha Rifles ( The Sirmoor Rifles) to form the First Battalion of The Royal Gurkha Rifles in 1994. In the course of its 177 years' existence the Regiment has had many changes of title, acquiring its present one in 1959 when...
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