In “Albert of the Capitals,” the last of the three strongest texts, Duras relates an episode in the first days after the liberation, when the Resistance exercised summary judgment on some collaborators. She and another Resistance member hold a waiter, a man known as Albert of “The Capitals...
They stayed in the same barracks, and in the same room, until the Russians liberated them on 1st May 1945. One of them, Lyle Shafer, made a list of all the roommates, just after the liberation of the camp. He looked for his fellow roommates for over 17 years and made it possible ...
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kinda like Germany and Japan after WW2 etc etc. Plans went awry however, because the little group found some professor who had just invented the Q-bomb and the plot thickened... and Grand Fenwick ended up winning the " war ". Well, in the book " The Mouse In The Moon" ,...
At 900+ densely-crowded pages and 3lbs, here’s a book for men with hair on their chests. Starting with the end of WW2, Kissinger jumps backwards to the origins of the European system of international relations which developed after the Peace of Westphalia (1648) and summarizes some three ...
diary of a Japanese teenager washed up on the shores of her remote island. She becomes engrossed in this troubled teen’s life in Tokyo. The book covers topics as wide-ranging as the nature of time, Zen Buddhism, quantum mechanics, kamikaze pilots in WW2, cyberbullying, and the environment...
"...with 171 engravings on steel after the Boydell Illustrations; and sixty-four photogravures Chiefly from life" The Interlinear edition. Literature, limited editions$300 Happy Endings 17310Henry, Hazel, editorHappy EndingsAAUW South Lake Tahoe Branch Circa 1980s? Rings Very good. Cookbook 5.5 ...
Thank you for having me on Books & Me blog, Karen. It’s lovely to be here. Waiting For Our Rainbow is my first WW2 romance. It was inspired by the memories of an elderly gentleman seeing American G.I.s for the first time when he was a boy. During a time of rationing, it was...
However, it’s the article’s intro that caught our eye. It reads: “A secret history of the US Government’s Nazi-hunting operation concludes that American intelligence officials created a safe haven in the US for Nazis and their collaborators after WW2 and it details decades of clashes, of...
Volume 1 covers classical Greco-Roman antiquity (with Italianized names e.g. Annibale), almost nothing earlier, nothing on the Dark Ages, Muslim expansion, China, Japan etc. Also early-modern leadership (Turenne, Eugen) and quite much on Napoleon vs opponents.Volume 2 covers the late 19th ...