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By Roderick Phillips. 1996
Provides a detailed account of the main lines of European social, political and economic history in the twentieth century. Incorporates…
current research on important issues such as the family, gender relations, women's experience, ethnicity, race relations, work, health, population change and sexuality. 1996.By Rosemary Sullivan. 2006
In France of the 1940s, the Nazis were hunting down artists and intellectuals, and many of them, including Max Ernst,…
Hannah Arendt, Heinrich Mann, and Marc Chagall, found temporary shelter in a house in a suburb of Marseille. There, members of the American Emergency Rescue Committee hid them and arranged the visas that would give them safe passage out of Vichy France. Harvard-educated scholar Varian Fry led the effort, eventually saving 2,000 artists and intellectuals. 2006.By Olivier Guez, Jean-Marc Gonin. 2009
" Le 6 octobre 1989, quand il reçoit Gorbatchev pour célébrer les 40 ans de la RDA, Erich Honecker contemple…
avec sérénité l'avenir de son pays. Et pourtant, un mois plus tard, le tourbillon de l'Histoire balaie toutes ses illusions : le Mur de Berlin tombe dans la nuit du 9 au 10 novembre. Pendant ces quelques semaines, dans l'atmosphère électrique de l'automne allemand de 1989, ils sont des dizaines à affronter la Stasi au prix de leur liberté, des dizaines à ébranler, chacun à leur manière, le Mur et la dictature : c'est un pasteur accueillant les contestataires dans son église, c'est Kurt Masur organisant des forums de libre discussion à Leipzig, ce sont les activistes imprimant des tracts la nuit et bravant les Vopos à Leipzig ou à Berlin, ce sont enfin les sbires de la Stasi qui tenteront jusqu'au dernier moment de manipuler l'opposition pour sauver le régime... Reporters expérimentés, Jean-Marc Gonin et Olivier Guez les ont rencontrés au cours de deux années d'enquête et ont fait de ces acteurs anonymes les héros de ce livre, au même titre que les leaders de l'époque. À partir de leurs témoignages et d'un considérable travail d'archive, ils racontent de l'intérieur ces jours qui ont fait basculer le XXe siècle. Un récit digne des meilleurs thrillers. " -- 4e de couv.By Angela V John. 1991
The history of Welsh people has often been camouflaged in British history yet women have also been rendered inconspicuous within…
their own Welsh history. This book seeks to shed light on the history of women within the context of the history of Wales between 1830 and 1939.By Berkshire Federation of Women's Institutes, comp. 1996
The book stands as a permanent record of a past way of life which can be read and enjoyed by…
this generation and those to come. Berkshire, with its combination of both industrial and rural areas, has seen many changes. Members of the Berkshire Federation of Women's Institutes, conscious of the importance of recording these changes, have compiled their own personal recollections and have also interviewed elderly friends and relations, both men and women.By John Farman. 1998
By West Yorkshire Federation of Women's Institutes. 1996
By Kenneth Baker. 1999
Tracing the history of England from Boadicea to the present through verse, this anthology contains work by many of the…
greatest English poets and is divided into historical periods. Each section includes background information on the period and a running narrative to set the poetry in context. For junior and senior high students.By Michael Rosen. 2017
It is the evening of 18 July 1898 and the world-renowned novelist Émile Zola is on the run. His crime?…
Taking on the highest powers in the land with his open letter 'J'accuse' and losing. Forced to leave Paris, with nothing but the clothes he is standing in and a nightshirt wrapped in newspaper, Zola flees to England with no idea when he will return. This is the little-known story of his time in exile. 2017.By Laurence Rees. 2017
This landmark work answers two of the most fundamental questions in history - how, and why, did the Holocaust happen?…
Laurence Rees has spent twenty-five years meeting survivors and perpetrators of the Holocaust. He combines their enthralling eyewitness testimony, a large amount of which has never been published before, with the latest academic research to create an accessible and authoritative account of the Holocaust. 2017.Profile of a nineteenth-century Canadian doctor who was convicted of murders in the United States and England, and is believed…
to have also murdered people in Canada through the use of poison. Discusses criminal investigation techniques of the late 1800s and his 1892 trial in London. Violence. 2021By Cheryl Bardoe. 2018
Biography of Sophie Germain (1776-1831), who grew up during the French Revolution and followed her dream of studying mathematics. In…
1816 she was the first woman to win a grand prize from the Royal Academy of Sciences for her work on vibrations. PRINT/BRAILLE. For grades 2-4. 2018By Melissa Range. 2016
The poems in this award-winning collection focus on the question of religious authority. The poems explore how religious ideas are…
both codified and challenged through writing and how language can be used or abused to claim religious authority. National Poetry Series. 2016By Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough. 2016
An examination of the world of the Vikings through the stories that they told about themselves in their sagas, which…
went far beyond historical facts. Also explores archaeological finds, rune stones, medieval maps, manuscripts, and texts from around the world. 2016By Kate Summerscale. 2016
By Sophie Pinkham. 2016
Journalist explores contemporary life in Ukraine, examining Ukraine's repeated rebuilding of itself, the political roots of its early twenty-first century…
conflicts, and its issues with corruption, poverty, ethnic divisions, and Russian aggression. Also profiles the many-faceted lives of Ukrainian individuals, including a doctor, an art gallerist, and a musician. 2016By Hilary Spurling. 2008
Woman who inherited a seventeenth-century recipe and remedy book presents selections from it. Discusses food sources, preparation and preservation techniques,…
and presentation ideas. Includes family history and medical recommendations of the time. Recipes are arranged by months to emphasize their seasonal nature. 1986By Nancy Ohlin. 2016
A brief overview of ancient Greece's civilization. Covers the different city-states, labor, religion, architecture, and government of the time. Also…
touches on the Olympic Games, philosophy, and poetry that have remained a part of their legacy. For grades 3-6. 2016By Shelley DeWees. 2016
Portraits of the lives and work of Britain's female literary figures from history. Examines authors who became lesser known by…
the early twenty-first century. Includes chapters on Charlotte Turner Smith, Helen Maria Williams, Mary Robinson, Catherine Crowe, Sara Coleridge, Dinah Mulock Craik, and Mary Elizabeth Braddon. 2016Historian and journalist recounts the story of the last great naval battle fought between England and Spain. Also examines the…
three commanders who fought in it: General Juan del Águila for Spain, Charles Blount for England, and Irish insurgent Hugh O'Neill. 2015