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3922) Resistance to the Nazis
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Describes how certain people, both Jews and Gentiles, were brave enough to stand up to the Nazis during the Holocaust despite the price they would pay if caught.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In June 1944 the Allies opened the long-awaited second front against Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, and this was to be the start of a long struggle throughout Western Europe for the Allied forces in the face of stiff German resistance. The European Theatre was where the bulk of the Allied forces were committed in the struggle against Nazi Germany. It saw some of the most famous battles and operations of the war -- Normandy, Market Garden,...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"This book was inspired by the author's discovery of an extraordinary cache of letters from a soldier who was killed on the Western Front during the First World War. The soldier was his grandfather, and the letters had been tucked away, unread and unmentioned for many decades. Intrigued by the heartbreak and history of these family letters, Fletcher sought out the correspondence of other British soldiers who had volunteered for the fight against Germany....
3934) Inferno in Chechnya: the Russian-Chechen wars, the Al Qaeda myth, and the Boston Marathon bombings
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Details the history behind the Russian treatment of Chechens, the series of wars, the actual role of Arab fighters, and the Boston Marathon bombers, who are profiled in the final chapter"--Provided by publisher.
3935) Defenders of the faith: Charles V, Suleyman the Magnificent, and the battle for Europe, 1520-1536
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
English edition.
Language
English
Description
It's another day and another round of colorful customers at the Japanese-style pub "Nobu." Shinobu and company can contend with moody guild masters and a spy from a foreign land, but what about a wicked tycoon who threatens the very restaurant...?! It doesn't matter who you are or where you're from, in this otherworldly slice-of-life story, patrons get treated to delicious flounder nitsuke, potato salad, ajifurai... and a cold mug of "whatsontapp"!...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
English edition.
Language
English
Description
A Japanese style pub called "Nobu" exists in a back alley of the fictional medieval European city of Eiteriach. Its customers? A pair of slacker soldiers, a spoiled heiress, an uptight tax collector, and more... When the citizens of this strange world sit down to enjoy some unfamiliar Japanese cuisine, their troubles simply melt away... The curtain rises on this otherworldly eatery and the gourmet fantasy about to unfold within!
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The publishing industry in France in the years before the Revolution was a lively and sometimes rough-and-tumble affair, as publishers and printers scrambled to deal with (and if possible evade) shifting censorship laws and tax regulations, in order to cater to a reading public's appetite for books of all kinds, from the famous Encyclopédie, repository of reason and knowledge, to scandal-mongering libel and pornography. Historian and librarian...
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