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The Honorary Consul
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Graham Greene |
In a provincial Argentinean town, Charley Fortnum, a British consul with dubious authority and a weakness for drink, is kidnapped by Paraguayan revolutionaries who have mistaken him for the American … |
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Resistance and emancipation
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Arturo Casas,Ben Bollig |
vii, 409 p. ; 23 cm |
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Muriel's war
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Sheila Isenberg |
"An American heiress turned resistance hero, Muriel Gardiner was an electrifying woman who impressed everyone she met with her beauty, intelligence, and powerful personality. Her adventurous life led… |
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Die Insel der tausend Quellen
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Christiane Gohl |
Tras la muerte de su primer amor, Nora, la hija de un comerciante londinense, se une, a través de un matrimonio de conveniencia, a Elias, un viudo propietario de un plantación de azúcar. La vida en e… |
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Banditen, Spione oder Helden?
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Karl-Heinz Brenndörfer |
Rumänien nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. Dargestellt werden aus Akten der kommunistischen Geheimpolizei und aus Erinnerungen von Betroffenen Handlungen gegen die von den Sowjets eingesetzten Machthabern.… |
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Long Walk to Freedom
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Chris Van Wyk,Nelson Mandela,Paddy Bouma |
The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, Long Walk to Freedom brilliantly recreates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. Emo… |
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Into the inferno
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Yoel Palgi,Phyllis Palgi |
"In the spring of 1944, a group of thirty-two young Palestinian Jews parachuted into Nazi-held Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Their goal was to encourage Jewish resistance where possible and to orga… |
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Aimée & Jaguar
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Erica Fischer |
Berlin 1942. Lilly Wust, twenty-nine, married, four children, led a life as did millions of German women. But then she met the twenty-one-year-old Felice Schragenheim.
It was love almost at first … |
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The Tree of liberty
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Nicholas N. Kittrie |
Contains primary source material. |
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Resisting the Holocaust
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Ruby Rohrlich |
This reader seeks to redress the imbalance of members of the Holocaust resistance from male non-Jews to Jewish females. leading scholars from various disciplines, including Anthrolpology, history, po… |
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Defiance
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Nechama Tec |
The prevailing image of European Jews during the Holocaust years is one of helpless victims under a death sentence, unable to fight consignment to the ghettos, to the camps, and to the gas chambers. … |
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Gott will Taten sehen
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Anke Silomon,Margot Kässmann |
For many resisters to Nazism, their Christian faith was a moral compass and the source of their courage. They were very different kinds of people: theologians disappointed with the churches, governme… |
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Make me!
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Eric Toshalis |
"In this groundbreaking book, Eric Toshalis explores student resistance through a variety of perspectives, arguing that oppositional behaviors can be not only instructive but productive. All too ofte… |
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Das Schweigen der Eulen
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Jan De Leeuw |
Arnoud, fast 14, verbringt den Sommer 1996 unfreiwillig im kleinen flämischen Heimatdorf seiner Grosseltern. Die Oma ist gestorben und er soll seinem Vater dabei helfen, das Haus zu entrümpeln. Arnou… |
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The Holocaust
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Maron L. Waxman,Morrison David Beal,Bea Stadtler |
Describes the experiences of Jews in Germany and other European countries during the twelve years of the Third Reich when more than six million of their number were systematically destroyed. |
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