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The Freedom Line: The Brave Men and Women Who Rescued Allied Airmen from the Nazis During World War II

In comparison to Casablanca by means of the Washington submit, this a page–turning tale of a gaggle of resistance employees who secreted downed Allied fighter pilots via France and into safeguard in Spain in the course of global conflict II. As warfare raged opposed to Hitler's Germany, increasingly more Allied fliers have been shot down on missions opposed to Nazi goals in occupied Europe.

Aristocracy and its Enemies in the Age of Revolution

Due to the fact time immemorial Europe were ruled through nobles and nobilities. within the eighteenth century their strength appeared larger entrenched than ever. yet in 1790 the French revolutionaries made a made up our minds try and abolish the Aristocracy totally. "Aristocracy" grew to become the time period for every thing they have been opposed to, and the the Aristocracy of France, so lately the main outstanding and complicated elite within the eu international, stumbled on itself persecuted in ways in which horrified opposite numbers in different international locations.

Dandyism in the Age of Revolution: The Art of the Cut

From the colour of a politician’s tie, to exorbitantly expensive haircuts, to the scale of an American flag pin decorating a lapel, it’s no mystery that kind has political that means. And there has been no time in background while the politics of favor was once extra fraught than throughout the French Revolution. within the 1790s virtually any article of garments should be scrutinized for proof of one’s political association.

The Liberation of Painting: Modernism and Anarchism in Avant-Guerre Paris

The years sooner than international struggle I have been a time of social and political ferment in Europe, which profoundly affected the artwork global. an enormous middle of this artistic tumult used to be Paris, the place many avant-garde artists sought to remodel smooth paintings via their engagement with radical politics. during this provocative research of artwork and anarchism in prewar France, Patricia Leighten argues that anarchist aesthetics and a comparable politics of shape performed the most important roles within the improvement of contemporary artwork, in basic terms to be suppressed through conflict fever after which forgotten.