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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 put up, this a page–turning tale of a gaggle of resistance staff who secreted downed Allied fighter pilots via France and into defense in Spain in the course of international struggle II. As warfare raged opposed to Hitler's Germany, progressively more Allied fliers have been shot down on missions opposed to Nazi ambitions in occupied Europe.

Aristocracy and its Enemies in the Age of Revolution

Considering that time immemorial Europe were ruled by way of 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 completely. "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 stunning and complicated elite within the ecu global, chanced on itself persecuted in ways in which horrified opposite numbers in different nations.

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

From the colour of a politician’s tie, to exorbitantly high priced haircuts, to the dimensions of an American flag pin decorating a lapel, it’s no mystery that kind has political which means. And there has been no time in historical past while the politics of style used to be extra fraught than in the course of the French Revolution. within the 1790s virtually any article of garments can be scrutinized for proof of one’s political association.

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

The years earlier than international warfare I have been a time of social and political ferment in Europe, which profoundly affected the paintings global. an immense middle of this artistic tumult used to be Paris, the place many avant-garde artists sought to rework smooth artwork via their engagement with radical politics. during this provocative examine 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 paintings, in simple terms to be suppressed via conflict fever after which forgotten.