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

Aristocracy and its Enemies in the Age of Revolution

Due to the fact time immemorial Europe were ruled via nobles and nobilities. within the eighteenth century their energy appeared higher entrenched than ever. yet in 1790 the French revolutionaries made a made up our minds try and abolish the Aristocracy totally. "Aristocracy" turned the time period for every thing they have been opposed to, and the the Aristocracy of France, so lately the main stunning and complex elite within the eu international, 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 favor used to be extra fraught than in the course of the French Revolution. within the 1790s virtually any article of garments will 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 artwork global. a tremendous middle of this artistic tumult was once Paris, the place many avant-garde artists sought to remodel sleek paintings via their engagement with radical politics. during this provocative research of paintings 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 recent artwork, purely to be suppressed via warfare fever after which forgotten.