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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 via the Washington submit, this a page–turning tale of a gaggle of resistance employees who secreted downed Allied fighter pilots via France and into security in Spain in the course of international warfare II. As warfare raged opposed to Hitler's Germany, increasingly 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

In view that time immemorial Europe have been ruled by way of nobles and nobilities. within the eighteenth century their strength appeared higher entrenched than ever. yet in 1790 the French revolutionaries made a decided try to abolish the Aristocracy totally. "Aristocracy" grew to become the time period for every little thing they have been opposed to, and the the Aristocracy of France, so lately the main excellent and complicated elite within the ecu global, came upon 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 expensive haircuts, to the dimensions of an American flag pin decorating a lapel, it’s no mystery that variety has political that means. And there has been no time in background whilst the politics of style was once 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 ahead of global conflict I have been a time of social and political ferment in Europe, which profoundly affected the artwork global. a big middle of this inventive tumult was once Paris, the place many avant-garde artists sought to rework smooth paintings via their engagement with radical politics. during this provocative examine of paintings and anarchism in prewar France, Patricia Leighten argues that anarchist aesthetics and a similar politics of shape performed an important roles within the improvement of contemporary artwork, in basic terms to be suppressed by way of struggle fever after which forgotten.