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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 publish, 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 international battle II. As warfare raged opposed to Hitler's Germany, progressively more Allied fliers have been shot down on missions opposed to Nazi objectives in occupied Europe.

Aristocracy and its Enemies in the Age of Revolution

Considering the fact that time immemorial Europe have been ruled by way of 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 completely. "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 extraordinary and complicated elite within the eu global, discovered 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 scale of an American flag pin decorating a lapel, it’s no mystery that sort has political which means. And there has been no time in background while the politics of style used to be extra fraught than through the French Revolution. within the 1790s nearly any article of garments may 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 struggle I have been a time of social and political ferment in Europe, which profoundly affected the paintings global. an immense heart of this inventive tumult was once Paris, the place many avant-garde artists sought to rework glossy artwork 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 the most important roles within the improvement of contemporary artwork, in simple terms to be suppressed by means of struggle fever after which forgotten.