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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 through the Washington publish, this a page–turning tale of a gaggle of resistance staff who secreted downed Allied fighter pilots via France and into security in Spain in the course of international conflict 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

Due to the fact time immemorial Europe were 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 decided try and abolish the Aristocracy fullyyt. "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 complex 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 while the politics of style was once extra fraught than in the course of the French Revolution. within the 1790s virtually any article of garments can be scrutinized for facts of one’s political association.

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

The years prior to global warfare I have been a time of social and political ferment in Europe, which profoundly affected the paintings global. a big heart of this inventive tumult was once Paris, the place many avant-garde artists sought to rework smooth 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 comparable politics of shape performed the most important roles within the improvement of recent paintings, simply to be suppressed through struggle fever after which forgotten.