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Ontdek de geschiedenis van de Spaanse Burgeroorlog die van 1936 tot 1939 werd uitgevochten tussen de Republikeinen, voorstanders van een progressief en liberaal Spanje, en de Nationalisten, voorstanders van een conservatief regime met fascistische neigingen. Het was de culminatie van diepe politieke en sociale spanningen die sinds de jaren twintig waren opgelopen. De kwetsbaarheid van de nieuwe instellingen in het land en het internationale klimaat droegen bij tot de radicalisering van het politieke leven en de omverwerping van het Volksfront in 1936. Aan het hoofd van de nationalisten stond generaal Franco, gesteund door Hitler en Mussolini, die snel een persoonlijke dictatuur vestigde en Franco's bewind na de oorlog oplegde. Voor sommige historici was deze episode niet meer dan een generale repetitie voor het komende tweede wereldconflict.

»Ich, Phileas Fogg, vermache hiermit mein Vermögen, mein Archiv und meine Wohnung meinem einzigen Sohn, James Fogg, unter der ausdrücklichen Bedingung, dass er mir die hier folgende Aufgabe erfülle: Um meine Tradition, die von Phileas Fogg, hochzuhalten, soll mein Sohn eine Reise um die Welt in der Hälfte der Zeit vollbringen, welche meine Reise um die Welt dauerte.«

De laatste jaren van de Eerste Wereldoorlog waren een zeer onzekere tijd; het leek erop dat de overwinning beide kanten op kon gaan. De Fransen en Britten waren teruggeslagen in de Tweede Slag om de Aisne en in Flanders Fields, de Italianen waren verslagen in de Slag bij Caporetto, en Rusland had net een vredesverdrag getekend met Duitsland. De bondgenoten van Duitsland waren echter ook ernstig verzwakt en de toetreding van de Verenigde Staten tot de oorlog leek het tij te kunnen keren. In slechts 50 minuten komt u te weten hoe de laatste jaren van de oorlog de uitkomst van de gevechten bepaalden en begrijpt u de grote invloed ervan op de toekomst van Duitsland. Dit eenvoudige en informatieve boek biedt een grondige bespreking van de sleutelmomenten in de laatste jaren van de gevechten, waaronder de vertrouwenscrisis van de geallieerden, de verzwakking van het Duitse leger en het geallieerde tegenoffensief. Het bevat ook een volledige beschrijving van de strategieën van beide partijen en een grondig onderzoek naar de onmiddellijke gevolgen van het conflict, waardoor u alle essentiële informatie krijgt over de slotfase van de Eerste Wereldoorlog.

Deserteure der Wehrmacht und der Waffen-SS brachen im Zweiten Weltkrieg mit dem NS-Staat. Sie überschritten in vielfacher Weise Grenzen: Normen der Militärjustiz und militärisch-maskuline Werte, territoriale Sperranlagen und Frontlinien, ideologische Feindbilder, ethnische Hierarchien und Sprachbarrieren. Desertieren war mit der Suche nach Zuflucht und Aufnahme, Amnestie und Anerkennung verbunden. Dabei bewegten sich Deserteure in politisch-sozialen Rahmen, formuliert von Partisanen, Alliierten, neutralen Staaten und schließlich von den Nachfolgestaaten NS-Deutschlands. Der politische Streit um die Deserteure endete vor 15 Jahren mit einer umfassenden Rehabilitierung. Die Beiträge des Bandes rekapitulieren diesen Prozess mit aktuellen Forschungen. Sie richten den Blick auf bislang wenig beachtete Aspekte, etwa dass ein Großteil der Deserteure nichtdeutscher Herkunft war und aus annektierten und besetzten Gebieten stammte, sowie auf die Rolle von Helferinnen und Helfern.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2023 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Holocaust-Studien, Note: 2.0, Technische Universität Chemnitz, Veranstaltung: Spanien, Portugal und Holocaust, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Während des Zweiten Weltkriegs konnten Tausende von Juden mithilfe der spanischen und portugiesischen Konsuln quer durch Europa auf die Iberische Halbinsel flüchten. Eine wesentliche Frage ist derzeit, wie und warum dies geschah, wenn man bedenkt, dass Spanien von einem Nazi-Deutschland-nahen Regime unter der Führung von General Franco regiert wurde.Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird das Verhältnis zwischen Spanien und Deutschland in der Zeit der Judenverfolgung betrachtet. Sie setzt sich aus vier Kapiteln zusammen. Zunächst wird ein historischer Überblick über den deutschen Einfluss auf Spanien gegeben. Im zweiten Kapitel wird auf die Judenpolitik Bezug genommen, woraufhin das dritte Kapitel die Rolle Spaniens als Transitland untersucht. Abschließend wird im vierten Kapitel auf die Flucht des Juden Walter Benjamin eingegangen. Der Aufsatz schließt mit einer Zusammenfassung der gewonnenen Erkenntnisse über den Holocaust in Spanien.Die Bedeutung Spaniens für jüdische Flüchtlinge sollte nicht unterschätzt werden, da es aufgrund seiner geografischen Lage, die es Juden ermöglichte, Spanien auf ihrer Flucht als Transitland zu nutzen, eine wichtige Rolle spielte. Die Zugänge zum Atlantik und zum Mittelmeer ermöglichten es den Juden, das Land durchqueren und Europa von dort aus auf dem Seeweg zu verlassen. In den Jahren des Zweiten Weltkriegs hatten neutrale Länder die besten Voraussetzungen und Möglichkeiten, Juden, die vor dem Genozid der Nazis flohen, Asyl zu gewähren. Die Aufnahmebereitschaft vieler neutraler Staaten war jedoch gering.

This generously illustrated and comprehensive book focuses on a decisive decade in Max Beckmann's career as one of the leading figurative painters of the twentieth century. This publication will provide insight into a critical period in the artist's development and the accomplishments that earned him such high esteem. Max Beckmann's brief but profoundly jarring service as a medical orderly during World War I led to a nervous breakdown. He assimilated his experiences and incorporated recent and radical developments in art, such as Cubism and Expressionism, leading him to advance new pictorial conceptions beginning in 1915. To many of his contemporaries, the work Beckmann created between 1917 and 1925 placed him at the forefront of the latest developments in representational painting. In 1925, Beckmann's celebrated status was confirmed by his prominence in the groundbreaking "Neue Sachlichkeit" (New Objectivity) exhibition in Mannheim, although he later distanced himself from the term. This book will situate Beckmann artistically and historically. Essays by both established experts and emerging scholars investigate the seminal energy found in the work he created between 1915 to 1925-a period to which the artist himself repeatedly returned over the course of his lifetime. The self- referential aspect of Beckmann's output is key to understanding his progression as an artist, which comes more clearly into focus via an analysis of these critical early years.

Discover how painters such as Van Gogh, Mondrian, and Jacoba van Heemskerck drew on the legacy of Dutch landscapes and realism to put their own spin on the Impressionist movement. Impressionism may have originated in France, but artists in late 19th- and early 20th-century Netherlands quickly made it their own. The genre's vibrant colors and focus on light and atmosphere were a perfect complement to the country's groundbreaking traditions of landscape painting and realism. This exhibition catalog brings together hundreds of works by nearly forty artists including Johan Barthold Jongkind, Vincent van Gogh, Jacoba van Heemskerck, and Piet Mondrian. It traces the birth of the Hague School, whose practitioners captured the changing moods of light in the coastline's vast, grey skies. And it explores the Amsterdam Impressionists, whose cityscapes offered realistic images of modern life. Alongside vibrant reproductions of masterworks, a series of lively essays explore a diverse array of topics, including Dutch landscape painting within an international context; Dutch artist settlements and communities; and iconography in Dutch impressionism.

A groundbreaking, new perspective on the painter's scandalous nudes. Among the most celebrated works of Modigliani's brief but brilliant career are his large-format nudes. Drenched in color and glowing with the artist's deep appreciation of women and the female form, these works ushered in a new era of nude portraiture, while also causing an enormous scandal. This stunning exhibition catalog offers a new perspective on this aspect of Modigliani's work by examining for the first time his portraits of emancipated women sporting coupe garçonnes haircuts and wearing loin cloths. Modigliani was one of the first chroniclers of the femme moderne, which also influenced his nude painting and the scandal they caused. Featuring lavish reproductions and astute texts by leading scholars, this volume also examines Modigliani's cultural context in European Classicism, from Toulouse-Lautrec and Cezanne to the work of his contemporaries, including Paula Modersohn-Becker, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Jeanne Mammen and Wilhelm Lehmbruck; and traces his impact on future European Modernism and New Objectivity.

"Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis never told a lie. When the Nazi's invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is convince his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading towards 'new homes' where they are promised jobs and safety. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy goes to the station platform every day and reassures the passengers that the journey is safe. But when the final train is at the station, Nico sees his family being loaded into a large boxcar crowded with other neighbors. Only after it is too late does Nico discover that he helped send the people he loved--and all the others--to their doom at Auschwitz. Nico never tells the truth again"--

They could have been allies: two self-made millionaires who invented a global industry, in an era when wife and mother were supposed to be the highest goals for their sex. Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein each founded empires built on grit and determination...and yet they became locked in a feud spanning three continents, two world wars, and the Great Depression. Brought up in poverty, Canadian-born Elizabeth Arden changed popular opinion, persuading women from all walks of life ­to buy skincare products that promised them youth and beauty. Helena Rubinstein left her native Poland, and launched her company with scientific claims about her miracle creams made with anti-ageing herbs. And when it came to business, nothing was off-limits: poaching each other's employees, copying each other's products, planting spies, hiring ex-husbands, and one-upping each other every chance they had. This was a rivalry from which there was no surrender! And through it all were two women, bold, brazen, and determined to succeed--no matter the personal cost. In this sweeping novel from the bestselling author of Jackie and Maria and The Manhattan Girls, two larger-than life fashion icons come alive with all their passion, bitterness, and ambition as they each try to live the American dream.--Amazon

Join Australian soldiers, Stan and Billy, in their stubborn resistance against an overwhelming World War II Japanese force in Papua New Guinea as the Australians fight a tactical withdrawal along the Kokoda Track. The strategies and tactics used in this withdrawal created one of the most famous actions in the annals of Australian military history and was to have a major impact on the collective psyche of all Australians. Follow the magnitude of this impact as it played out on the streets of Brisbane. Link arms with Carol and Jean, two sisters who experience love and tragedy while struggling to fulfil their duties as waitresses in the Victory Café. Experience the full effect that tens of thousands of allied troops had on their home city of Brisbane. Put yourself in the middle of the Battle of Brisbane - a brief battle that broke out between Australian and American servicemen, which highlighted the tension that existed between these two allied forces. At war's end, you will realise how it was that this generation was able to face their future with such confidence and certainty as they built the foundations of the modern Australia that we all enjoy today.

As Isabella and her best friend Coral embark on a night of adventure to Luna Park, their worlds are changed forever by a chance meeting with some rather dapper American soldiers. Paul has just finished his military training in Australia, and as he stumbles across a beautiful local girl on the streets of Melbourne, he knows he has no choice but to see her again. After their paths have crossed, Paul and Isabella discover a romantic connection like never before, and love is most certainly in the air under the enormous full moon. But Paul is to be shipped out to war any day now. Will their budding relationship survive the horrors of World War II, the seemingly endless long distance, having to pack up and move across the world, a tumultuous family environment and the tests of time itself? Will their love be enough? Find out in Isabella's Moon, a war-time romance, set in the peak of World War II, following two young hopefuls from two very different worlds. This amorous tale filled with 1940s nostalgia, highlights the importance of following your gut, the value of family and friends, and the joys of finding the love of your life.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2023 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts, Note: 1,0, Universität zu Köln (Philosophisches Seminar), Veranstaltung: Philosophie der Psychoanalyse, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Sigmund Freud beeinflusste viele Denker seiner Zeit. So beispielsweise auch Goethe, der sich mit Freuds Überlegungen zum Todestrieb gedanklich beschäftigte. Freud stellte aber vor allem die Psychoanalytiker und Philosophen mit seinem Werk "Jenseits des Lustprinzips" von 1920 vor neue metapsychologische Herausforderungen. In dieser Hausarbeit werden seine Theorien zum Lustprinzip und Todestrieb genauer untersucht. Zunächst werden allgemeine Anmerkungen zu Freud und seinem Werk angegeben, sodass es in seiner Entstehungsgeschichte und hinsichtlich des philosophischen Gehalts eingeordnet werden kann. Hier werden bereits die grundlegenden Begriffe erklärt und in ihren inhaltlichen Zusammenhang gebracht. Es wird ein kurzer inhaltlicher Umriss des Werks und seiner einzelnen Analyseschritte vorangestellt, um ein grundsätzliches Verständnis zu vermitteln. Im Anschluss werden die einzelnen Elemente seiner Abhandlung genauer untersucht und in eine eigenständige Analyse eingebettet. Hierzu wird zunächst auf das Lustprinzip selbst eingegangen und anschließend die Quellen der Unlust genauer untersucht. Darauf folgend wird auf die Grundsätze des Wiederholungszwanges eingegangen und mit den von Freud angeführten Beispielen erklärt. Wie Freud dann den Sprung vom Wiederholungszwang hin zu einem Todeszwang zu erklären versucht, benötigt zunächst ein allgemeines Verständnis zum Aufbau des psychischen Apparates. Dementsprechend werden einige der hierzu von Freud angenommenen Grundlagen im Kapitel ¿zwischen Trauma und Trieb¿ angeführt. Mithilfe dessen stelle ich im Anschluss einige Argumentationsmuster Freuds bezüglich des Todestriebs heraus. Aufgrund des geringen Umfangs dieser Hausarbeit werde ich mich auf die Phänomene des zwanghaften Wiederholens unlustvoller Erlebnisse, der Bedeutsamkeit des Sexualtriebs und der biologisch argumentierten Herangehensweise Freuds widmen. Seinen metapsychischen Sprung zum Unterschied zwischen Eros und Thanos werde ich an dieser Stelle zur Vereinfachung auslassen. In der Schlussbetrachtung werden einige Gegenargumente für Freuds Todestriebhypothese und eine kritische Reflexion angeführt. Hierbei werden einige grundlegende Forschungsmeinungen der Kritiker miteinbezogen und ein eigener Standpunkt entwickelt.

Rudyard Kipling var en stor inspirator og et forbillede for Johannes V. Jensen. Fra sin tidlige ungdom i Viborg, hvor Jensen første gang stiftede bekendtskab med den britiske forfatter og til sine voksne år, hvor han oversatte flere af Kiplings værker, hang beundringen fast. "Rudyard Kipling" er et portræt af forfatteren, men også en refleksion over hans påvirkning af Johannes V. Jensens eget livssyn og litterære stil. -

Durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale, Paternò subì diversi bombardamenti da parte delle forze aeree alleate. In particolare, ci furono due importanti incursioni aeree su Paternò nel 1943, quando l'isola era contesa tra le forze alleate e quelle dell'Asse.I bombardamenti vanno contestualizzati nella operazione di guerra conseguente lo sbarco in Sicilia noto come operazione Husky.Il primo bombardamento avvenne il 14 luglio 1943, quando la città fu colpita da un raid aereo statunitense. L'attacco causò la distruzione di numerose abitazioni, tra cui molte case private, e la morte di diverse persone. Inoltre, gran parte del centro storico di Paternò fu distrutto.

From 1872 to 1939, a significant number of Australian and New Zealand artists were chosen for exhibition at the annual French Salons. The imprimatur of the Salons bestowed prestige, publicity and visibility, and increased an artist's saleability, both at home and abroad. But the character of the Salons fragmented over time and selection became coloured by the nature of the Salon and the values it represented. Tradition, rebellion, innovation and unique interests became arbiters and by the close of these years, France had lost its position as the centre of the art world.With details drawn from the archives of the Louvre, Australasian Artists at the French Salons, is a fascinating and detailed record of the world of these artists ... their allegiance to a studio or master, their subjects, their travels and their locations. We sense their aspirations and their hopes and their excitement at establishing themselves on a world stage.A fully updated 3rd edition in colour.

Meet Maggie Munroe, a girl with the strength of Glasgow in her heart and a bunch of men trying to muscle their way into it. They won't rest until only one has succeeded but, fortunately, she doesn't suffer fools gladly and can see them coming a mile off - with the help of her intuition, her deid mammy and a Knickerbocker glory.It is wartime in Maryhill, Glasgow. The city is in turmoil but, throughout it all, its residents struggle for whatever sliver of normalcy they can get. With the support of a boisterous family and steadfast friends, can Maggie navigate 1930s and 40s societal politics in her attempt to find the right path? Her gang includes her unwavering daddy who often cannot see past the end of his nose, an interfering aunt whose biggest belief is in her own opinion and a train wreck girlfriend striving for acceptance, so, when it comes to the four men makin' a meal o' it, they are in good company. Still, oor Maggie will not go down without a fight.

Sociologists and writers, all agreed on a common point of view: the family has changed, and even more so it is in crisis. I wanted to do a research on Hervé Bazin's novel, Qui j'ose aimer, because in his work, man is celebrated and the family is the central theme of all his novels. I will try to see how this family mutation in the broad sense is transposed in the novel and influences the relationships between all the members of the family. What I also found very interesting was the fact that the novel was about a matriarchal family (recomposed towards the end) and this phenomenon is similar to that of today where many women live alone or live only with their children, the traditional figure of the father not being so important anymore. The novel also deals with this problem of marriage, which is no longer defined as an institutional logic, an inescapable social obligation (as in the past), but rather as an emotional logic ("we love each other, we marry"). The traditional model, based on marriage, has been shattered.

Football and Fascism. The Politics of Popular Culture in Portugal tells the hidden history of football and discusses its political, social and cultural foundations, during the longest running authoritarian regime in Europe. Theoretically grounded on Bourdieu's field theory, and using a multi-scalar methodology, this award-winning research explores the political tensions between the nationalization of sports envisaged by the Portuguese "New State" and the integration of national football in a globalized urban popular culture. Mobilizing unexplored archival sources, and a wide array of primary materials, this groundbreaking work offers new insight on the administrative structures of the corporativist state, the making of an authoritarian cultural program, and the relation between state institutions and civil society. Besides broadening the scope of existing transnational histories of football, this study also puts into question the conventional geographies and political chronologies adopted in sports history. For his oustanding research, Rahul Kumar won the 2015 "Mário Soares Award - EDP Foundation" for best work in Portuguese history by researchers under 35 and received an honourable mention, also in 2015, in the "CES Award for Young Portuguese speaking Social Scientists", attributed by the Centre for Social Studies of Coimbra University.

" La 9e armée française est une unité de l'armée de terre française qui a combattu durant la Première et la Seconde Guerre mondiale. La 9e armée est recréée le 15 octobre 1939 à partir du détachement d'armée des Ardennes, et est sous la direction du groupe d'armées n° 11. La 9e armée conserve des lacunes dans les services et unités organiques et son état-major reste d'un niveau moyen, ce qui diminue l'influence de ses relations avec les états-majors supérieurs (GA1, QGQ)2. Sous le commandement du général Corap, elle occupe une région dont le front à défendre est situé entre Trélon, en liaison avec la 1re armée, et Pont-à-Bar (Donchery) où commence le secteur de la 2e armée; ce front couvre les trouées de Rocroi et Anor puis s'appuie notamment sur la Meuse entre Revin et Pont-à-Bar, excepté pour la tête de pont de Charleville-Mézières. Cette tête de pont bénéficie des fortifications les plus solides du secteur de la 9e armée; ailleurs elles sont relativement faibles. L'attention au cours de la drôle de guerre se porte sur l'amélioration des organisations défensives entre Trélon et Rocroi mais la population, non évacuée, contrarie les travaux. "

Beautifully illustrated with images of Dorothea Tanning's artwork and more, the first--and definitive--study of this important artist's life and creative output. Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012) has for decades been known primarily as a Surrealist, but Exquisite Dreams shows how the work of this passionate, dynamic, and voraciously curious artist is impossible to categorize. Tanning's lesser-known but equally powerful sculptures, abstract paintings, and films are explored here, and her writings, biography, and art are examined in the contexts of twentieth-century developments in advertising, fashion, popular culture, and art in New York and Paris. Using new archival sources and analyses of Tanning's work in a variety of media, Amy Lyford broadens our understanding of the artist and illuminates her stunning diversity and achievement. This richly illustrated book is an important contribution to the history of women artists, gender, and sexuality studies, as well as the history of Surrealism.

Semi-Detached is a love story that spans time and crosses classes to explore the meaning of home. Set during two paralyzing ice storms (one in 1944 and one in 2013) that are connected by a murder, a house, and the real estate agent who pieces the puzzle together.

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Philosophie des 19. Jahrhunderts, Note: 1,3, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (Institut für Philosophie), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Bachelorarbeit widmet sich der Frage nach der Konzeption des Selbst bei Kierkegaard unter Berücksichtigung des Begriffs der Aufgabe. Kierkegaard entwickelt eine Konzeption des Selbst, die in einem immer wiederkehrenden Prozess, in einer Vollzugshaftigkeit besteht. Zur Untersuchung wird hauptsächlich der erste Abschnitt der Krankheit zum Tode herangezogen. Des weiteren wird uns Kierkegaards Forderung an das Selbst ¿ die Aufgabe ¿ interessieren. Für ein besseres Verständnis wird die Rolle der Vermittlung geklärt werden. Außerdem nicht zu vernachlässigen ist die Bedeutung Hegels, an welchen angelehnt, Kierkegaard eine eigene Form der Dialektik - die Existenzdialektik - entwirft. Sodann wir das Kierkegaard'sche Selbst - das Selbst als Verhältnis - erläutert und in Bezug zu seinem Verständnis des Menschen sowie dessen Grundbedingung gestellt. Dabei kristallisiert sich die Verzweiflung als "Schlüssel zum Selbst" heraus. Letzten Endes werden das Selbst und die damit einhergehende Aufgabe zusammen verwoben und deren Bedeutungs- und Plausibilitätsgehalt erarbeitet. "Erkenne Dich Selbst!" soll am Portal des Orakels von Delphi gestanden haben. Die Frage nach Selbsterkenntnis bildet eine der Ausgangsfragen der Philosophie europäischer Prägung. Ihre Relevanz scheint einleuchtend, denn könnte der Mensch irgendetwas anderes erkennen, wenn er sich selbst nicht erkennen würde? Somit wäre die Frage nach dem Selbst allen anderen vorzuziehen. Die Frage nach Selbsterkenntnis, nach dem Selbst, die Frage nach einem gelingenden Menschsein wurden in verschiedener Art und Weise behandelt. Doch treffen diese Probleme bei Sören Aabye Kierkegaard auf einen bis dato unbekannten fruchtbaren Boden etwas anderer Art. Die Herangehensweise des dänischen Philosophen ist eine, die sich schwer fassen lässt und sich ganz bewusst oft paradox vollzieht. Sein Schreibtstil nimmt häufig poetische Züge an und ähnelt eher selten den trockenen Ausführungen anderer Traktate. Durch seine Methode der indirekten Mitteilung steht nicht nur der Inhalt im Vordergrund, sondern auch die Form.

Interweaving the lives of three of the most significant and also controversial generals of the 20th century, culminating in their battles and rivalries in World War II, Triumph of Leadership explores the varying paths that George Patton, Bernard Montgomery, and Erwin Rommel each took, and philosophies they developed, towards leadership.Patton and Montgomery each longed to fight Rommel given the latter’s stature and reputation, and both succeeded. The competitive rivalry between Patton and Montgomery and their caustic comments about each other in Sicily and Normandy, caused constant problems for Eisenhower and other Allied leaders.Clark has woven a superb array of letters and diary entries into his story, allowing the three generals to speak for themselves and for others—from superior officers to rank-and-file soldiers—to speak about them. This makes his narrative all the more vivid.Colorful and egotistical, each figure had character flaws and needed to somehow overcome their own serious misadventures at various points. The leadership lessons embedded in each general’s story can be usefully applied in many arenas.Only Montgomery lived well beyond World War II. Accused of treason, Rommel was forced to take his own life before the war ended. Patton died a year later in an accident.For readers of Carlo D’Este’s bestseller Patton: A Genius for War (HarperCollins, 1995) and Terry Brighton’s Patton, Montgomery, Rommel: Masters of War (Crown, 2009).Lloyd Clark is one of the leading military historians of our time, and Patton’s inclusion should encourage strong American review attention. Clark is an expert on all aspects of military leadership, making his assessments of the three generals all the more authoritative.Lloyd Clark has published four previous books on World War II with Grove. His most recent, Blitzkrieg (2016), has sold over 10,000 copies in all formats.

It's Swansea, 1939, and having said goodbye to three brothers and a boyfriend, nineteen-year-old Nell is faced with an uncertain future on the home-front. From dealing with a wandering grandmother to witnessing the deaths of her friends, she is determined not to let the war beat her down. She joins the ARP and eventually becomes a local heroine, but behind the smiling face hides a private pain she could never speak of. Despite the toils of war, the only thing Nell really lives for are the letters from abroad and the hope of a better tomorrow.

The New York Times bestseller from iconic Emmy-nominated actress and producer MILLIE BOBBY BROWN: Nineteen Steps "My inner history-loving teenage geek clapped her hands in ecstasy at the thought of a historical novel penned by Enola Holmes, and she wasn't disappointed!Kate QuinnLove blooms in the darkest daysIts 1942, and air raid sirens continue to wail around London. Eighteen-year-old Nellie Morris counts every day lucky that she emerges from the underground shelters unharmed, her loving family still surrounding her.After a chance encounter with Ray, an American airman stationed nearby, Nellie becomes enchanted with the idea of a broader world. Just when Nellie begins to embrace an exciting new life with Ray, a terrible incident occurs during an air raid one evening, tearing Nellies world apart. But just when it seems all hope is lost, Nellie finds that, against all odds, love and happiness can triumph.Nineteen Steps is a deeply affecting, mesmerizing page-turner inspired by the authors family history. An epic story of longing, loss, and secrets, Millie Bobby Browns propulsive debut introduces an unforgettable, brave young woman and boldly portrays the strength in the power of love.Inspired by my Nanny Ruth, this book is very personal and close to my heart. I grew up listening to stories about her time living through the war. Im honored to keep her story alive.Millie Bobby Brown