The Frankfurt Kitchen: Forty-One Stories of Growing Up in Post World War II West Germany, Paperback - Heidi Laird

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Reducere. Conquered, Not Defeated: Growing Up in Denmark During the German Occupation of World War II, Paperback

This book explores an important moment in Italian women's theatre and cultural history: plays written for all-women casts between 1946 and the mid-...

Children of the 1950s have much to look back on with fondness: Muffin the Mule, Andy Pandy, and Dennis the Menace became part of the family for man...

Reducere. Author Hartmut Wegner was born in 1933 near Berlin, Germany, the same year Adolf Hitler took control and built the country into a strong economic a...

Reducere. The Second World War is one of the most significant conflicts in history, but for seven decades our understanding of the war has remained mostly fi...

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It's snapshot of the time between the austerity at the end of the Second World War and the beginning of the Swinging Sixties, a bit of social histo...

Reducere. Description"For all of us to be free, a few of us must be brave, and that is the history of America." Read how a generation of young Americans save...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Thomas ChildersOn April 21, 1945, the twelve-member crew of the Black Cat set off on one of the last air missions in the Eu...

Originally published in 1985, this book provides an important insight into the principal aspects of the history of the policy and practice of polit...

Reducere. Description"For all of us to be free, a few of us must be brave, and that is the history of America." But dying for freedom isn't the worst that co...

No.13 Herbert Road is an engaging autobiographical account of a young boy growing up in the back streets of Small Heath in Birmingham during the 19...

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Reducere. This collection of heroic soldier's stories relays sobering accounts of combat on the Western Front during the First World War. Evocative and vivid...

A middle grade memoir from a living literary legend, giving readers a new perspective on the origins of Gary Paulsen's famed survival stories.

- Anonymous family photos from Britain in the '50s to '80s provide an emotional glimpse of past lives - Shulman's last book Midcentury Memories (97...

Publisher: State House PressAuthor(s): John A. PearceNumber of pages: 300Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 152 x 227 x 30Cover type: Paperback / so...

Features 12 accounts that describe the battle experience, the different nations' attitudes toward imprisonment, and the often-barbaric treatment of...

DescriptionBased on the hugely popular blog of the same name, Born This Way shares 100 different memories of growing up LGBTQ. Childhood photograph...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Joe HajduIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 264Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 234 x 499 x 32Cove...

The No.3 Sunday Times bestselling 'masterpiece' (Andrew O'Hagan)

'I believe that children who are questioning and exploring their gender are the gender bosses that we all so desperately need. I believe that they ...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an 'Iro...

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Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of Nazis' escapes *Discusses the question of whether ODESSA actually existed *Includes online reso...

During the Second World War the master strategy of the West was shaped by four titanic figures: Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt, and their...

Reducere. Japanese-Americans were forcefully removed from their homes and businesses, and placed in "relocation" camps throughout the West. With countless in...

An extraordinary tale of the remarkable bond between one man and his dog during the Second World War.

Reducere. While the country's soldiers were fighting in World War II, the women who stayed behind were making their own courageous--and delicious--contributi...

For fans of Century Girls comes a new book by Tessa Dunlop.Publisher: Headline Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Tessa DunlopNumber of pages: 384Publicati...

When the smoke cleared on Iwo Jima in March 1945, 19, 000 American Marines had been wounded and 7, 000 were dead, a casualty rate of nearly 39 perc...

Reducere. Bannack is a story of adventure and self-discovery set in the time of the Civil War and vigilante violence. Sixteen-year-old Billy Mayfair, kicked ...

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From the invasion of Italy to the gates of Dachau, no World War II infantry unit in Europe saw more action or endured worse than the one commanded ...

75 years on from the end of the second world war, a unique collection from veteran Commonwealth voices who tell how the war changed their lives irr...

Reducere. Tales from the Cold War is one man's memoir about his service time in Germany during the Cold War. Colonel Michael D. Mahler (Ret.) first went to G...

Reducere. This is the story of an isolated community in the upper reaches of the Loire Valley that conspired to save the lives of 3, 500 Jews under the noses...

Reducere. While the country's soldiers were fighting in World War II, the women who stayed behind were making their own courageous--and delicious--contributi...

For fans of The Century Girls and The Bletchley Girls comes a new book by Tessa Dunlop.Publisher: Headline Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Tessa DunlopN...

Reducere. DescriptionJames Shipley came of age in the once segregated, rural community of Tipton, Missouri. When just a young man working for a local mechani...

Reducere. Numbering 4, 000 select officers and men, Combat Team 370 was part of n Europe during World War II the 92nd Infantry Division, the only all-Negro d...

Reducere. Did you know that Germany is a relatively new country? Its many different states only united in 1871, and it reunited after the fall of the Berlin ...

Publisher: Algonquin Books (division of Workman)Author(s): Jerad W. AlexanderNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 239 x 161 x 34Co...

Reducere. What does it mean to have grown up female in the Mao era? How can the remembered details of everyday life help shed light upon those turbulent time...