The Spark of Resistance

The Spark of Resistance
Title The Spark of Resistance PDF eBook
Author Kit Sergeant
Publisher
Pages 420
Release 2020-06-25
Genre
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As the free world crumbles beneath Hitler's jackboot, the French Resistance is depending on these women to change the course of history...When the handsome Armand invites Mathilde Carré to become his second-in-command of Interallié, one of the founding circuits of the Resistance, she jumps at the chance. But as Armand falls for another woman, how far is Mathilde willing to go to exact her revenge?Living a life in shadows with a false identity, Odette Sansom experiences more freedom in Occupied France than she has ever known, and her circuit leader, Peter Churchill, is everything her husband isn't. But one man threatens to destroy all they've achieved...Although Didi Nearne has long dreamt of becoming an agent with the SOE like her sister, they hire her to be a wireless operator instead. As the networks are infiltrated and the on-the-ground agents disappear, Didi is finally given her chance. Will she be able to avoid the Gestapo or suffer the fates of her fellow spies? If you like Ken Follet's Jackdaws, Kate Quinn's The Alice Network, and Sarah Rose's D-Day Girls, you won't be able to put down this meticulously researched tale of love, honor, and deception. Pick it up today!

Nitzotz

Nitzotz
Title Nitzotz PDF eBook
Author Laura M. Weinrib
Publisher Syracuse University Press
Pages 217
Release 2009-11-30
Genre History
ISBN 0815651619

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Under the brutal conditions of the Dachau-Kaufering concentration camp, a handful of young Jews resolved to resist their Nazi oppressors. Their weapons were their words. During the Soviet occupation of Kovno and, after the German invasion, within the Kovno ghetto, the members of Irgun Brith Zion circulated an underground journal, Nitzotz (Spark). In its pages, they debated Zionist politics and laid plans for postwar settlement in Palestine. When the Kovno ghetto was liquidated, several contributors to Nitzotz were deported to the Kaufering satellite camps of Dachau. Against all odds, they did not lay down their pens. Nitzotz is the only Hebrew-language publication known to have appeared consistently throughout the Nazi occupation anywhere in Europe. Its authors believed that their intellectual defiance would insulate them against the dehumanizing cruelty of the concentration camp and equip them to lead the postwar effort for the physical and spiritual regeneration of European Jewry. Laura Weinrib presents this remarkable document to English readers for the first time. Along with a translation of the five remaining Dachau-Kaufering issues, the book includes an extensive critical introduction. Nitzotz is a testament to the resilience of those struggling for survival.

Michael Vey 7

Michael Vey 7
Title Michael Vey 7 PDF eBook
Author Richard Paul Evans
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 336
Release 2017-09-12
Genre Young Adult Fiction
ISBN 1481497030

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The Electroclan must find Michael Vey who has gone missing.

Fighters in the Shadows

Fighters in the Shadows
Title Fighters in the Shadows PDF eBook
Author Robert Gildea
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 616
Release 2015-11-30
Genre History
ISBN 067491502X

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The French Resistance has an iconic status in the struggle to liberate Nazi-occupied Europe, but its story is entangled in myths. Gaining a true understanding of the Resistance means recognizing how its image has been carefully curated through a combination of French politics and pride, ever since jubilant crowds celebrated Paris’s liberation in August 1944. Robert Gildea’s penetrating history of resistance in France during World War II sweeps aside “the French Resistance” of a thousand clichés, showing that much more was at stake than freeing a single nation from Nazi tyranny. As Fighters in the Shadows makes clear, French resistance was part of a Europe-wide struggle against fascism, carried out by an extraordinarily diverse group: not only French men and women but Spanish Republicans, Italian anti-fascists, French and foreign Jews, British and American agents, and even German opponents of Hitler. In France, resistance skirted the edge of civil war between right and left, pitting non-communists who wanted to drive out the Germans and eliminate the Vichy regime while avoiding social revolution at all costs against communist advocates of national insurrection. In French colonial Africa and the Near East, battle was joined between de Gaulle’s Free French and forces loyal to Vichy before they combined to liberate France. Based on a riveting reading of diaries, memoirs, letters, and interviews of contemporaries, Fighters in the Shadows gives authentic voice to the resisters themselves, revealing the diversity of their struggles for freedom in the darkest hours of occupation and collaboration.

The Lost Art of Reading

The Lost Art of Reading
Title The Lost Art of Reading PDF eBook
Author David L. Ulin
Publisher Sasquatch Books
Pages 193
Release 2018-09-04
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1632171953

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Reading is a revolutionary act, an act of engagement in a culture that wants us to disengage. In The Lost Art of Reading, David L. Ulin asks a number of timely questions - why is literature important? What does it offer, especially now? Blending commentary with memoir, Ulin addresses the importance of the simple act of reading in an increasingly digital culture. Reading a book, flipping through hard pages, or shuffling them on screen - it doesn't matter. The key is the act of reading, and it's seriousness and depth. Ulin emphasizes the importance of reflection and pause allowed by stopping to read a book, and the accompanying focus required to let the mind run free in a world that is not one's own. Are we willing to risk our collective interest in contemplation, nuanced thinking, and empathy? Far from preaching to the choir, The Lost Art of Reading is a call to arms, or rather, to pages.

Spark

Spark
Title Spark PDF eBook
Author John J. Ratey
Publisher Little, Brown Spark
Pages 208
Release 2008-01-10
Genre Health & Fitness
ISBN 0316113506

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Bestselling author and renowned psychiatrist Dr. Ratey presents a groundbreaking and fascinating investigation into the transformative effects of exercise on the brain.

The Liberator

The Liberator
Title The Liberator PDF eBook
Author Alex Kershaw
Publisher Crown
Pages 466
Release 2013-10-15
Genre History
ISBN 0307888002

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The untold story of the bloodiest and most dramatic march to victory of the Second World War—now a Netflix original series starring Jose Miguel Vasquez, Bryan Hibbard, and Bradley James “Exceptional . . . worthy addition to vibrant classics of small-unit history like Stephen Ambrose’s Band of Brothers.”—Wall Street Journal Written with Alex Kershaw's trademark narrative drive and vivid immediacy, The Liberator traces the remarkable battlefield journey of maverick U.S. Army officer Felix Sparks through the Allied liberation of Europe—from the first landing in Italy to the final death throes of the Third Reich. Over five hundred bloody days, Sparks and his infantry unit battled from the beaches of Sicily through the mountains of Italy and France, ultimately enduring bitter and desperate winter combat against the die-hard SS on the Fatherland's borders. Having miraculously survived the long, bloody march across Europe, Sparks was selected to lead a final charge to Bavaria, where he and his men experienced some of the most intense street fighting suffered by Americans in World War II. And when he finally arrived at the gates of Dachau, Sparks confronted scenes that robbed the mind of reason—and put his humanity to the ultimate test.