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When Julia Child arrived in Paris in 1948, 'a six-foot-two-inch,
thirty-six-year-old, rather loud and unserious Californian', she
barely spoke a word of French and didn't know the first thing about
cooking. As she fell in love with French culture - buying food at
local markets, sampling the local bistros, and taking classes at
the Cordon Bleu - her life began to change forever. We follow her
extraordinary transformation from kitchen ingenue to
internationally renowned (and internationally loved) expert in
French cuisine. Bursting with Child's adventurous and humorous
spirit, My Life in France captures post-war Paris with wonderful
vividness and charm.
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My 9/11-Through inflight Eyes
(Hardcover)
Terry Horniacek; Edited by Edward Robertson; Cover design or artwork by Joseph Vosges
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R849
R698
Discovery Miles 6 980
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An astonishing tale of romance, resistance and bravery 'A sad and
beautiful book, shining a light on quiet heroism in dark times.'
Lucy Adlington, New York Times bestselling author of The
Dressmakers of Auschwitz Sabine's War is the previously untold
story of a remarkable resistance fighter and her incredible story
of survival against the odds. When Germany invaded Holland in May
1940, Sabine Zuur joined the resistance movement without a moment's
hesitation aged just 22. Helping to hide those avoiding the German
authorities, she was soon betrayed and subjected to repeated
violent interrogations. Many of her friends were executed but
Sabine was instead sent to the Mauthausen concentration camp, via
the Amersfoort and Ravensbruck camps. Enduring gruelling conditions
and backbreaking forced manual labour, she survived through a
combination of guile and good fortune. But it was only after
Sabine's death that her daughter Eva discovered an archive of
letters detailing her extraordinary life, revealing a rich inner
world and a past she had discussed little. Amongst them were
declarations of love from pilot Taro, shot down in his Spitfire
over northern France aged just 26; notes from Sabine's second love
Gerard, executed by the Germans; letters to her mother smuggled out
in her prison laundry; and passionate, creepy missives from a
German professional criminal named Gebele who would ultimately save
Sabine's life. She emerges from this correspondence as a woman with
an indefinable aura, somehow in control of her own destiny even
when to all intents and purposes she was not. A transfixing story
of survival, Sabine's War captures a remarkable life in the words
of the young woman who lived it.
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Tulsa
(Paperback)
Larry Clark
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R534
Discovery Miles 5 340
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When it first appeared in 1971, Larry Clark's groundbreaking book
Tulsa sparked immediate controversy across the nation. Its graphic
depictions of sex, violence, and drug abuse in the youth culture of
Oklahoma were acclaimed by critics for stripping bare the myth that
Middle America had been immune to the social convulsions that
rocked America in the 1960s. The raw, haunting images taken in
1963, 1968, and 1971 document a youth culture progressively
overwhelmed by self-destruction -- and are as moving and disturbing
today as when they first appeared. Originally published in a
limited paperback version and republished in 1983 as a limited
hardcover edition commissioned by the author, rare-book dealers
sell copies of this book for more than a thousand dollars. Now in
both hardcover and paperback editions from Grove Press, this
seminal work of photographic art and social history is once again
available to the general public.
The gripping, vividly told story of the largest POW escape in the
Second World War - organized by an Australian bank clerk, a British
jazz pianist and an American spy. In August 1944 the most
successful POW escape of the Second World War took place - 106
Allied prisoners were freed from a camp in Maribor, in present-day
Slovenia. The escape was organized not by officers, but by two
ordinary soldiers: Australian Ralph Churches (a bank clerk before
the war) and Londoner Les Laws (a jazz pianist by profession), with
the help of intelligence officer Franklin Lindsay. The American was
on a mission to work with the partisans who moved like ghosts
through the Alps, ambushing and evading Nazi forces. How these
three men came together - along with the partisans - to plan and
execute the escape is told here for the first time. The Greatest
Escape, written by Ralph Churches' son Neil, takes us from Ralph
and Les's capture in Greece in 1941 and their brutal journey to
Maribor, with many POWs dying along the way, to the horror of
seeing Russian prisoners starved to death in the camp. The book
uncovers the hidden story of Allied intelligence operations in
Slovenia, and shows how Ralph became involved. We follow the
escapees on a nail-biting 160-mile journey across the Alps, pursued
by German soldiers, ambushed and betrayed. And yet, of the 106 men
who escaped, 100 made it to safety. Thanks to research across seven
countries, The Greatest Escape is no longer a secret. It is one of
the most remarkable adventure stories of the last century.
Throughout the 1920s Mexico was rocked by attempted coups,
assassinations, and popular revolts. Yet by the mid-1930s, the
country boasted one of the most stable and durable political
systems in Latin America. In the first book on party formation
conducted at the regional level after the Mexican Revolution, Sarah
Osten examines processes of political and social change that
eventually gave rise to the Institutional Revolutionary Party
(PRI), which dominated Mexico's politics for the rest of the
twentieth century. In analyzing the history of socialist parties in
the southeastern states of Campeche, Chiapas, Tabasco, and Yucatan,
Osten demonstrates that these 'laboratories of revolution'
constituted a highly influential testing ground for new political
traditions and institutional structures. The Mexican Revolution's
Wake shows how the southeastern socialists provided a blueprint for
a new kind of party that struck calculated balances between the
objectives of elite and popular forces, and between centralized
authority and local autonomy.
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