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Merissa (11612 KP) created a post

Apr 21, 2021  
"It's a dangerous time to be a dissident..."

TOUR: Two Fatherlands (Reschen Valley #4) by Chrystyna Lucyk-Berger - @Archaeolibrary, @maryanneyarde, @ckalyna, #CoffeePotBookClub, #HistoricalFiction, #WW2, #BlogTour,

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Merissa (11612 KP) created a post

Jun 9, 2021  
"A heart-wrenching page-turner about the everyday bravery of ordinary people during wartime."

Tour: Sisters at War by Clare Flynn - @Archaeolibrary, @maryanneyarde, @clarefly, #CoffeePotBookClub, #HistoricalFiction, #WW2, #SistersAtWar, #BlogTour,

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Merissa (11612 KP) created a post

Feb 13, 2024  
"Set in the fascinating world of wartime radio, don’t miss The Shadow Network, a heart-stopping novel of betrayal, treachery, and courage against the odds."

Tour: The Shadow Network (WW2 Secret Agent #2) by Deborah Swift - #TheCoffeePotBookClub, #BlogTour, #WWII #HistoricalFiction, #Thriller

https://archaeolibrarian.wixsite.com/website/post/theshadownetwork-ww2secretagent-2-bydeborahswift
      
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Merissa (11612 KP) created a post

May 3, 2021  
"In September 1939 the British Government launched Operation Pied Piper. To protect them from the perils of German bombing raids, in three days millions of city children were evacuated - separated from their parents."

TOUR - Pied Piper by Keith Stuart - @Archaeolibrary, @maryanneyarde, @len_maynard, #CoffeePotBookClub, #HistoricalFiction, #WW2, #BlogTour,

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ClareR (5542 KP) rated Friedrichstrasse 19 in Books

Jun 11, 2023  
Friedrichstrasse 19
Friedrichstrasse 19
Emma Harding | 2022 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Friedrichstrasse 19 is 6 stories set in the same building over its lifetime. We see Berlin through the eyes of those that lived in the building between 1906 and 2019, and there are some serious historical moments as well as cultural highlights: a woman in the RAF (Rote Armee Fraktion) in 1986; a photographers apprentice in 1906; an unhappily married Jewish woman who meets an actress pre-WW2; the Berlin Airlift post WW2 era, when the actress is trying to find her Jewish lover (she knows there’s little chance); 1969 and a photographer finds a young GDR escapee and decides to help her; 2019, a divorcee originally from the East, who met her ex-husband on the night that the Wall fell.

All intriguing characters and stories that give a glimpse into urban life in Berlin, as well as its history. It probably helped that I was familiar with the history of Germany generally (thanks to a German degree many years ago!), and I make a point of reading fiction set in Germany when/ if I come across it. And this is a pleasure when I come across books like Friedrichstrasse 19!
  
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Bubba Gee (147 KP) rated 42 (2013) in Movies

Jun 23, 2019  
42 (2013)
42 (2013)
2013 | Drama
9
8.7 (6 Ratings)
Movie Rating
Casting, history, writing (0 more)
Civil Rights hero
A masterfully done historical drama,
Chadwick Boseman was absolutely the perfect person for the part of Jackie Robinson.
This film has a very real feel of the hatred and anger in the USA POST WW2.
There was a lot of ignorance and discontent at the time.
I think it is important that this is seen not just as a baseball movie but also that it carries with it to my mind an important piece of the post war civil rights movement.
Powerful and thought provoking, the writers did not shy away from the uglier parts of the racist rhetoric and presented it fully and broadly to be challenged head on.
I would reccomend this to anyone who has an interest in either baseball or civil rights or both together as it presents the telling of a story from a true American hero.
Rest in peace number 42