The Break with the Past: Avant-Garde Architecture in Germany, 1910 - 1925
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Between 1918 and 1933 the German interwar avant-garde was a primary force driving European cultural...
Awix (3310 KP) rated The Aftermath (2019) in Movies
Mar 14, 2019
Decent production values but the performances aren't good enough to lift a story which feels trite, hackneyed and inconsequential. No sense of passion or danger, hard to care about anyone or anything in the movie; it's just incredibly dull and predictable.
Lessons
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While the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has...
WW2 Post war Germany Post War UK Relationships Literary Fiction Historical Fiction
Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955
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Germany, 1945: a country in ruins. Cities have been reduced to rubble and more than half of the...
History Non-Fiction Germany World War 2 Politics 20th Century
Secret Duties of a Signals Interceptor: Working with Bletchley Park, the SDs and the OSS
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The Second World War upended many lives, disrupting patterns and routines and bringing an array of...
Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
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Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) has...
Nowhere's Child: The Inspiring Story of How One Woman Survived Hitler's Breeding Camps and Found an Irish Home
Kari Rosvall and Naomi Linehan
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Up until the age of 64, much of Kari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery. Then, one day, a...
Architecture of Great Expositions 1937-1959: Messages of Peace, Images of War
Rika Devos, Alexander Ortenberg, Vladimir Paperny and Eamonn Canniffe
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This book investigates architecture as a form of diplomacy in the context of the Second World War at...
The Battleship Builders: Constructing and Arming British Capital Ships
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The launch in 1906 of HMS Dreadnought, the world's first all-big-gun battleship, rendered all...
