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A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism by Caroline Moorehead
Category: History | Series: The\Resistance Quartet Ser.
'Moorehead paints a wonderfully vivid and moving portrait of the women of the Italian Resistance' MAX HASTINGS, SUNDAY TIMES The extraordinary story of the courageous women who spearheaded the Italian Resistance during the Second World War In the late summer of 1943, in the midst of German occupation, t ...Show more
A House in the Mountains - The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism by Caroline Moorehead
Category: History | Series: The\Resistance Quartet Ser.
NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe extraordinary story of four courageous women who helped form the Italian Resistance against the Nazis and the Fascists during the Second World War.In the late summer of 1943, when Italy changed sides in WWII and the Germans, now their enemies, occupied the north of the country, an ...Show more
A Train in Winter - A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival in Auschwitz by Caroline Moorehead
Category: History | Series: The\Resistance Quartet Ser.
On an icy dawn morning in Paris in January 1943, a group of 230 French women resisters were rounded up from the Gestapo detention camps and sent on a train to Auschwitz - the only train, in the four years of German occupation, to take women of the resistance to a death camp. The youngest was a schoolgir ...Show more
Black Middle-Class Britannia - Identities, Repertoires, Cultural Consumption by Ali Meghji; John Solomos (Series edited by); Satnam Virdee (Series edited by); Aaron Winter (Series edited by)
Category: Politics | Series: Racism, Resistance and Social Change Ser.
This book analyses how racism and anti-racism affects Black British middle-class cultural consumption. In doing so, it challenges the dominant understanding of British middle-class identity and culture as being 'beyond race'. Paying attention to the relationship between cultural capital and cultural rep ...Show more
Defiance (Resistance #2) by Carla Jablonski
Category: Fiction | Series: Resistance
In 1943, as the German occupation of France continues, the Tessier siblings increase their involvement in the Resistance while staying out of the way of the Millice, the Vichy military police. Includes facts about Charles De Gaulle and his support of resistance movements. Young adult.
Internationalism or Extinction by Noam Chomsky; Charles Derber (Editor); Suren Moodliar (Editor); Paul Shannon (Editor)
Category: History | Series: Universalizing Resistance Ser.
In his new book, Noam Chomsky writes cogently about the threats to planetary survival that are of growing alarm today. The prospect of human extinction emerged after World War II, the dawn of a new era scientists now term the Anthropocene. Chomsky uniquely traces the duality of existential threats from ...Show more
Queens of the Resistance: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez by Brenda Jones; Krishan Trotman
Category: Biography | Series: Queens of the Resistance Ser.
Part of the four-book Queens of the Resistance series, saluting some of the most beloved boss ladies in Congress: a celebration of AOC, the youngest woman ever to serve in Congress and its newest superstar Not long ago, no one could even imagine a twenty-eight-year-old Latina upstart running for Cong ...Show more
Resistance the Gathering Storm by William C. Dietz
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: Resistance Ser.
Great Britain. July 1951. Three years ago, Russia went dark. Nothing got in. Nothing got out. The world assumed it was political strife. But it was the Chimera: voracious extraterrestrial invaders. And in December 1949, they burst across the Russian border and poured into Europe. The luckiest humans die ...Show more
The Aesthetics of Resistance: A Novel by Peter Weiss
Category: Fiction | Series: Aesthetics of Resistance S.
A major literary event, the publication of this masterful translation makes one of the towering works of twentieth-century German literature available to English-speaking readers for the first time. The three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance is the magnum opus of Peter Weiss, the internationall ...Show more
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