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The Killing Fields of Provence

Author : James Bourhill
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526761335
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book The Killing Fields of Provence written by James Bourhill and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2020-02-19 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the German occupation of France during World War II, the French resistance, and ultimately the nation’s liberation. In the south of France, the most memorable event of World War II was the sea and airborne invasion of August 15, 1944. Perhaps because it went relatively smoothly, this “Second D-Day” was soon relegated to the back pages of history. Operation Dragoon and the liberation are, however, only a small part of the story. The arrival of the Allies was preceded by years of suffering and sacrifice under Hitléro-Vichyssois oppression. Provençale people still struggle to come to terms with the painful past of split-allegiances and empty stomachs that epitomize les années noirs (the dark years). Deportations, requisitions, forced labor, and hunger provoked resistance by a courageous minority. Many actively colluded with the enemy, but most just waited for better days. By sea and air, Allied agents and special forces were infiltrated to fan the flames, but wherever the Resistance arose prematurely, the reprisals from the Nazis and their auxiliaries were ferocious. In every corner of Provence, one can find words chipped into stone: Passant, souviens-toi (passer-by, remember). It is hard to imagine such cruelty could have existed here less than one generation ago. These memories here tell a story of duplicity, defiance, and ultimately, deliverance. Whether the stuff of legends, or the experiences of everyday humans, humanity is used to explain the Franco-American experience of wartime Provence, as seen through an Anglo-Saxon prism. “A complete and well-researched study of the French Resistance groups, Allied agents and Special Forces operating against the Germans in the South of France.” —Firetrench

Deadly Camargue

Author : Cay Rademacher
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1250110726
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Deadly Camargue written by Cay Rademacher and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Dagger Award shortlisted author Cay Rademacher delivers a captivating follow-up to his atmospheric Murderous Mistral with Deadly Camargue. August: the air over Provence shimmers in suffocating heat. Capitaine Roger Blanc and his colleague Marius Tonon are called to the Camargue. A black fighting bull has escaped from the pasture and has gored a cyclist. A bizarre accident, or so it initially seems. Until Blanc discovers evidence that someone left the gate open intentionally... The deceased is Albert Cohen, political magazine reporter, fashion intellectual from Paris, TV personality. He was in the Camargue to write a major article on Vincent van Gogh. Yet what has that got to do with the attack? Blanc comes across Cohen’s incomplete report during his investigation, which is not quite as harmless as it initially appeared. And also a spectacular, never solved burglary on the Côte d'Azur, and an old, deadly story that absolutely everyone wants to forget. By the end, Blanc feels a little more at home in his new surroundings in Provence. But he pays a high price for it.

The Riviera at War

Author : George G. Kundahl
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786722003
Total Pages : 757 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book The Riviera at War written by George G. Kundahl and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 757 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II three distinct forces opposed the Allies - Germany, Italy, and Japan. Few areas of the world experienced domination by more than a single one of these, but southeastern France – the region popularly known as the Riviera or Cote d'Azur - was one. Not only did inhabitants suffer through Italian Fascism and German Nazism but also under a third hardship at times even more oppressive - the rule of Vichy France. Following a nine-month prelude, the reality of World War II burst onto the Riviera in June 1940 when the region had to defend itself against the Italian army and ended in April 1945 with a battle against German and Italian forces in April 1945, a period longer than any other part of France. In this book, George G. Kundahl tells for the first time the full story of World War II on the French Riviera. Featuring previously unseen sources and photographs, this will be essential reading for anyone interested in wartime France.

Death du Jour

Author : Susan Kiernan-Lewis
Publisher : Susan Kiernan-Lewis
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death du Jour written by Susan Kiernan-Lewis and published by Susan Kiernan-Lewis. This book was released on 2018-06-13 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Death in Provence

Author : Graham R. Wood
Publisher : Big Earth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781890768522
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book Death in Provence written by Graham R. Wood and published by Big Earth Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective Lauriant, a cynical, yet compassionate investigator who always gets his man, is back with two murder mysteries rolled into one volume. In 'A Dead Man's Morning', Detective Lauriant's search for the truth leads him to explore contrasting worlds, uncover an unresolved past and question the motives of his own friends. In 'The Sins of the Fathers', Lauriant investigates the death of a general that places him in danger - danger that can only be overcome if he can break from the sinister world of bitter rivalries and deceit, and live by his own terms.

The Murdered House

Author : Pierre Magnan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781408478455
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (784 download)

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Download or read book The Murdered House written by Pierre Magnan and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the century, in a remote inn in Upper Provence, a family is violently massacred. The sole survivor of the massacre is a three-week-old baby. In 1920 the orphaned survivor, Séraphin Monge, returns to avenge the killing of his family.

Death in High Provence

Author : George Bellairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Death in High Provence written by George Bellairs and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lake Trasimene 217 BC

Author : Nic Fields
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472816323
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book Lake Trasimene 217 BC written by Nic Fields and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following Hannibal's crushing victory at the battle of the Trebbia, the reeling Roman Republic sent a new army under the over-confident consul Caius Flaminius to destroy the Carthaginian invaders – unbeknownst to him they were ready and waiting. The destruction of the Roman force at Lake Trasimene firmly established Hannibal as one of the Ancient World's greatest commanders thanks to his use of innovative tactics, including the first recorded use of a turning movement. The Romans would not send another major army to confront him until the battle of Cannae in 216 BC. This new study, based on recent archaeological work on the battlefield itself, tells the full story of one of Hannibal's greatest victories with the help of maps, full-colour illustrations, and detailed sections on the make-up of the armies and their commanders.

Dictionary of Minor Planet Names

Author : Lutz D. Schmadel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3662066157
Total Pages : 941 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Minor Planet Names written by Lutz D. Schmadel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 941 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to its practical value for identification purposes, this collection provides a most interesting historical insight into the work of those astronomers who, over two centuries, revealed their true affinities in a rich and colourful variety of ingenious names - from heavenly goddesses to more prosaic constructions. This third, revised and enlarged edition contains the naming citations for over 95% of the named planets and thus provides a comprehensive data compilation for both astronomers and science historians.

Murder in Nice

Author : Susan Kiernan-Lewis
Publisher : Susan Kiernan-Lewis
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder in Nice written by Susan Kiernan-Lewis and published by Susan Kiernan-Lewis. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Maggie’s old high school friend Lanie Morrison is murdered on the Côte d’Azur while auditioning for the hit TV travel show “Americans See Europe,” Maggie is forced to break away from village life and brand new motherhood to find her killer. She soon learns that before she can find out who murdered Lanie, Maggie will need to uncover the terrible secret that was literally the death of her friend. When she does, Maggie learns the hard way that some things were better left alone.

Liberty or Death

Author : Peter McPhee
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300219504
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Liberty or Death written by Peter McPhee and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-28 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A strinking account of the impact of the French Revolution in Paris, across the French countryside, and around the globe The French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for more than two centuries. It was a seismic event that radically transformed France and launched shock waves across the world. In this provocative new history, Peter McPhee draws on a lifetime’s study of eighteenth-century France and Europe to create an entirely fresh account of the world’s first great modern revolution—its origins, drama, complexity, and significance. Was the Revolution a major turning point in French—even world—history, or was it instead a protracted period of violent upheaval and warfare that wrecked millions of lives? McPhee evaluates the Revolution within a genuinely global context: Europe, the Atlantic region, and even farther. He acknowledges the key revolutionary events that unfolded in Paris, yet also uncovers the varying experiences of French citizens outside the gates of the city: the provincial men and women whose daily lives were altered—or not—by developments in the capital. Enhanced with evocative stories of those who struggled to cope in unpredictable times, McPhee’s deeply researched book investigates the changing personal, social, and cultural world of the eighteenth century. His startling conclusions redefine and illuminate both the experience and the legacy of France’s transformative age of revolution. “McPhee…skillfully and with consummate clarity recounts one of the most complex events in modern history…. [This] extraordinary work is destined to be the standard account of the French Revolution for years to come.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

The Fleur de Sel Murders

Author : Jean-Luc Bannalec
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1466883138
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Fleur de Sel Murders written by Jean-Luc Bannalec and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commissaire Dupin is back in The Fleur de Sel Murders, this Brittany mystery from international bestselling author Jean-Luc Bannalec. The old salt farmers have always said that the violet scent of the Fleur de Sel at harvest time on the salt marshes of the Guérande Peninsula has been known to cause hallucinations. Commissaire Dupin also starts to believe this when he’s attacked out of the blue in the salt works. He had actually been looking forward to escaping his endless paperwork and taking a trip to the “white country” between the raging Atlantic Ocean and idyllic rivers. But when he starts snooping around mysterious barrels on behalf of Lilou Breval, a journalist friend, he finds himself unexpectedly under attack. The offender remains a mystery, and a short time later, Breval disappears without a trace. It is thanks to his secretary Nolwenn and the ambition of the prefect that Dupin is assigned to the case. But he won’t be working alone because Sylvaine Rose is the investigator responsible for the department—and she lives up to her name... What’s going on in the salt works? Dupin and Rose search feverishly for clues and stumble upon false alibis, massive conflicts of interest, personal feuds—and ancient Breton legends.

Risky Transactions

Author : Frank K. Salter
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571817105
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Risky Transactions written by Frank K. Salter and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trust is a central feature of relationships within the Mafia, oppressed minorities, kin groups everywhere, among dissidents, nationalist freedom fighters, ethnic tourists, ethnic middlemen, exchange networks of Kalahari Bushmen, and families subjected to Stalinist social control. Each of these types of trust is examined by a leading scholar and compared with the expectations of neo-Darwinian theory, in particular the theories of kin selection and ethnic nepotism. The result is a fascinating, theoretically focused yet empirically eclectic contribution to the overlapping fields of human ethnology, evolutionary psychology, and bio-politics. The common thread uniting these diverse phenomena is a trusting relationship predicated on altruism. Chapters examine the strengths and limits of human trust under various stressers and temptations to defect. By exploring the relationship between kin and ethnic altruism and showing its sensitivity to culture, Risky Transactions recasts the evolutionary approach to ethnicity as a blend of primordial and instrumental factors.

Children of the Revolution

Author : Robert Gildea
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674032095
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Children of the Revolution written by Robert Gildea and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those who lived in the wake of the French Revolution, its aftermath left a profound wound that no subsequent king, emperor, or president could heal. "Children of the Revolution" follows the ensuing generations who repeatedly tried and failed to come up with a stable regime after the trauma of 1789.

The Rule of Ranging 3

Author : Timothy M. Kestrel
Publisher : Timothy Kestrel Arts & Media
ISBN 13 : 0988666073
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (886 download)

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Download or read book The Rule of Ranging 3 written by Timothy M. Kestrel and published by Timothy Kestrel Arts & Media. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical, action-adventure drama, set in the 1750s in Colonial America during the time of the French and Indian War (aka the Seven Years’ War), is the culmination of the epic trilogy The Rule of Ranging by former US Army Ranger Timothy M. Kestrel. In Cloud Rising in the West, brave hero Finn discovers that the meaning of life is found even in the grimmest of circumstances—including suffering, sacrifice, and death—as he battles under the direction of Major Roger Roberts alongside his loyal best friends: a freed slave Gus, an eccentric wanderer and mentor figure Fronto, and a fierce Wappinger warrior Daniel. Nicknamed “Most True” by the Iroquois, the handsome and strong Finn fights not because he wants to, but because he truly believes it is his duty. He calls on his ability to hunt, which he learned at an early age tracking the movements of wildlife through the forests of his Finland home, to assist him on the battlefield that is the grand natural scenery of upstate New York and Pennsylvania. Finn’s grim determination to survive the war as a member of the legendary Rogers’ Rangers takes him on a journey through the untamed wilderness of North America as he expertly fights the French in a major push toward Montreal. But it is the inner battle that proves to be Finn’s harshest struggle as he attempts to quell the arrogant boy he once was to become the man—and potential loving husband and father—he hopes to be. Through the historically accurate text that is reminiscent of medieval romances looms the specter of the notorious Hessian mercenary Johan “Totenkopf” Kopf—the man who left Finn an orphan and who will finally drive him toward his valiant end. Ultimately, the empathetic Finn learns the most important life lesson is to distinguish between what can be controlled and what cannot. But will he develop the wisdom to tell the difference?

Murder in the South of France

Author : Susan Kiernan-Lewis
Publisher : Susan Kiernan-Lewis
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder in the South of France written by Susan Kiernan-Lewis and published by Susan Kiernan-Lewis. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her sister dies, Atlanta copywriter Maggie Newberry flies to the south of France to find the little niece that no one in the family even knew existed. Along the way, she finds handsome sexy Frenchman Laurent Dernier to help with the search. Meanwhile, her sister’s murderer sets his sights on the little girl—and Maggie.

Dictionary of Minor Planet Names

Author : Lutz Schmadel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540002383
Total Pages : 998 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Minor Planet Names written by Lutz Schmadel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-08-05 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Fifth Edition, is the official reference for the field of the IAU, which serves as the internationally recognised authority for assigning designations to celestial bodies and any surface features on them. The accelerating rate of the discovery of minor planets has not only made a new edition of this established compendium necessary but has also significantly altered its scope: this thoroughly revised edition concentrates on the approximately 10,000 minor planets that carry a name. It provides authoritative information about the basis for all names of minor planets. In addition to being of practical value for identification purposes, this collection provides a most interesting historical insight into the work of those astronomers who over two centuries vested their affinities in a rich and colorful variety of ingenious names, from heavenly goddesses to more prosaic constructions. The fifth edition serves as the primary reference, with plans for complementary booklets with newly named bodies to be issued every three years.