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Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel

By: Francis Rabelais

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Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel

By: Francis Rabelais

Reproduction of the original: Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel by Francis Rabelais

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1110

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3732666298

ISBN 13

9783732666294

The Flyer

British Culture and the Royal Air Force 1939-1945

By: Martin Francis

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The Flyer

British Culture and the Royal Air Force 1939-1945

By: Martin Francis

Between 1939 and 1945, the British public was spellbound by the martial endeavours and dashing style of the young men of the RAF, especially those with silvery fabric wings sewn above the breast pocket of their glamorous slate-blue uniform. Martin Francis provides the first scholarly study of the place of 'the flyer' in British culture during the Second World War. Examining the lives of RAF personnel, and their popular representation in literary and cinematic texts, he illuminates broader issues of gender, social class, national and racial identities, emotional life, and the creation of a national myth in twentieth-century Britain. In particular, Francis argues that the flyer's relationship to fear, aggression, loss of his comrades, bodily dismemberment, and psychological breakdown reveals broader ambiguities surrounding the dominant understandings of masculinity in the middle decades of the century. Despite his star appeal, cultural representations of the flyer encompassed both the gentle, chivalrous warrior and the uncompromising agent of destruction. Paying particular attention to the romantic universe of wartime aircrew, Francis reveals the extraordinary contrasts of their daily lives: dicing with death in the sky one moment, before sitting down to lunch with wives and children in the next. Male and female experiences during the war were not polarized and antithetical, but were complementary and interrelated, a conclusion which has implications for the history of gender in modern Britain that reach well beyond either the specialized military culture of the wartime RAF or the chronological parameters of the Second World War.

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287

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OUP Oxford

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0191616966

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9780191616969

Soul Stories

By: Gary Zukav,Linda Francis

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Soul Stories

By: Gary Zukav,Linda Francis

In his bestselling book, THE SEAT OF THE SOUL, Gary Zukav's driving concept was 'multi-sensory perception', an innate sense that allows people to experience the world beyond the five senses, to listen harder to who they are and ultimately to save one's life. Now in SOUL STORIES, Gary Zukav brings this concept and many others vividly alive, with marvellous true stories of how they manifest themselves in individual lives. This book is enormously practical in the way the author builds on each specific story to a discussion of its application to the reader's needs, leading to a deeper understanding of authentic power and inner peace. And best of all, it is wonderfully readable and even more accessible than THE SEAT OF THE SOUL.

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247

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Simon and Schuster

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ISBN 10

1471103110

ISBN 13

9781471103117

The Naked Warriors

The Elite Fighting Force That Became The Navy Seals

By: Francis D. Fane

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The Naked Warriors

The Elite Fighting Force That Became The Navy Seals

By: Francis D. Fane

Facing a fanatical enemy in Europe and in the Pacific, U.S. planners turned to a new kind of warrior--daring swimmers who could knock out mine, map out enemy beaches, and pave the way for Allied naval assaults. With a few extraordinary men, the U.S. Navy's Underwater Demolition Teams went to war. Now, the commander of this unit takes readers into their world in this first book in the Special Warfare series. Photo insert.

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348

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Macmillan

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0312959850

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9780312959852

Book's by Francis Hawks

Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel

Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel

The Flyer

The Flyer

Soul Stories

Soul Stories

The Naked Warriors

The Naked Warriors

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