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Italy in the Dark Ages

By: Janet Penrose Trevelyan

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WHEN the Emperor Diocletian, towards the end of the third century A. D., set himself to reorganize the government of the known world, his stout heart may well have quailed before the magnitude of the task before him. The preceding fourteen years had witnessed a succession of six Emperors, some of them men of exceptional courage and ability, of whom three had been assassinated by their troops, one had been killed by the hardships of campaigning, another by lightning on the borders of Persia, and the last still remained to be dealt with and removed...

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Jovian Press

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1537803956

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9781537803951

The Penrose Treasure

By: Janet Tanner

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The Penrose Treasure

By: Janet Tanner

When a childhood mystery resurfaces, a bitter rivalry threatens to destroy the Penrose family... When Tamsin Hardy returns home from her post as a lady’s maid to attend her beloved mother’s sickbed, her childhood playmate Isobel Penrose offers her a post as her companion at Trevarrah House. Tamsin reluctantly accepts, but she feels instinctively uneasy about Trevarrah House despite her growing attraction to Isobel’s brother Adam, recently returned from the war in America. There is a bitter rivalry between Adam and his brother Nicholas, and Tamsin increasingly fears for her growing involvement with the Penrose family... A gripping tale of love and family, perfect for fans of Linda Finlay and Gloria Cook.

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327

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Canelo

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1788636295

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9781788636292

The Ghost Army

Conning the Third Reich

By: Gerry Souter,Janet Souter

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The Ghost Army

Conning the Third Reich

By: Gerry Souter,Janet Souter

Our story is about the genesis and evolution of these phantoms and men-who-never-were, these artists and magicians at the front line who operated in stealth and secrecy. Throughout the course of World War II, Allied forces engaged in elaborate deceptions to fool Hitler's armies. A ragtag group of Bohemian artists and creatives were assembled to devise these strategies, including rubber dummy tanks, faux railway lines and falsified wireless intelligence. They made armies appear out of thin air, baffling German forces and ensuring Allied success in battle. For fifty years, information on the Ghost Army strategies was classified. It is only recently that details of their heroic actions have come to light. This book includes details of SHAEF command centre who organised many of the deceptions, the First US Army Group (the so-called 'Ghost Army'), the 23rd Camouflage Engineers, and accounts of the double cross agents who risked their lives and freedom to mislead Nazi High Command. Featuring never-before-seen information from veteran interviews, The Ghost Army brings to life the fascinating story of the men and women who conned Adolf Hitler.

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190

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Arcturus Publishing

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1789504430

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9781789504439

AngloModern

Painting and Modernity in Britain and the United States

By: Janet Wolff

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AngloModern

Painting and Modernity in Britain and the United States

By: Janet Wolff

Early twentieth-century art and art practice in Britain and the United States were, Janet Wolff asserts, marginalized by critics and historians in very similar ways after the rise of post-Cubist modern art. In a masterly book on the sociology of modernism, Wolff explores work that was primarily realist and figurative and investigates the social, institutional, political, and aesthetic processes by which that art fell by the wayside in the postwar period. Throughout, she shows that questions of gender and ethnicity play an important role in critical, curatorial, and historical evaluations. For example, Wolff finds that the work of the artists central to the development of the Whitney Museum was relegated to a secondary status in the postwar period, when realism was labeled "feminine" in contrast to the aggressive masculinity of abstract expressionism.The three key periods considered in AngloModern are the early twentieth century, when modernist art and existing and new realist traditions coexisted in a certain tension; the postwar period, in which modernism claimed superiority over realism; and the late twentieth century, when a retrieval of the realist and figurative traditions seemed to occur. Wolff concludes by considering this re-emergence, as well as the limitations of earlier discussions of the struggles of realist and figurative art to endure the currents of modernism.

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187

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Cornell University Press

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1501717464

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9781501717468

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Italy in the Dark Ages

Italy in the Dark Ages

The Penrose Treasure

The Penrose Treasure

The Ghost Army

The Ghost Army

AngloModern

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