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RAF Wings over Florida

Memories of World War II British Air Cadets

By: Will Largent

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RAF Wings over Florida

Memories of World War II British Air Cadets

By: Will Largent

From 1941 through 1945, British cadets in the Royal Air Force trained in the United States through the Lend-Lease Act, President Roosevelt’s ingenious plan to help beleaguered Great Britain while maintaining the semblance of neutrality. This book tells the saga of two Florida training fields during this turbulent time. In their own words, British pilots tell of their Florida experiences. Many of them still in their late teens, away from home for the first time, pale and thin from years of rationing, these young men encountered immense challenges and overwhelming generosity during their training in Florida. Now retired, these former pilots still smell the scent of orange blossoms when they glance through the log books they kept while flying their Stearmans and Harvards over Florida citrus groves. They fondly remember the times when they buzzed over the homes of their Florida “families” to let them know to expect them for Sunday dinner. More than fifty years later, their stories still resonate with universal emotions: fear of failure, love of country, camaraderie, romantic love, and the pain of tragic deaths. Their stories also remind the American reader of a unique time in our history, when, poised on the brink of war, the United States reached out to help a country in distress.

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170

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Purdue University Press

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1557539936

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9781557539939

The Woven Figure

Conservatism and America's Fabric

By: George F. Will

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The Woven Figure

Conservatism and America's Fabric

By: George F. Will

Swatches From The Century's End ...I cannot deny my past to which my self is wed, the woven figure cannot undo its thread. Louis MacNeice, "Valediction" These words express a truth of conservatism that has discomfited conservatives in the years covered by this volume. This collection of columns shows how, in the mid-1990s, conservatives fancied themselves poised to conduct a revolution, a radical reorientation of politics and governance. But in the late 1990s, they have discovered how resistant a complex nation is to being undone and rewoven. In this volume, George F. Will, distinguished political columnist and cultural critic, examines many episodes of the conservative tribulations and the liberal accommodations to the new political landscape. These writings present a map of the landscape, a guide for people perplexed by the gap between contemporary political theories and practices. With his customary linguistic flair and acerbic wit, Mr. Will tackles a wide range of subjects, including political correctness on college campuses; extreme fighting; the 1996 presidential campaign; judicial activism; ESPN; and Corvettes. These writings are history written on deadline, and together they constitute a richly woven tapestry of our era.

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385

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Simon and Schuster

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0684864584

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9780684864587

Gunners in Normandy

The History of the Royal Artillery in North-west Europe, January 1942 to August 1944

By: Major Frank Baldwin,Lieutenant Colonel Will Townend

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Gunners in Normandy

The History of the Royal Artillery in North-west Europe, January 1942 to August 1944

By: Major Frank Baldwin,Lieutenant Colonel Will Townend

The official account of the Royal Artillery's activities in the Normandy campaign, this volume breaks down the historic achievements of the Regiment, integrating newly published research with a detailed account of their activities, logistics and equipment in the offensive. Gunners in Normandy includes mention of every regiment that served, a Roll of Honour, and a list of the dead by unit. This book presents the definitive record of events, assembled from interviews with veterans, papers and documents from the Firepower Archives, terrain studies, personal memoirs, war diaries and other official documents. Serious students of the battle for Normandy should find this essential reading, with comprehensive coverage of the role of the Royal Artillery, and much material not published anywhere else, including orders of battle, the details of targets engaged by the guns and their effectiveness.

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624

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The History Press

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0750991798

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9780750991797

Mathieu Kassovitz

By: Will Higbee

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Mathieu Kassovitz

By: Will Higbee

Mathieu Kassovitz is arguably the most important filmmaker to have emerged from French cinema in the past two decades. As a director, his work often engages with highly controversial socio-political issues whilst still managing to attract and connect with a popular audience – and, above all, with a youth audience. He is also one of the few contemporary French filmmakers who is capable of productively engaging with Hollywood, in terms of cinematic style, narrative and genre, yet still retaining his own identity as a French filmmaker. In addition to his directorial successes, Kassovitz has also achieved considerable critical and commercial success in France as a screen actor. His films – whether directed by or acted in, or both – show an astonishing variety, from his early Métisse (1993), his break-through, La Haine (1995) through to Jeunet's Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2000), Astérix et Obélix: Mission Cléopatre (2002) and Gothika (2003). Will Higbee's study is the first to explore of one of the most fascinating characters in French cinema.

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233

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Manchester University Press

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1526141663

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9781526141668

The Inn and the Traveller

Digressive Topographies in the Early Modern European Novel

By: Will McMorran

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The Inn and the Traveller

Digressive Topographies in the Early Modern European Novel

By: Will McMorran

In the landscape of the early modern European comic novel the inn often features as a monument to digression - the perfect setting for chance encounters with strangers who always have a story to tell. This wide-ranging comparative study explores the special part played by the inn, tracing the progress of a succession of wayward heroes and narrators in five canonical texts: Cervantes's ""Don Quijote"", Scarron's ""Roman comique"", Fielding's ""Joseph Andrews"" and ""Tom Jones"", Sterne's ""Tristram Shandy"" and Diderot's ""Jacques le fataliste"". As this celebration of digressive fiction unfolds, a very different picture emerges of the novel's rise and development.

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363

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Routledge

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1351197851

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9781351197854

Circulation and the City

Essays on Urban Culture

By: Alexandra Boutros,Will Straw

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Circulation and the City

Essays on Urban Culture

By: Alexandra Boutros,Will Straw

A series of rich case studies examine a range of topics, including neighbourhood gentrification, subway busking, yard sales, electronic waste, and language, refining the touchstone principle of circulation for the study of urban culture, both materially and theoretically. Contributors employ a variety of disciplinary approaches to create a richly varied picture of the multiple trajectories and effects of movement in the city. An engaging work that considers city planning, urban culture, and social behaviour, Circulation and the City adds a new dimension that revitalizes the ways we have commonly looked at - and thought about - the city.

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313

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773581014

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9780773581012

Unlikely Collaboration

Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Vichy Dilemma

By: Barbara Will

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Unlikely Collaboration

Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Vichy Dilemma

By: Barbara Will

Reader's Digest Endowed Book Fund.

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298

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Columbia University Press

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0231152620

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9780231152624

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RAF Wings over Florida

RAF Wings over Florida

The Woven Figure

The Woven Figure

Gunners in Normandy

Gunners in Normandy

Mathieu Kassovitz

Mathieu Kassovitz

The Inn and the Traveller

The Inn and the Traveller

Circulation and the City

Circulation and the City

Unlikely Collaboration

Unlikely Collaboration

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