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[2016]
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English
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As the shadow of the First World War stretched across the globe, millions of ordinary people were caught in its wake. Many of their stories have never been told. This film collects together just a few of these untold stories: the surprising revelation of the first civilian killed in the war; the extraordinary transformation of Britain into a military industrial complex and the devastating effect on the women enlisted to work in its factories; and...
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[2019]
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English
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"Marking the centenary of the First World War, internationally renowned director Peter Jackson uses the voices of the veterans combined with original archival footage to bring to life the reality of war on the front line for a whole new generation. Footage has been colorized and transformed with modern production techniques to present never-before-seen detail"--Container.
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[2014], c2011
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English
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This episode traces the fortunes and fates of the European royal dynasties during the first half of the 20th century. Narrator Lesley Sharp links sequences showing an era of war, revolution, assassination and abdication. Includes footage of Queen Victoria at her diamond jubilee celebrations; Victoria's funeral; Edward VII out hunting; Tsar Nicholas II of Russia; Victor Emmanuel of Italy; Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany; Franz Josef of Austria in Sarajevo;...
6) FedFlix
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English
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This Program from the Combat Studies Institute is designed to give military instructors ideas on presenting "Nuclear Weapons and the Cold War," lesson 12 in "Evolution of Modern Warfare." It offers suggestions for how to present the Cold War context, thinking on nuclear strategy and deterrence, and the post-WWII reorganization of the military and national security apparatus. Panelists show how the existence of nuclear weapons led to questions of whether...
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Maisie Dobbs novels volume 6
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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It's Christmas Eve 1931. On the way to see a client, Maisie Dobbs witnesses a man commit suicide on a busy London street. The following day, the prime minister's office receives a letter threatening a massive loss of life if certain demands are not met-and the writer mentions Maisie by name. After being questioned and cleared by Detective Chief Superintendent Robert MacFarlane of Scotland Yard's elite Special Branch, she is drawn into MacFarlane's...
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Maisie Dobbs novels volume 2
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English
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It is the spring of 1930, and Maisie has been hired to find a runaway heiress. When three of the heiress's old friends are found dead, Maisie must race to find out who would want to kill these seemingly respectable young women before it's too late. As Maisie investigates, she discovers that the answers lie in the unforgettable agony of the Great War.
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When Mata Hari arrived in Paris she was penniless. Within months she was the most celebrated woman in the city. As a dancer, she shocked and delighted audiences; as a courtesan, she bewitched the era's richest and most powerful men. But as paranoia consumed a country at war, Mata Hari's lifestyle brought her under suspicion. In 1917, she was arrested in her hotel room on the Champs Elysees, and accused of espionage. Told in Mata Hari's voice through...
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[2022]
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Español
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Publisher Annotation: WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE PRIZE MARTA DE MONT MARÇAL The Box of Fears is an extraordinary spy novel set during World War One. By the end of the 19th century, little Aleksei an orphan from the Siberian steppe embarks on a journey to Moscow with the priest Vasiliy Lebedev and, from there, to Paris. In Paris, he will enjoy a new life with his Aunt Vania and the rest of their peculiar family. Mata Hari is the rising...
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On May 1, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were anxious. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone, and for months, its U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the 'Lusitania' was one of the era's great transatlantic 'Greyhounds' and her captain, William Thomas Turner,...
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Lady Rowan Compton first met Maisie when, at thirteen, she went into service as a maid at her ladyship's Belgravia mansion. A suffragette, Lady Rowan took the remarkably smart youngster under her wing and became her patron. She encouraged Maisie to study at Cambridge, and was aided in this by Maurice Blanche, a friend often retained as an investigator by the elite of Europe when discretion and results were required. It was he who first recognized...
13) La espía
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2016.
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Español
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Anotación de Editor: En su nueva novela, Paulo Coelho, el autor de gran éxito de ventas del Alquimista y el Adulterio, trae a la vida a una de las mujeres más enigmáticas de la historia: Mata Hari. La historia de ella famoso la vida aún misteriosa como un bailarín exótico y la cortesana, y su ejecución polémica como un espía durante la Primera guerra mundial se revela como una narrativa de la primera persona fascinante de autocreación y...
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