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  • We were boys

    by Alberto Moretti, Amalia Ferrari, Guido Moretti ...
    Amalia and Guido are a young couple whose dream of a happy life together is broken by the outbreak of the Second World War. Amalia stays in Milan, juggling the bombings and the no less pressing problems of daily survival. Guido, instead, as commander in the Italian Army, leads an epic crossing in the Sahara desert and manages to bring his soldiers to safety, facing a thousand adversities. The ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • When flags collide English Italian Text

    by alberto moretti ...
    ForewordAmalia is a heroin, a mother and a wife: she retraces the events of her family through three generations. She welcomes their inheritance in a hard struggle to survive between a Country's rural age at its sunset and a working-class Milan in which the war is perceived by apocalyptic aerial bombardments and alarm sirens. Of the war she talks about the anxiety and the horror: she faces losses ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • When Flags Collide

    by Alberto Moretti ...
    Amalia is a heroin, a mother and a wife: she retraces the events of her family through three generations. She welcomes their inheritance in a hard struggle to survive between a Country's rural age at its sunset and a working-class Milan in which the war is perceived by apocalyptic aerial bombardments and alarm sirens. Of the war she talks about the anxiety and the horror: she faces losses and ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Batteries

    Present and Future Energy Storage Challenges

    Edited by Stefano Passerini, Dominic Bresser, Arianna Moretti, Alberto Varzi ...
    Series series Encyclopedia of Electrochemistry
    Part of the Encyclopedia of Electrochemistry, this comprehensive, two-volume handbook offers an up-to-date and in-depth review of the battery technologies in use today. It also includes information on the most likely candidates that hold the potential for further enhanced energy and power densities. It contains contributions from a renowned panel of international experts in the field.Batteries are ... Read more

    $447.99 CAD

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  • The Last Son's Secret

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  • Across the River and Into the Trees

    by Ernest Hemingway ...
    Now a major motion picture starring Liev Schreiber and Josh Hutcherson!A poignant post-WWII tale of a revitalizing love found too late that follows the fleeting connection between an Italian countess and an injured, aging American colonel in Italy**—a** love story that inspires light and hope, while only darkness lies ahead.In the fall of 1948, Ernest Hemingway made his fir... ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • Across the River and Into the Trees

    by Ernest Hemingway ...
    Series series Starbooks Classics Collection - Ernest Hemingway
    Across the River and Into the Trees is a novel by American writer Ernest Hemingway, published by Charles Scribner's Sons in September 1950. Prior to publication the novel wasserialized in Cosmopolitan magazine. The title is derived from the last words of Confederate General Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson.The opening of the novel is set in Trieste, on the last day in the life of the protagonist, ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

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  • Lost Sons of the Mediterranean Kefalonia, September 1943

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    Based on the evidence of survivors and eye-witnesses, Colonel Liuzzi's book isa soldier's appraisal of one of the worst atrocities committed by the Wehrmachtin the European theatre of conflict in the Second World War.This moving work catalogues the annihilation of the Acqui Division on Kefalonia inSeptember 1943 and is an emotional tribute to those men. ... Read more

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    Series Book 9 - Don Camillo Series
    In Merry Christmas Don Camillo the author's Christmas stories appear alongside his war-time experiences in the prison camps of Germany and Poland, out of which he formed the polemic that would underwrite his work.Included are many tales new to English-speaking readers and some of the best that Guareschi ever wrote. For Christmas is the time when conflict between the communist mayor and the village ... Read more

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