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    A dark, multi-generational drama that follows three interwoven stories for nearly a century. The first tale begins in 1873, in the deserts that reach into Mexico where an outlaw and his daughter face crooked lawmen, horse thieves, a Padre named David, and a bloodthirsty posse. Another story unfolds in Los Angeles, establishing itself in 1923 before making its way through 1947, with an ... Read more

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    The world wouldn't change for everyone when Corporal Elvis Presley met his fate on an Army base in Friedberg Germany. Fidel Castro would continue to gain power. Luna 3 would circle the moon. US soldiers would land in Vietnam. But for four young men, nothing would remain the same.Billy Clover will go from playing guitar in dive bars to being groomed to become the next King of Rock and Roll. One ... Read more

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  • The Longman Companion to Nazi Germany

    by Tim Kirk ...
    Series series Longman Companions To History
    Here is a wealth of factual and interpretative information about Germany between 1918 and 1945. Designed for maximum practicality, it sets the Hitler years in their wider context, with most sections spanning the Weimar Republic and the rise of Nazism as well as the Third Reich itself. In addition to political chronologies and anatomies of the Nazi party and the police state, there is detailed ... Read more

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  • Subversion and Scurrility

    Popular Discourse in Europe from 1500 to the Present

    by Tim Kirk ...
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  • Printed Matters

    Printing, Publishing and Urban Culture in Europe in the Modern Period

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2002: Since the invention of printing in the mid-fifteenth century the production, distribution and consumption of printed matter have been the principal means through which new ideas and representations have been spread. In recent times cultural historians have taken a growing interest in the previously somewhat isolated field of book history, shifting the study ... Read more

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  • The City in Central Europe

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1999, this volume explores how the cities of central Europe, among them Berlin, Budapest, Hamburg, Vienna and Prague, went through a period of phenomenal growth during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Their rapid expansion and growing economic importance made citizens aware of the need to manage the fabric and culture of the urban environment, while burgeoning ... Read more

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    Between 1933 and 1945, more than 500,000 German citizens resisted the Nazi government. Many were imprisoned for political crimes which included both active attempts to remove Hitler from office and passive attempts to oppose the Nazi regime. Resistance was found among university students, churches and even in the German military.This fascinating and compelling history of the German resistance ... Read more

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  • Censors at Work

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