Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France by Nicholas Shakespeare is a transcendent work of narrat
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For the three forces competing for political authority in France during World War II, music became the site of a cultura
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This wide-ranging volume brings together a blend of experienced and emerging scholars to examine the texture of everyday
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This book contains impressions of life in Italy during a ten years' residence. While this may sound dry, the author
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This book was written with a Western reader in mind. It is intended for those who, despite huge media coverage of Ukrain
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Waterloo days - The narrative of an Englishwoman resident at Brussels in June 1815 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint
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Harriet Tytler was the only woman present at the siege of Delhi in 1957, the most crucial encounter of the Indian Mutiny
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An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life of learning In an ov
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