<p><strong>Mistyczna powieść oparta na prawdziwej historii dwudziestowiecznych malarek i okultystek Remedios Varo oraz Leonory Carrington.</strong></p> <p>Jest rok 1939. Artystka Remedios Varo i jej ukochany, poeta Benjamin Peret, opuszczają Paryż, uciekając przed nazistami na południe Francji. Trafiają do położonej w Marsylii Villa Air Bel, bezpiecznej przystani dla artystów i intelektualistów, prowadzonej przez amerykańską dziedziczkę Mary Jayne Gold. Wraz z innymi czekają tam na dokumenty, które umożliwią ucieczkę za granicę. Przez przebywających w Villa Air Bel surrealistów Remedios jest postrzegana jedynie jako piękna muza, a nie równorzędna im artystka. Na szczęście malarka znajduje azyl w tajemniczej księgarni, gdzie odkrywa ezoteryczny świat tarota.To właśnie on pomaga Remedios i jej przyjaciółce, także artystce, Leonorze Carrington rozpalić ogień twórczego geniuszu, przekroczyć granice świadomości, dotknąć tego, co transcendentne, a dzięki temu osiągnąć doskonałość w malarstwie.</p> <p>To oparta na faktach historia dwóch niezwykłych kobiet, które trafiły do świata sztuki jako muzy znanych artystów, a za sprawą swojej przyjaźni i inspiracji czerpanej z kart tarota zdobyły szerokie uznanie i w znaczący sposób wpłynęły na kształt surrealizmu.</p>
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Acclaimed historian Barry Turner presents a new history of the Cold War's defining episode. Berlin, 1948 – a divided city in a divided country in a divided Europe. The ruined German capital lay 120 miles inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany. Stalin wanted the Allies out; the Allies were determined to stay, but had only three narrow air corridors linking the city to the West. Stalin was confident he could crush Berlin's resolve by cutting off food and fuel. In the USA, despite some voices still urging 'America first', it was believed that a rebuilt Germany was the best insurance against the spread of communism across Europe. And so over eleven months from June 1948 to May 1949, British and American aircraft carried out the most ambitious airborne relief operation ever mounted, flying over 2 million tons of supplies on almost 300,000 flights to save a beleaguered Berlin. With new material from American, British and German archives and original interviews with veterans, Turner paints a fresh, vivid picture the airlift, whose repercussions – the role of the USA as global leader, German ascendancy, Russian threat – we are still living with today.
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In 1943, and with Allied victory in North Africa imminent, 1st Special Air Service Regiment was in danger of being disbanded. However, with the timely and vital intervention of Major Robert Blair Mayne, the unit was saved and replaced by an organisation known as HQ Raiding Forces, and Mayne was appointed to command the Special Raiding Squadron. The heroic spirit of 1st SAS Regiment continued to thrive in the squadron, and Paddy Mayne – as he was known to his soldiers – was an inspiration to those he commanded. Through action in Sicily in July 1943, undertaking distraction missions in Bagnara and finally aiding the Eighth Army in Termoli before being recalled to the UK to aid the SAS with the invasion of France, Paddy's Men worked as a well-oiled, dangerous and fiercely loyal unit, performing skilfully under the immense pressure of war. In this book Stewart McClean provides an illustrated history of the Special Raiding Squadron, detailing the formation of the unit, the lives of the men and their operations during the Sicilian and Italian campaigns, and the extraordinary man who commanded the squadron: Robert Blair Mayne DSO, or Colonel Paddy Mayne as he became famously known throughout the world.
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Welcome to the mind-expanding world of Lifeology! It is beautiful to have the right thing to say at just the right time. Lifeology contains more than 750 words of wisdom learned the hard way, stumbled over, heard in passing, or generated out of thin air—all ready for you to share, quote, whisper, or tweet. Lifeology is divided into more than two-dozen surprising and eclectic categories, including... - Relationship lifeology - Do-great-things lifeology - Heartwarming lifeology - Amusing-fact lifeology - Lifeology for parents and kids - Business lifeology - Unexpected lifeology - And much more You are allowed to have a favorite category, but do not miss the others. Feeling overwhelmed by numbskulls? Is it your job to rally the troops? Need your own inspirational nudge? You now have hundreds of trustworthy truths at your fingertips— ready to apply to life.
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Über ihn weiss man fast nichts, nur gerade was nötig ist, um aus ihm einen Mythos zu machen. Man weiss, dass er aus den Staaten kam, dass er Ende der Fünfzigerjahre in der Luftwaffenbasis der US Air Force von Évreux in der Normandie stationiert war, und dass er dort eine Französin namens Colette kennenlernte. Der Rest ist Spekulation. Eine dichte Geschichte über einen amerikanischen Traum, eine unmögliche Liebe und nicht eingelöste Versprechen. Ein bemerkenswerter erster Roman, der im französischen Original 2018 mit dem Prix littéraire chênois und 2019 mit dem Terra Nova Preisder Schweizerischen Schillerstiftung ausgezeichnet wurde. Auf wunderbare Weise aus dem Französischen übersetzt hat Gabriela Zehnder.
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Damien est un petit garçon de douze ans qui vient d’entrer en classe de sixième. Peu passionné par le travail scolaire ou les activités en plein air, il s’amuse simplement en inventant des plaisanteries et en s’adonnant à la lecture de bandes dessinées. Si sa première manie lui attire bien trop souvent les foudres de ses professeurs, la seconde possède le don d’irriter son père au plus haut point, le bambin ayant installé son poste de lecture dans le petit coin de la maison familiale. Les vaines menaces proférées par son papa sur l’existence d’un supposé monstre des cabinets l’ont toujours bien fait rire, jusqu’à ce que l’impensable se produise… <br> <br> <br> À PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR <br> <br> <br> Amateur de jeu de mots dans la narration d’histoires, <b>Alexandre Flenghi </b>nous invite à suivre ce récit, riche en humour, destiné aux jeunes mais également aux adultes. <br>
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What turns an ordinary man into an extraordinary one? The answer lies in the stories of six teenage volunteers for Second World War aircrew who exchanged school uniform for Air Force Blue and took a giant step into the unknown. Based on original research from flying log books, diaries and family archives, this collection of true tales describes the men's training for those coveted 'Wings'; the nervous excitement of that first sortie over enemy territory; and flying into the hell of an enemy flak barrage and fighters. From the skies over Europe to jungles and deserts, all endured hardship, adventure and danger. They experienced action under enemy fire, wounds, burns and crash-landings, escape and evasion in occupied territory, and the privations of life as a POW. Seventy years on and these brushes with death are by any measure hair-raising encounters that turned adolescents into men – some of whom survived the war, while others paid the ultimate price.
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Based on one of the two engineers working for Gustave Eiffel to design the tower for the World Fair of 1889. In February 1887, Caitriona Wallace and Émile Nouguier meet in a hot air balloon, floating high above Paris - a moment of pure possibility. But back on firm ground, their vastly different social strata become clear. Cait is a widow who because of her precarious financial situation is forced to chaperone two wealthy Scottish charges. Émile is expected to take on the bourgeois stability of his family's business and choose a suitable wife. As the Eiffel Tower rises, a marvel of steel and air and light, the subject of extreme controversy and a symbol of the future, Cait and Émile must decide what their love is worth. Seamlessly weaving historical detail and vivid invention, Beatrice Colin evokes the revolutionary time in which Cait and Émile live - one of corsets and secret trysts, duels and Bohemian independence, strict tradition and Impressionist experimentation. To Capture What We Cannot Keep, stylish, provocative and shimmering, raises probing questions about a woman's place in that world, the overarching reach of class distinctions and the sacrifices love requires of us all. Winter in 19th-century Paris is wonderfully evoked and Beatrice Colin's prose is suitably mesmerising for this rather beautiful love story. - The Times
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