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Her daughter, born in , experienced the horrors of japanese occupation in manchuria as a schoolgirl, and after their surrender joined the communist-led underground fighting chiang kai-shek's kuomintangshe rose to be a senior communist official, but was imprisoned three timessee oxfam website for delivery information read moreher husband, also a high official and one of the very first to join the communists, was relentlessly persecuted, imprisoned and finally sent to a labour camp where, physically broken and disillusioned, he lost his sanitythe author herself grew up during the cultural revolution, at the time of the personality cult of mao and the worst excesses of the gang of fourin , at the age of 15, the author's grandmother became the concubine of a powerful warlord, whom she was seldom to see during the 10 years of their "marriage"oxfam bookshop cheltenham through the lives of three different women - grandmother, mother and daughter - this book tells the story of 20th-century chinashe joined the red guard but after mao's death she was to become one of the first chinese students to study abroadat times scarcely credible in the details it reveals of the suffering of millions of ordinary chinese people, it is an unforgettable record of tyranny, hope and ultimate survival under conditions of extreme harshness
4 €
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The double-page map is loose! a famous pamphlet on the political situation at the time of the liberation, with the arrival of the communists into power; the author is staunchly anti-gaullistthe front cover is also illustrated! in good overall preserved condition, everything is a bit brownedvoyage en absurdie brussels, editions du soleilfirst edition on common paperour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiduodecimo (12 x 14work in a very lovely full leather binding signed bouruet aubertot, preserved covers with spine350 grams read morelovely illustrations by the artist ben: arouet [guittoneau, benjamin known as ben]please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website5 cm) very lovely full maroquined binding, adorned spine and covers, a nice copyout of text satirical drawings in black by jeter, one double-page map
37 €
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Good condition for a used book, showing signs of wear along the edges and corners, indentations on the covers, small stain on the back top corner see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop clifton fascism and resistance in portugal: communists, liberals and military dissidents in the opposition to salazar
(England)
19 €
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What he finds leads him to a conspiracy of peers and communists - of staunch king-and-country patriots and hardened ira gunmen - to murder the prime minister and his ally, adolf hitlerfrom the ha'penny seats in the theatre to the ha'pennys that cover dead men's eyes, the conspiracy and the investigation swirl inexorably to a stunning conclusionoxfam bookshop royal exchange square in ha'penny, england has completed its slide into fascist dictatorshipsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe last hopes of democracy seem extinguishedthen a bomb explodes in a london suburbthe brilliant but compromised inspector carmichael of scotland yard is assigned the caseagainst a background of domestic espionage and suppression, a band of idealists blackmails an actress who holds the key to the fuhrer's death
(England)
3 €
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The party of communists which leads the country, and from colourful illustrative materialsee oxfam website for delivery information read more it was compiled from speeches and articles by janos kadar and from the documents of the hungarian socialist workers' partyoxfam bookshop wallingford this volume presents the development of hungary over the past quarter pf a century, the present situation and the problems of today
14 €
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Applebaum describes, in calm but devastating detail, how political parties, the church, the media, young people's organisations - the institutions of civil society on every level - were all quickly evisceratedoxfam bookshop new milton used, very good condition, hard cover with dust jacketsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreinstead, they found themselves subjected to a tyranny that was in many ways as inhuman as the one which they had just escapediron curtain is a brilliant history of a brutal period in european history, but also a reminder of how fragile free societies are, and how vulnerable they can be to the predations of determined and unscrupulous enemiesthe binding is sound, the corners are good and all the pages are clean and unmarkedfrom anne applebaum, comes a major new work of historical and moral reckoning: the story of life behind the iron curtainwithin a remarkably short period after the end of the war, eastern europe had been ruthlessly stalinisedranging widely across new archival material and many sources unknown in english, she follows the communists' tactics as they bullied, threatened and murdered their way to powershe also chronicles individual lives to show the rapid choices people had to make - to fight, to flee, or to collaboratethere is a little creasing to the top edge of the dust jacket and a little bumping to the top and bottom of the spineonce the nazis were defeated in , the people of central and eastern europe expected to recover the lives they had led beforethis book explains how communism was imposed on these previously free societies in the decade after the end of the second world war
8 €
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The conflict started when the military garrisons of seventeen spanish cities rose in rebellion to the communist government, and escalated when left wing sympathisers joined the war on the side of the communists while hitler aided the right wing government in waitingoxfam books & music bury stedmunds using newsreel footage this documentary follows all the major battles and incidents of the three years of civil war in spainsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
10 €
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In particular, it shows that british communists were never content simply to restate soviet ideas about literature, but always developed them in ways that were innovative and sometimes unorthodox320 pages, including appendix, notes, and indextext in excellent clean conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop henley-on-thames this book examines the many important literary critics and theorists associated with the communist party of great britain in the sex-library, with usual markingsit provides a systematic and critical account of the communist understanding of the politics of literature and assesses the ways in which party theorists were influenced by the world communist movement
10 €