Several decades later
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Musselwhite would go on to create a formidable discography, but there's a special fire to these first solo outings that blazes through several decades laterharmonica wizard charlie musselwhite recorded three albums for the vanguard label at the beginning of his solo career, and vanguard visionaries culls 10 cuts from those discs
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The diary went missing, and it was not until he was reunited with his daughter in america some forty years later that it came to light and became blood red snowthis book stands as a memorial to the huge numbers on both sides who did not survive and is, some six decades later, the fulfilment of a responsibility the author feels to honour the memory of those who perishedlater, the horror and confusion of fighting in the streets of stalingrad are brought to life by his descriptions of the others in his unit, their differing manners and techniques for dealing with the squalor and deatha horrifying personal story of world war ii's most savage frontgunter koschorrek wrote his illicit diary on any scraps of paper he could lay his hands on, storing them with his mother on infrequent trips home on leavemilitary book clubmilitary illustratedhe is also posted to romania and italy, assignments he remembers fondly compared to his time on the eastern frontsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham for anyone seeking to understand the experiences of the ordinary german soldier during world war ii, blood red snow provides an excellent starting pointthe author's excitement at the first encounter with the enemy in the russian steppe is obvious
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This is the story of these devastating three decades of war, through the eyes of the men who were shaped by the battles of world war i and came to command a world on the brink of disaster decades laterbefore they were giants, they were infantrymen and privates in the 'war to end all wars'number of discs: 5 region 0 language: english 300 minutes running time see oxfam website for delivery information read morecharles de gaulledouglas macarthuroxfam books & music romsey 3 disc box set featuring roosevelt, churchill, stalin and hilter disc 1 - the rising tide, the storm explodes, disc 2 - trial by fire, the price of glory, disc 3 never surrender, peace at last with just over 20 years separating the two most cataclysmic conflicts of the twentieth century wwi and wwii many historians argue that they were not separate wars, but one bloody continuum that first gripped the people of europe but eventually spread across the entire globebenito mussoliniand so it happens that the most iconic figures of wwii, the household names that we associate with either battlefield glory or murderous fascism, were themselves caught up in both conflicts
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Embarking on a genealogical journey spanning several decades, he traces the roots of the kennan family back more than five generations, discovering a family history that has all the makings of a classic american storyhis prophetic american diplomacy influenced several generations of cold war policy makers, and sketches from a life, one of the most lyrical accounts of a life in public service ever written, chronicled his extraordinary diplomatic career spanning more than half a centuryfilled with lively and sometimes haunting vignettes collected from archives and libraries across new england, an american family is a fascinating detective story and brings to fruition a family memoir begun by kennan's grandfather nearly a century agograceful yet revealing, it is a cherished reminder of three hundred years of a nation's history through the eyes and words of one of america's most remarkable sons" he adroitly captures life in colonial times and in the period following the revolutionary war, and chronicles the major events of a nation's early history with the rare intimacy of a family member reflecting on his forebearssee oxfam website for delivery information read morekennan has forged one of the most illustrious careers in the annals of american letters and politicsoxfam shop dumfries accompany george kennan as he explores his family's roots in the american pastnow in his late nineties, kennan turns an eye to a matter closer to his heart in an american family: the kennansas a consummate statesman and prolific writer, kennan has distinguished himself as one of the most influential figures of the twentieth centurybeginning with the kennans' life of unmitigated poverty in scotland in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, an american family details the kennan family's passage to america and the hardships they faced as early settlers in connecticut and massachusetts, "the epitome of the backcountry family of the most remote northern fringes of new england life
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This collection has been built up over several decades and is full of interest and value read morecomprehensive stamp collection from most countries with selection of first day covers and several sets of royal collectionsfantastic sets of beautiful and interesting stamps covering many many years
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The sculpture stands on a marble console, consisting of several layersit is suspected that this console was added to it in a later periodabove the sculpture a crystal presentation dishplease see the photos for a good impressionour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storewidth and depth: approx13 cm diameter bowl: approxshipping: registered by postnldimensions: height: about 48 cm including console and dishplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitebeautiful sculpture depicting a man with a bookthe dish will be disassembled before shipping is delivered separatelycondition: in good conditionwith signs of wear consistent with ageare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikicatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableheight console: approx
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This operation is echoed several years later when modesty, with her peerless lieutenant willie garvin, finds herself drawn into conflict with the mysterious group known as the watchmen, who have plans to kill modesty in london and then destroy san francisco s golden gate bridgeoxfam bookshop cheltenham modesty blaise is about to retire from her criminal empire, the networkthis 10th book of her adventures begins with a flashback to the last days of the network, when modesty was about to retire, and describes the organization s final, astonishing operation before it disbandedis the plan to destroy the western world being orchestrated by the watchmen?there have been few other female action heroines like modesty blaisea tough orphan who became the leader of the network, a crime syndicate specializing in art theft and industrial espionagemodesty and willie find themselves prisoners on see oxfam website for delivery information read morebut there is one final, astounding mission before she can leaveyears later, she faces the consequences of this final mission when she is drawn into conflict with a mysterious group called 'the watchmen'
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Three decades later, chiara lives alone in rome, a self-contained, self-possessed woman working as a translator and to all appearances quite content with a life which revolves around work, friends, music and the theatreshe is twenty-seven, single, with a sister who needs her constant care, a hazardous journey ahead of her, and now a child in her charge - a child with no papers who refuses to speak and gives every indication that he will bolt at the first opportunityoxfam bookshop cheltenham a grey dawn in : on a street in rome, two young women, complete strangers to each other, lock eyes for a single momentand when she receives a phone call from a teenage girl named maria, claiming to be daniele's daughter, chiara knows that it is time for her to face up to the pastone of the women, chiara ravello, is about to flee the occupied city for the safety of her grandparents' house in the hillssee oxfam website for delivery information read morebut always in the background is the shadow of daniele, the boy from the truck, whose absence haunts her every momentin that endless-seeming moment, before she has time to think about what she is doing, chiara makes a decision that changes her life for everthis epic novel is an unforgettably powerful, suspenseful, heartbreaking and inspiring tale of love, loss and war's reverberations down the yearsloudly claiming the woman's son as her own nephew, she demands his immediate return; only as the trucks depart does she begin to realize what she has donegradually we learn of the havoc wrought on chiara, her family and her friends by the boy she rescued, and how he eventually broke her heartthe other has been herded on to a truck with her husband and their young children, and will shortly be driven off into the darkness
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Two decades later, alasdair and rachel are sent to the windswept isle of lewis to live with tormod in his traditional backhouse home, a world away from the glasgow of their earliest yearsoxfam bookshop st albans tormod morrison was there that terrible night their grandfather is kind, compassionate, but still deeply affected y the remarkable true story of the iolaire shipwreck - by the selfless heroism and desperate tragedy he witnessed he was on board hmy iolaire when it smashed into rocks and sank, killing some two hundred servicemen on the very last leg of their long journey home from war for tormod a man unlike others, with artistry in his fingertips - the disaster would mark him indelibly  see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between mariam and a local teenager, laila, as strong as the ties between mother and daughtersee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhen the taliban take over, life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fearoxfam bookshop hertford mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to kabul to marry rasheedyet love can move a person to act in unexpected ways, and lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism
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Three decades later zimbabwe became the focus of international attention for different reasons: acrimonious racial relations, controversial elections, economic hardship and military intervention in drcin the newly independent and democratic zimbabwe was a beacon of hope in a troubled region see oxfam website for delivery information read morealao argues that this unfortunate transition is intrinsically linked to the ways in which mugabe used the politics of domestic and external security to his own gain and how a freedom fighter transformed into an imprudent autocrat and international pariah the book is in good condition some stains on the side
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Two decades later, graham is a single father trying to protect his son from the rigours of the modern worldoxfam bookshop royal exchange square graham melton was a normal fifteen-year-old until he met charlotte marshall over a can of warm lager at his best friend's party inwhat happened in those years in between? how did something so perfect go so tragically wrong? see oxfam website for delivery information read moreit was love at first sight, and teenage life was never going to be the same againeverything has changed, and the innocence has long gone
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Two decades later, he walked out of tibet and started on his journey of fully taking on leadership of the drikung kagyu lineagesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop ringwood this is the story of a young boy, born in tibet to inherit the role of buddhist lineage holder, whose life was interrupted by the chinese army invasion and the ensuing cultural revolutionsince then the teachings of this lineage have flourished and are practiced all around the world--after nearly being lost
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Nearly five decades later, jones's influence continues to help define the music industry, but only now is he ready to tell his remarkable life storytime is tight is the deeply moving account of how jones balanced the brutality of the segregationist south with the loving support of his family and community, all while transforming a burgeoning studio into a musical meccaand the mgs, whose recordings went on to sell millions of copies, win a place in rolling stone's list of top 500 songs of all time, and help forge collaborations with some of the era's most influential artists, including otis redding, wilson pickett, and sam & davejones's earliest years in segregated memphis, music was the driving force in his lifesee oxfam website for delivery information read morejones, leader of the famed stax records house band, architect of the memphis soul sound, and one of the most legendary figures in musicnot long after, he would form the genre-defining group booker twhile he worked paper routes and played gigs in local nightclubs to pay for lessons and support his family, jones, on the side, was also recording sessions in what became the famous stax studios-all while still in high schoolthe long-awaited memoir of booker t
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decades later, in the wake of an unthinkable tragedy, paul is haunted by a secretfrom the author of the award-winning mrs hemingway, naomi wood's the hiding game is a beautifully written, powerful and suspenseful novel about the dangerously fine line between love and obsession, set against the most turbulent era of our recent pasteccentric and alluring, the more time paul spends with his new friends the closer they become, and the deeper he falls in love with the mesmerising charlotteas political tensions escalate in germany, the bauhaus finds itself under threat, and the group begins to disintegrate under the pressure of its own betrayals and love affairsbut paul is not the only one vying for her affections, and soon an insidious rivalry takes rootwhen an old friend from the bauhaus resurfaces, he must finally break his silenceoxfam books & music hereford , paul beckermann arrives at the bauhaus art school and is immediately seduced by both the charismatic teaching and his fellow studentssee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Korea's achievement of moving from one of the world's poorest countries as recently as the early s to the ranks of the ten biggest economies only four decades later has rightly attracted interest from policymakers and scholars alikein this way, the book highlights the political power of business, which is often underplayed in discussions of the development of koreaoxfam bookshop beverley south korea is often cited as a case of miraculous transformation from poverty to prosperityit also sheds light on the constraints on policymakers during modernisation, and how power is shared among a small number of powerful partiesthis book identifies the factors that shaped relations between the state and big business in korea, the 'developmental alliance'book condition: very good, bumping to tail and corners see oxfam website for delivery information read morerather than merely offering a means of explaining the rapid-growth phase of korean development, the politics of the developmental alliance also help us understand how and why the korean miracle turned to crisis in and why the subsequent recovery has been so uneventhese factors offer a cogent framework in which to identify and predict changes in power relations between government and business
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Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between mariam and a local teenager, laila, as strong as the ties between mother and daughtersee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhen the taliban take over, life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fearoxfam bookshop st albans mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to kabul to marry rasheedyet love can move a person to act in unexpected ways, and lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism
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Seven decades later in new york, on her twelfth birthday anna rosen receives a package from hannah, the great-aunt she never met but who raised her deceased fatheroxfam bookshop brigg the german girl sweeps from berlin at the brink of wwii to cuba on the cusp of revolution, to new york in the wake of september 11th, before reaching its deeply moving conclusion in the tumult of present-day havanaa glimmer of hope appears in the shape of the st louis, a transatlantic liner that promises jews safe passage to cubabefore everything changed, hannah rosenthallived a charmed lifethe rosenthals sell everything to fund visas and ticketsanna and her mother immediately travel to cuba to meet this elderly relative, and for the first time hannah tells them the untold story of her voyage on the st louis'the german girltells a horrific story in profoundly human terms, and one ends up totally gripped and absorbed in the history' julia neuberger, author of on being jewish see oxfam website for delivery information read morebased on a true story, this wonderful novel gives voice to the joys and sorrows of generations of exiles, forever seeking a place called homeat first the liner feels like luxury, but as they travel the circumstances of war change, and it soon becomes their prisonbut now the streets of berlin are draped in swastikas and hannah is no longer welcome in the places she once considered home
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Originally written and produced by michael valvano for lou west’s solid gold records and – two decades later – issued on the eclectic outta sight logomichael valvano was the first white act signed to motown, aged just seventeen, with his band mike & the modifierslabel – outta sight () catalogue # oscd012 format - cd album condition – new & sealed - release information - the first ever release for this stellar soul album recorded in albuquerque, new mexico, circathis project showcases his rounded musical talents creating a fluid, soulful, masterpiece that reflects the soul/disco/funk style of the late 70s with a nod at its 60s rootsvalvano worked with many acts at hitsville and also recorded two solo albums which sadly never saw a release
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It's size is huge and it comes with its own rest! a great representation of helmut newtons work over several decadescomes fully boxed in absolutely as new condition, even has its own standhelmut newton sumo by taschen (hardback) big book, big imagesmeasures 38cm x 28cm x 6cmÂŁ60 (no offers)for anyone interested in his work this book is a must even if it's just left on the coffee table as a show piecethis book is great in every sense of the word
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Penn silver beach 99 multiplier, i have owned this reel for several decades it is an excellent close range reel, also suitable for light boat fishing, it has always been cleaned after use and serviced when required, it is perfect working a1 condition ÂŁ30 posted
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About the author rolf toman has worked as an independent art publisher for various international publishing houses for several decadeshe authored and edited many acclaimed publications on art history and spirituality
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Our elderflower is wild & naturally grown on trees matured for several decadeswe dispatch by 1st class signed for postage but collections are welcomeour picture show our own elderflower and were taken by ourselvesauction is for 20 sprigs of elderflower blossom grown on our riverside land20 elderflower heads can make up to 10ltrs of cordial but please do check your recipe before ordering to avoid confusionwe will handpick and vacuum seal for optimal freshness within 5 minutesall lots won will be sealed within 5 minutes of picking and we will then post same day for all paid for by 12pmfresh elderflower grown on our essex/herts land
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Make a wonderful dish and have a bloody good time: that was the criteria of keith floyd's mission (a mission that lasted several decades)now, in his honest and revealing memoir, completed just before he died, keith reflects on the ups and downs of his careerafter starting out in a hotel kitchen in bristol, he made and lost fortunes, was married four times, and dealt with a level of fame that bemused himand a quick slurpalong the way he inspired a generation of men to get into the kitchenabove all, the much loved, often copied, keith floyd whooshes the reader through his adventures, from the hilarious to the downright lunaticsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreas irrepressible, funny and charming as keith himself, stirred but not shaken is a must-read for anyone who loves life, food, womenoxfam shop colne road he was the first celebrity chef, the swashbuckling cook who crossed the high seas, on a bbc budget, communicating his love of food to millions of viewers
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Our elderflower is wild & naturally grown on trees matured for several decadeswe dispatch by 1st class signed for postage but collections are welcomeour picture show our own elderflower and were taken by ourselveswe will handpick and vacuum seal for optimal freshness within 5 minutesauction is for 20 sprigs of elderflower blossom grown on our riverside land20 elderflower heads can make up to 10ltrs of cordial but please do check your recipe before ordering to avoid confusionsold out until next spring fresh elderflower grown on our essex/herts landall lots won will be sealed within 5 minutes of picking and we will then post same day for all paid for by 12pm
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It has been the subject of intense study for several decades, but, despite substantial progress, the most difficult problems have still not reached any generally agreed solutioneighteen original, specially written essays offer new angles on the subjectoxfam shop kendal paperback in very good condition with clean and bright pagessee oxfam website for delivery information read morevery very slight wear to corners of coversconsciousness is perhaps the most puzzling problem we humans face in trying to understand ourselvesfuture research can start with this bookthe contributors, who include many of the leading figures in philosophy of mind, discuss such central topics as intentionality, phenomenal content, knowledge of mental states, consciousness and the brain, and the relevance of quantum mechanics to the study of consciousness
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This coin was stored in a coin pouch for several decadesit has very light circulation tracesour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store65 g mintage: copies see photos for an accurate impressionregistered shippingplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitestainless steelare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikicatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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French family collection, kept in a display cabinet for several decadesprotected shipping with double protection, tracking number, and signature upon receiptour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storesigned leg for legras in the decorcristallerie legras & cieplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteheight: 240mm rare pattern known as “jaune canari” patented by the legras and co manufactory, referenced and authenticated in the famous catalogue répertoire raisonné legras, “verrerie artistique et populaire française"france beautiful baluster-shaped vase on a small pedestal with an orange-yellow marbled background tinted in the mass decorated with elegant arabesque in the pure art deco style of early 20th centuryare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikicatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablesee last photos
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This collection was built up over several decadesa collection of 37 books about the life and times of the legendary frank sinatra each is in excellent condition and includes some rare editions and out-of-print titlesopen to negotiation on a price in the region of ÂŁ200detailed list availablethe collection is available for inspection near sleaford, lincolnshirestrong storage box included
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This collection was built up over several decadesa collection of 37 books about the life and times of the legendary frank sinatra each is in excellent condition and includes some rare editions and out-of-print titlesopen to negotiation on a price in the region of ÂŁ100onodetailed list availablethe collection is available for inspection near sleaford, lincolnshirestrong storage box included
100 €