The Depression of the 1930s led people to desperate measures to survive The marathon dance craze which flourished at that time seemed a simple way for people to earn extra money dancing the hours away for cash for weeks at a time But the underside of that craze was filled with a competition & violence unknown to most ballrooms A lurid tale of dancing & desperation Horace Mc Coy's classic American novel captures the dark side of the 1930s ...

Disc 11 A-tisket A-tasket
- Ella Fitzgerald 2 Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall
- Ella Fitzgerald 3 Lover
- Peggy Lee 4


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When this book was first published it received some attention from the critics but none at all from the public Nazism was finished in the bunker in Berlin & its death warrant signed on the bench at Nuremberg That's Milton Mayer writing in a foreword to the 1966 edition of They Thought They Were Free He's right about the critics the book was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1956 General readers may have been slower to take notice but over time they did what we've seen over decades is that any time people across the political spectrum start to feel that freedom is threatened the book experiences a ripple of word-of-mouth interest & that interest has never been more prominent or potent than what we've seen in the past year Mayer an American journalist of German descent traveled to Germany in 1935 in attempt to secure an interview with Hitler He failed but what he saw in Berlin chilled him He quickly determined that Hitler wasn't the person he needed to talk to after all Nazism he realized truly was a mass movement; he needed to talk with the average German He found ten & his discussions with them of Nazism the rise of the Reich & mass complicity with evil became the backbone of this book an indictment of the ordinary German that is all the more powerful for its refusal to let the rest of us pretend that our moment our society our country are fundamentally immune A new foreword to this edition by eminent historian of the Reich Richard J Evans puts the book in historical & contemporary context We live in an age of fervid politics & hyperbolic rhetoric They Thought They Were Free cuts through that revealing instead the slow quiet accretions of change complicity & abdication of moral authority that quietly mark the rise of evil ...

Shooting parties in great country houses turbulent scenes in parliament & the luxury life in Budapest provide the backdrop ...

The liberal hero Balint is at odds with the politics of his time; he describes the idyllic pre-industrial world of Hungarian Transylvania later to fall into the hands of first the Nazis & then the Communists his love for Adrienne married to an unpleasant & dangerous lunatic & a Proustian society helplessly bent on its own destruction 800 pages Banffy Miklos ...

Eisner-nominated Nowhere Men writer Eric Stephenson teams up with red-hot artist Simon Gane for an all-new ongoing series! We all have advantages over one another but what if you were capable of things most of us can only imagine? What would you do
- & who would you be? A doctor? An athlete? A soldier? A hero? Everyone has to make a choice about how to use the abilities they&re born with but they&re not like us by Simon Gane Eric Stephenson More from this Author Godzilla History&s Greatest Monster Godzilla Volume 3 Godzilla Volume 1 Godzilla Volume 2 Paris Graphic Classics Volume 2 Arthur Conan Doyle
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Freed from the influence of The Voice Syd & her companions discover that life on their own presents painful new challenges & even greater threats Collect issue No 7-12 ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Heist thriller starring Antonio Banderas & Morgan Freeman Heavily in debt to the Russian mob a veteran criminal (Freeman) decides to recruit a novice thief (Banderas) to help him steal two famous Faberge eggs from an impenetrable vault Radha Mitchell co-stars as the temptress who comes between the partners in crime Actors Morgan Freeman Antonio Banderas Robert Forster Radha Mitchell Tom Hardy Rade Serbedzija Katie Chonacas Marcel Iures Chucky Venice Corey Johnson Todd Jensen Deobia Oparei Constantine Gregory Gary Werntz & Joshua Rubin Director Mimi Leder Certificate 15 years & over Year 2008 Screen Widescreen Languages English ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Heist thriller starring Antonio Banderas & Morgan Freeman Heavily in debt to the Russian mob a veteran criminal (Freeman) decides to recruit a novice thief (Banderas) to help him steal two famous Faberge eggs from an impenetrable vault Radha Mitchell co-stars as the temptress who comes between the partners in crime Actors Morgan Freeman Antonio Banderas Robert Forster Radha Mitchell Tom Hardy Rade Serbedzija Katie Chonacas Marcel Iures Chucky Venice Corey Johnson Todd Jensen Deobia Oparei Constantine Gregory Gary Werntz & Joshua Rubin Director Mimi Leder Certificate 15 years & over Year 2008 Screen Widescreen Languages English ...

Are you still missing a matching accessory for the perfect appearance as a noble? Then this moustache from Boland is just the right thing The moustache is black & looks very elegant Very easy to attach you will look like a real noble with a matching cylinder hat (not included) ...