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1) Munich
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Language
English
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From the internationally best-selling author of Fatherland and the Cicero Trilogy--a new spy thriller about treason and conscience, loyalty and betrayal, set against the backdrop of the fateful Munich Conference of September, 1938. Guy Legat is a rising star of the British diplomatic service, serving in 10 Downing Street as a private secretary to the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain. Rikard von Holz is on the staff of the German Foreign Office--and...
2) Munich
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
It's the 1972 Olympics and PLO terrorists have just kidnapped and murdered 11 Israeli athletes. After the tragic incident is over and several of the terrorists have gone free, the Israeli government of Golda Meir recruits Avner to lead a team of undercover agents to hunt down those responsible throughout Europe, and eliminate them one-by-one. It is physically and emotionally messy work, and conflicts between Avner and his team's handler, Ephraim,...
Pub. Date
[2011], c2002
Language
English
Description
Come along with European travel expert, Rick Steves, to Munich, where locals specialize in good living. We visit boisterous markets and go for Baroque palaces...while office workers surf in the Isar River. Heading into the foothills of the Alps, we take a spin around a Maypole; drop by Oberammergau - the Shirley Temple of Bavarian villages; and tour the fairy-tale castles of "Mad" King Ludwig. After hiking up to a desolate ruined castle, we soar even...
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 12
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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It's early 1938, and Maisie Dobbs is back in England. On a fine yet chilly morning, as she walks towards Fitzroy Square--a place of many memories--she is intercepted by Brian Huntley and Robert MacFarlane of the Secret Service. The German government has agreed to release a British subject from prison, but only if he is handed over to a family member. Because the man's wife is bedridden and his daughter has been killed in an accident, the Secret Service...
Pub. Date
[1937]
Language
English
Description
On October 25, 1936, Germany and Italy announced that they were forming a strategic alliance they termed an "axis". When Italian dictator Benito Mussolini visited Munich in 1937 to confer with German leader Adolf Hitler, he was greeted with fanfare by the German people.
Pub. Date
[1938]
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English
Description
In September 1938, British prime minister Neville Chamberlain and French premier Edouard Daladier met with Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and German chancellor Adolf Hitler in Munich, Germany, to negotiate Germany's claim to a disputed area of Czechoslovakia known as the Sudetenland. Chamberlain and Daladier agreed to allow Hitler to claim the territory on the condition that he refrain from conquering any further territory. Chamberlain called the...
16) Masterworks
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Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
1000 Masterpieces from the Great Museums of the World takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of art and provides a deeper insight into the masterpieces of painting. This film explores Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld’s “The Family of John the Baptist with the Family of Christ,” completed in 1817 and housed in New Masters Gallery in Dresden.
17) Masterworks
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English
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This episode of Masterworks presents Andy Warhol's 1963 silkscreen ink on canvas, "The Texan, Portrait of Robert Rauschenberg." Hear analysis of this work by an art historian and see this painting and other paintings by the artist. The narrator presents the works of other artists for comparison and to help the viewer gain deeper insight in to this masterpiece.
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