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Fashion on the Ration: Style in the Second World War

Fashion on the Ration: Style in the Second World War

SUMMERS, Julie

In September 1939, just three weeks after the outbreak of war, Gladys Mason wrote briefly in her diary about events in Europe: 'Hitler watched German siege of Warsaw. City in flames.' And, she continued, 'Had my wedding dress fitted. Lovely.'For Glad...

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Martha Argerich l'enfant et les sortilèges

Martha Argerich l'enfant et les sortilèges

Bellamy, Olivier

Le journaliste retrace la vie privée et artistique de cette pianiste née en 1941 à Buenos Aires. Elle commence le piano à l'âge de cinq ans. En 1955, elle part étudier en Europe. Elle remporte plusieurs premiers prix, dont ceux des concours de Bolzan...

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Mildred Pierce

Mildred Pierce

James Cain,James M. Cain

MILDRED PIERCE is the story of a determined and ambitious woman who, after her feckless husband abandons her, builds a successful business through hard work and sacrifice in order to ensure the future of her pampered and selfish daughter. But she isn...

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Hero With a Thousand Faces

Hero With a Thousand Faces

Campbell, Joseph

Describes how the protagonists of folklore and religion enact simultaneously the various phases of their common story and relates their timeless symbols to those rediscovered in dream by contemporary depth psychology....

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