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Book The Fourth Shore

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  • Author : Virginia Baily
  • Publisher : Fleet
  • Release : 2020-03-05
  • ISBN : 9780708898529
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book The Fourth Shore written by Virginia Baily and published by Fleet. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Effortlessly enjoyable . . . an emotionally rewarding novel so succulent with detail that you can almost feel the Tripoli sand storms whipping across your face' Daily Mail The Fourth Shore: the sliver of fertile land along the Tripoli coast, the 'lost' territory Mussolini promised to reclaim for Italy. Which is how, in 1929, seventeen-year-old Liliana Cattaneo arrives there from Rome on a ship filled with eager colonists to join her brother and his new wife. Liliana is sure she was on the brink of a great adventure, but what awaits her is not the Mediterranean idyll of cocktail parties, smart dances, dashing officers and romantic intrigues she had imagined. Instead she finds a world of persecution, violence, repression, corruption and deceptions both great and small. A child of fascist Italy, blown about by the winds of fascism and Catholicism, Liliana becomes enmeshed in a dark liaison which has terrible consequences both for her and those she loves most. The Fourth Shore is the engrossing and intensely poignant story of Liliana's journey from Rome to Tripoli to a north London suburb where, as plain Lily Jones, she begins to uncover a secret she has buried so deeply that even she is far from certain what it is. Praise for Early One Morning by Virginia Baily: 'As gripping as any thriller...really, really good' Daily Mail 'A big, generous and absorbing piece of storytelling' Samantha Harvey, Guardian 'A real treat' Philip Hensher, Observer 'Wonderful' Tessa Hadley

Book Our Fourth Shore

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  • Author : United States. National Park Service
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1959
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 56 pages

Download or read book Our Fourth Shore written by United States. National Park Service and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Fourth Shore

Download or read book The Fourth Shore written by Alessandro Spina and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern classic about the colonization of Libya continues, as Italy watches its prized colony slip away. The Confines of the Shadow maps the transformation of the Libyan city of Benghazi from a sleepy Ottoman backwater in the 1910s to the second capital of an oil-rich kingdom in the 1960s. The short stories that comprise this second volume are set in the period between the late 1920s, when Italy began solidifying its power in its new Libyan colony, and the end of World War II, when control of the country passed into British hands. Italian military officers idle their time away at their club or by exploring the strange lands where they have been posted, always at odds between the nationalistic education they received at home and the lessons they've learned during their time in Libya. Employing a cosmopolitan array of characters, ranging from Italian soldiers to Ottoman functionaries, The Fourth Shore (the term was Mussolini's name for the Mediterranean shore of Libya) chronicles Italy's colonial experience from the euphoria of conquest-giving the reader a front-row seat to the rise and subsequent fall of Fascism in the aftermath of World War II-to the country's independence in the 1950s. The discovery of Libya's vast oil and gas reserves will trigger the tumultuous changes that led to Muammar Gaddafi's forty-two-year dictatorship.

Book Fourth Shore

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  • Author : Claudio G. Segrè
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1974
  • ISBN : 9780226744742
  • Pages : 237 pages

Download or read book Fourth Shore written by Claudio G. Segrè and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Fourth Shore

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  • Author : Alessandro Spina
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2019-01-15
  • ISBN : 1628728396
  • Pages : 480 pages

Download or read book The Fourth Shore written by Alessandro Spina and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern classic about the colonization of Libya continues, as Italy watches its prized colony slip away. The Confines of the Shadow maps the transformation of the Libyan city of Benghazi from a sleepy Ottoman backwater in the 1910s to the second capital of an oil-rich kingdom in the 1960s. The short stories that comprise this second volume are set in the period between the late 1920s, when Italy began solidifying its power in its new Libyan colony, and the end of World War II, when control of the country passed into British hands. Italian military officers idle their time away at their club or by exploring the strange lands where they have been posted, always at odds between the nationalistic education they received at home and the lessons they’ve learned during their time in Libya. Employing a cosmopolitan array of characters, ranging from Italian soldiers to Ottoman functionaries, The Fourth Shore (the term was Mussolini’s name for the Mediterranean shore of Libya) chronicles Italy’s colonial experience from the euphoria of conquest—giving the reader a front-row seat to the rise and subsequent fall of Fascism in the aftermath of World War II—to the country’s independence in the 1950s. The discovery of Libya’s vast oil and gas reserves will trigger the tumultuous changes that led to Muammar Gaddafi’s forty-two-year dictatorship.

Book The Fourth Shore

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  • Author : Ginny Baily
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-07
  • ISBN : 9780708898499
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book The Fourth Shore written by Ginny Baily and published by . This book was released on 2018-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mussolini Unleashed  1939 1941

Download or read book Mussolini Unleashed 1939 1941 written by MacGregor Knox and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-06-27 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the motives, preparation, objectives, contact and consequences of Italy's war of 1940, which ended the country's role as a great power and reduced it to the status of first among Germany's satellites. What Professor Knox demonstrates is the limits of Mussolini's power. In particular, thanks to exhaustive research in the relevant archives, he has been able to throw important new light on Mussolini's relations with his military advisers and commanders.

Book Fire on the Beach

Download or read book Fire on the Beach written by David Wright and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Civil War to the turn of the century, this is the true-life story of the original Coast Guard and one crew of African-American heroes who fought storms and saved lives off America's southeastern coast. 31 halftones.

Book The Farthest Shore

Download or read book The Farthest Shore written by Ursula K. Le Guin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the prince of Enlad declares the wizards have forgotten their spells, Ged sets out to test the ancient prophecies of Earthsea.

Book Kafka on the Shore

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  • Author : Haruki Murakami
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2006-01-03
  • ISBN : 1400079276
  • Pages : 481 pages

Download or read book Kafka on the Shore written by Haruki Murakami and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2006-01-03 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and one of the world’s greatest storytellers comes "an insistently metaphysical mind-bender” (The New Yorker) about a teenager on the run and an aging simpleton. Now with a new introduction by the author. Here we meet 15-year-old runaway Kafka Tamura and the elderly Nakata, who is drawn to Kafka for reasons that he cannot fathom. As their paths converge, acclaimed author Haruki Murakami enfolds readers in a world where cats talk, fish fall from the sky, and spirits slip out of their bodies to make love or commit murder, in what is a truly remarkable journey. “As powerful as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.... Reading Murakami ... is a striking experience in consciousness expansion.” —The Chicago Tribune

Book The Fourth Coast

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  • Author : Mary Blocksma
  • Publisher : New York : Penguin Books
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book The Fourth Coast written by Mary Blocksma and published by New York : Penguin Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an account of the author's five thousand mile journey along the coast of the Great Lakes, from New York to Minnesota, and includes interviews she conducted with people who live near the lakes, a listing of sites to visit, and a guide to resources for more precise travel information.

Book The Shore

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  • Author : Katie Runde
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2023-05-30
  • ISBN : 1982180188
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book The Shore written by Katie Runde and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mother and her two daughters spend a summer grappling with heartbreak, young love, and the weight of secrets in this “deeply felt family saga” (Entertainment Weekly) hailed as “one of the best beach reads of all time” (Today). Brian and Margot Dunne live year-round in Seaside, just steps away from the bustling boardwalk, with their daughters Liz and Evy. The Dunnes run a real estate company, making their living by quickly turning over rental houses for tourists. But the family’s future becomes precarious when Brian develops a brain tumor, transforming into an erratic version of himself. Amidst the chaos and new caretaking responsibilities, Liz still seeks out summer adventure and flirting with a guy she should know better than to pursue. Her younger sister Evy works in a candy shop, falls in love with her friend Olivia, and secretly adopts the persona of a middle-aged mom in an online support group, where she discovers her own mother’s vulnerable confessions. Meanwhile, Margot faces an impossible choice driven by grief, impulse, and the ways that small-town life has shaped her. Falling apart is not an option, but she can always pack up and leave the beach behind. “An emotional family drama...with endearing characters and deep insights” (Glamour), The Shore is a heartbreaking yet ultimately uplifting novel infused with humor about finding sisterhood, friendship, and love in a time of crisis. This big-hearted novel examines the grit and hustle of running a small business in a tourist town, the ways we connect with strangers when our families can’t give us everything we need, and the comfort found in embracing the pleasures of youth while coping with unimaginable loss.

Book Italian Colonialism

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  • Author : Jacqueline Andall
  • Publisher : Peter Lang
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9783039103263
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Italian Colonialism written by Jacqueline Andall and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume explores the ways in which the Italian colonial experience continues to be relevant, despite the extent to which forgetting colonialism became an integral part of Italian culture and national identity.

Book Italian Colonialism

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  • Author : R. Ben-Ghiat
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2016-04-30
  • ISBN : 1403981582
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book Italian Colonialism written by R. Ben-Ghiat and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italian Colonialism is a pioneering anthology of texts by scholars from seven countries who represent the best of classical and newer approaches to the study of Italian colonization. Essays on the political, economic, and military aspects of Italian colonialism are featured alongside works that reflect the insights of anthropology, race and gender studies, film, architecture, and oral and cultural history. The volume includes many essays by Italian and African scholars that have never been translated into English. It is a unique resource that offers students and scholars a comprehensive view of the field.

Book Missing Chums

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  • Author : Franklin W. Dixon
  • Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
  • Release : 2024-06-12
  • ISBN : 0486854396
  • Pages : 161 pages

Download or read book Missing Chums written by Franklin W. Dixon and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2024-06-12 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a thrilling book four, Frank and Joe Hardy investigate the disappearance of their friends, whom Baldy Turk's gang has kidnapped in a case of mistaken identity. While searching for their buddies, the brothers are captured on Blacksnake Island.

Book Arctic Imperatives

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  • Author : Thad W. Allen
  • Publisher : Council on Foreign Relations Press
  • Release : 2017-03-01
  • ISBN : 0876097085
  • Pages : 83 pages

Download or read book Arctic Imperatives written by Thad W. Allen and published by Council on Foreign Relations Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Exit Rommel

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  • Author : Bruce Allen Watson
  • Publisher : Stackpole Books
  • Release : 2006-12
  • ISBN : 9780811733816
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book Exit Rommel written by Bruce Allen Watson and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story of the defeat of the legendary Desert Fox Analyzes Rommel's generalship Details logistical difficulties and the erosion of weapons quality of the Afrika Korps In the sands of North Africa during the early years of World War II, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel burnished his reputation as the "Desert Fox." After a string of successes, Rommel's fortunes began to sour with the battles of El Alamein, where the British under Bernard Montgomery halted Axis expansion in the fall of 1942, followed days later by the American landings in Morocco and Algeria. As the Americans drove the Germans into Tunisia from the west and the British from the east, Rommel routed U.S. forces at Kasserine Pass. After his last-ditch attack at Medenine was repulsed, the Desert Fox was forced to evacuate, leaving much of his fabled force to Allied captivity.