Blood-Bathed Days In Paris
Stanley Loomis surveys the Terror in Paris from 1798 to 1794 with vivid scenes of Charlotte Corday Marat Danton Robespierre and public executions. The book notes crowd reactions amid the guillotine and details of key figures in the French Revolution.
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Charlotte Corday
Charlotte
Marat
Danton
Loomis Sees Marat Danton Robespierre Trio as Rage of People
The observer notes Loomis fixates on the revolutionary trio as emblematic of public anger. Marat, described as a bitter scientist-philosopher, proclaims “I am the rage of the people,” signaling a volatile political climate.
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West Berlin’s lifelines stay open as canals supply city
Two canals bring a third of West Berlin’s supplies. Barges haul bulky raw materials for factories and coal and oil for stockpiles. When waterways freeze in winter, trucks trains and planes keep lifelines to the West open.
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West Berlin
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Seven Classics in Signet Classics paperback series
The Signet Classics line updates with seven literary works from Shakespeare to Sholokhov. The Tempest gains a new edition with an afterword by Robert Langbaum. Moll Flanders and Bleak House receive editions with afterwords by Kenneth Rexroth and Geoffrey Tillotson. Peer Gynt, The Pioneers, McTeague, and And Quiet Flows the Don complete the set with translations and afterwords by noted scholars and critics.
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Robert Spiller
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NEW PAPERBACK BUYS AND A DAM PROMISES CHANGE
New paperback titles include The Great Hunger by Cecil Woodham Smith about the Irish famine and six years of tragedy following the 1845 potato crop failure with 16 insert pages. The Crusades by Henry Treece surveys four campaigns. Lord Grizzly retells a classic West legend. The Executive by Arnold Hane analyzes modern success symbols. The Aswan High Dam aims to boost year round irrigation in Egypt.
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Mentor
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