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In the dramatic years between 1870 and the end of World War II, a number of prominent French Jews – pillars of an embattled community – invested their fortunes in France’s cultural artifacts, sacrificed their sons to the country’s army, and were ultimately rewarded by seeing their collections plundered and their families deported to Nazi concentration camps. In this rich, evocative account, James McAuley explores the central role that art and material culture played in the assimilation and identity of French Jews in the fin-de-siècle.
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A groundbreaking introduction to the photographic work of an iconic modern artist
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In this third Why I Write volume, Eileen Myles addresses the social, political, and aesthetic conditions that shape their work
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Patrick Modiano explores the boundaries of recollection in his tenth book published by Yale University Press
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A chronicle of recent events that have shaken the world, from the author of Capital in the Twenty?First Century
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The dramatic story of a man who stood at the center of British intelligence operations, the ultimate spymaster of World War Two: Thomas Kendrick
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An exquisite, lovingly crafted meditation on plants, trees, and our place in the natural world
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A thrilling history of MI9-the WWII organization that engineered the escape of Allied forces from behind enemy lines
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The fascinating story of the evolution of the country house in Britain, from its Roman precursors to the present
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An entertaining and lively guide to rediscovering the pleasure in art
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The story of the extraordinary relationship between a former slave and England’s most distinguished man of letters
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An engagingly accessible introduction to war, from ancient times to the present and into the future
