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81) Dead in a week
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What would you do if your daughter was kidnapped and given only a week to live?
Lauren Pennington is celebrating her junior year abroad when life comes to a screeching halt. At Munich's Hofbräuhaus, she engages in an innocent flirtation with a charming stranger for the length of a drink. Drink finished, Lauren leaves-only to be snatched from the streets and thrown into an unmarked van.
Officially, Aidan Deveraux is a communications expert for one...
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In August 1938 George F. Kennan was assigned as Secretary of Legation in Prague. After the Germans occupied Czechoslovakia in March 1939, he stayed on in that country when most other Western observers had left. These diplomatic papers, letters, and notes are on-the-spot observations by a skilled and sensitive historian and diplomat. They offer a unique record of one of the tragic events in modern European history. Depicted here are the attempts at...
83) The constant man
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"Former Munich detective Willi Geimeiser is a wanted man. He sacrificed his career and put his life on the line by exposing a high-ranking Nazi official as a murderer, and is now in hiding in a cabin deep in the Bavarian forest.But when his friend, Lola, is savagely attacked, Willi returns to Munich in disguise and under a new identity - Karl Juncker - determined to find the perpetrator. Meanwhile, the discovery of the body of a woman in the River...
84) FC Bayern Munich
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"Did you know that FC Bayern Munich has more than 4,000 fan clubs? Some fans, known as ultras, have special seats at home games. Learn more exciting facts about this fascinating soccer club in FC Bayern Munich, an Inside Professional Soccer book." -- Amazon.com
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In 1938, rapturous crowds greeted Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain when he proclaimed "Peace for our time" on his return from meeting Adolf Hitler in Munich. Yet today Chamberlain is vilified as a naïve appeaser – an image cynically cultivated by Winston Churchill for his own political gain. What is the truth? How should Birmingham's only Prime Minister be accurately remembered? More than Munich: The forgotten legacy of Neville Chamberlain reveals...
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Cities of the World volume 25
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Münich offers much more than Oktoberfest: the pretzel, large cups of beer and huge shopping malls. The neo-gothic palace of the City Hall, the unique domes of the Cathedral of Our Lady, the pillars of the generals, the city gates, the eclectic buildings of the Residenz are all there for you to see. You can also enjoy the markets and the taverns.
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Summary of Journey to Munich by Jacqueline Winspear | Includes Analysis Preview: Journey to Munich is the twelfth novel in Jacqueline Winspear's Maisie Dobbs series. Set in 1938, the novel tells the story of private agent Maisie Dobbs's dangerous mission to Munich to recover a British citizen who has been imprisoned by Hitler's Third Reich. Maisie has just returned to London from Spain, where she served as a nurse in the Spanish Civil War. There she...
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A pictorial history of Manchester United's rise from the 1958 Munich air disaster to a European Cup win ten years later, and the manager who led them there.
With words from best-selling author Jeff Connor and over 200 images, many of them new to the public, this is one man's search for his personal Holy Grail, and his determination to get there. This is not a eulogy for Sir Matt Busby. As Connor points out, his roles as a club director after 1968...
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Neville Chamberlain has gone down in history as the architect of appeasement, the prime minister who by sacrificing Czechoslovakia at Munich in September 1938 put Britain on an inevitable path to war.
In this radical new appraisal of one of the most vilified politicians of the twentieth century, historian Nicholas Milton claims that by placating Hitler, Chamberlain not only reflected public opinion but also embraced the zeitgeist of the time. Chamberlain...
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Between the First and Second World Wars, there was a growth of fascism in Britain and anxiety about revolution was in the air. Concerns of a possible Fascist attempt to overthrow the established order were high, not to mention the rise of Hitler and the threat of invasion. With secret clubs and clandestine meetings now a threat, the security services decided to infiltrate their ranks. Sir Barry Domvile had served with honor during the First World...
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Wages of Appeasement explores the reasons why a powerful state gives in to aggressors. It tells the story of three historical examples of appeasement: the greek city-states of the fourth century b. c., which lost their freedom to Philip II of Macedon; England in the twenties and thirties, and the failure to stop Germany's aggression that led to World War II; and America's current war against Islamic jihad and the 30-year failure to counter Iran's...
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Barbara Rearden Farnham is Senior Associate at the Institute of War and Peace Studies.
Franklin Roosevelt's intentions during the three years between Munich and Pearl Harbor have been a source of controversy among historians for decades. Barbara Farnham offers both a theory of how the domestic political context affects foreign policy decisions in general and a fresh interpretation of FDR's post-Munich policies based on the insights that the theory...
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In the mid 1930s, Hitler's determination to wage a European war and destroy the Treaty of Versailles seemed to be an unstoppable force in international affairs. The weak and divided British and French, crippled by multiple crises over the Rhineland, Spain Abyssinia and Austria were poorly prepared for the ordeal to come. This ebook explains how Hitler schemed and manipulated them in order to guarantee the destruction of Czechoslovakia and Poland.
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Smart Travels With Rudy Maxa volume 6
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Munich's lively Marienplatz pulses with outdoor cafes, shoppers, street musicians and happy tourists. At the famous Hofbrauhaus, we sample Bavarian beer and kick up our heels with Schuhplattler dancers clad in lederhosen. Next stop is the Residenz, the family palace built by the Wittlesbachs, who ruled Bavaria for more than 700 years.
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"Anneliese and her little brother Peter have been forever changed by the war that took their father's life. One day, while wandering the ruined streets of Munich in search of food, they stumble upon a book exhibit. The great hall is filled with more books than Anneliese can count! Here, Anneliese and Peter meet the lady with the books, who will have a greater impact on their lives than they could ever imagine.The Lady with the Books is based on the...