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Surrender On Demand
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Author : Varian Fry
language : en
Publisher: Plunkett Lake Press
Release Date : 2019-08-09
Surrender On Demand written by Varian Fry and has been published by Plunkett Lake Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Varian Fry, a young editor from New York, traveled to Marseilles after Germany defeated France in the summer of 1940. As the representative of the Emergency Rescue Committee, a private American relief organization, he offered aid and advice to refugees who found themselves threatened with extradition to Nazi Germany under Article 19 of the Franco-German armistice — the “Surrender on Demand” clause. Fry risked his life to rescue those targeted by the Gestapo in “the most gigantic man-trap in history.” Working day and night with a few associates in opposition to France’s Vichy government and to American authorities, his elaborate rescue network managed to spirit more than 1,500 people — including prominent European politicians, artists, writers and scientists — to safety by the time Fry was expelled from France after 13 months. “Surrender on Demand is by turns wildly exciting, horrifying and exalting. Certainly, there has never been another book like it... Varian Fry is a good man. Through the people he has helped rescue — the doctors, the painters, the writers, the sculptors, the teachers — he has added to the sum total of the world’s happiness... an astonishingly good book.” — Russell Maloney, The New York Times “Surrender on Demand contains enough intrigue and conspiracy, enough narrow escapes and shady and flamboyant characters for three or four spy stories. But Mr. Fry has not written it for excitement... He has put down some plain and eloquent facts.” — Orville Prescott, The New York Times “I have read and heard many accounts of escapes from Europe... but none surpasses this restrained and factual narrative in suspense and excitement... It tells of many triumphs and some defeats: it depicts with vividness and often with humor a large number of interesting and frequently distinguished persons; it describes the endless obstacles encountered and the ingenious and constantly changing shifts and devices contrived to overcome them; and throughout it makes one feel the undercurrent of potential tragedy which too often became actual.” — New York Herald Tribune Weekly Book Review “A novelist would hardly dare pack a novel with so many hair-breath escapes.” — Lewis Gannett, New York Herald Tribune “... a brilliant exposé of the work accomplished by [Fry] in Marseille during the tragic days that followed the French defeat... Surrender on Demand is a unique contribution to the underground history of the war.” — Josef Forman, Free World “There are a larger number of highly exciting and almost unbelievable stories in this deeply moving but often also highly amusing book. Friends of light adventure novels will undoubtedly like it. And friends of humanity will see much more in it than an adventure story although it deals with forging passports, with hiding and escaping from detectives, with secret messages hidden in a toothpaste tube, and with an underground railroad over a well protected border. They will see in it a memorial to the man who made what he modestly calls ‘an experiment in democratic solidarity’ and also to the women and men who sent him on his dangerous mission.” — Henry B. Kranz, Saturday Review
Surrender Demand
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Author : John J Spearman
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2019-06-30
Surrender Demand written by John J Spearman and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-30 with categories.
The fourth in the series of books detailing the adventures of Jonah Halberd, now an Admiral in the Royal Navy of the Inter-Planetary Commonwealth. Tragedy, loss, danger, excitement, a new love and a new beginning accompany our hero.
Absolute Surrender
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Author : Andrew Murray
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2013-03-12
Absolute Surrender written by Andrew Murray and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-12 with Religion categories.
I desire by God's grace to give to you this message-that your God in heaven answers the prayers which you have offered for blessing on yourselves and for blessing on those around you by this one demand: Are you willing to surrender yourselves absolutely into His hands? Every one of us is a temple of God, in which God will dwell and work mightily on one condition-absolute surrender to Him. God claims it, God is worthy of it, and without it God cannot work His blessed work in us.
Assignment Rescue
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Assignment Rescue written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
American Pimpernel
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Author : Andy Marino
language : en
Publisher: Hutchinson Radius
Release Date : 1999
American Pimpernel written by Andy Marino and has been published by Hutchinson Radius this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Recounts the heroic efforts of Varian Fry (born in New York in 1907), who arranged the escape from Vichy France of at least 1,500 anti-Nazi political figures, intellectuals, artists, writers, and Jews in 1940-41. Working covertly in Marseille as a representative of the Emergency Rescue Committee, Fry outwitted the Gestapo and the antisemitic and/or collaborationist Vichy bureaucrats and police. He was often opposed by the U.S. State Department, both in terms of its reluctance to grant visas, especially to Jews, and the personal antisemitism of U.S. State Department personnel, high and low, in the U.S. and in France. Fry's anti-Nazism and anti-antisemitism can be traced to a pogrom he witnessed in Berlin in 1935. When Fry was forced to leave France, his staff continued the rescue work, with some of them playing important roles in the resistance. Fry was the only American to be recognized as a Righteous Gentile by Yad Vashem. Although he rescued many "ordinary" people, he is often remembered for saving many celebrities (e.g. Heinrich Mann, Franz and Alma Werfel, Lion Feuchtwanger, Marc Chagall, and Hannah Arendt), whose contributions made America the postwar cultural capital of the world.
Logics Of War
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Author : Alex Weisiger
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2013-03-19
Logics Of War written by Alex Weisiger and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-19 with Political Science categories.
Most wars between countries end quickly and at relatively low cost. The few in which high-intensity fighting continues for years bring about a disproportionate amount of death and suffering. What separates these few unusually long and intense wars from the many conflicts that are far less destructive? In Logics of War, Alex Weisiger tests three explanations for a nation's decision to go to war and continue fighting regardless of the costs. He combines sharp statistical analysis of interstate wars over the past two centuries with nine narrative case studies. He examines both well-known conflicts like World War II and the Persian Gulf War, as well as unfamiliar ones such as the 1864-1870 Paraguayan War (or the War of the Triple Alliance), which proportionally caused more deaths than any other war in modern history. When leaders go to war expecting easy victory, events usually correct their misperceptions quickly and with fairly low casualties, thereby setting the stage for a negotiated agreement. A second explanation involves motives born of domestic politics; as war becomes more intense, however, leaders are increasingly constrained in their ability to continue the fighting. Particularly destructive wars instead arise from mistrust of an opponent's intentions. Countries that launch preventive wars to forestall expected decline tend to have particularly ambitious war aims that they hold to even when fighting goes poorly. Moreover, in some cases, their opponents interpret the preventive attack as evidence of a dispositional commitment to aggression, resulting in the rejection of any form of negotiation and a demand for unconditional surrender. Weisiger's treatment of a topic of central concern to scholars of major wars will also be read with great interest by military historians, political psychologists, and sociologists.
Reports Of Cases Argued And Decided In The Circuit Court Of The United States For The Seventh Circuit By John Maclean 1829 55
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Author : United States. Courts of Justice. Circuit Courts
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1847
Reports Of Cases Argued And Decided In The Circuit Court Of The United States For The Seventh Circuit By John Maclean 1829 55 written by United States. Courts of Justice. Circuit Courts and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1847 with categories.
United States Statutes At Large
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Author : United States
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
United States Statutes At Large written by United States and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with Law categories.
Laws Of The State Of Indiana Passed At The Session Of The General Assembly
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Author : Indiana
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1935
Laws Of The State Of Indiana Passed At The Session Of The General Assembly written by Indiana and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1935 with Law categories.
The Art Of Surrender
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Author : Robin Wagner-Pacifici
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2005-10
The Art Of Surrender written by Robin Wagner-Pacifici and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10 with History categories.
Explores the ritual concessions as acts of warfare, performances of submission, demonstrations of power, and representations of shifting, unstable worlds. The author considers the limits of sovereignty at conflict's end, showing how the ways we concede loss can be as important as the ways we claim victory.