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Vuillard, Éric

Summary: "From the award-winning author of The Order of the Day, a powerful account of the German Peasants' War (1524-25) that shows striking parallels to class conflicts of our time. In the sixteenth century, the Protestant Reformation launched an attack on privilege and the Catholic Church, but it rapidly became an established, bourgeois authority itself. Rural laborers and the urban poor, who were...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2020

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 843 VUI

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 843 VUI

Vuillard, ©ric

Summary: "February 20, 1933: on an unremarkable day during a harsh Berlin winter, a meeting of twenty-four German captains of industry and senior Nazi dignitaries is being held in secret in the plush lounges of the Reichstag. They are there to "stump up" funding for the accession to power of the National Socialist Party and its fearsome Chancellor. This inaugural scene sets the tone of consent which...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VUI

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