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(0)Deborah Cadbury
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440 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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In 1933, as Hitler came to power, schoolteacher Anna Essinger hatched a daring and courageous plan: to smuggle her entire school out of Nazi Germany. Anna had read Mein Kampf and knew the terrible danger that Hitler's hate-fueled ideologies posed to her pupils. She knew that to protect them she had to get her pupils to the safety of England. But the safe haven that Anna struggled to create in a rundown manor house in Kent would test her to the limit....
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382 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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An exploration of Queen Victoria's matchmaking exploits details how she used her grandchildren to further the influence of the British Empire, despite their own plans and the turmoil that rocked Europe starting in the nineteenth century.
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xiv, 357 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
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British author Cadbury explores the many layers involved in the abdication crisis of 1936, which ceded the British crown to the seemingly least prepared of the four sons of George V, George VI, aka Bertie, who revealed himself in the subsequent crisis of war to be the most suitable and stalwart of all.
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1 videodisc (approximately 343 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Presented in docudrama format, Seven wonders of the industrial world examines seven of the most important feats of civil engineering of the 19th and early 20th centuries: the SS Great Eastern; the Brooklyn Bridge, the Bell Rock Lighthouse, the Transcontinental Railway, the London sewer system, the Panama Canal, and Hoover Dam.