Monique Nemni
This book shines a light of devastating clarity on French-Canadian society in the 1930s and 1940s, when young elites were raised to be pro-fascist, and democratic and liberal were terms of criticism. The model leaders to be admired were good ... [... more]
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Shadow of a Doubt
 From Amazon.co.uk: Alfred Hitchcock considered this 1943 thriller to be his personal favourite among his own films, and although it's not as popular as some of Hitchcock's later work, it's certainly worthy of the master's admiration. Scripted by [... more]
CDN$24.95
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Alfred Price
German daylight raids on Britain began in the summer of 1940. They were expected and the country had been preparing for quite some time. Searchlights were in place, Fighter Command had been expanded, and anti-aircraft guns were being ... [... more]
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Antonietta Iolanda Lima
As much a visionary as he is an architect, Paolo Soleri, born in Turin in 1919, worked with Frank Lloyd Wright in the late 1940s and went on to develop his own organically expressive architecture. Since 1935 he has been involved almost ... [... more]
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Mary Ladd Gavell
Mary Ladd Gavell was born in Cuero, Texas, in 1919 and graduated from Texas A & M University in 1940. She married Stefan Gavell in 1953, and the couple had two sons. They lived in Washington, D.C., where Mary Gavell worked at Psychiatry magazine. ... [... more]
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Robert Doherty
ROBERT DOHERTY is a pseudonym for a bestselling writer of military suspense novels. He lives in Boulder, Colorado When nine atmospheric crafts of unknown origin were discovered in the Antarctic in the late 1940s, the U.S. government established ... [... more]
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Ruth Krauss
Ruth Krauss, a member of the experimental Writer's Laboratory at the Bank Street School in New York City in the 1940s, imaginatively used humor and invented words to create some of the very first books for children that highlighted a child's ... [... more]
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Frank Conroy
In the dim light of a basement apartment, six-year-old Claude Rawlings sits at an old white piano, picking out the sounds he has heard on the radio and shutting out the reality of his lonely world. The setting is 1940s New York, a city that is ... [... more]
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Dark Command (Full Screen)
From Amazon.com: Historically dubious but vigorously entertaining, Dark Command is the best of John Wayne's many movies for Republic (not counting Wayne's lovely producing debut Angel and the Badman and those two John Ford films). Set in "Bleeding [... more]
CDN$21.98
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Fighting Seabees (Full Screen)
Navy Heritage - US Navy Seabees: This movie has become a part of lore among the men and women of the finest combat contstruction organizations of the US military. It is a nice Hollywood adaptation of the creation of the US Navy Seabees. And who can [... more]
CDN$21.95
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3 Godfathers
From Amazon.com: It's hardly shameful that The Three Godfathers ranks as the slightest John Ford Western in a five-year arc that includes My Darling Clementine, Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Wagon Master, and Rio Grande. The source, a Peter B. [... more]
CDN$15.61
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The Long Voyage Home
Long Voyage Home a True Gem: John Ford's "A Long Voyage Home" is one of those films that stick with you your whole life like "Meet John Doe" or "Of Mice and Men". I last saw it almost 30 years ago and it haunts me still. [... more]
CDN$9.93
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