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The Fifth Column is set during the Spanish Civil War.Its main character, Philip Rawlings, is an American-born secret agent for the Second Spanish Republic.The play was poorly received upon publication and has been overshadowed by many of the short stories in the anthology.
Notes [ edit ] ^ Madeleine Albright , for example, in a lengthy account of German sympathizers in Czechoslovakia in the first years of World War II , does not use the phrase to describe their actions until she considers their possible response to a German invasion: "Many, perhaps most, of the Sudetens would have provided the enemy with a fifth ...
The Lessons of History is a 1968 book by historians Will Durant and Ariel Durant. The book provides a summary of periods and trends in history they had noted upon completion of the 10th volume of their momentous eleven-volume The Story of Civilization. Will Durant stated that he and Ariel "made note of events and comments that might illuminate ...
The Fifth of March is a 1993 novel about the Boston Massacre (of March 5, 1770, pre-Revolutionary War) by historian and author Ann Rinaldi, who was also the author of other historical fiction novels, such as Girl in Blue and A Break with Charity.
Mother and son (c. 1800), by VanderlynLeonora Sansay (December 11, 1773 – interred November 12, 1821) was an American novelist. She was the author of Secret History; or, The Horrors of St. Domingo, in a Series of Letters Written by a Lady at Cape Francois to Col. Burr, late Vice-President of the United States, Principally During the Command of General Rochambeau (Philadelphia, 1808) and ...
Silencing the Past is a meditation on the characteristics of power and how it influences the creation and recording of histories. Spanning examples from The Alamo and Christopher Columbus to the position of the Haitian Revolution in the collective memory of Western society, Trouillot analyzes conventional historical narratives to understand why certain parts of history are remembered when ...
The book is about "one of the most compelling paradoxes of history: the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests". [1] It details four major instances of government folly in human history: the Trojans' decision to move the Greek horse into their city, the failure of the Renaissance popes to address the factors that would lead to the Protestant Reformation in the early ...
Fifth Third Bank branch located in Fairborn, Ohio. Fifth Third Bank (5/3 Bank), the principal subsidiary of Fifth Third Bancorp, is a bank holding company headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.