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  Dunkirk - The Last Words from...

  Sinclair McKay

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  A look at the WWII evacuation’s remarkable effect on British morale by the bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: “Fascinating details.” —The Telegraph 
   
  When Winston Churchill made one of the most inspiring speeches of the twentieth century—”we will fight them on the beaches” —he was giving thanks for what he called the miracle of deliverance, the harrowing and breathless evacuation of over 338,000 troops from the beaches and harbor at Dunkirk. Churchill was determined that it shouldn’t be labeled a victory. He was already too late. Hours later, broadcaster J.B. Priestley was to call it “an absurd English epic.”  
   
  Those days of Dunkirk are still invoked whenever the nation finds itself in crisis. But there is a wider story too that involves a very large number of civilians—from nurses to racing enthusiasts, trade union leaders to dance hall managers, novelists to seaside café owners. 
   
  And even wider yet, a story that starts in September 1939: of young civilian men being trained for a war that was already twenty-five years out of date, and the increasing suspense—and occasional surrealism—of the eight-month quiet period of the “Phoney War.” The ‘absurd epic’ of Dunkirk—told here through fresh interviews with veterans, plus unseen letters and archival material—is the story of how an old-fashioned island was brutally forced into the modernity of World War II.

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  Archaeologies of Violence and...

  Christopher N. Matthews, Bradley...

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  Violence is rampant in today's society. From state-sanctioned violence and the brutality of war and genocide to interpersonal fighting and the ways in which social lives are structured and symbolized by and through violence, people enact terrible things on other human beings almost every day. In Archaeologies of Violence and Privilege, archaeologists Christopher N. Matthews and Bradley D. Phillippi bring together a collection of authors who document the ways in which past social formations rested on violent acts and reproduced violent social and cultural structures. The contributors present a series of archaeological case studies that range from the mercury mines of colonial Huancavelica (AD 1564–1824) to the polluted waterways of Indianapolis, Indiana, at the turn of the twentieth century—a problem that disproportionally impacted African American neighborhoods. The individual chapters in this volume collectively argue that positions of power and privilege are fully dependent on forms of violence for their existence and sustenance.

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  Murphy FISTS #2

  Bey Deckard

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  Sometimes when it seems like it’s too late, the right person comes along and opens your eyes…Murphy is the continuing story of a D/s relationship between two Space Marines who found each other in the midst of hopelessness and misfortune.Sarge and his newly minted squad travel across the galaxy on a top-secret mission that could help win the war. However, to Murphy something about the mission stinks, and it’s not just the planet they’ve landed on.

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  Russia

  Donald Mackenzie Wallace

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  Russia by Donald Mackenzie Wallace
  
  libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. 
  Immerse yourself in well-known and popular titles!

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  Conversations with Kennedy

  Benjamin C. Bradlee

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  Distinguished journalist Benjamin C. Bradlee’s intimate biography of President John F. Kennedy and his Camelot years.Conversations with Kennedy is legendary reporter and executive Benjamin C. Bradlee’s account of his intimate dialogues with JFK—a man he counted as a confidante and friend. Beginning in 1958, when Kennedy was a US senator running for president, and continuing until 1963, the year that Kennedy died, Bradlee shared a close professional and personal relationship with the charismatic politician. Both men were war veterans, idealists, and up-and-coming American leaders, and they shared values that drove their friendship.   Kennedy was a politician equally at home with the bruising intellects he appointed to government posts and his working-class constituents. He respected his complicated father, understood his brothers, admired women, and had few illusions about human nature. Bradlee’s eye for detail reveals JFK’s views on everything from Communism to conservatism to freedom of the press.   From parties at the White House to weekends at Palm Beach to JFK’s enduring influence on Bradlee’s own life, this is an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the man behind a myth, written by a giant of American journalism.   

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  The next food movement? Maybe...

  PBS NewsHour

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  What happens to the little ends of cucumber that get cut off by big-time food processors to make pickles? At the Michelin-starred Manhattan restaurant Blue Hill, chef Dan Barber has tried turning that food waste into cuisine, an experiment to encourage diners to rethink the distinction between what we eat and what we throw away. Special correspondent Allison Aubrey of NPR News reports.

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