Marcel's Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man's Fate

Marcel's Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man's Fate by Carolyn Porter
English | June 6th, 2017 | ISBN: 9781510719347 | 352 Pages | EPUB | 3.25 MB
Seeking inspiration for a new font design in an antique store in small-town Stillwater, Minnesota, graphic designer Carolyn Porter stumbled across a bundle of letters and was immediately drawn to their beautifully expressive pen-and-ink handwriting. She could not read the letters-they were in French-but she noticed all of them had been signed by a man named Marcel and mailed from Berlin to his family in France during the middle of World War II.
Flag 4: The Battle of Coastal Forces in the Mediterranean 1939-45

Flag 4: The Battle of Coastal Forces in the Mediterranean 1939-45 by Dudley Pope
English | 2 Jun. 2017 | ISBN: 0755130626 | 288 Pages | PDF | 35.58 MB
‘Flag 4' is the signal for 'attack with torpedoes'. In this authoritative and thrilling account of the actions of British motor torpedo boats in the Mediterranean during World War II, Dudley Pope uses eyewitness accounts of those who fought the many battles.
Parenting and the State in Britain and Europe, c. 1870-1950: Raising the Nation

Parenting and the State in Britain and Europe, c. 1870-1950: Raising the Nation by Hester Barron
English | 6 Jan. 2017 | ISBN: 3319340832 | 304 Pages | PDF | 2.56 MB
This innovative collection draws on original research to explore the dynamic interactions between parents, governments and their representatives across a range of European contexts; from democratic Britain and Finland, to Stalinist Russia and Fascist Italy. The authors pay close attention to the various relationships and dynamics between parents and the state,