MARIA DUARTE picks the best and worst of a crowded year of films
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Anti-nazi Germans by Merilyn Moos/German Volunteers in the French Resistance by Steve Cushion
Revelatory accounts of courageous Germans who resisted the nazis during WWII
LEST WE FORGET: Memorial plaque to Werner Seelenbinder in Berlin
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STEVE JOHNSON picks his favourites from the many memorable albums of the year, and one stunning new festival
SIMON DUFF picks his favourites, from radical African-inspired electronic rhythms to improvisations on the organ
For GORDON PARSONS, a dramatic exploration of the abuse of young men at Medomsley Youth Detention Centre trumps Beckett, a couple of Hamlets and a bracing Candide
From feminist manifestos to exiled lovers to mythic islands, LEO BOIX selects the best fiction, poetry and non-fiction
FIONA O’CONNOR picks books and films that show defiance in the face of violence and injustice
A NUMBER of books deal with the German resistance to Hitler but only a few with resistance from the working-class and labour movement, with British communist Allen Merson's pioneering Communist Resistance in nazi Germany the best example.
These two books, published in one volume by Community Languages, can now be added to that list.
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