MARIA DUARTE and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Sunny Dancer, Tony, Songs of Forgotten Trees, and The End of Oak Street
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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JOHN GREEN relishes a powerful and moving drama that explores the lived realities of west London’s Punjabi community
MARTIN HALL welcomes a plea for greater compassion between believer and non-believer via the framework of philosophical enquiry
MATTHEW HAWKINS welcomes an engaging and nourishing account of the queer subculture that flourished in London between WWII and partial decriminalisation
RON JACOBS welcomes the political lessons for today, about organisation and withdrawal from conflict, made by an erudite and conversational biography
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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