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Author: Pul Q. Scye Publisher: Page Publishing Inc ISBN: 1662450788 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 382
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This is a science fiction book set in the far future, taking takes place on many worlds and in a multitude of varying landscapes. Most humans have left Earth, which is now a plastic wasteland, well over a millennia ago, and humans have moved out into the universe with the advent of the faster-than-light slip-drive technology, encountering the Planetary Organization in the process. Osborne lives with his retired father in a world with no name. Osborne begins as a bit of a simpleton, which is how he has lived his entire life. Osborne leaves his father’s house and looking for a custodial position in the Diplomatic Core headquarters. But through a series of bureaucratic snafus and misadventures, he finds himself leaving his home world to serve the Planetary Organization of Peoples, or POOP, onboard the battleship Valkyrie. Osborne meets various challenges and adventures and finds an intense alien love interest with Lieutenant Guzel Tweela. From combating an overthrow of a monarchy, questing for a cure for giant wasp stings, suffering trauma, and additionally dealing with loss, Osborne grows and comes into his own. Osborne battles and attempts to foil the nefarious plans of the Xie e De, a hostile alien race who seeks the destruction of the POOP, the Xie e De dogging Osborne’s every step. Osborne encounters a milieu of worlds, beings, and creatures in his journey through the universe. Osborne’s primary function as a diplomat evolves, as does Osborne’s character through the story.
Author: Pul Q. Scye Publisher: Page Publishing Inc ISBN: 1662450788 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 382
Book Description
This is a science fiction book set in the far future, taking takes place on many worlds and in a multitude of varying landscapes. Most humans have left Earth, which is now a plastic wasteland, well over a millennia ago, and humans have moved out into the universe with the advent of the faster-than-light slip-drive technology, encountering the Planetary Organization in the process. Osborne lives with his retired father in a world with no name. Osborne begins as a bit of a simpleton, which is how he has lived his entire life. Osborne leaves his father’s house and looking for a custodial position in the Diplomatic Core headquarters. But through a series of bureaucratic snafus and misadventures, he finds himself leaving his home world to serve the Planetary Organization of Peoples, or POOP, onboard the battleship Valkyrie. Osborne meets various challenges and adventures and finds an intense alien love interest with Lieutenant Guzel Tweela. From combating an overthrow of a monarchy, questing for a cure for giant wasp stings, suffering trauma, and additionally dealing with loss, Osborne grows and comes into his own. Osborne battles and attempts to foil the nefarious plans of the Xie e De, a hostile alien race who seeks the destruction of the POOP, the Xie e De dogging Osborne’s every step. Osborne encounters a milieu of worlds, beings, and creatures in his journey through the universe. Osborne’s primary function as a diplomat evolves, as does Osborne’s character through the story.
Author: Great Britain. Diplomatic Service Administration Office Publisher: ISBN: Category : Diplomatic and consular service, British Languages : en Pages : 382
Author: Robert M. Edsel Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393240452 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 491
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From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Monuments Men: "An astonishing account of a little-known American effort to save Italy's…art during World War II." —Tom Brokaw When Hitler’s armies occupied Italy in 1943, they also seized control of mankind’s greatest cultural treasures. As they had done throughout Europe, the Nazis could now plunder the masterpieces of the Renaissance, the treasures of the Vatican, and the antiquities of the Roman Empire. On the eve of the Allied invasion, General Dwight Eisenhower empowered a new kind of soldier to protect these historic riches. In May 1944 two unlikely American heroes—artist Deane Keller and scholar Fred Hartt—embarked from Naples on the treasure hunt of a lifetime, tracking billions of dollars of missing art, including works by Michelangelo, Donatello, Titian, Caravaggio, and Botticelli. With the German army retreating up the Italian peninsula, orders came from the highest levels of the Nazi government to transport truckloads of art north across the border into the Reich. Standing in the way was General Karl Wolff, a top-level Nazi officer. As German forces blew up the magnificent bridges of Florence, General Wolff commandeered the great collections of the Uffizi Gallery and Pitti Palace, later risking his life to negotiate a secret Nazi surrender with American spymaster Allen Dulles. Brilliantly researched and vividly written, the New York Times bestselling Saving Italy brings readers from Milan and the near destruction of The Last Supper to the inner sanctum of the Vatican and behind closed doors with the preeminent Allied and Axis leaders: Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and Churchill; Hitler, Göring, and Himmler. An unforgettable story of epic thievery and political intrigue, Saving Italy is a testament to heroism on behalf of art, culture, and history.
Author: Toby Osborne Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521037914 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 326
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This book is a major study in English of the duchy of Savoy during the period of the Thirty Years War. Rather than examining Savoy purely in terms of its military or geo-strategic role, Dynasty and Diplomacy in the Court of Savoy comprises three interwoven strands: the dynastic ambitions of the ruling House of Savoy, the family interests of an elite clan in ducal service, and the unique role played by one member of that clan, Abate Alessandro Scaglia (1592-1641), who emerged as one of Europe's most widely known diplomats. Scaglia, the focus of the book, affords insights not only into Savoyard court politics and diplomacy, but more generally into a diplomatic culture of seventeenth-century Europe. With his image fixed by a remarkable series of Van Dyck portraits, Scaglia is emblematic of an international network of princes, diplomats, courtiers and artists, at the point of contact between dynasticism, high politics and the arts.
Author: Owen Chadwick Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521368254 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 348
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The book studies the use made by the British government of its envoy, immured inside the Vatican from 1940 to 1944, and what the envoy made of such opportunities during the Second World War to help the Allied cause. We see the Vatican, the Fascist Italy, from 'inside', and so gain a new and rare perspective into the predicament of the papacy. Owen Chadwick gives insight into the workings of the Vatican, including such questions as the struggle to keep Italy out of the war, the relations between the Vatican and the Fascist government, the use which the British sought to make of Vatican radio, the question of condemning atrocities, the bombing of Rome, the fall of Fascism, the armistice between the Allies and Italy, the German occupation of Rome, and the escape line for British prisoners of war. The author has used several groups of hitherto unexplored archives, and makes a fresh contribution both to the history of the Second World War and to the modern history of the papacy.
Author: Dorothy Osborne Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 0802088333 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 217
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Combining historical and biographical research with feminist theory, Carrie Hintz considers Osborne's vision of letter writing, her literary achievement, and her literary influences.
Author: Christian Jennings Publisher: The History Press ISBN: 1803990694 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 303
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Syndrome K is the story of how 80 per cent of Italy's Jews escaped the Holocaust, with the help of their fellow countrymen, the Allies and even some Germans. From claiming sanctuary in the Vatican to pitched battles by partisans, and even inventing a highly contagious 'Jewish disease', it was an ingenious, covert and complicated effort – and one that saved the lives of thousands of people. Drawing on original archive material from Italy, Germany, the Vatican City, Switzerland, the UK and US, acclaimed historian Christian Jennings tells the whole story in English for the first time.
Author: Stephen Walker Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 0762785713 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 354
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Hide & Seek chronicles the intensely personal war between wartime Rome’s Nazi SS Chief Herbert Kappler and the Vatican’s Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty, a fiercely fought rivalry that culminated in Kappler attempting to kidnap and murder his Irish opponent, who was determined to fight Rome’s Nazi rulers. Called “Ireland’s Oscar Schindler,” O’Flaherty masterminded a large-scale operation from inside the neutral Vatican, to hide and help Jews, downed airmen, and escaped Allied prisoners. Using safe houses and church buildings, the priest sheltered around five hundred Jews in the Holy See and many thousands more Jews and Allied escapees in and around Rome. After a Resistance bomb killed thirty-two German soldiers, an enraged Hitler ordered revenge. Kappler planned and oversaw the firing squad execution of 335 people in the Ardeatine Caves outside Rome. The massacre became the worst atrocity committed on Italian soil during the war. After the war, the Nazi colonel was found guilty on all the charges relating to the massacre and sentenced to life. Amazingly, O’Flaherty began visiting his former rival in prison, engaging in a long-run conversation that led to Kappler’s conversion—and baptism by the Irish Monsignor.
Author: Pul Q. Scye
Author: Pul Q. Scye
Author: Great Britain. Diplomatic Service Administration Office
Author: Robert M. Edsel
Author: Toby Osborne
Author: Owen Chadwick
Author: Dorothy Osborne
Author: Christian Jennings
Author: Richard Dehan
Author: Stephen Walker
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