Warpaint

Author : Alicia Foster
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241962787

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Warpaint by Alicia Foster Pdf

Warpaint by Alicia Foster is a compelling tale of truth and lies, tragedy and black comedy, loosely based on the lives of four painters of the time. England, 1942: a dark world of conflict, hardship and subterfuge where information is a matter of life and death and art has become a weapon. In a gothic villa deep in the woods near Bletchley Park, the 'Black' propaganda team use intelligence to make propaganda designed to demoralise the enemy. For Vivienne Thayer, employed as an artist at the villa, the war has worked out well so far, she has an indulgent husband and a new lover. And while the government quibbles over what cannot be shown officially, at the villa there are no such restrictions - but where does the subterfuge end? Meanwhile, on the Home Front, three women painters - Laura Knight, Faith Farr and Cecily Browne - have been tasked by the War Artist's Advisory Committee with recording wartime life, brightening the existence of a public starved of culture, and summoning up the bulldog spirit in their art. Together they must battle with the men in power, including Churchill himself, to control the stories that can be told. As the course of the war turns and the lives of both groups collide, each woman must ask herself what can be revealed and what must be concealed, even from those closest to them. Alicia Foster grew up in Yorkshire and lives in Kent. She has a PhD in Art History and when she's not writing herself, she teaches art students. Warpaint is her first novel.

Author : Lindy Woodhead
Publisher : For Dummies
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1683366484

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War Paint by Lindy Woodhead Pdf

Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden's remarkable rivalry was ruthless, relentless and legendary--pushing both women to build international beauty empires in a world dominated by men.

Author : Lindy Woodhead
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781474606509

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War Paint by Lindy Woodhead Pdf

War Paint is the story of two extraordinary women, Miss Elizabeth Arden and Madame Helena Rubinstein, and the legacy they left: a story of feminine vanity and marketing genius. Behind the gloss and glamour lay obsession with business and rivalry with each other. Despite working for over six decades in the same business, these two geniuses never met face to face - until now. 'The definitive biography of women and their relationships to their faces in the twentieth century' Linda Grant, Guardian 'I have seldom enjoyed a book so much . . . the research is staggering . . . a wonderful read' Lulu Guinness

Author : David Arnold
Publisher : Speak
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780147513656

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Mosquitoland by David Arnold Pdf

"First published in the United States of America by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, 2015"--Title page verso.

Author : John M. Campbell,Donna Campbell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0879384514

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War Paint by John M. Campbell,Donna Campbell Pdf

Photographs reveal the themes and patterns used by American airmen to individualize their planes

Author : Brian Foss,Professor of Art History School for Studies in Art and Culture Brian Foss
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300108907

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War Paint by Brian Foss,Professor of Art History School for Studies in Art and Culture Brian Foss Pdf

In this groundbreaking examination of British war art during the Second World War, Brian Foss delves deeply into what art meant to Britain and its people at a time when the nation's very survival was under threat. Foss probes the impact of war art on the relations between art, state patronage, and public interest in art, and he considers how this period of duress affected the trajectory of British Modernism. Supported by some two hundred illustrations and extensive archival research, the book offers the richest, most nuanced view of mid-century art and artists in Britain yet written. The author focuses closely on Sir Kenneth Clark's influential War Artists' Advisory Committee and explores topics ranging from censorship to artists' finances, from the depiction of women as war workers to the contributions of war art to evolving notions of national identity and Britishness. Lively and insightful, the book adds new dimensions to the study of British art and cultural history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 0764340867

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War Paint by Anonim Pdf

"For many service men, the battle is over, but the ink lives on. Thousands of service men and women have chosen to commemorate their military service through tattoos, a custom as old as war itself. Yet military tattoos go far beyond the usual anchor and eagle clicheʹs, and are often as complex and varied as the military experience. For the first time, documentary photographer Kyle Cassidy has sought out veterans who marked their military service with a tattoo, they are shown here in all their glory. And the stories behind these tattoos, both conventional and surprising, are just as engaging"--Inside cover.

Author : Robin Laananen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0956220525

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US/THEN by Robin Laananen Pdf

Author : Bill Goshen
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307417671

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War Paint by Bill Goshen Pdf

The men who served with in the 1st Infantry Division with F company, 52nd Infantry, (LRP) later redesignated as Company I, 75th Infantry (Ranger) --engaged in some of the fiercest, bloodiest fighting during the Vietnam War, suffering a greater relative aggregate of casualties that any other LRRP/LRP/ Ranger company. Their base was Lai Khe, within hailing distance of the Vietcong central headquarters, a mile inside Cambodia, with its vast stockpiles of weapons and thousands of transient VC and NVA soldiers. Recondo-qualified Bill Goshen was there, and has written the first account of these battle-hardened soldiers. As the eyes and ears of the Big Red One, the 1st Infantry, these hunter/killer teams of only six men instered deep inside enemy territory had to survive by their wits, or suffer the deadly consequences. Goshen himself barely escaped with his life in a virtual suicide mission that destroyed half his team. His gripping narrative recaptures the raw courage and sacrifice of American soldiers fighting a savage war of survival: men of all colors, from all walks of life, warriors bonded by triumph and tragedy, by life and death. They served proudly in Vietnam, and their stories need to be told.

Author : Adam Spry
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438468839

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Our War Paint Is Writers' Ink by Adam Spry Pdf

Explores a little-known history of exchange between Anishinaabe and American writers, showing how literature has long been an important venue for debates over settler colonial policy and indigenous rights. For the Anishinaabeg—the indigenous peoples of the Great Lakes—literary writing has long been an important means of asserting their continued existence as a nation, with its own culture, history, and sovereignty. At the same time, literature has also offered American writers a way to make the Anishinaabe Nation disappear, often by relegating it to a distant past. In this book, Adam Spry puts these two traditions in conversation with one another, showing how novels, poetry, and drama have been the ground upon which Anishinaabeg and Americans have clashed as representatives of two nations contentiously occupying the same land. Focusing on moments of contact, appropriation, and exchange, Spry examines a diverse range of texts in order to reveal a complex historical network of Native and non-Native writers who read and adapted each other’s work across the boundaries of nation, culture, and time. By reconceiving the relationship between the United States and the Anishinaabeg as one of transnational exchange, Our War Paint Is Writers’ Ink offers a new methodology for the study of Native American literatures, capable of addressing a long history of mutual cultural influence while simultaneously arguing for the legitimacy, and continued necessity, of indigenous nationhood. In addition, the author reexamines several critical assumptions—about authenticity, identity, and nationhood itself—that have become common wisdom in both Native American and US literary studies. Adam Spry is Assistant Professor of Writing, Literature, and Publishing at Emerson College.

Author : Stephanie A. Smith
Publisher : Thames River Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780857280008

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Baby Rocket by Stephanie A. Smith Pdf

"Baby Rocket" is the story of an abandoned, adopted child, who, as an adult, must heal the traumatic ruptures of suicide and abuse in her past by becoming a detective of her own life.

Author : Nila Sagadevan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004-12
Category : Extraterrestrial anthropology
ISBN : 0976260603

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Warpaint of the Gods by Nila Sagadevan Pdf

WHAT IS GOD?S RELIGION? Nila Sagadevan's new book Warpaint of the Gods asks provocatively: Does God have a religion? If He does, what is it? If He does not?why do we humans have so many? An incredibly powerful message of the underlying unity of all world religions, this book aims to introduce a voice of reason to the paradox of religious bloodshed that pervades the world today. It undertakes a ruthless examination of religion's role in the brutal internecine conflict that has ruled the Earth, and concludes that human beings are so preoccupied with their own ethnocentricity (religious and ethnic) that they are blind to the horrors they are inflicting on one another. Equally important, this blinkered view of humanity has prevented us seeing the real picture?that life exists not only on the microscopic speck of cosmic dust we call Earth, but in the distant realms of the Universe, too. This vast celestial ocean renders our genocidal affinities all the more ridiculous,

Author : Brian Lehman
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781684703982

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War Paint by Brian Lehman Pdf

WAR PAINT is a quirky thriller and a naval warfare story like no other from the Vietnam War. It is April 1972 and the fading war has suddenly reawakened with the Easter Offensive, a massive invasion by North Vietnam into South Vietnam. United States troop strength in the war has fallen to new lows and twenty-year-old surfer Jeffs Ryder is a new member of the crew of a destroyer known as the Rat at the very time that the United States Navy has become the tip of the spear in repelling this aggression. He and his fianc?e Cathy's lives are turned upside down as his ship and many others are sent to the war. Unknown to Jeffs and the crew of the destroyer, their most dangerous enemy is not the one they expect. A secret group committed to the destruction of the ship, and an unbalanced navy fleet commander have joined forces in a conspiracy to send the Rat on a perilous mission and a confrontation with patrol boats carrying ship killing missiles.

Author : Kev Darling
Publisher : Crowood Press (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fighter planes
ISBN : 1840373571

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P-51 Mustang by Kev Darling Pdf

A pictorial history of the P-51 Mustang, thought to be the finest U.S. fighter plane of World War II.

Author : Adam Spry
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438468815

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Our War Paint Is Writers' Ink by Adam Spry Pdf

Explores a little-known history of exchange between Anishinaabe and American writers, showing how literature has long been an important venue for debates over settler colonial policy and indigenous rights. For the Anishinaabeg—the indigenous peoples of the Great Lakes—literary writing has long been an important means of asserting their continued existence as a nation, with its own culture, history, and sovereignty. At the same time, literature has also offered American writers a way to make the Anishinaabe Nation disappear, often by relegating it to a distant past. In this book, Adam Spry puts these two traditions in conversation with one another, showing how novels, poetry, and drama have been the ground upon which Anishinaabeg and Americans have clashed as representatives of two nations contentiously occupying the same land. Focusing on moments of contact, appropriation, and exchange,Spry examines a diverse range of texts in order to reveal a complex historical network of Native and non-Native writers who read and adapted each other’s work across the boundaries of nation, culture, and time. By reconceiving the relationship between the United States and the Anishinaabeg as one of transnational exchange, Our War Paint Is Writers’ Ink offers a new methodology for the study of Native American literatures, capable of addressing a long history of mutual cultural influence while simultaneously arguing for the legitimacy, and continued necessity, of indigenous nationhood. In addition, the author reexamines several critical assumptions—about authenticity, identity, and nationhood itself—that have become common wisdom in both Native American and US literary studies.