ANDY HEDGECOCK is entertained by a playful novel that embeds a fictional game at its heart
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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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Death comes for Liberals, entitled murder, Vatican hit squads, and fraternising with the Blitz killer
New releases from Public Image Ltd, William Basinski, and John Luther Adams
GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men
The Bard pays homage to Hull’s finest promoter and venue, and awards Douze Points to Laibach
KEVIN DONNELLY outlines how the bourgeois institutions inhibit our ability to to view art in revolutionary ways, and suggests some tactics to overturn it
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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