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Free Download The 1947 Partition of British India: Forced Migration and Its Reverberations
by Jennifer Leaning, Shubhangi Bhadada
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9354792901 | 356 Pages | ePUB | 2.35 MB

Free Download Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), "Bridging Two Dynasties: The 1947 New York Yankees "
English | ISBN: 0803240945 | 2013 | 368 pages | EPUB | 11 MB
Of all the New York Yankees championship teams, the 1947 club seemed the least likely. Bridging the gap between the dynasties of Joe McCarthy and Casey Stengel, the team, managed by Bucky Harris, was coming off three non-pennant-winning seasons and given little chance to unseat the defending American League champion Boston Red Sox. And yet, led by Joe DiMaggio, this un-Yankees-like squad of rookies, retreads, and a few solid veterans easily won the pennant over the Detroit Tigers and the heavily favored Red Sox, along the way compiling an American League-record nineteen-game winning streak. They then went on to defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers in a dramatic seven-game World Series that was the first to be televised and the first to feature an African American player.

Free Download Gopa Sabharwal, "India Since 1947: The Indepenent Years"
English | 2007 | ISBN: 0143102745 | PDF (Scan) | pages: 404 | 17.6 mb
This definitive guide to independent India takes us through the events and personalities that have shaped India in the sixty years since 1947. Starting with Independence Day, it covers the decades in which the subcontinent saw the rise of democracy, its metamorphosis from an economy driven by self-sufficiency to one propelled by the economic reforms of the 1990s, and the concurrent liberalization, privatization and globalization that boosted India’s growth rate. It also marks the transition from the era of single party dominance to that of coalition politics. Arranged chronologically, India Since 1947 covers a wide range of topics, from the coming into being of the Indian dominion, India’s first elections, the green revolution, the Five-Year Plans, and the infamous emergency (soon reversed by the democratic process) to the beginning of television in India and the launch of its space and nuclear programmes. Among the other events covered in the book are: The discovery of the cholera toxin Asia’s first-ever heart transplant in Bombay The beginning of the manufacture of bread in Delhi and Bombay The hijacking of flight IC 814 The setting up of the Bombay stock exchange The establishment of an all-woman hospital in Hyderabad A separate listing of the events leading up to independence, interesting factoids on various aspects of modern India, and a detailed index further enhance the appeal of the book."

Free Download Allen Ginsberg, "Collected Poems 1947-1997"
English | 2007 | pages: 1216 | ISBN: 0061139750 | EPUB | 5,9 mb
"Taken all together, Ginsberg’s poems are X-rays of a considerable part of American society during the last four decades." – The New Yorker

Free Download Gábor Gergely, "Hungarian Film, 1929-1947: National Identity, Anti-Semitism and Popular Cinema "
English | ISBN: 9462980764 | 2017 | 330 pages | PDF | 3 MB
What does it mean for someone or something to be Hungarian? People in Hungary grappled with this far-reaching question in the wake of the losses and transformation brought by World War I. Because the period also saw the rise of cinema, audiences, filmmakers, critics, and officials often looked at films with an eye to that question, too. Did the Hungary seen on screen represent the Hungary they knew from everyday life? And-crucially-did the major role played by Jewish Hungarians in the film industry make the sector and its creations somehow Jewish rather than Hungarian? Jews, it was soon decided, could not really be Hungarian, and acts of Parliament soon barred them from taking major roles in cinema production. This book tells the troubled story of that period in Hungarian cinematic history, taking it up through World War II.

Free Download Camus at Combat: Writing 1944-1947 (Audiobook)
English | November 15, 2022 | ASIN: B0BMB9R769 | M4B@128 kbps | 12h 57m | 706 MB
Author: Albert Camus | Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini
Paris is firing all its ammunition into the August night. Against a vast backdrop of water and stone, on both sides of a river awash with history, freedom’s barricades are once again being erected. Once again justice must be redeemed with men’s blood.
Albert Camus (1913-1960) wrote these words in August 1944, as Paris was being liberated from German occupation. Although best known for his novels including The Stranger and The Plague, it was his vivid descriptions of the horrors of the occupation and his passionate defense of freedom that in fact launched his public fame.

Free Download The Japan Journals: 1947-2004 By Donald Richie, Leza Lowitz
2005 | 510 Pages | ISBN: 1880656973 | EPUB | 10 MB
"Richie should be designated a living national treasure."-Library Journal"Wonderfully evocative and full of humor… honest, introspective, and often poignant."-New York Times"No one has written with more concentration about the peculiar quality of exile enjoyed by the gaijin, the foreigner in Japan."-London Review of Books"To read [The Donald Richie Reader and The Japan Journals] is like diving for pearls. Dip into any part of them and you will surely find treasures about the cinema, literature, traveling, writing. The passages are evocative, erotic, playful, and often profound."-Japanese Language and LiteratureDonald Richie has been observing and writing about Japan from the moment he arrived on New Year’s Eve, 1946. Detailing his life, his lovers, and his ideas on matters high and low, The Japan Journals is a record of both a nation and an evolving expatriate sensibility. As Japan modernizes and as the author ages, the tone grows elegiac, and The Japan Journals-now in paperback after the critically acclaimed hardcover edition-becomes a bittersweet chronicle of a complicated life well lived and captivatingly told. Donald Richie, the eminent film historian, novelist, and essayist, still lives in Tokyo.

Free Download 1947-1957, India: The Birth of a Republic
by Chandrachur Ghose
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0670097101 | 400 Pages | True ePUB | 2.2 MB