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Miners, Milkers & Merchants From the Swiss-Italian Alps to the Golden Hills of Australia and California


Free Download Miners, Milkers & Merchants: From the Swiss-Italian Alps to the Golden Hills of Australia and California by Marilyn L. Geary, Giorgio Cheda
English | October 10, 2021 | ISBN: 0982537808 | 356 pages | PDF | 13 Mb
Miners, Milkers & Merchants is a moving story of immigrants and history brought alive through the letters of three Swiss-Italian brothers who migrated from the Vallemaggia to Australia and California during the nineteenth century. Forced out by poverty, the brothers joined the over twenty-nine thousand emigrants, one out of five inhabitants, who left the Swiss Canton of Ticino between the 1850s and the 1930s.

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Between Neutrality and Solidarity Swiss Good Offices in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1992


Free Download Liliane Stadler, "Between Neutrality and Solidarity: Swiss Good Offices in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1992 "
English | ISBN: 9004690654 | 2024 | 252 pages | PDF | 5 MB
After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Swiss government oscillated between neutrality and solidarity in one of the Cold War’s major hot wars. They delivered humanitarian aid, hosted Soviet prisoners and eventually mediated between the Afghan regime and the resistance.

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Packer’s Lunch A Rollicking Tale Of Swiss Bank Accounts and Money-making Adventurers in The Roaring ’90’s


Free Download Neil Chenoweth, "Packer’s Lunch: A Rollicking Tale Of Swiss Bank Accounts and Money-making Adventurers in The Roaring ’90’s"
English | 2007 | pages: 377 | ISBN: 1741753236, 1741145465 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
This title covers dedicated mailing and e-mail campaign to targeted current affairs and social studies media. The dark channel of money and power that flow beneath the relaxed surface of Australian culture are perilous places.Behind the gossip columns and headlines, the famous names and celebrity makeovers, life hangs precariously by a thread – one wrong move spells disaster. For this is the world of networkers and social climbers, the games they play, the places they go and the circles they swim in determine who is in and who is out, who’s rich and who’s going belly-up.For years Graham Richardson, Trevor Kennedy and Rene Rivkin, high profile politicians and business men, deftly navigated these murky waters with the secret help of offshore advisors. The eventual exposure of their hidden Swiss bank accounts uncovered a world of hidden secrets that rocked the nation.This best-selling and award-winning volume, now in paperback, takes readers through all the twists and turns that led to the discovery of one of Australia’s greatest political and financial scandals.

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