Democracy and the Wired World – Michael Wesley
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The Eagle Has Landed $3.92 This 1976 adventure story set in World War II concerns a Nazi plot to kidnap Churchill from his retreat–or murder him if need be. The large, great cast and a director, John Sturges, who’s been down this road of ensemble action before (The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape) make this project exciting if not as memorable as Sturges’s more famous works. The weak ending doesn’t help. — Tom Keogh … |
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Into the Storm $9.50 Into the Storm follows British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (Brendan Gleeson, 28 Days Later) as he launches ferociously into World War II. The movie’s greatest strength comes from a shifting back and forth in time, portraying Churchill’s post-war life as well, when the very qualities that made him so effective as a military leader threaten both his career and his marriage. Any… |
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And Now For Something Completely Different $3.78 Monty Python’s first feature is essentially a reworking of their best skits from the first two seasons of their cult TV series Monty Python’s Flying Circus, shot on film outside the usual studio sets (Nudge Nudge, for example, is set in a tavern filled with passersby). As the TV series was as yet unseen in the U.S. at the time of this feature, And Now for Something Completely Different became for … |
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The Wright Brothers (Landmark Books) $2.58 A biography of the two brothers from Dayton, Ohio, who built and flew the first airplane…. |
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Keep Calm and Carry On $4.14 Packed full of cheery motivational quotes, proverbs and mantras, Keep Calm and Carry On is an uplifting gift book meant to give you a boost through troubled times. Discovered on a poster created by the British Ministry of Information for British soldiers before World War II, the slogan still manages to strike a chord in our current difficult times.”Success is the ability to go from one failure to … |
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Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour $4.28 Amazon Best Books of the Month, February 2010: Citizens of London is the story of the American firebrands who broke rank with popular opinion and stood shoulder-to-shoulder with England during the bleak infancy of World War II. Author Lynne Olson more than lives up to the critical acclaim of her last book, Troublesome Young Men, by exploring the origins of an Anglo-American alliance that helped t… |
