2 QUOTES WITH «AIR-RAID SHELTER»
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air-raid shelter.
I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense... But it's unquestionably good escapist literature, and I think I should rather like it if I were sitting in an air-raid shelter or recovering from flu.
I vaguely remember we had an air-raid shelter in our yard. We lived in a semi-detached house with a small garden in the suburbs of Salford, a couple of miles from the docks.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AIR-RAID SHELTER»
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air-raid shelter in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Air-
Raid Shelters of World War II: Family Stories of ...
Alan Dent remembers a special measure taken in his family: The house at the
corner of Eldorado Avenue and Scarborough Street had a brick air—raid shelter
built in the garden at the side of the house where we would shelter with other ...
HERE IS A SMALL FACT - YOU ARE GOING TO DIE 1939.
On June 5, Japanese bombers sent .5,000 Chungking civilians into their biggest
air-raid shelter, a mile-and- a-half-long tunnel (beloir). The bombers came and
went. The people pushed their way out, saw the warning of another raid, started
to ...
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War in the Garden of Eden: A Military Chaplain's Memoir from ...
The palace was built to disguise a three-story air-raid shelter located beneath it.
In between the palace and the air-raid shelter, piles of rubble and earth had been
placed to prevent bombs from penetrating into the shelter. The engineering had ...
Frank E. Wismer III, 2008
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Echoes of Chongqing: Women in Wartime China
For us the nearest air-raid shelter was the one near the Dongshui [Eastern Water]
Gate. Very often the Japanese would raid the city several times a day. Sometimes
right after we came out of the shelter and thought the air raid was over, the ...
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The Case for Auschwitz: Evidence from the Irving Trial
mention any crematorium or morgue, or a plan to convert a morgue of any
crematorium into an air-raid shelter. Similarly, none of the documents dated from
December 31, 1943, or earlier included in file 502 — 1 - 401 mention any
crematorium ...
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Evolution of Memory, Volume I: Historical Revisionism as ...
―He went back to Munich, and there was an air raid, and he went in the air raid
shelter where he was recognized by a former girlfriend and denounced and
arrested. So he could also have made it to Beilstein unfortunately.‖ (March 1997
...
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Exile from Latvia: My WWII Childhood - from Survival to ...
If nothing else we'll stay in an air raid shelter.” Good news, I thought. Even though
both Mom and Tinte objected, when Dad finally agreed to go, we picked up our
heavy loads and left the station. We had walked not even five minutes when the ...
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The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies
The air raid shelter explanation attracts deniers because it offers a “benign”
explanation with “no criminal significance at all” for a series of Auschwitz Central
Construction Office documents dating from early 1943. These documents include
...
Peter Hayes, John K. Roth, 2010
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Beyond Suffering: Recounting War in Modern China
As the ministry's air-raid shelter was relatively safer, there were lots of buyers.
Rather than helping poor and needy refugees, the ministry exposed its ugly
profiteering motive to the fullest by raising the sale price suddenly from 50 yuan
all the ...
James Flath, Norman Smith, 2011
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AIR-RAID SHELTER»
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air-raid shelter is used in the context of the following news items.
Jewish Boy's Narrow Escape from the Nazis
... neighborhood jokes as he set about building an elaborate air-raid shelter in the garden of their home in the southern suburb of Handsworth. «Crossmap, Jul 15»
Royal Family offers palatial digs for rent, courtesy landlady Liz …
The bling-baubles are kept in a converted air-raid shelter 40 feet under Buckingham Palace. For the most part, Elizabeth holds the royal estates ... «Toronto Star, Jul 15»
INSIGHT: Japanese relegated war to a 'thing of the past'
Aritsuka said reliving the smells of wartime was a common symptom, so I went to an air-raid shelter of a former army hospital in Haebaru, ... «Asahi Shimbun, Jul 15»
Bullsbrook bomb shelter sells
It once had a big air-raid shelter accessible from the backyard. A wooden outhouse-style structure covered in potato vine conceals the entrance ... «Domain News, Jul 15»
Island pupils go back to WWII
... to explain to the children what life was going to be like in the village and just what to do with a gas mask on your way to the air-raid shelter. «On The Wight, Jun 15»
Hole lotta love: the most intriguing London underground spaces
Housed in a former air-raid shelter just off Carnaby Street, Cahoots is a new and super-popular basement bar (book now to visit before the end ... «Time Out London, Jun 15»
Winnie the Pooh translator passes away
Wartime origins. Rowohlt was born in an air-raid shelter in the final weeks of the Second World War, on March 27th 1945. His mother, actress ... «The Local.de, Jun 15»
Eade sorry for defenders after huge loss
(Jack) Leslie had played two games, (Henry) Schade had played three – the third quarter was like an air-raid shelter. I think to the kids' credit ... «AFL.com.au, May 15»
Gardener unearths the root of his problems – an air raid shelter …
A gardener who spent three decades trying to grow a lawn finally discovered the cause of his woes – a massive World War II air-raid shelter ... «BT.com, Mar 15»
China: Thousands of air raid shelter residents evicted
Beijing's government has evicted more than 120,000 people living in the city's disused air-raid shelters, it's reported. Authorities will begin ... «BBC News, Feb 15»
