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‎The White Rose.‎

‎ London: Robert Hale, 1965 1 vol. (120 x 190 mm) de 206 pp. Cartonnage éditeur, jaquette illustrée. Première édition anglaise.‎

‎C'est vers juin 1942 qu'apparaît le premier tract, signé "La Rose Blanche", du groupe de résistant allemand qui, en 1942, ont combaté contre les nazis. Leur nom est directement inspiré du titre du roman de Traven, qui racontait une histoire de résistance : "La doctrine nazie et le mouvement qu'elle a suscité étaient dès le départ basés sur la duperie collective et donc pourris de l'intérieur.. Où que vous soyez organisez la résistance passive avant qu'il ne soit trop tard et que la jeunesse allemande ne soit pas immolée à la démence d'un monstre." Rosa Blanca, écrit en allemand en 1929 et ici dans sa première traduction mondiale, donne une version tropicale, prolétaire et cynique de La Cerisaie de Tchekhov. «Rose blanche» est le nom de l'hacienda de l'Indien Hacinto Yanez. Une compagnie américaine qui possède les champs de pétrole alentour décide de mettre la main sur les lieux pour en exploiter les gisements. Traven décrirt alors la résistance de l'indien, dénonce les vices de l'opération et l'argent-roi, au mépris des populations : « Parmi les grandes compagnies de pétrole des Américains qui avaient étendu leur activité au Mexique, la Condor Oil Company n'était assurément pas la plus importante ni la plus puissante. Mais c'est elle qui avait le meilleur appétit.». Voilà pour un début. ‎

‎Progress Report of an Ad Hoc Panel on Drug Abuse. - [SCARCE REPORT FROM THE WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE, 1962-63]‎

‎Washington, The White House, 1962. Lex8vo. Typewritten manuscript with blue wrappers. Leaves stapled in left margin. A bit of sunning, mostly to wrappers. 59 pp.‎

‎Original White House Report on a various number of different drugs and their effect, usage and addictability. The report was created by the request of President John F. Kennedy and was meant to support the President's Advisory Commission on Narcotics and Drug Abuse.""Public concern over the problem of drug abuse, which had been relatively dormant during the 1940s and 1950s, flared again during the 1960s. The intensification of national concern resulted in increasing pressure for federal initiatives in the area. In response to this development, a White House Conference on Narcotics and Drug Abuse was convened in 1962, which resulted in the establishment of the President's Advisory Commission on Narcotics and Drug Abuse on January 15, 1963."" (Abadinsky. Drug use and abuse, p 65.)""The President released a document entitled ""Progress Report"" [The present report] which had been produced by eight doctors (three M.D.'s, four Ph.D.'s, and one who held both degrees) designated as an Ad Hoc Panel on Drug Abuse to confer with the White House Science Advisor and give advice on what should be done. The members of this panel could not be faulted for their collective eminence, but none of them had theretofore been closely identified with drug-abuse problems, so their findings were developed from what might be termed a slightly fresh viewpoint. They started from the hypothesis that nearly all compulsive drug abusers could be rehabilitated, by which they meant withdrawn from drugs and re-established in society, since they found drug abuse was inevitably a manifestation of some underlying psychological or physiological disorder.Accordingly they rejected proposals for imposing long prison sentences on drug offenders, on the one hand, and for placing addicts on any kind of maintenance regime, on the other. Instead they urged lengthy and extensive parole supervision in all cases, following the pattern that had been developed (not surprisingly) in California."" (King, The Drug Hang Up, p. 232).The report drew several conclusions regarding why people use drugs, one of them being: ""Growth of ""long-hair"" and beatnik cults which experiment with the use of psychotic drugs to achieve group cohesiveness and personal nirvana."" (p. 14).‎

‎Alan Lethbridge Alan Lethbridge. The New Russia. From the White Sea to the Sibe‎

‎Alan Lethbridge Alan Lethbridge. The New Russia. From the White Sea to the Siberian steppe. New Russia. From the White Sea to the steppes of Siberia. In Russian /Alan Lethbridge Alan Letbridzh. The New Russia. From the White Sea to the Siberian steppe. Novaya Rossiya. Ot Belogo morya do stepey Sibiri. With 95 illustrations from photographs by the author and 3 maps. London Mills and Boon, Limited 1915. 314 pages, 95 photographs, 3 maps. (ISBN: 5-98901-081-3 5989010813) In 1915, Alan Lethbridges book The New Russia from the White Sea to the Siberian Steppe was published in New York. A year later, a joint essay by the Letbridge couple is published in London. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalbc3ee5dbd0206edda.‎

‎Baev O.M. Century under the wing of the white stork and Century under the white‎

‎Baev O.M. Century under the wing of the white stork and Century under the white stork wing. In Russian /Baev O. M. Vek pod krylom belogo aista i Century under white stork wing. Tiraspol KVINT 1997. 367 p. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalb7600cd134f0584a8.‎

‎Allen F. Chew Allen F. Chew. The White Death: The Epic Of The Soviet-Finnish W‎

‎Allen F. Chew Allen F. Chew. The White Death: The Epic Of The Soviet-Finnish Winter War The White Death: Epic of the Soviet-Finnish Winter War. In Russian /Allen F.Chew Allen F. Chu. The White Death: The Epic Of The Soviet-Finnish Winter War Belaya Smert: Epopeya Sovetsko-Finskoy Zimney Voyny. Michigan State University Press, 1971 x, 313 c.e. This is the definitive English-language work on the 105-day war between Finland and Stalins Soviet Union during the winter of 1939-1940. While largely overshadowed by the following conflicts of World War II, the successful resistance of the Finnish forces against the massive Red Army allowed Finland to survive as an independent nation. This study of the wars dramatic deep-winter military envoys is courseware for both the USMC and the US Army. Research author, Dr. Allen F. Chew, granted permission to the USMC to reprint this work for its exclusive and official use. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalba0f01cd76387f6fc.‎