Sentences with phrase «german home front»

A series of striking portraits depicting the German home front immediately before, during and after the First World War is to tour the UK to commemorate the centenary of the conflict and its legacy.

Set against the backdrop of the German home front, this is an unforgettable novel of courage and resolve, of the inhumanity of war, and the heartbreak and hope left in its wake.

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11:30 am — TCM — Mrs. Miniver One of the more celebrated World War II home front films has Greer Garson in an Oscar - winning turn as the stalwart title character, holding her home together against the German Blitz.

In this Odyssey - winning novel, Entwistle masterfully portrays Ada and her brother, Jamie, evacuated from London after threats of bombings and a German invasion, in this complex tale of life on the home front during WWII.

-- On a cold night in January, a stray German shepherd mix, dubbed Jimmy, lay in front of a home owned by a lifelong independent animal rescuer,...

In some ways, the enterprise based in Basel, Switzerland, is the most pleasurable of all the world's art fairs, with formidable sausages on offer down on the street in front of the former Warteck brewery that it calls home, wonderfully venturesome galleries hawking their wares (many quite new to the business), and relatively inexpensive German and Swiss beer flowing like the river Rhine.