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“Lemberg, Lwów, L’viv, 1914–1947: Violence and Ethnicity in a Contested City”
― Lemberg, Lwów, L'viv, 1914 - 1947: Violence and Ethnicity in a Contested City
― Lemberg, Lwów, L'viv, 1914 - 1947: Violence and Ethnicity in a Contested City
“He never flinched, he never cringed, but he died as one would wish all Englishmen to die—quietly and undramatically,”
― The First World War: A Complete History
― The First World War: A Complete History
“In Soviet writing the demonization of all forms of Ukrainian nationalism has a long tradition, and would make an interesting study in itself. Soviet writers considered almost any criticism of their state—and, from the 1930s, of the Russian Empire—as “fascist” or “counterrevolutionary,”
― Ukrainian Nationalism: Politics, Ideology, and Literature, 1929-1956
― Ukrainian Nationalism: Politics, Ideology, and Literature, 1929-1956
“the remains of Yaroslav the Wise disappeared from Kyiv in 1944, during the German occupation of the city. By some accounts, they ended up in the hands of Ukrainian Orthodox hierarchs in the United States and were spotted in Manhattan after the war. Some suspect that they may now be in the Church of the Holy Trinity in Brooklyn.”
― The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
― The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
“The art of change ringing is peculiar to the English, and, like most English peculiarities, unintelligible to the rest of the world. To the musical Belgian, for example, it appears that the proper thing to do with a carefully tuned ring of bells is to play a tune upon it. By the English campanologist, the playing of tunes is considered to be a childish game, only fit for foreigners; the proper use of bells is to work out mathematical permutations and combinations.”
― Nine Tailors
― Nine Tailors
Great War (1914-1918): The Society and Culture of the First World War
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