Escape to Portugal

by David Gardner
Escape to Portugal
Author: David Gardner
Publisher:
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2020-03-04
Genre:
ISBN:
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Another marvellous story from best selling travel writer, David Gardner. Join David and his wife Wendy as they take on the wonders of Portugal in all its glory. Its history, culture, natural beauty, and myriad idiosyncrasies are brought to life with feeling and humour as this couple travels through the heart of an inspiring country. Explore the beauty of Porto, the evocative Douro Valley, the frenetic energy and charm of Lisbon, and the history of Tomar and its Knights Templar. Then journey on to the grand city of Coimbra, the Medieval town of Obidos and the regal splendour of Sintra. It is a book that will captivate and inspire any who have ever thought of travelling to this Iberian wonderland.

Hitler’s Jewish Refugees

by Marion Kaplan
Hitler’s Jewish Refugees
Author: Marion Kaplan
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2020-01-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300249500
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An award-winning historian presents an emotional history of Jewish refugees biding their time in Portugal as they attempt to escape Nazi Europe This riveting book describes the experience of Jewish refugees as they fled Hitler to live in limbo in Portugal until they could reach safer havens abroad. Drawing attention not only to the social and physical upheavals of refugee life, Kaplan highlights their feelings as they fled their homes and histories while begging strangers for kindness. An emotional history of fleeing, this book probes how specific locations touched refugees’ inner lives, including the borders they nervously crossed or the overcrowded transatlantic ships that signaled their liberation.

The Lisbon Route

by Ronald Weber
The Lisbon Route
Author: Ronald Weber
Publisher: Government Institutes
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2011-05-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 1566638925
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The Lisbon Route tells of the extraordinary World War II transformation of Portugal's tranquil port city into the great escape hatch of Nazi Europe. Royalty, celebrities, diplomats, fleeing troops, and ordinary citizens desperately slogged their way across France and Spain to reach the neutral nation. As well as offering freedom from war, Lisbon provided spies, smugglers, relief workers, military figures, and adventurers with an avenue into the conflict and its opportunities. Yet an ever-present shadow behind the gaiety was the fragile nature of Portuguese neutrality.

The Great Escape That Changed Africa's Future

by Harper, Charles R.
The Great Escape That Changed Africa's Future
Author: Harper, Charles R.
Publisher: Lucas Park Books
Total Pages: 105
Release: 2017-04-21
Genre:
ISBN: 1603500650
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This is the story of the dramatic clandestine escape, in June of 1961, of sixty African students from Portugal across Spain and into France. Most were Angolan intellectuals. Some were from Mozambique and others from Guinea-Bissau, the Cape Verde Islands, and São Tomé-and-Principe. Soon after the first anti-colonial armed rebellions broke out in Angola (March 1961), the student community in Portugal suffered increasing harassment by the Portuguese political police. Passports were confiscated and some arrests of suspected student leaders occurred. Many students - men and women - decided to flee Portugal illegally. It was risky business. False passports from friendly African countries had to be found, contacts set up for night border crossings into Franco's Spain, and then overland transportation to France. Some of the students, graduates of North American and British missionary schools in Africa, appealed to the World Council of Churches in Geneva to help them escape. The challenge was accepted by the French Protestant service agency CIMADE. The successful operation makes for exciting reading. This updated edition includes recollections of African heads of government who participated in the Great Escape.

The Hotel Book

by Shelley-Maree Cassidy
The Hotel Book
Author: Shelley-Maree Cassidy
Publisher: Taschen
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2003
Genre: Africa
ISBN: 3822819115
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Who minds sleeping under a mosquito net when it's royally draped over the bed in a lush Kenyan, open-walled hut, fashioned from tree trunks and shielded from the sun by a sumptuous thatched roof? This selection of the most-splendid getaway havens nestled throughout the African continent is sure to please even the most finicky would-be voyagers. Photos.

They Went to Portugal

by Rose Macaulay
They Went to Portugal
Author: Rose Macaulay
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-05
Genre: Portugal
ISBN: 9781914198397
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From the author of the beloved novel The Towers of Trebizond, a book about Portugal that is part travel-ogue, part history and wholly personal.

The Portuguese Escape

by Ann Bridge
The Portuguese Escape
Author: Ann Bridge
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2011-09-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1448205417
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Julia Probyn, journalist and amateur sleuth, must acquaint herself with the world of counterespionage. Hetta, a young Hungarian Countess, just released from behind the Iron Curtain, is drawn into a communist plot. Together the two young women will need all of their strength to unravel the schemes and machinations closing in from all sides. With Ann Bridge's talent for evoking place and mixing mystery with humour, The Portuguese Escape, book two in The Julia Probyn Mysteries, is full of danger and adventure amidst Communist intrigue.

DK Lisbon

by DK Travel
DK Lisbon
Author: DK Travel
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2023-01-24
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0744083192
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Whether you want to explore the jumbled streets of Alfama, take in the fantastic views from Castelo de São Jorge, or sample the city's iconic custard tarts, your DK Eyewitness travel guide makes sure you experience all that Lisbon has to offer. As one of the world's oldest cities, Lisbon's colourful buildings and stately museums exude history and tradition. But Lisbon also has a well-deserved reputation for European cool thanks to its vibrant neighbourhoods, contemporary galleries, and cutting-edge cuisine. Our newly updated guide brings Lisbon to life, transporting you there like no other travel guide does with expert-led insights and advice, detailed breakdowns of all the must-see sights, photographs on practically every page, and our hand-drawn illustrations which place you inside the city's iconic buildings and neighborhoods. Our updated 2023 travel guide brings Lisbon to life. DK Eyewitness Lisbon is your ticket to the trip of a lifetime. Inside DK Eyewitness Lisbon you will find: - A fully-illustrated top experiences guide: our expert pick of Lisbon's must-sees and hidden gems. - Accessible itineraries to make the most out of each and every day. - Expert advice: honest recommendations for getting around safely, when to visit each sight, what to do before you visit, and how to save time and money. - Color-coded chapters to every part of Lisbon, from Alfama to Baixa, Bairro Alto to Belém. - Practical tips: the best places to eat, drink, shop and stay. - Detailed maps and walks to help you navigate the region country easily and confidently. - Covers: Alfama, Baixa and Avenida, Bairro Alto and Estrela, Belém, Beyond the Centre The Lisbon Coast. Touring the country? Look out for our DK Eyewitness Portugal. Want the best of Lisbon in your pocket? Try our DK Eyewitness Top 10 Lisbon. About DK Eyewitness: At DK Eyewitness, we believe in the power of discovery. We make it easy for you to explore your dream destinations. DK Eyewitness travel guides have been helping travellers to make the most of their breaks since 1993. Filled with expert advice, striking photography and detailed illustrations, our highly visual DK Eyewitness guides will get you closer to your next adventure. We publish guides to more than 200 destinations, from pocket-sized city guides to comprehensive country guides. Named Top Guidebook Series at the 2020 Wanderlust Reader Travel Awards, we know that wherever you go next, your DK Eyewitness travel guides are the perfect companion.

Ten Commando

by Ian Dear
Ten Commando
Author: Ian Dear
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2010-10-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 184884400X
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It is indeed remarkable, since the archives of the Second World War must have been pillaged, ransacked, burrowed into, and turned over almost as thoroughly as Monte Cassino itself, that no book has been written about one of the strangest units created during that or any other conflict. The unit was called Ten Commando - and the shroud of secrecy that enveloped it at the time has scarcely been un-wrapped by the passge of the years. Ten Commando was composed entirely of men who came from Germany and from Nazi-occupied countries such as Holland, Poland, and France. Secrecy was vital, for if an Axis agent infiltrated into Ten Commando he could do untold harm. If a member of Ten Commando were capture and his unit identified, the rules of the Geneva Convention were unlikely to worry the captors. This overwhelming need for absolute secrecy was so well instilled in the men of Ten Commando that, until now, little was known about their daring exploits behind enemy lines, including coordination of resistance fighters and sabotage. The result of Ian Dear’s painstaking research is a remarkable book indeed and a worthy tribute to an incredibly brave group of cladestine soldiers who belong near the top of the WWII Roll of Honor.