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1984

The Heroic Age

Stratis Haviaras - 1984

How children are affected by war, how they survive - if they survive - and how their childhood is stolen from them are the themes of this novel.

Set in Greece in the late 1940's, a country devastated first by Nazi occupation and now civil war, the story is narrated by twelve-year-old Panagis and tells how a small band of children, orphaned scavengers, leave their village in an attempt to escape to Albania. Haviaras, writing here in English, has insisted that this novel is not exactly an autobiography, but calls it 'an autobiography of my generation'.

Flower of the Pacific

Lana McGraw Boldt - 1984

THEY RISKED THEIR LIVES FOR LOVE AND COUNTRY ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE WORLD ...From the shores of Pearl Harbor to bomb-ravaged Japan, from a treacherous mountain hideaway in the Pacific to a Tokyo radio station where freedom's flame glowed through the darkest night--these were the courageous men and women who fought for their country and their right to love in a world engulfed by war ...IRIS - the beautiful Japanese-American who fled impossible love to become a prisoner in the land of her ancestors ...

where as the "Flower of the Pacific" she would triumph as a voice of liberty heard around the world.COLE - the dashing American squadron leader who would never forget his beloved Iris--a woman he would give his life to protect, even as he wielded the weapons of war that might destroy her.EVA - trapped in a personal war of survival, she would do anything to be reunited with the one man she could never forget.JAKE - a P.O.W. in Tokyo, he would help Iris in her perilous cause, and win vengeance on a hated enemy.BILL - a daring spy for the Allies, he hungered to win the heart of one radiant woman, the heroic "Flower of the Pacific."

The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome

Erich S. Gruen - 1984

In this revisionist study of Roman imperialism in the Greek world, Gruen considers the Hellenistic context within which Roman expansion took place.

The evidence discloses a preponderance of Greek rather than Roman ideas: a noteworthy readiness on the part of Roman policymakers to adjust to Hellenistic practices rather than to impose a system of their own.