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  • Barbarians and Romans
    Justine Davis Randers-Pehrson
    Barbarians and Romans (1983) examines the rise of the barbarian tribes and the consequent decline of the Roman Empire. The book ranges across the Roman world, and from the rulers to the ruled, combining the study of monuments and artefacts with the literary evidence of the period. ...
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    59,61 €

  • For My Father
    Justine Davis Randers-Pehrson
    The author had a varied view of the shifting world during nine decades of the Twentieth Century. Her conventional life as an Army daughter ended abruptly in 1922 when her father died. She lived in Washington DC with her widowed mother, with the exception of years at college in the US and abroad. Her professional life as a staff member at the Library of Congress ended when an ir...
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    24,10 €

  • Blue Yonder
    Justine Davis Randers-Pehrson
    This novel is concerned with the problem of honesty in personal relationships, in political life, and in the church. Most of the events described occur in Washington D.C. during the Depression and in the pre-war Thirties.Some of the characters struggle to sustain their personal integrity. One disastrously manages life by allowing fantasy to prevail. Another makes a living by me...
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    16,30 €

  • Colonel Erbe’s Daughters
    Justine Davis Randers-Pehrson
    Colonel Erbe’s daughters have different views of woman’s place in the world. The eldest, Dickey, is a confirmed feminist. Her younger sister, Petra, is employed as a cartographer in the US Land Office, rather against her will. She refuses to regard herself as a 'career woman.' The youngest of the trio, Agatha, is widowed in the first year of her marriage and returns to Washing...
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    10,32 €

  • The Ordeal of Saint Natalia
    Justine Davis Randers-Pehrson
    Andac the narrator is the son of a Syrian and an Alan. Although he is a freeborn Roman citizen, he has always regarded himself as an outsider, and for this reason he feels that he is singularly equipped to tell the story of a young Roman matron who deliberately made herself an outsider by exiling herself from the arisrtocratic circle in which she was born. In spite of her fabul...
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    9,56 €

  • Stones for a Crumbling Wall
    Justine Davis Randers-Pehrson
    Audax the hero is a convinced military defender of the Roman Empire. The disasters that he undergoes (serious wound, captivity, loss of wife and child, and conflict with Aetius, his commanding officer) force him to flee to Visigoth territory and the protection of his former captor, King Theodoric. With a new life companion in his new surroundings, Audax becomes a powerful perso...
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    13,22 €