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Oberstdorf is a beautiful village high up in the Bavarian Alps, a place where for hundreds of years ordinary people lived simple lives while history was made elsewhere. Yet even here, in the farthest corner of Germany, National Socialism sought to control not only people’s lives but also their minds. Drawing on archive material, letters, interviews and memoirs, A Village in the Third Reich is an extraordinarily intimate portrait of Germany under Hitler, of the descent into totalitarianism and of the tragedies that befell all of those touched by Nazism.

Thirty-five years after the publication of Ronald Blythe's classic portrait of an English village, Akenfield, Craig Taylor returned to the Suffolk village on which the book was based. He sought out locals who appeared in the original book to learn how their lives had changed, met newcomers, and interviewed Ronald Blythe himself.

Eyes on the Street is a revelation of the phenomenal woman who raised three children, wrote seven groundbreaking books, saved neighborhoods, stopped expressways, was arrested twice, and engaged at home and on the streets in thousands of debates - all of which she won. Here is the child who challenged her third-grade teacher; the high school poet; the journalist who honed her writing skills at Iron Age, Architectural Forum, Fortune, and other outlets.

このラジオに出会ったのは、偶然ではなく、必然。 無意味なようだけど、無意味じゃない。 ラジ村はラジオの中の”村”です。 このラジオを発信している”パーソナリティ”は、村長＆村長夫人。（時々、その子供たち。） 聴いてくれるみなさんは、”リスナー”ではなく、このラジ村を拠点として、いろんな所に住んでる人々。それは、”都会の人”だったり、”隣町の人”だったり、あるいは”隣村の人”だったり。 さらには、私たちと...