A look at the items crafted by soldiers, prisoners, and civilians from war waste and other items during World War I and the years leading to World War II.
Erstmals werden die Namen der im Ersten Weltkrieg Gefallenen aus Sangerhausen umfassend recherchiert und unabhängig von ihrer konfessionellen oder anderen Gruppenzugehörigkeit mitgeteilt.
Wissend, dass sich die Lage in Gallien zuspitzte und das letztlich die Legionen vom Rhenus den Brand würden löschen müssen, ohne dabei die Grenze zur Germania Magna aufbrechen zu dürfen, brauchte Verginius Rufus, der Statthalter des Exercitus Germania Superior, Gewissheit zur Bereitschaft des Statthalter im Exercitus Germania Inferior zum Mitwirken bei einer Niederwerfung eines gallischen Aufstandes.
We are all waiting for something to happen in life ~ waiting to graduate, waiting to get married, to go on a mission, to get healthy, to be healed, waiting to have a baby, waiting to die, waiting to find a job, waiting for a raise, waiting for someone to come home from a mission, waiting to retire, and many more waits in life.
The Russian Revolution of 1917 transformed the face of the Russian empire, politically, economically, socially, and culturally, and also profoundly affected the course of world history for the rest of the twentieth century.
British Second World War tanks performed so badly that it is difficult to bring to mind any other British weapon of the period that provokes such a strong sense of failure.
This is the story of one of the most enduring conspiracy theories in British politics, an intrigue that still has resonance almost a century later: the Zinoviev Letter of 1924.
In the freezing winter of 2011, in what was a watershed moment, 100,000 took to Moscows streets to protest Putins landslide election victory amid widespread allegations of corruption and vote-rigging.
“A fantastic overview of one of Britain’s untold stories from the Great War”—the Salonika Campaign that pitted Allied forces against the Bulgarians (Burton Mail).
Many writers have written about the delights of the former kingdom of the South Saxons, its Downs, villages, countryside, people and their ways but Visitors' Historic Britain is the first series of books to take readers on a tour of discovery of each of the county's historic eras in turn.
In Life Below Stairs, bestselling author Alison Maloney goes behind the scenes to reveal a detailed picture of what really went on downstairs, describing the true-life trials and tribulations of Edwardian servants in a gripping non-fiction account.
For as long as I can remember, this kid from Manhattan with absolutely no Russian ancestry was told, Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
The network of canals stretching from the coast at Gravelines, through St-Omer, Béthune and La Bassée, follows the approximate boundary between Artois and Flanders and was, in 1940, the defensive line established on the western edge of the so-called Dunkerque Corridor designed by Lord Gort to provide an evacuation route to the channel coast.
The twentieth century has seen a remarkable revival of "e;the Old Religion,"e; as adherents of New-paganism call the native religious traditions of Europe and tribal traditions from North America that predated Christianity.
The discovery of a hidden diary containing mysterious sketches leads to a personal and intriguing journey through the Saar Valley, London, New York and Israel.
