"Dierk Hagedorn continues to solidify his reputation as one of today's most talented authorities on German Fechtbücher with another superlative volume… Highly recommended for students of history, historical reenactors, and today's fighting practitioners.
Drawing on recently released Soviet archival materials, Hunger and War investigates state food supply policy and its impact on Soviet society during World War II.
This analysis of how filmmakers have portrayed England's Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603), and the audience's perception of Elizabeth based upon these portrayals, examines key representations of the Tudor monarch in various motion pictures from the Silent era on and in television miniseries.
À la charnière de l'Europe occidentale et de l'Europe centrale, dispersant ses eaux vers l'Adriatique, la mer du Nord et la mer Noire, la Suisse multiplie les contrastes géographiques.
In the early 5th century, Germanic Angles, Saxons and Jutes crossed the North Sea in increasing numbers and began settling among the ruins of the former Roman province of Britannia.
This work evolved out of a love for my ancestors, one being John Whitelaw, the Covenanter Monkland Martyr, who was executed for his religious beliefs in Edinburgh, 1683.
The author of Shot Down in the Drink shares photos and anecdotes detailing the history of the World War II fighter plane and its crews across the globe.
The first German women s movement embraced the belief in a demographic surplus of unwed women, known as the Frauenuberschu , as a central leitmotif in the campaign for reform.
Over the course of the Middle Ages, the economies of Europe, Asia, and northern Africa became more closely integrated, fostering the international and intercontinental journeys of merchants, pilgrims, diplomats, missionaries, and adventurers.
Here at last is a history of England that is designed to entertain as well as inform and that will delight the armchair traveler, the tourist or just about anyone interested in history.
From the television footage shown in all its stark reality and the daily coverage and subsequent memoirs, the impression delivered from the air battles in the Falklands Conflict was that of heroic Argentine pilots who relentlessly pressed home their attacks against the British.
Les errances de sa jeunesse, l'exaltation de l'engagement et l'épopée aux côtés de Leclerc, l'itinéraire de Geoffroy de Bagneux, Compagnon de la Libération, héros oublié qui a tout laissé derrière lui pour rejoindre de Gaulle et gagner dans le désert ses titres de noblesse.
Sophia, Electress of Hanover (1630 1714), grand-daughter of James I and mother of George I, is best remembered as the link between the Houses of Stuart and Hanover.
La déclaration de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale en septembre 1939 bouleverse l'amour et la genèse familiale du couple Georges Deroy-Jacqueline Olivier : marié depuis 1936 et parents de Françoise, née en avril 1938.
For nearly 60 years--from its uprising against British rule in the 1950s, to the bloody civil war between Greek and Turkish Cypriots in the 1960s, the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in the 1970s, and the United Nation's ongoing 30-year effort to reunite the island--the tiny Mediterranean nation of Cyprus has taken a disproportionate share of the international spotlight.
