The Cold War was one of the most defining periods of the twentieth century, shaping global politics, military strategy, and international relations for nearly half a century.
The Korean War (1950–1953) was one of the first major military confrontations of the Cold War and one of the most destructive conflicts of the twentieth century.
This volume explores the daily lives, security measures, and health practices in the borderland regions of the Ottoman Empire and its successor states (1700-1939).
Los piratas ocupan un lugar destacado en el imaginario popular, con un atractivo particular en la idea de la lucha por la libertad, la igualdad, el romanticismo, las hazañas audaces, la búsqueda de tesoros y el desafío al orden social.
Between 1845 and 1852, a devastating fungal blight destroyed the potato crop across Ireland, triggering a catastrophic period of starvation and disease.
La guerra -que Tucidides definio como "e;maestra de modales violentos"e; que disolvia los usos civilizados- vuelve a instalarse en el horizonte de la Europa actual.
La guerra -que Tucidides definio como "e;maestra de modales violentos"e; que disolvia los usos civilizados- vuelve a instalarse en el horizonte de la Europa actual.
In the mid-14th century, an invisible killer emerged from the trade routes of the East, carrying with it the end of the world as the Middle Ages knew it.
During the 900-day Siege of Leningrad in World War II, a group of Soviet botanists at the Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry faced an impossible choice.
Jeder kennt den beruhmten Satz, den Goethe ihm in den Mund legte, doch die historische Realitat des Gotz von Berlichingen ist weitaus faszinierender als das literarische Denkmal.
Ziel dieses Buches ist es, eine auch fur Nichthistoriker leicht verstandliche Darstellung der Ereignisse um das weltverandernde Attentat von 1914 vorzulegen.
German reunification is remembered as a triumph of democracy, but for millions it meant unemployment, cultural erasure, and the sudden collapse of every institution they had known.
