Many artists have fought in wars, and renowned painters have recorded heroic scenes of great battles, but those works were usually done long after the battles were waged.
Drawing together both recent research and original sources, this concise and accessible biography reassesses the debates surrounding the life of King Edward IV.
Toda época de la historia trajo consigo exilio y emigración, pero en el siglo XX, la "emigración" se convirtió en un fenómeno mundial que se debió, en gran medida, a la persecución, expulsión y fuga de las personas afectadas sobre todo por los efectos del acenso del Nacionalismo.
In the twelve months centered around the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a diverse group of American and British flyers fought one of the most remarkable air campaigns of WWII.
Als in der Schlussphase des Zweiten Weltkriegs die Schreckensherrschaft der Nationalsozialisten ihrem Ende zuging, mündete der Wahn der Eliten des Regimes auch in selbstzerstörerischer Gewalt, wie die große Zahl von Suiziden unter den NS-Führern dokumentiert.
Über viele Jahre war einer der langwierigsten und blutigsten Aufstände in der Geschichte Osteuropas ein weißer Fleck in der historischen Forschung: der Untergrundkampf der Organisation Ukrainischer Nationalisten (OUN) und der Ukrainischen Aufständischen Armee (UPA) zur Errichtung eines unabhängigen ukrainischen Staates.
Drawing together both recent research and original sources, this concise and accessible biography reassesses the debates surrounding the life of King Edward IV.
Le 19 juillet 1870, le premier secretaire d'ambassade de France a Berlin remet au ministere des Affaires etrangeres de Prusse, la declaration de guerre de son pays.
The attitude of the Catholic church, its bishops, priests and members from 1933 to 1945 is still one of the most controversial topics of contemporary history.
Wie kann man erlittene Gewalt und Massenmord in den unterschiedlichen Lagern erzählen und eine adäquate Sprache dafür finden, die das Erlittene weder banalisiert noch als überwunden beruhigend automatisiert?
De la chute du Second Empire a la presidence de Charles de Gaulle, ce second tome explore pres d'un siecle d'histoire francaise en mettant en lumiere les figures emblematiques qui ont faconne le pays.
Im Spätsommer 1916 trafen hoch über London deutsche Zeppeline als die ersten Langstreckenbomber der Geschichte auf die Jagdflugzeuge der britischen Armee und Marine.
"e;Royaute"e; enrichit l'ouvrage "e;Louis XVII - Evasion, descendance, redemption"e; en integrant des elements de conscience collective aux arguments historiques, prophetiques et archeologiques.
This book examines militarisation in Scotland and North America from the Jacobite Uprising of 1745-1746 to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War in 1775.
This book examines militarisation in Scotland and North America from the Jacobite Uprising of 1745-1746 to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War in 1775.
Recent historians have pinpointed the ways in which legal systems in early modern Europe were improvisational, flexible, and contingent rather than immovable, hierarchical, and gendered.
A profoundly moving celebration of love under the darkest of circumstances from the author of The NineFrom the moment they met in 1940 in Ravensbruck concentration camp, Milena Jesenska and Margarete Buber-Neumann were inseparable.
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 book focuses on women's participation in the Moravian Church during the eighteenth century, focusing on the intentional practice of international marriage and migration that supported their missionary work amongst enslaved populations in the Caribbean.
This book focuses on women's participation in the Moravian Church during the eighteenth century, focusing on the intentional practice of international marriage and migration that supported their missionary work amongst enslaved populations in the Caribbean.
The reign of Kaiser Wilhelm II was a transitional period in German history when the traditions of the nineteenth century were coming into conflict with the emerging cultural, social, and political patterns of the twentieth century.
Dans La grande degringolade - La France de Louis XIV a aujourd'hui, l'auteur emet le constat selon lequel le sens de l'histoire semble different, voire inverse, dans la mesure ou l'on considere la nation francaise ou bien les Francais eux-memes.
A unique chronicle of the war from the perspective of a sensitive twenty-four-year-old sergeant who wrote for the Army's in-house paper, Yank, the Army Weekly and a tale of the South Pacific that will not soon be forgotten.
