Esta obra es un fiel relato de uno de aquellos sacerdotes exiliado en Francia, desde donde contempla con impotencia cómo sus hermanos de religión, aquellos que ven en Franco "El enviado de Dios", los que se creían los defensores de la religión, los salvadores de la patria contra los rojos criminales, los sin Dios, no concebían que enfrente tuviesen enemigos con capellanes, donde las iglesias estaban abiertas y donde se respetaba la religión, los mismos que condenaban y mandaban fusilar a aquellos sacerdotes cuyo único delito había sido estar al lado del desvalido.
The full story of Josephine Baker's wartime and intelligence work in France and North Africa Before the Second World War, Josephine Baker (1906-1975) was one of the most famous performers in the world.
El principal objetivo de este libro, facilitado por un estilo directo y ágil, es entregar al lector común un resumen serio y fundamentado sobre el periodo de Tercer Reich en Alemania, su actuación durante el conflicto bélico de la década del '40 y sus consecuencias posteriores, recogiendo los aportes más recientes de la investigación.
Throughout the Second World War, a wide range of people, including political leaders and government officials, experts and armchair internationalists, civil society groups and private citizens talked about and formulated plans to ensure national security and to promote individual well-being in the postwar world.
Throughout the Second World War, a wide range of people, including political leaders and government officials, experts and armchair internationalists, civil society groups and private citizens talked about and formulated plans to ensure national security and to promote individual well-being in the postwar world.
Useful Captives: The Role of POWs in American Military Conflicts is a wide-ranging investigation of the integral role prisoners of war (POWs) have played in the economic, cultural, political, and military aspects of American warfare.
Establishing a 'missed link' between the work of Piero Manzoni and Helio Oiticica and their respective cultural contexts, this book sheds new light on overlooked aspects of these two artists' practices, particularly focusing on the shift from painting to performance in the long 1960s.
An illustrated exploration of the development, technology and operations of Wilde Sau fighters in the night skies over Germany during the Defence of the Reich.
To his enlisted men on U-154, Lieutenant Oskar Kusch was the ideal skipper-bright, experienced, successful, caring, tolerably eccentric-and a popular captain who always brought his boat home safely when so many others vanished without a trace.
'Deeply researched and engagingly written' The Times'Has the pace and style of a well-crafted thriller' Mail on Sunday'Chock full of memorable characters and written with all the drama and pace of a Robert Harris thriller' Rowland White, author of MosquitoSummer 1939.
Gebrochene SchicksaleBritische Konzentrationslager und das Leiden der Buren während des Zweiten BurenkriegsElisabeth KrugerKlappentext:In den dunklen Schatten des Zweiten Burenkriegs (1899-1902) verbirgt sich eine der erschreckendsten und am wenigsten bekannten Episoden der britischen Kolonialgeschichte: die Einrichtung von Konzentrationslagern.
In his historical series Hinze provides the only comprehensive account of events on the central and southern portions of the German Eastern Front during the years of German retreat.
Discover the story of the Second World War brought to life in full colour by renowned historian James Holland and award-winning artist Keith Burns'A fully immersive experience.
Mit Chil Rajchmans Bericht aus Treblinka öffnet sich ein Zeitfenster in die Vergangenheit: Verfasst unmittelbar unter dem Eindruck der Erlebnisse, wurde dieser Text erst nach über 60 Jahren wiederentdeckt.
On May 7 and 8, 1942, fast carrier task forces from the United States and Imperial Japanese navies met in combat for the first time in the Battle of the Coral Sea.
A masterpiece of World War II heroism, this book catches the spirit and tone of an incredible fighting ship, the USS Aaron Ward, a destroyer-turned-minelayer on the radar picket lines in the Pacific.
This is a translation of the only known detailed account of the building of the notorious 262-mile long Thai-Burma Railway by one of the Japanese professional engineers who was involved in its construction.
This book examines attitudes towards German held captive in Britain, drawing on original archival material including newspaper and newsreel content, diaries, sociological surveys and opinion polls, as well as official documentation and the archives of pressure groups and protest movements.
Back from their mission as the Bad Love Tigers to secure the secrets of Area 51 and the White Hole Project, the Bad Love Gang are summoned to the Oval Office by President Gerald Ford.
Throughout the 1990s, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) was forced to face the challenges posed by the genocide of Rwandan Tutsis and a succession of outbreaks of political violence in Rwanda and its neighbouring countries.
Translated from German, In a Raging Inferno is the first English-language book ever to recount the story of the Hitler Youth and its combat role at the end of World War II.