Die Mythen und Legenden Vorderasiens sind mehr als nur Geschichten: Sie sind Fenster zu vergangenen Zivilisationen, die uns zeigen, wie unsere Vorfahren die Welt um sich herum wahrnahmen.
The oral history of Britain's first West Indian immigrants and their descendantsIn 1948 the former troop ship Windrush made the 30-day journey across the Atlantic from Jamaica.
The long-awaited translation of the classic oral history of Soviet women's experiences in the Second World War - from the winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureBringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive style, The Unwomanly Face of War is Svetlana Alexievich's collection of stories from Soviet women who lived through the Second World War: on the front lines, on the home front, and in occupied territories.
Rund einen Monat, bevor die Wehrmacht Leningrad einkesselt, um die Zivilbevölkerung mit beispielloser Grausamkeit auszuhungern, beginnt Lena Muchina ihr Tagebuch.
While the Naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba is well-known for its infamous prison camp, few people are aware of its prior use as an immigrant detention center for Haitian and Cuban refugees.
_________________________An intensely moving personal record of the experiences of children who were evacuated in World War II, with an introduction by Michael Caine_________________________'This vivid collection of memories recreates the whole traumatic story' - New Statesman'Unique .
The third battle of Ypres, culminating in a desperate struggle for the ridge and little village of Passchendaele, was one of the most appalling campaigns in the First World War.
Urgent and insightful, Tim Judah's account of the human side of the conflict in Ukraine is an evocative exploration of what the second largest country in Europe feels like in wartime.
La propuesta que hace la autora de este libro es interpretar la figura del Ángel de la Historia desde un ángulo antropológico y hacer una lectura de la IX Tesis de Benjamín donde aparece dicha figura, a partir de consideraciones que provienen de una antropología de la guerra y el conflicto.
Following the success of Forgotten Voices of the Great War, Lyn Smith visits the oral accounts preserved in the Imperial War Museum Sound Archive, to reveal the sheer complexity and horror of one of human history's darkest hours.
Homer's mythological tales of war and homecoming, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are considered to be two of the most influential works in the history of Western literature.
Homer's mythological tales of war and homecoming, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are considered to be two of the most influential works in the history of Western literature.
Compiled from interviews, diaries, letters and contemporaneous first-person accounts - many unpublished until now - this oral history follows the adventures of the courageous men and women who volunteered for service with Britain's Special Operations Executive and the United States' Office of Strategic Services.
An extraordinary memoir from a man in his nineties who remembers everyday life in a North London now long gone: the hardships and deprivations of a life of poverty but also the resourcefulness and fortitude of a community determined to survive between the wars.
Starting from its original conception and design by the owners and naval architects at the White Star Line through construction at Harland and Wolff's shipyards in Belfast, Nick Barratt explores the pre-history of the Titanic.
Max Arthur, bestselling author of the hugely popular 'Forgotten Voices' series, recaptures the day-to-day lives of working people in the Edwardian era.
A journey through one of the world's most divided cities - Hebron, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank of Palestine, exploring the influence of the history, religion and myth on the country's tumultuous present.
Homer's mythological tales of war and homecoming,the Iliad and the Odyssey, are widely considered to be two of the most influential works in the history of western literature.
La historiografia sobre los movimientos armados en Colombia se ha enfocado, principalmente, en analizar las guerrillas de la segunda mitad del siglo XX desde una perspectiva macro y ofreciendo explicaciones estructurales.
Homer's mythological tales of war and homecoming,the Iliad and the Odyssey, are widely considered to be two of the most influential works in the history of western literature.
Sie gilt als eine der mächtigsten und geheimnisvollsten Reliquie der Menschheit: die heilige Lanze, mit der ein römischer Soldat Jesus in die Seite stach.
Juliet Gardiner's critically acclaimed book - the first in a generation to tell the people's story of the Second World War - offers a compelling and comprehensive account of the pervasiveness of war on the Home Front.
This great Central Asian epic, passed down through generations and now brought to life in a new translation, carries the reader into a world of nomads, warriors and horselords'I am a steel-fanged lion, a dragon ready to pounce, a mighty poplar with golden branches rising up to the sky'The bard Sagh mbay Orozbaq uulu composed his oral telling of the great Central Asian Manas epic in the early twentieth century, although it draws on far older sources.
Duelos, venenos, traiciones, perros sanguinarios y aborígenes altivos, entre otros, conforman el marco escogido por Gonzalo España para estos ocho relatos, concebidos magistralmente como un homenaje a la valentía y audacia de aquellos que dieron forma a nuestro legado histórico.