Specific wars and campaigns

This edited volume offers an original exploration into the ways in which Soviet culture and experience of time were unique, examining the temporalities expressed in the world of socialist things: from the objects of everyday life to urban architecture.

"e;Benjamin Tallmadge narrates his time spent as a military officer during the American Revolutionary War, detailing his roles as both commander and intelligence gatherer.

Amid the thunderous chaos of World War I, one man stood as a beacon of hope and reconciliation: Pope Benedict XV.

Winner: Templer Medal Book PrizeIn 1945, the Indian British XIV Army inflicted on the Imperial Japanese Army in Burma the worst defeat in its history.

This book offers a broad comparative perspective on regime building under Axis rule during the Second World War, exploring case studies in Europe and Asia.

During the first 18 months of World War I, Woodrow Wilson sought to maintain American neutrality, but as this carefully argued study shows, it was ultimately an unsustainable stance.

In the winter of 1939 in the cold snow of no-man's-land, two loners met and began an extraordinary journey together, one that would bind them for the rest of their lives.

Executive editors: Katja Happe, Barbara Lambauer, and Clemens Maier-Wolthausen, with Maja Peers; English-language edition prepared by: Elizabeth Harvey, Johannes Gamm, Georg Felix Harsch, Dorothy Mas, and Caroline Pearce In summer 1942 the Germans escalated the systematic deportations of Jews from Western and Northern Europe to the extermination camps.

There are currently between twenty and thirty civil wars worldwide, while at a global level the Cold War has been succeeded by a "e;war on drugs"e; and a "e;war on terror"e; that continues to rage a decade after 9/11.

Shortlisted for the 2021 Wolfson History Prize and a finalist for the 2021 Cundill History Prize Told for the first time from their perspective, the story of children who survived the chaos and trauma of the Holocaust-named a best history book of 2020 by the Daily Telegraph ?

Roughly ten million children were victims of political repression in the Soviet Union during the Stalinist era.

First published in 1942,A Sun ChiefA is the autobiography of Hopi Chief Don C.

This book, the first of its kind, comprehensively explores Native American claims against the United States government over the past two centuries.

A groundbreaking account of the Nazi-Islamist alliance that changed the course of World War II and influences the Arab world to this day.

In his memoir, Alvin Ziontz reflects on his more than thirty years representing Indian tribes, from a time when Indian law was little known through landmark battles that upheld tribal sovereignty.

An exceptional storyteller with an analytical eye, Merrel Clubb has gathered the letters he sent his parents from the Pacific Theater of World War II and his subsequent reflections on that war and on his life into a kind of then-and-now memoir.

This "e;riveting account of one of history's greatest blunders"e; chronicles Russia's tragic mishandling of Nazi Germany's invasion during WWII (William L.

During World War II, the Luftwaffe's Nachtjagd evolved from chaos to effective night fighter units in response to RAF Bomber Command raids.

You don't have to change your life overnight--instead, you can make small changes that leave a lasting impact.

El experimento político de la Guardia Colombiana comenzó con una guerra civil y se cerró con otra, y su parábola de 25 años entregó a los colombianos del siglo XX unas sólidas tradiciones liberales y republicanas que se mantienen hasta nuestros días.

He was named after an enemy of the United States.

A white Southerner's sympathetic memoir of plantation life.

The Battle of Britain (July to October 1940), one of World War II's turning points, as seen by the German attackers who ultimately lost the battle.

Drafted in October 1968, John A.

Este ebook presenta "Germinal", con un índice dinámico y detallado.

From the Kentucky Campaign to Tullahoma, Chickamauga to Missionary Ridge, junior officer Joshua K.

On December 7, 1941, Japan waged a surprise attack on the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor.

During the Civil War many young Lumbee Indians of North Carolina hid in the swamps to avoid conscription into Confederate labor battalions and carried on a running guerilla war.

The causes of the First World War were disputed before the first shots had even been fired.

Leaving the chaos of postwar Germany for an uncertain future, 17-year-old Gerhardt Thamm arrived in America in 1948 with little more than his American birth certificate.

"e; With a foreword by Stephen Ambrose and a preface by Franklin D.

When North Korean forces invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950, Otto Apel was a surgical resident living in Cleveland, Ohio, with his wife and three young children.

Dan Chandler was a kid from rural Northeast Georgia who enlisted in the Army Air Corps near the end of World War II, leaving his family farm for the first time.

History tells us that a big lie, repeated often enough, can begin to sound as if it could be the truth.

Accompagnez Marc Grunberg au travers de cet essai historique.

La fille du Lieutenant d'artillerie Eugene Drillat, fait prisonnier en 40, etudie sa correspondance pour retracer son evolution politique, ses espoirs, ses peurs.

The Chiwaya War's basic conclusions are that the First World War was a major turning point in the history of Malawi's peoples, creating the first glimmers of a shared national identity; and that it marked, more than any event before or since, the entry of Malawians into the emerging modern world system far more quickly than likely they, and certainly even the most enlightened British colonial administrators of the time, would have preferred.

Un erudito conocedor de la Campaña Nacional y su época, Iván Molina Jiménez, ofrece en este libro un conjunto actualizado de sus ensayos dedicados a este hecho medular de la historia patria.

Esta obra del prestigioso historiador Víctor Hugo Acuña enfoca y analiza la Campaña Nacional de 1856-1857 desde las miradas y percepciones de historiadores y cronistas de los tres países más comprometidos en esa guerra: Estados Unidos, Nicaragua y Costa Rica, asegurando así una respuesta variada y profunda gracias a esa pluralidad de perspectivas, todo lo cual responde, por lo demás, a los métodos de los más modernos análisis históricos.

In war, you can pretend to be someone you're not.

Con este ensayo, sus autores Guillermo Palombo, Alberto Crinigan y Santiago M.

Un surtidor de YPF y garrafas de Gas del Estado en las Malvinas, relaciones más o menos fluidas entre isleños y argentinos, maestras que enseñan español en Puerto Stanley, vuelos semanales a Comodoro Rivadavia, isleños que viajan a Buenos Aires para hacer tratamientos médicos, a Córdoba para completar el colegio secundario, a Bariloche para pasar sus vacaciones.

The topics of World War II and US-China relationship have been of much interest to academics and general public alike.

This book gives an almost forgotten history concerning civilian university scientists, who carried out research on defense against poison gases in some unusual places during World War II.

"Readers will thrill in peering behind the curtain of US-based intelligence during the world wars.

Now in its ninth edition, A History of Modern Germany provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey of this complex country's history, beginning in 1871 and ending in the present day.

This book presents a collection of annotated English translations of German diplomatic documents-including telegrams, dispatches and reports-sent to the Foreign Office in Berlin and the German Ambassador in Hankou, China, by German diplomatic officials in Nanjing, and detailing Japanese atrocities and the conditions in and around Nanjing during the early months of 1938.

"e;From a battered old trunk in the basement, to the crumpled scrapbook in the bookcase, to an aging envelope in an unused jewelry box, they marched to the pages of this book to join the chorus to remember.

This book explores five cases of monument and public commemorative space related to World War II (WWII) in contemporary China (Mainland), Hong Kong and Taiwan, all of which were built either prior to or right after the end of the War and their physical existence still remains.