Excerpt: "e;The interest of the War of 1812, to Americans, has commonly been felt to lie in the brilliant evidence of high professional tone and efficiency reached by their navy, as shown by the single-ship actions, and by the two decisive victories achieved by little squadrons upon the lakes.
Haciendo memoria se centra en la trayectoria de la memoria de la Guerra Civil en la España de la primera década del siglo XXI, desde la aparición de la Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica y la apertura de fosas comunes, hasta la fallida búsqueda de la fosa de Federico García Lorca, pasando por la aprobación de la Ley de Memoria Histórica.
Für die eBook-Ausgabe völlig neu überarbeitet und in aktualisierter Rechtschreibung ||In seinem letzten Roman schildert Hans Fallada den authentischen Fall des Ehepaars Otto und Elise Hampel, das Postkarten-Flugblätter gegen Hitler an öffentlichen Plätzen Berlins auslegt, schließlich denunziert und 1943 hingerichtet wird.
Excerpt: "e;We had endeavoured to ward off typhoid by initiating a sort of sanitary vigilance committee, having first sacked the chief of police: we had laid drains, which the chief Serbian engineer said he would pull up as soon as we had gone away.
"e;The Light That Failed"e; is Kipling's first novel, written when he was 26 years old, and is semi-autobiographical; being based upon his own unrequited love for Florence Garrard.
Auszug: "Bekanntlich entwickelten die Franzosen, denen die Engländer nur ungerne, in schlauer Vorsicht, folgten, als erste einen brauchbaren Unterseebootstyp.
"e;The Defence of Duffers Drift"e; is a fictional account of a young, inexperienced British officer, who is tasked with holding a river crossing with 50 troops against a larger enemy force.
It was a time of bloody confrontation between the white man and the red man, a time when the pioneers of a new nation were pushing out across the Great Plains and yet the powerful spirits of an ancient mystical religion still held sway over the Indians.
Excerpt: "e;The aim of this volume is to give to the English-speaking people some glimpses into the past struggles, sufferings and hopes of the Serbian nation.
Excerpt: "e;When this old Singapore jail was put an end to in 1873, some six years after the transfer of the Straits Settlements to the Crown, the convicts then under confinement were removed to the Andaman Islands, at that time not long established as a penal settlement for India; while those on a ticket-of-leave were permitted to merge into the population, continuing to earn their livelihood as artisans, cow keepers, cart drivers, and the like.
Excerpt: "e;There has been so much written about the trenches, there are so many war photographs, so many cinema films, that one might well hesitate before even mentioning the war-to try to write a book about it is, I fear, to incur the censure of the many who are tired of hearing about bombs and bullets, and who prefer to read of peace, and games, and flirtations.
Excerpt: "e;The evils arising from religious persecution, sectarian hatred, ill government, and oppression were never more strongly illustrated than by the fact that, for a century, Ireland, which has since that time furnished us with a large proportion of our best soldiers, should have been among our bitterest and most formidable foes, and her sons fought in the ranks of our greatest continental enemy.
These Sketches were made during a year's service as a camion driver with the French army in the Chemin-des-Dames sector and a year's service with the A.
No one more accurately forecast the War than has Charles Sarolea, who may be forgiven a justifiable pride in the accuracy and excellence of his prognosis, in 1906 and 1912, of the conditions that led to the present contest.
Excerpt: "e;On the white sand of a jungle bordered cove, two men and a girl stood gazing seaward, their eyes shielded against the rising sun's first beams.
Excerpt: "e;The fall of Bataan ended any possibility of getting supplies for the 14th Infantry; our patrols had only three rounds of ammunition per man.
Augustus Does His Bit, A True to Life Farce (1916) is a comic one-act play by George Bernard Shaw about a dim-witted aristocrat who is outwitted by a female spy during World War I.
(Excerpt) "e;Not since gunpowder was first employed in warfare has so revolutionary a contribution to the science of slaughtering men been made as by the perfection of aircraft and submarines.
In "e;A New Constitution Now,"e; renowned economist and social thinker Henry Hazlitt presents a bold and thought-provoking critique of the American political system.
"e;The first 150 years of one of the British Army's most renowned regimentsArchibald Forbes was a notable author, journalist and special correspondent during the British colonial wars of the Victorian era, so he was well positioned by personal experience to pen this history of a famous Scottish Highland regiment.
In this new edition of their bestselling book, Medea Benjamin and Nicolas Davies bring their account of the war in Ukraine up-to-date, to try and answer burning questions about how and why the conflict still rages on after two years of carnage, and who and what stand in the way of a stable and lasting peace.
Eine dramatische Geschichte über Vergessen und SchuldIn der Potsdamer Pirschheide wird ein Mann durch eine Weltkriegsbombe getötet, kurz darauf gibt es weitere Tote.
Stalingrad, die entscheidende Schlacht des Zweiten Weltkriegs, forderte von September 1942 bis Anfang Februar 1943 über 1 Million Opfer – Soldaten und Zivilisten.
Während Holocaust und Judenverfolgung seit Jahrzehnten ihren berechtigten Platz besetzen, haben wir vergessen, die Soldaten, die auf deutscher Seite im Zweiten Weltkrieg gekämpft haben, zu fragen, wie das alles wirklich war im Krieg.
Kalter Krieg der GeschichtswissenschaftlerIn den ersten Jahrzehnten nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg kämpften die Historiker der beiden deutschen Staaten heftig um die Deutungshoheit der deutschen Geschichte.
