Specific wars and campaigns

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.

How have navies contemplated possible enemies?

"e;This book offers a well-written chronological history of the Luftwaffe NachtJagd units, pilots, and crew.

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.

This highly illustrated title details the history of the Jagdpanzer, the self-propelled German tank destroyers introduced in the second half of World War II.

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.

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.

This is the first biography in English of a World War II heroine of the Greek resistance, who joined the British secret intelligence services (SIS) shortly after the German occupation of Athens and was betrayed, arrested and executed one month before the Germans' departure.

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.

" 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.

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.

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.

2026 Minnesota Book Award Finalist"Readers will thrill in peering behind the curtain of US-based intelligence during the world wars.

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.

This book draws on posthumanist critique and post qualitative approaches to research to examine the pedagogies offered by imaginaries of the future.

"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.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the Nanjing Massacre, together with an in-depth analysis of various aspects of the event and related issues.

This book is a poignant story of a small-town boy, who stumbled into a lifelong flying career spanning 38 years as a pilot.

The novel Murisa continues the story of Feri Lainscek's work "e;Locil bom peno od valov"e; (I Will Divide the Foam from the Waves), published in 2003 and reprinted many times.

Esta obra tiene como propósito presentar los resultados de investigaciones en torno a la Primera Guerra Mundial, conflicto que transcurrió hace más de 100 años y que no solo marcó el final de una época, sino que también trazó los lineamientos para una serie de hechos que tuvieron lugar a lo largo del siglo XX.

El libro esboza y traza la historia del mítico pueblo de los andaquíes, que vivió en las inhóspitas cordilleras que separan a los departamentos colombianos de Caquetá y Huila.

Este libro pretende ilustrar un periodo de la vida nacional que, para nosotros, tiene un antes y un después a partir del hito de la constitución Política de 1991, y sugiere que la firma del "Acuerdo final para la terminación del conflicto y la construcción de una paz estable y duradera", el 24 de noviembre de 2016 en el Teatro Colón de Bogotá, entre el Gobierno nacional y las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, FARC, debiera representar otro corte histórico.

Este libro es una iniciativa de los Grupos Regionales de Memoria Histórica (GRMH), que, junto con el Centro Nacional de Memoria Histórica desde el 2013 generaron propuestas para la construcción de memoria histórica en Colombia.

'a master class in eyewitness storytelling .

A fascinating story of a key turning point in the War in the Mediterranean, as the island of Malta was thrown a vital lifeline.

Indian soldiers had rallied bravely before to many a skirmish outside their frontiers, but never with as much conviction and in stellar numbers than in the greatest of them all-the First World War.

The fate of nations during war depends on how well men fight, and these stories tell us how the Indian armed forces and the Mukti Bahini fought for the cause of freedom.

Fifty years in a nation's life is a small period of time.

Over a million Indian soldiers fought in the First World War, the largest force from the colonies and dominions.

This book is a poignant story of a small-town boy, who stumbled into a lifelong flying career spanning 38 years as a pilot.

"e;As you know 'blood clot' means blood cells coming together to form a strong clot that forms and sticks together to keep the wound sealed enabling it to repair.

This book draws on posthumanist critique and post qualitative approaches to research to examine the pedagogies offered by imaginaries of the future.

Eindringlich und bewegend erzählt die israelische Journalistin Lee Yaron von den letzten Stunden der Menschen, die am 7.