Beginning in 1948 with Paramount's Saigon and Universal's Rogue's Regiment, Hollywood has produced hundreds of features and made-for-television films about Vietnam and the ensuing conflict.
Syrien, ein Land mit unerschöpflichem kulturellen Reichtum und faszinierender Ge-schichte, steht im Mittelpunkt dieser außergewöhnlichen Reise in die Vergangenheit.
"e;Following his two-volume work, Bloody Verrieres, Arthur W Gullachsen has again written a fantastic book, this time covering the opening days of the Normandy battles involving the Allied Forces and the Hitlerjugend Division.
"e;Following his two-volume work, Bloody Verrieres, Arthur W Gullachsen has again written a fantastic book, this time covering the opening days of the Normandy battles involving the Allied Forces and the Hitlerjugend Division.
Kunstwerke, die verschwinden, erzählen die dramatischsten Geschichten – von den Wirren der Kriege, den Schrecken von Naturkatastrophen bis hin zu spektakulären Raubzügen und stillen Verlusten.
A major new history of Churchill in the 1930s, showing how his meetings at Chartwell, his country home, strengthened his fight against the Nazis In the 1930s, amidst an impending crisis in Europe, Winston Churchill found himself out of government and with little power.
A Telegraph and Evening Standard Book of the YearFrom the acclaimed writer and critic Geoff Dyer, an extremely funny scene-by-scene analysis of Where Eagles Dare - published as the film reaches its 50th anniversaryA thrilling Alpine adventure starring a magnificent, bleary-eyed Richard Burton and a coolly anachronistic Clint Eastwood, Where Eagles Dare is the apex of 1960s war movies, by turns enjoyable and preposterous.
The River War is a historical book by Winston Churchill, concerning his experiences as a British Army officer, during the Mahdist War (1881-99) in the Sudan.
Neuauflage des Weltbestsellers: Der berühmte Roman über den Russischen Bürgerkrieg wurde bei seinem Erscheinen 1930 von allen Seiten und sogar von der KPD-Zeitung "Rote Fahne" in höchsten Tönen gelobt, Karl Radek bereitete eine Übersetzung ins Russische vor.
To discover how war can affect the status of women in industrial countries, Leila Rupp examines mobilization propaganda directed at women in Nazi Germany and the United States.
Die Malteser Ritter, auch bekannt als der Orden des Heiligen Johannes, sind ein faszinierendes Kapitel der europäischen Geschichte, geprägt von Tapferkeit, Glauben und unermüdlichem Einsatz für das Wohl der Menschheit.
Amerikanskaia zhurnalistka Marta Gellkhorn byla svidetelnitsei krupneishikh voennykh stolknovenii XX veka: ot grazhdanskoi voiny v Ispanii do Vtoroi mirovoi, ot sovetsko-finskoi do arabo-izrailskoi voiny, ot amerikanskogo vtorzheniia vo Vetnam do konfliktov v Salvadore i Nikaragua v 1980-e.
THESUNDAY TIMESTOP 10 BESTSELLERChosen by WATERSTONES as one of their BEST HISTORY BOOKS for 2024';Compelling [Nichol has a] terrific eye for detail; an ability to blend tear-jerking letters, quotation and personal anecdotes into a rich, thought-provoking narrative'Daily TelegraphOver one million British Empire soldiers died during the First World War.
"e;This little book is intended as, and professes no more than a plain statement of facts, so that others may learn what I have read, seen and heard, without undergoing the pain of incarceration in the hands of Yankees, whose tyranny increases in proportion to the power they possess over their victims.
As a WWII tour director for thirty-five years, David Harper has repeatedly heard the same questions from an extremely varied American and British audience: "e;Why did the Germans vote for Hitler?
El enfrentamiento en Cannas entre cartagineses y romanos, las batallas de Jena-Auerstedt en las guerras napoleónicas, el valle de Shenandoah en la guerra de Secesión estadounidense, la ofensiva de Cambrai en la Primera Guerra Mundial, el fuerte Eben-Emael y Kursk en la Segunda Guerra Mundial, entre otros, son ejemplos de las tácticas más efectivas de la historia.
Les Récits de Sébastopol (1855-1856) ont été écrits par Léon Tolstoï pour raconter ses expériences lors du siège de Sébastopol (1854) pendant la guerre de Crimée.
Dieses eBook: "Lassalle: Historischer Roman" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
Erleben Sie die faszinierende Geschichte der Habsburger-Dynastie, die ihren Ursprung in der bescheidenen Landschaft der Schweiz nahm und sich zu einer der mächtigsten Herrscherfamilien Europas entwickelte.
"e;This account of oft-forgotten aspects of the war that is also a powerful survival story is highly recommended for the casual reader of military history as well as the serious scholar of the Pacific war.
The Revolutionary War historian provides “a comprehensive and accessible guide” to the vital influence France had on America’s path to independence (Publishers Weekly).
This book is a historical study of the events of October 1941 in the Viaz’ma pocket, based on documents found in the Russian Federation’s Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense, the German Bundesarchiv, and the US National Archives.
