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.
This fully illustrated book assesses the trial of strength between US Navy PT boats and Japanese destroyers operating in the Solomon Islands during 1942 43.
"e;Not only a just appraisal of the campaigns waged by Marines in World War II; it is a documentation of the Marine struggle to prove the feasibility of amphibious warfare.
The remarkable, untold story of one Holocaust survivor's resilience against all odds, discovered through a chance encounter with a collection of her wartime poetry.
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.
A Narrative of Colonel Ethan Allen's Captivity by Ethan Allen is a gripping first-person account of the trials and tribulations faced by one of America's most legendary Revolutionary War heroes.
This book is a primary source collection of 30 speeches of the Cold War from 1917 to 1991, representing a cross section of leaders on all sides of the conflict from North America, the Caribbean, Europe and Asia.
Beneath the surface of the apparently untutored and deceptively frank Abraham Lincoln ran private tunnels of self-taught study, a restless philosophical curiosity, and a profound grasp of the fundamentals of democracy.
This book aims to address a neglected field of research by providing evidence-based insights into how contemporary visitors of different national and generational background, especially those of Polish and Jewish descent, experience and reflect on their visits, or on living in the proximity of different sites of memory across Poland, including former concentration and death camps, ghetto sites, and other physical sites such as museums with a connection to the Holocaust.
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.
Grossly unsanitary living conditions, cruel and abusive treatment by camp officials, the withholding of medical treatment - these were common experiences for refugees imprisoned at internment camps in Britain and Canada.
From Montana--Around the World and BackThese are the memoirs and true-life story of a young man from Montana who joined the Army, trained as a tank operator, traveled around the world during World War II, worked on the Minuteman missile program, blew up chickens on his South Dakota farm, and raised his family during hard times.
Fully illustrated, this absorbing study assesses the Commonwealth and Italian infantrymen pitted against one another during the First and Second battles of El Alamein in 1942.
With ship profiles and original artwork, this study explores the warships that fought World War II's last pure surface battle, the battle itself, and why the outnumbered US Navy prevailed.
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.
Conversations On Common Things: Or Guide to Knowledge by Dorothea Lynde Dix is a delightful and enlightening compendium that aims to educate and inspire young minds through engaging and accessible dialogues.
A detailed examination of one of the crucial campaigns of World War II in Burma, in which British and Commonwealth forces achieved their first decisive victory over Japanese arms.
"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.
An illustrated account of the clashes between RAF Fighter Command's Hurricane and Spitfire and the Luftwaffe's Ju 87 Stuka in the skies over France, the Channel and southern England.
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?
This book seeks to reframe debates on the conflicting scientific and spiritual traditions that underpinned the Nazi worldview, showing how despite the multitude of tensions and rivals among its adherents, it provided a coherent conceptual grid and possessed its own philosophical consistency.
