Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un grupo secreto de hombres fue lanzado tras las lineas enemigas para encender la chispa de la resistencia en la Europa ocupada.
El desembarco de Alhucemas, del que se cumple ahora un siglo, supuso una operacion anfibia de una ambicion y complejidad sin precedentes en la Espana contemporanea, que permitio, por fin, cerrar la pesadilla en que se habia convertido la Guerra de Marruecos, tras desastres impresos en la carne y en la memoria del pais como el Barranco del Lobo o Annual.
Apenas finalizó la guerra, la Junta Militar ya casi en retirada logró organizar un relato oficial sobre lo sucedido en Malvinas, que presentó el conflicto bélico como una "gesta heroica", ocultó la impericia militar y especialmente dejó fuera del radar las experiencias traumáticas que habían atravesado los soldados en el frente.
When Neil Reynolds was first asked in 2003 whether he'd like to work in Iraq as a private military contractor, he didn't even know where it was on the map.
A gripping, vividly told journey into a family's wartime past, from the bestselling author of The Ruin of All Witches Endearingly personal, honest and reflective invites you to rethink where memory ends and history begins Dominic Sandbrook, The Times, Books of the Year 'As I finished his book, I began to see my own family s past through his glass mountain' Ian Ellison, Literary Review Malcolm Gaskill knew two things about his great-uncle Ralph s wartime adventures: he d been a prisoner in Italy, and he d cut his way out of a train with a knife and fork.
Richly-layered and packed with insight, this riveting account of terrible events tells us as much about the present as it does the past Patrick Bishop, author of Paris '44From Peter the Great to Putin, a biography of the city Hitler tried - and failed - to wipe off the mapThe siege of Saint Petersburg then known as Leningrad stands as a testament to human endurance.
One of the last major untold stories of the war, this is the first-hand account of a conscientious objector born into a famous artistic family who, after the death of his brother on active service, decides to fight the Nazis and joins SOE.
'A truly remarkable writer, one of the most gifted non-fiction authors alive' Simon Schama, Financial TimesSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDThis is the autobiography that John Aubrey never wrote.
Being an Account: The Memoirs of Ernest Lycette, 1911–1921 is the first-hand memoir of Ernest Lycette, a Staffordshire scoutmaster and St John Ambulance volunteer who enlisted in the British Army in August 1914 and served through the First World War and its aftermath.
Born into slavery and denied even the certainty of his own birthday, Frederick Douglass rose to become one of the most powerful voices of the 19th century.
Civil Unrest: A Comprehensive History of the American Civil WarFrom the smoldering tensions of a divided nation to the final surrender at Appomattox Court House, Civil Unrest takes readers on an unflinching journey through the most defining conflict in American history.
In 1977, the Colombian journal Ideología y Sociedad devoted twenty-eight pages of its twenty-first issue to an attack on Ernest Mandel's The Leninist Theory of Organisation.
For generations, Americans have been told a comforting lie: that slavery was only a side issue, that the Civil War was really about "e;states' rights,"e; economics, or cultural differences.
The Spanish Flu of 1918 was one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, claiming an estimated 50 million lives worldwide and forever changing the way societies respond to infectious diseases.
In the middle of the nineteenth century, Europe was shaken by a conflict that revealed both the ambitions of empires and the changing nature of modern warfare.
In den 1930er Jahren lebte die Bevolkerung von Imst von der Landwirtschaft, arbeitete in der Textilindustrie oder in Gewerbebetrieben, politisch wahlte sie konservativ-rechte Parteien.
