When the United States entered World War I in April 1917 and launched a military recruitment drive, it was clear that the merchant fleet was inadequate to ferry the nascent American Expeditionary Force across the Atlantic and subsequently keep it supplied and fed.
Migration ist in aller Munde, und schnell wird vergessen, dass auch viele Deutsche und Österreicher einst gezwungen waren, ihr Heimatland zu verlassen.
In den Jahren 1925 bis 1944 gab das Reichsarchiv unter Mitwirkung einer großen Zahl von Offizieren und Historikern eine Serie von Monographien zur Militärgeschichte des Ersten Weltkriegs aus deutscher Sicht heraus.
How can a war--labeled a police action yet costing millions of lives, traumatizing countless other individuals, and razing cities and villages--be forgotten?
Mitten im Ersten Weltkrieg, als die britische Seeblockade Deutschland vom Welthandel abschneidet, wagt Kapitan Paul Konig das Unmogliche: Mit dem Unterseeboot Deutschland durchbricht er die feindlichen Linien und steuert uber den Atlantik nach Amerika - nicht als Kriegsschiff, sondern als Handels-U-Boot.
Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un grupo secreto de hombres fue lanzado tras las líneas 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.
Equally skilled in a variety of trades other than in the art of love, the Italian prisoners of war (POWs) who were incarcerated in South Africa during the Second World War are a source of great fascination to this day.
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.
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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.
