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.
The world is evolving at an unprecedented pace, driven by the transformative forces of the Integrated Industrial revolution (4th-5th Industrial Revolutions)-a new era where data, connectivity, and human-machine interaction define progress.
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.
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.
This book, compiled in cooperation with the Institute of Crimes Committed During the War in Kosovo, brings together renowned international scholars, legal practitioners, cultural analysts, and transitional justice experts to examine the Kosovo War (1998-1999) through multidisciplinary lenses.
This book, compiled in cooperation with the Institute of Crimes Committed During the War in Kosovo, brings together renowned international scholars, legal practitioners, cultural analysts, and transitional justice experts to examine the Kosovo War (1998-1999) through multidisciplinary lenses.
Exploring Civil War camp sites and the lives of the soldiers who lived in themThe American Civil War soldier, confined much of the time to his camp, suffered from boredom and sickness.
Harvey Ball, communications sergeant in Company L, 383rd Infantry Regiment, 96th Infantry Division, served on the front lines in the Pacific during World War II.
Harvey Ball, communications sergeant in Company L, 383rd Infantry Regiment, 96th Infantry Division, served on the front lines in the Pacific during World War II.
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 Falklands / Malvinas War (1987) uses the conflict as a case study to discuss and analyse the inability of the major powers to develop a coherent and stable Developing World policy to emphasise crisis prevention rather than crisis management techniques.
When Frederick Morgan was appointed COSSAC (Chief of Staff to the Supreme Allied Commander), in the spring of 1943, there was no approved plan for a cross-Channel attack and no commander.
Six Victories relates one of the most interesting and instructive naval campaigns of World War II: the Mediterranean war on traffic in the fall and winter of 1941-42.
The Falklands / Malvinas War (1987) uses the conflict as a case study to discuss and analyse the inability of the major powers to develop a coherent and stable Developing World policy to emphasise crisis prevention rather than crisis management techniques.
When Frederick Morgan was appointed COSSAC (Chief of Staff to the Supreme Allied Commander), in the spring of 1943, there was no approved plan for a cross-Channel attack and no commander.
Six Victories relates one of the most interesting and instructive naval campaigns of World War II: the Mediterranean war on traffic in the fall and winter of 1941-42.
Der Sammelband „Zwischen Nostalgie und Innovation“ beleuchtet Otfried Preußlers Werk zwischen traditionellen, aus Märchen, Sagen, Legenden bekannten Motiven und zeitgeschichtlich innovativen Facetten.
Der Sammelband „Zwischen Nostalgie und Innovation“ beleuchtet Otfried Preußlers Werk zwischen traditionellen, aus Märchen, Sagen, Legenden bekannten Motiven und zeitgeschichtlich innovativen Facetten.
