Specific wars and campaigns

In 1611 Francisco Martinez Montino, chef to Philip II, Philip III, and Philip IV of Spain, published what would become the most recognized Spanish cookbook for centuries: Arte de cocina, pasteleria, vizcocheria y conserveria.

Im Sommer 1948 stehen große Entscheidungen an: Die westlichen Alliierten beauftragen 65 Männer und Frauen damit, eine Verfassung auszuarbeiten.

Brought to life by the personal accounts of six Navy pilots and one British POW, this is the history of the U.

During World War II, Kentuckians rushed from farms to factories and battlefields, leaving agriculture throughout the state--particularly the lucrative tobacco industry--without sufficient labor.

For as long as the Vietnamese people fought against foreign enemies, women were a vital part of that struggle.

Okwui Enwezor is widely regarded as a leader among the brilliant curators who emerged in the 1990s to set agendas for understanding the global expansiveness of contemporary art.

In den hektischen Monaten vor dem totalen Zusammenbruch des Dritten Reiches und der Kapitulation der deutschen Streitkräfte zog Graf Folke Bernadotte die Aufmerksamkeit der ganzen Welt auf sich.

The true story of the the misfits and mavericks who waged psychological warfare against the NazisSeptember, 1939.

Die NS-Geschichte des Unternehmens Swarovski und ein tiefer Einblick in den Umgang mit ehemaligen Nationalsozialisten in der Nachkriegszeit.

Using a microhistory based on a unique set of life-writing sources, this book provides an unparalleled insight into the Soviet POW experience during the Second World War.

Arthur ColaIn the small village of San Pietro Avellana in the Apennine Mountains in Abruzzo, a young boy of fourteen, Vivi Colaianni, roams its mountainous area spying on the Nazi movements near the final years of World War II.

In the final weeks of the Second World War in Europe, Russian, American and British armies are closing in on Berlin.

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A gripping account of the most famous convoy operation of the war, which marked a high-water mark for the German naval campaign in the Arctic.

This is a short story of my father's experience in the Korean conflict war as a marine.

In March 1974, a climate of conspiracy reigned in Portugal.

During World War II, it quickly became apparent that the physical and tactical demands placed upon paratroopers required men of exceptional stamina, courage and intelligence.

Perverse Memory and the Holocaust presents a new theoretical approach to the study of Polish memory bystanders of the Holocaust.

Perverse Memory and the Holocaust presents a new theoretical approach to the study of Polish memory bystanders of the Holocaust.

When Prussian soldier Fritz Oppenheimer left the World War I battlefield with two Iron Crosses, he could never have imagined that the pinnacle of his military career would come 27 years later at the German surrender in World War II, when he took top Nazi leaders into captivity and interrogated Wilhelm Keitel, head of the Wehrmacht.

Der Siebenjährige Krieg (1756–1763) war ein globaler Konflikt, in dem sich anfangs unabhängig voneinander schwelende Konflikte in Europa und Übersee miteinander verflochten.

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This book is a complete six-volume history of the First World War, written during the war by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2024****A BEST BOOK OF 2024 BY THE NEW YORKER** From the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Ghost Wars, the inside story of America's long and ruinous relationship with Saddam HusseinThe Achilles Trap masterfully untangles the people, ploys of power and geopolitics that led to America's disastrous war with Iraq and, for the first time, details America's fundamental miscalculations during its ruinous, decades-long relationship with Saddam Hussein.

Operation Telic and the Liberation of Iraq Operation Telic and the Liberation of Iraq is an anecdote-packed daily diary recounting the author’s experiences as a reserve officer and media handler with 7 armored (the Desert Rats) and 19 Mechanized Brigade in 2003.

The second volume of this comprehensive military history examines the fall of the Second French Empire and the founding of a unified Germany.

An insider's account of training and service in Nazi Germany's twenty-fifth Panzer Regiment during World War II.

During the 1930s the Soviet Union launched a major effort to create a modern Air Force.

Plongez-vous dans le monde fascinant des samouraïs avec « Le grand âge du samouraï – Le long voyage du guerrier du Japon ancien aux temps modernes ».

An illustrated account of the dramatic engagement between the Luftwaffe's Me 163 units and Allied bombers during the closing years of World War II.

Bringing into dialogue the fields of social history, Andean ethnography, and postcolonial theory, The Lettered Indian maps the moral dilemmas and political stakes involved in the protracted struggle over Indian literacy and schooling in the Bolivian Andes.

In The Ends of Research Tom Ozden-Schilling explores the afterlives of several research initiatives that emerged in the wake of the "e;War in the Woods,"e; a period of anti-logging blockades in Canada in the late twentieth century.

Packed with illustrations, this is a new history and analysis of how the Royal Navy's most important fleet operated and fought the German Navy in the crucial first years of World War II.

In 25 innovative thematic essays, The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Spanish Civil War sees an interdisciplinary team of scholars examine a conflict that, more than 80 years after its conclusion, continues to generate both scholarly and public controversy.

This book examines the institutional contexts of dramaturgical practices in the changing political landscape of 20th century Germany.

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.

My Reminiscences of East Africa is an autobiographical work by General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, a German military officer best known for his leadership during World War I in the German East Africa campaign.

Hermann Stegemanns vierbändige "Geschichte des I.

The story of a German boy drafted into military service during WWII is vividly recounted in this memoir of combat and survival.

Hitler's decision to renege on his alliance with Stalin and invade Russia in June 1941 was to have the most far reaching consequences for the world.

Meine Erinnerungen aus Ostafrika ist die autobiografische Darstellung von General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, einem deutschen Offizier, der wahrend des Ersten Weltkriegs in Ostafrika diente.

In 1984, at the age of 78, world-renowned rose grower Hilda Murrell was found brutally murdered in the Shropshire countryside.

Gerald McCarthy enlisted in the Marines at 17 and volunteered for Vietnam.

This book focuses on a long- neglected yet important topic in China's translation history: interpreter/ translator training and wartime translation studies.

The Austro-Hungarian Stormtroopers and the Italian Arditi of World War I were elite special forces charged with carrying out bold raids and daring attacks.