A SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY EDITION TO COMMEMORATE 80 YEARS SINCE THE EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS OF 1943 Sophie Scholl and the White Rose tells the gripping true story of five Munich university students who set up an underground resistance movement in World War II.
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The book that is providing a storm of controversy, from ';Israel's bravest historian' (John Pilger)Renowned Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe's groundbreaking work on the formation of the State of Israel.
In 1942, five young German students and one professor at the University of Munich crossed the threshold of toleration to enter the realms of resistance, danger and death.
This book reveals that the visual narrative of the events of the Russian campaign of 1812 was inextricably linked to Russia's search for national identity and helped to form competing definitions of 'Russianness'.
At Sea Against the Soviet Fleet is a history of the evolution of the United States Navys Operational Intelligence culture that informs great power competition with China today.
During the Civil War, cities, houses, forests, and soldiers' bodies were transformed into "e;dead heaps of ruins,"e; novel sights in the southern landscape.
As the public increasingly questioned the war in Vietnam, a group of American scientists deeply concerned about the use of Agent Orange and other herbicides started a movement to ban what they called "e;ecocide.
Sources of Evil: Studies in Mesopotamian Exorcistic Lore is a collection of thirteen essays on the body of knowledge employed by ancient Near Eastern healing experts, most prominently the 'exorcist' and the 'physician', to help patients who were suffering from misfortunes caused by divine anger, transgressions of taboos, demons, witches, or other sources of evil.
THE HILL TIMES TOP 100 BOOKS OF 2024Punching Above Our Weight takes readers on a riveting exploration spanning one hundred and fifty years of Canadian forces.
During the Civil War, cities, houses, forests, and soldiers' bodies were transformed into "e;dead heaps of ruins,"e; novel sights in the southern landscape.
This book is grounded in the belief that every nation had its own 'Great War', and that children's picture books are an important barometer of each country's national approach.
Keine ausfuhrliche Beschreibung fur "e;Zur Frage des Charakters der franzosischen Kriege in Bezug auf die Entwicklung in Deutschland in den Jahren 1792 bis 1815"e; verfugbar.
Studies on Late Medieval Gdansk discusses Gdansk (Danzig), a city whose governing authorities changed in the 15th century, with Polish kings replacing the Teutonic Knights.
