'Adolf Island' offers new forensic, archaeological and spatial perspectives on the Nazi forced and slave labour programme that was initiated on the Channel Island of Alderney during its occupation in the Second World War.
Combining the social and cultural history of war, global and maritime history, this book examines the Argentine Navy during the First World War and in its immediate aftermath.
With three railroads and a canal passing through the city, Lynchburg, Virginia, was a major hospital center during the Civil War, far from the remote battlefields.
With three railroads and a canal passing through the city, Lynchburg, Virginia, was a major hospital center during the Civil War, far from the remote battlefields.
A gripping account of the Knights Templar, challenging received wisdom to show how these devout medieval knights played a profound role in making modern Britain The Knights Templar have an enduring reputation-but not one they would recognize.
During an 1865 raid through North Carolina, Major General George Stoneman missed capturing the fleeing Jefferson Davis only by a matter of hours, timing somewhat typical of Stoneman's life and career.
Marcus Friedrich Wolf was called "the man without a face" by Western and overseas intelligence services, who for a long time unsuccessfully tried to get a photograph of the head of foreign intelligence of the GDR MGB.
Originally published in 1929, this volume discusses the early effects of the industrial revolution - the condition of the cotton spinners, the hardships for labouring children, the overcrowded prisons and other brutal punishments.
Originally published in 1929, this volume discusses the early effects of the industrial revolution - the condition of the cotton spinners, the hardships for labouring children, the overcrowded prisons and other brutal punishments.
A Telegraph and Evening Standard Book of the YearFrom the acclaimed writer and critic Geoff Dyer, an extremely funny scene-by-scene analysis of Where Eagles Dare - published as the film reaches its 50th anniversaryA thrilling Alpine adventure starring a magnificent, bleary-eyed Richard Burton and a coolly anachronistic Clint Eastwood, Where Eagles Dare is the apex of 1960s war movies, by turns enjoyable and preposterous.
Das einundzwanzigste Jahrhundert ist Zeuge einer Militarisierung der Ästhetik, bei der Militäreinrichtungen die kreative Weltgestaltung der Kunst vereinnahmen und sie mit den zerstörerischen Kräften der Kriegsführung verschmelzen.
Inmitten der prächtigen Höfe Frankreichs diente eine Gruppe tapferer Männer, die zu einem unverwechselbaren Symbol für Treue und Stärke wurde: die Schweizergarde.
In Last War of the Superfortresses the authors provide a detailed history of the confrontation between Soviet fighters and the United States Far East Air Force’s B-29 ‘Superfortress’ bombers during the Korean War of 1950–1953, drawing on Military documents in the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation in Podolsk as well as published Western sources.
