"Entdecken Sie in 'Hatschepsut: Die Königin, die zum König wurde' die faszinierende Geschichte einer der außergewöhnlichsten Herrscherinnen des Alten Ägyptens.
Im Mai 1940 beginnt Anna Haag, 51 Jahre alt und Journalistin, ein schonungslos offenes und regimekritisches Tagebuch zu führen, das sie über Jahre im Kohlenkeller versteckt.
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 the spring of 1861, John Caldwell Calhoun Sanders, a 21-year-old cadet at the University of Alabama, helped organize a company of the 11th Alabama Volunteer Infantry.
During the carnage of World War I, ambulance companies were essential, carrying casualties off the battlefield on litters, dressing wounds, and rushing the wounded to the rear, often amid intense fire and poison gas.
In the battle for empire that was the Seven Years' War, Frances Sugar Islands, Guadeloupe and Martinique, were stakes as important as the Dominion of Canada.
In order to win the Cold War, American presidents embraced the mantra of equality of opportunity to justify racial reform efforts within the US military.
Dirty War is the first comprehensive look at the Rhodesia's top secret use of chemical and biological weapons (CBW) during their long counterinsurgency against native African nationalists.
The first in-depth study of the role of canines in WWII Britain, an "e;important but hitherto under-represented subject,"e; with photos included (Society of Army Historical Research).
This comprehensive guide offers a detailed overview of the armed forces in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and the UAE-fully illustrated with photos and maps.
Literarische und visuelle Repräsentationen zum Ersten Weltkrieg zeigen trotz nationaler Prägungen oft Parallelen und übergreifende Themen auf, die es ermöglichen, über Grenzen und Zeiten hinweg Brücken zu schlagen.
Die SMS Kaiserin Elisabeth hatte sich bereits ein Jahr lang in chinesischen und japanischen Gewässern und Häfen aufgehalten, als der Kreuzer und seine Mannschaft – darunter der junge österreichische Unteroffizier Friedrich Kirchner – ganz unverhofft zur Teilnahme am Weltkrieg verpflichtet wurden.
An old manpoet, playwright, essayist, and scholarsiftsthrough the broken fragments of his memory as he recounts what it was like togrow up in Warsaw during the German occupation of World War II.
Das Buch widmet sich dem Krieg der Worte, der von 41 exilösterreichischen "Psychokriegern" in US-Uniform im Zweiten Weltkrieg mit großer Verve gefochten wurde.
In the spring of 1861, John Caldwell Calhoun Sanders, a 21-year-old cadet at the University of Alabama, helped organize a company of the 11th Alabama Volunteer Infantry.
This study describes the courts of vice-admiralty as they existed in the American colonies at the beginning of the revolutionary struggles, analyzes the changes in the courts and their jurisdiction from 1763 to the outbreak of the war, and examines the American objections to the vice-admiralty system.
Diese Einsatzgeschichte der Bundeswehr erzählt von einer Armee im Einsatz, von Einsatzerfahrungen einzelner Soldatinnen und Soldaten und beleuchtet das Verhältnis des wiedervereinigten Deutschlands zum »Krieg«.
This comprehensive guide offers a detailed overview of the armed forces in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and the UAE-fully illustrated with photos and maps.
This book offers a new edition of Henry Maydman's work Naval Speculations with a detailed commentary by two leading experts on its importance to the naval issues of the 21st century.
This book offers a new edition of Henry Maydman's work Naval Speculations with a detailed commentary by two leading experts on its importance to the naval issues of the 21st century.
For some time the conventional wisdom in the interdisciplinary field of Holocaust studies is that sociologists have neglected this subject matter, but this is not really the case.
Corporal Leonard Guttridge was among the many unsung heroes of the Battle of Britain--the Royal Air Force mechanics and armorers who patched bullet holes, repaired engines, refueled empty tanks and replenished ammunition, enabling outnumbered pilots to return to the skies.
For some time the conventional wisdom in the interdisciplinary field of Holocaust studies is that sociologists have neglected this subject matter, but this is not really the case.
This book provides a comprehensive and illuminating study of some of the most crucial campaigns on the Eastern Front during what was perhaps the most momentous year of World War I in that battleground.
The well-respected historian Manfried Rauchensteiner analyses the outbreak of World War I, Emperor Franz Joseph's role in the conflict, and how the various nationalities of the Habsburg Monarchy reacted to the disintegration of this 640-yearold empire in 1918.
Engaging the Crusades is a series of concise volumes (up to 50,000 words) that offer initial windows into the ways in which the crusades have been used in the last two centuries, demonstrating that the memory of the crusades is an important and emerging subject.
Starting with a brief history of western naval medical care from the ancient Greeks and proceeding to modern times, this book chronicles the evolution of the Navy's first west coast hospital, the Mare Island Naval Hospital, as it grew from a "e;palatial"e; but primitive facility in the 1860s to the Navy's premier amputee center for Marines and sailors returning from the brutal Pacific war.
Discover the Sunday Times bestseller and incredible true story behind the most catastrophic 24-hours the British military faced in World War II from the bestselling author.
This invaluable resource provides students with a comprehensive overview of the Syrian Civil War, with roughly 100 in-depth articles by leading scholars on an array of key topics and several important primary source documents.
