Between 1936 and 1945, a covert Japanese military unit operated a vast research complex outside Harbin, Manchuria, conducting biological and medical experiments on thousands of prisoners - Chinese, Korean, Soviet, and Allied - without anesthesia, consent, or any pretense of therapeutic purpose.
In the winter of 1942, a small group of university students in Munich began distributing leaflets calling on ordinary Germans to resist the Nazi regime.
Apenas finalizó la guerra, la Junta Militar ya casi en retirada logró organizar un relato oficial sobre lo sucedido en Malvinas, que presentó el conflicto bélico como una "gesta heroica", ocultó la impericia militar y especialmente dejó fuera del radar las experiencias traumáticas que habían atravesado los soldados en el frente.
Favouring manoeuvre over attrition and often punching above their weight, South African soldiers have become known for their tenacity, dash and ability to defy the odds.
Behind every major military decision of World War II lay invisible networks of spies, code-breakers, and intelligence operatives whose work determined the course of battles, invasions, and negotiations.
Este es un analisis politico, desde una mirada historica, sobre la situacion de los movimientos sociales y los partidos politicos durante la dictadura en Chile; en particular sobre los pobladores.
For many years, UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi was known for his charisma, charm and brio: he convinced millions of his fellow countrymen and also international statesmen that he was Angola's and the West's best hope for democratic rule.
When Neil Reynolds was first asked in 2003 whether he'd like to work in Iraq as a private military contractor, he didn't even know where it was on the map.
Desde los años veinte, la imagen popular de la Legión Extranjera francesa quedó grabada en el imaginario colectivo a partir de la novela Beau Geste, de P.
Los cuatro generales de Ejército entrevistados en PALABRA DE SOLDADO entregan visiones controvertidas de los dieciséis años de gobierno militar, de la historia de las relaciones entre civiles y militares, y de las posibilidades de un reencuentro futuro entre ambos estamentos de la sociedad chilena.
Contemporary armed conflicts differ from twentieth-century wars in their participants, motivations, and consequences, yet they emerge from similar patterns of state fragility, resource competition, and unresolved historical grievances.
From the New York Times bestselling coauthors of Under Fire comes the story of the kidnapping and murder of CIA Station Chief William Buckley and the bloody beginning of the CIA's endless war against Islamic radicalism.
A gripping, vividly told journey into a family's wartime past, from the bestselling author of The Ruin of All Witches Endearingly personal, honest and reflective invites you to rethink where memory ends and history begins Dominic Sandbrook, The Times, Books of the Year 'As I finished his book, I began to see my own family s past through his glass mountain' Ian Ellison, Literary Review Malcolm Gaskill knew two things about his great-uncle Ralph s wartime adventures: he d been a prisoner in Italy, and he d cut his way out of a train with a knife and fork.
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.
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.
Fire on the High Seas: America's Undeclared War with FranceBefore the War of 1812, before the Barbary Wars, there was a conflict most Americans have never heard of — and yet it changed everything.
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.
Civil Unrest: A Comprehensive History of the American Civil WarFrom the smoldering tensions of a divided nation to the final surrender at Appomattox Court House, Civil Unrest takes readers on an unflinching journey through the most defining conflict in American history.
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.
The Needle & The ShadowA lobotomist's war, a doctor's betrayal, and the dark legacy of american psychiatryThere are rooms in American history that were never meant to be seen.
The Taiping Rebellion stands as one of the deadliest and most fascinating conflicts in human history, reshaping China during the final years of the Qing Dynasty.
The Lost Scrolls of The Methods of the Sima offers a disciplined interpretive examination of what is absent from one of early China's most institutional approaches to warfare.
The Assyrian Empire was one of the most powerful and formidable civilizations of the ancient world, dominating the Near East through military strength, advanced administration, and cultural achievements.
