In the aftermath of the Great War, a remarkable wave of collective commemoration emerged, but the aesthetic diversity of this period has often been overshadowed by a singular focus on the combatant experience, primarily conveyed through fiction and memoir.
Alex and Mela Roslan and their children, an ordinary, brave Polish family rescue Jewish brothers from the Warsaw Ghetto, with whom they bond, keeping them safe through the Holocaust and into post-Holocaust years on an adventurous odyssey across Europea region seething with emergent antisemitism.
Der Besuch des Maji-Maji-Museums in Songea, Tansania, durch Bundespräsident Steinmeier 2023 rief einer breiteren Öffentlichkeit die entgrenzte Gewalt deutscher Kolonialherrschaft ins Bewusstsein.
OSTFRONT 1943Teil 2: Der Süden im Jahr 1943: Nochmalige Stabilisierung nach Stalingrad & der Rückzug aus dem KaukasusDer Winter 1942/43 markierte einen tiefen Einschnitt im Verlauf des deutsch-sowjetischen Krieges.
Examining refugees of Civil War-era North Carolina, Driven from Home reveals the complexity and diversity of the war's displaced populations and the inadequate responses of governmental and charitable organizations as refugees scrambled to secure the necessities of daily life.
Aunque mucho se ha escrito sobre Hitler, faltaba una historia clara y concisa para no especialistas que pusiera al dia lo que verdaderamente sabemos sobre su vida y su personalidad: su infancia, sus influencias, su ambigua sexualidad, su actitud ante la religion, asi como la verdadera efectividad de sus politicas en una Alemania devastada por el desempleo y la hiperinflacion.
War and Violence in Early and High Medieval Venice presents a comprehensive collection of primary sources, providing insight into all aspects of Venetian warfare and internal conflict during this formative period.
This collection of essays from both established and emerging scholars analyses the dynamic connections between conflict and violence in medieval Italy.
Extensive in scope and drawing on newly available evidence from multinational archives, this book reconsiders Sino-Indian border issues during the middle Cold War using multiple established analytical frameworks.
This is a translation of the only known detailed account of the building of the notorious 262-mile long Thai-Burma Railway by one of the Japanese professional engineers who was involved in its construction.
Warfare and Politics: Cities and Government in Renaissance Tuscany and Venice brings together a group of prominent contributors to consider the topics of government and warfare in Tuscany and Venice in the Renaissance.
Sorge's activities between 1930 and 1942 have tended to be lauded as those of a superlative human intelligence operator and the Soviet Union's GRU (Soviet military intelligence unit) as the optimum of spy-masters.
In the rolling hills of the Limburg Province, near the village of Margraten, they slowly loom up, row after row: thousands of white marble crosses and Stars of David.
The roles of popes, saints, and crusaders were inextricably intertwined in the Middle Ages: papal administration was fundamental in the making and promulgating of new saints and in financing crusades, while crusaders used saints as propaganda to back up the authority of popes, and even occasionally ended up being sanctified themselves.
This is a translation of the only known detailed account of the building of the notorious 262-mile long Thai-Burma Railway by one of the Japanese professional engineers who was involved in its construction.
Extensive in scope and drawing on newly available evidence from multinational archives, this book reconsiders Sino-Indian border issues during the middle Cold War using multiple established analytical frameworks.
In the rolling hills of the Limburg Province, near the village of Margraten, they slowly loom up, row after row: thousands of white marble crosses and Stars of David.
This book is the first monographic attempt to follow the environmental changes that took place in the frontier zone of the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.