Holding the small island of Malta, the British Empire's strategic centerpiece in the Mediterranean Sea, was critical to the Allied cause in World War II--and taking it was essential for Axis victory.
Soviet Local Politics and Government (1983) examines the local government system of the Soviet Union, an important part of the great bureaucracy that ran the country.
The Soviet Far East (1957) examines the Soviet economic and political development of the Russian Far East between Lake Baikal and the Pacific, as it gained importance as the geographic base of Soviet power in the Far Eastern theatre of international politics and strategy.
Soviet Communism (1989) contains the full text of the 1986 new and significantly revised foundational documents of Soviet Communism, the Programme and Party Rules - changes agreed following Mikhail Gorbachev's call for the radical and democratic reform of the Party and of the Soviet political system as a whole.
Improvement of Desert Ranges in Soviet Central Asia (1985) examines the progress made in the Soviet Union's attempts to increase desert vegetation without using irrigation or fertilizers.
Soviet Local Politics and Government (1983) examines the local government system of the Soviet Union, an important part of the great bureaucracy that ran the country.
Gorbachev at the Helm (1987) analyses the policy decisions taken at the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in February-March 1986, declared at the time by the Soviet government as a major turning point in Soviet history.
The Navy of the 21st Century, 2001- 2022 presents an all- inclusive listing of the ships that have served in the US Navy since the start of the new century.
The Navy of the 21st Century, 2001- 2022 presents an all- inclusive listing of the ships that have served in the US Navy since the start of the new century.
Handbook of Soviet Space-Science Research (1968) provides a comprehensive and authoritative English language summary of Soviet space-science research of the 1960s.
Local Government in the Soviet Union (1987) analyses the Soviet Union's limited success in improving local government between in the 1960s to 1980s, as the country made a drive toward centralized policy control.
Soviet Succession Struggles (1988) is a key study of the history, nature and development of Soviet politics and politicians from the earliest days of Soviet Russia up to the rise of Gorbachev.
Communism in Transition (1993) examines the mainstays of Communist ideology, and goes on to look at the collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union, and in Eastern Europe.
Constitutional Development in the USSR (1981) looks at the political institutions and practices of the Soviet state through the prism of its own constitutional texts.
Constitutional Development in the USSR (1981) looks at the political institutions and practices of the Soviet state through the prism of its own constitutional texts.
The Cold War Past and Present (1987) analyses the generally antagonistic postwar relations between the Soviet Union and the West, particularly America.
Soviet Succession Struggles (1988) is a key study of the history, nature and development of Soviet politics and politicians from the earliest days of Soviet Russia up to the rise of Gorbachev.
Communism in Transition (1993) examines the mainstays of Communist ideology, and goes on to look at the collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union, and in Eastern Europe.
Im Juni 1941 überschritten mehr als drei Millionen deutsche Soldaten die Grenze zur Sowjetunion und begannen einen Krieg, der als erklärter Rassen- und Vernichtungskrieg geführt wurde.
Im Juni 1941 überschritten mehr als drei Millionen deutsche Soldaten die Grenze zur Sowjetunion und begannen einen Krieg, der als erklärter Rassen- und Vernichtungskrieg geführt wurde.
Handbook of Soviet Space-Science Research (1968) provides a comprehensive and authoritative English language summary of Soviet space-science research of the 1960s.
Das Standardwerk des renommierten Historikers Manfried Rauchensteiner zum Ersten Weltkrieg liegt nach gemeinsamer Überarbeitung mit dem Journalisten Josef Broukal jetzt auch in komprimierter Form vor: für den raschen Überblick, verständlich geschrieben und spannend zu lesen.
Orchestrating Warfighting provides a detailed and wide-ranging examination of the employment of corps and divisions from the First World War through to the early twenty-first century.
A fascinating analysis of the World War II battle between Great Britain and France to ensure French ships were kept out of German hands during World War II.
Una excepcional y práctica introducción a la primera guerra total de la historia, para conocer las causas, el desarrollo y las consecuencias del conflicto que marcaría el inicio del siglo XX.
This volume offers an unparalleled range of comparative studies considering both persecution and genocide across two thousand years of history from Rome to Nazi Germany, and spanning Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
The enormous loss of life and physical destruction caused by the First World War led people to hope that there would never be another such catastrophe.
This is the story of Operation Jericho, the spectacular prison break staged by an elite group of British, Australian and New Zealand bomber pilots, who flew a daring low-level mission to blow holes in the walls of Amiens jail and free French Resistance prisoners under the sentence of death during World War II.
