My country, the Republic of Paraguay, a nation that was born big, was strong, independent and prosperous, which aroused the envy of neighboring nations, which allied themselves to make war.
The Vietnam Journal is a personal record of a young "e;mustang"e; naval officer and his team of three doctors and eleven hospital corpsmen sent to Vietnam following the Tet Offensive in 1968 under the operational control of the US Agency for International Development.
While Rosie the Riveter had fewer paid employment options after being told to cede her job to returning World War II veterans, her sisters and daughters found new work opportunities in national defense.
Landmark study of the Canadians' first major operation in Normandy New revelations on the death of German panzer ace Michael Wittmann Handsomely illustrated with maps, photos, and diagrams On August 8, 1944, the Canadian Army launched Operation Totalize, a massive armored and mechanized infantry attack that aimed to break through enemy defenses south of Caen and trap the German Army in Normandy by linking up with Patton's Third Army.
Expulsé de Constantinople en décembre 1914, François- Xavier Lobry, supérieur des Lazaristes dans l'Empire ottoman, de 1886 à 1931, demeure quatre ans en exil à Salonique.
Tadeusz Komorowski was born in 1895 in Galicia, a region then ruled by the Austrians, and he served in the Austro-Hungarian Army in the First World War.
‘Napoo’, ‘compray’, ‘san fairy ann’, ‘toot sweet’ are anglicized French phrases that came into use on the Western Front during the First World War as British troops struggled to communicate in French.
Intrigué par la décision de son grand-père de se rapprocher de la communauté juive, à la veille de sa mort, Kurt, un jeune américain mène une enquête en Allemagne.
Ce roman sensible et vivant rend hommage à ceux qui ont subi l'Occupation durant la Première Guerre mondiale : les habitants du Nord et de l'Est, en particulier ceux de Charleville, capitale du IIe Reich.
1918: The Decisive Year in Soldiers' own Words and Photographs is the next volume in the remarkable series of books from the best-selling First World War historian Richard van Emden.
In July 1938 the United States, Great Britain and thirty other countries participated in a vital conference at Évian-les-Bains, France, to discuss the persecution and possible emigration of the European Jews, specifically those caught under the anvil of Nazi atrocities.
Rapid and momentous technological changes at the turn of the 20th century forced military professionals and educated civilians to envision the future of war and warfare, especially during an age where nations found themselves aggressively competing for dominance on the world stage.
