How do you steal nearly seventy million dollars in cash from one of the most secure bank vaults in Brazil without ever firing a shot, triggering an alarm, or alerting a single security guard?
This book is based on more than a hundred letters sent home by three Swansea brothers during the First World War, almost all of which relate to the period 1916-18 when Richard, Gabriel and Ivor Eustis were serving in different theatres.
In this engagingly written biography, Tamara Plakins Thornton delves into the life and work of Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), a man Thomas Jefferson once called a meteor in the hemisphere.
Assault guns (Sturmgeschutz in German) were armored fighting vehicles similar to tanks, with the chassis and tracks of a panzer but without the rotating turret, which allowed the mounting of a larger gun.
This book offers a rigorous and historically grounded analysis of Black women’s political thought, activism, and institutional engagement across six decades.
Residents and visitors alike can journey back in time as they follow Boston's 2 -mile Freedom Trail past twenty-six historic landmarks that embody pivotal events in the formation of Americaincluding the site of the Boston Massacre and the Bunker Hill Monument.
This book charts and analyses the emergence of the conventional representation of the French events of 1968 and argues that the dominance of this narrative, despite its limitations, stems from the convenience that such a consensus provides for those that have been pivotal in shaping the collective memory of this critical moment in recent history.
The sea chest with four hundred pounds sterling cleverly hidden in a secret compartment rested abandoned on the quay as the square-rigger put out from England in a freshening breeze.
From sports to politics, food to finance, aviation to engineering, to bitter disputes over simple boundaries themselves, New England's feuds have peppered the region's life for centuries.
This book offers a rigorous and historically grounded analysis of Black women’s political thought, activism, and institutional engagement across six decades.
In this engagingly written biography, Tamara Plakins Thornton delves into the life and work of Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), a man Thomas Jefferson once called a meteor in the hemisphere.
This extraordinary first-hand account of Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop's experiences as senior medical officer in the infamous prisoner-of-war camps in Java and on the Burma-Thailand Railway, is not only an account of great historical significance but also a testament to the ability of the human spirit to overcome the most unbearably cruel conditions.
The figure of the monster in medieval culture functions as a vehicle for a range of intellectual and spiritual inquiries, from questions of language and representation to issues of moral, theological and cultural value.
This book provides a detailed analysis of the political arguments about the place of Muslims in contemporary France, and also discusses the ideas put forward by a range of Muslim thinkers.
Between Wales and England is an exploration of eighteenth-century anglophone Welsh writing by authors for whom English-language literature was mostly a secondary concern.
This book is geared toward all ages and gives step-by-step instructions on scores of crafts and outdoor skills cultivated by various Native American peoples over the centuries.
This work examines the nature of the Welsh Nationalist Party from its foundation in 1925 to 1945 - the philosophy and policies it embraced, the methods it used, and its organisational character.
These are the stories Vietnam vets tell over beers at Legion halls and VFW postsstories of young men tangled up in the chaos of landing zones and nameless jungle hills, in the boredom of base camps, in the confusion of a controversial war.
Residents and visitors alike can journey back in time as they follow Boston's 2 -mile Freedom Trail past twenty-six historic landmarks that embody pivotal events in the formation of Americaincluding the site of the Boston Massacre and the Bunker Hill Monument.
It Happened in Northern California takes readers on a rollicking, behind the scene look at some of the characters and episodes from the states storied past.
This book is a hybrid, part academic part autobiography, containing accounts of marine geological and oceanographic work, geographical accounts and impressions of places visited, personal recollections of activities undertaken, and comments on situations encountered.
Als im Jahr 1833 das erste Schiff mit neuenglischem Natureis im Hafen von Kalkutta einlief, stand eine Menge britischer Kolonialbeamter am Kai - nicht aus Neugier, sondern aus Durst nach dem, was ihnen ein ertraglicheres Leben in der Tropen versprach.
This book is geared toward all ages and gives step-by-step instructions on scores of crafts and outdoor skills cultivated by various Native American peoples over the centuries.
It Happened in Northern California takes readers on a rollicking, behind the scene look at some of the characters and episodes from the states storied past.
This book is a hybrid, part academic part autobiography, containing accounts of marine geological and oceanographic work, geographical accounts and impressions of places visited, personal recollections of activities undertaken, and comments on situations encountered.
This book is about the weird and wonderful lesser-known 'spirit' entities of ancient Egypt -daemons, the mysterious and often fantastical creatures of the Egyptian 'Otherworld' - and the closely related spirits of the dead, which together conjure the excitement of all things otherworldly.
This is the first monograph on the performance and reception of sixteenth- and seventeenth- century national drama in contemporary Spain, which attempts to remedy the traditional absence of performance-based approaches in Golden Age studies.
