The World War II fighter-pilot storyOn the very first day of the invasion of Sicily, three months into his combat career, Allan Knepper flew his P-38 Lightning fighter in a squadron sent out to sweep the island and interdict German ground targets.
In 1954 the Supreme Court declared that separate could never be equal, and a struggle that had smoldered since the auction block burst into open flame.
By examining the pictorial episodes in the Spanish baroque novella, this book elucidates how writers create pictorial texts, how audiences visualise their words, what consequences they exert on cognition and what actions this process inspires.
Fly fishing has a history that stretches back to Roman-era Macedonia and Tang-dynasty China, but most accounts of that history repeat the same errors: they treat the English chalk stream tradition as the natural summit of the sport, ignore the class structures that decided who could fish and where, and skip over the non-Anglophone traditions that developed in parallel.
Marse: A Psychological Portrait of the Southern Slave Masterand His Legacy of White Supremacy focuses on the white men who composed the antebellum southern planter class in the period of 1830-1861.
Exploring Latin texts, as well as Old French, Castilian and Occitan songs and lyrics, Remembering the Crusades in Medieval Texts and Songs takes inspiration from the new ways scholars are looking to trace the dissemination and influence of the memories and narratives surrounding the crusading past in medieval Europe.
The XI Corps served in the Army of the Potomac for just twelve months (September 1862-August 1863), during which it played a pivotal role in the critical battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg.
Imagine discovering that the municipal trucks hired to spray oil on your town's unpaved roads to keep the summer dust down were actually spraying one of the most toxic, cancer-causing chemicals on the planet.
The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War has long been understood in a global context, but Jeremy Friedmans Shadow Cold War delves deeper into the era to examine the competition between the Soviet Union and the Peoples Republic of China for the leadership of the world revolution.
In the years immediately following the Civil War the formative years for an emerging society of freed African Americans in Mississippi there was much debate over the general purpose of black schools and who would control them.
Nach dem Krieg zunächst verfemt, gewann Ernst Jünger erneut an Popularität, die Lübke, Heuss und Kohl vielleicht sinnfälliger einte als Heiner Müller und Joschka Fischer, die sich ebenfalls emphatisch auf ihn bezogen und seinen intellektuellen Einfluss betonten.
Master's Thesis from the year 2009 in the subject History of Europe - Newer History, European Unification, grade: 1,3, University of Hannover (Faculty of History, Philosophy and Social Sciences/ European Studies), language: English, abstract: Is Turkey a European country?
This is Not a Grail Romance provides answers to some of the most important questions surrounding the medieval Welsh Arthurian tale Historia Peredur vab Efrawc, one of the few surviving medieval Welsh narrative compositions, and an important member of the 'Grail' family of medieval European narratives.
Not just another "e;misattribution"e; retread: the series so far has moved from correct evidence that took too long (Book 1) to correct credit that landed on the wrong person (Book 2).
Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes' remains one of the enduring, and most stirring, quotations of the Revolutionary War, and it was very likely uttered at the Battle of Bunker Hill by General Israel Putnam.
Welsh Ballads of the French Revolution provides for the first time an edition, with parallel English translations, of Welsh-language ballads composed in reaction to the momentous events of the Revolution in France and the two decades of war which followed.