Regional / International studies

Do you think you know everything there is to know about Churchill?

A true story of betrayal and murder withing the German navy and Nazi military court is revealed in this WWII biography of a U boat Captain.

The Hurricane Pocket Manual collates authentic period sources including pilot's notes and other Air Ministry publications to provide a unique guide to this iconic aircraft.

If it looks right, it will probably fly righta tired old saying among airmen, but one that persists.

Alex Henshaw was awarded his private pilot's in 1932 and made a name for himself during the 1930s competing in the air races which were to popular at the time.

Mary Wollstonecraft's 1792 Vindication of the Rights of Women is an incendiary attack on the place of women in 18th-century society.

Die Philosophie der Freiheit: Grundzüge einer modernen Weltanschauung Rudolf Steiner - In seinem philosophischen Hauptwerk, das zugleich Fundament der anthroposophischen Geisteswissenschaft ist, setzt sich Rudolf Steiner mit Grundfragen des Erkenntnisprozesses und der Ethik auseinander.

In this stirring call to arms, the activist, spiritual leader, and New York Times bestselling author of the classic A Return to Love confronts the cancerous politics of fear and divisiveness threatening the United States today, urging all spiritually aware Americans to return toand act out ofour deepest value: love.

Hamid Dabashi's 2007 Iran: A People Interrupted is simultaneously subtle, passionate, polarizing and polemical.

'Heroes' is the story of an extraordinary generation of young men, mostly British, who came of age in the Second World War.

This is the personal account of an exceptional Spitfire test pilot and RAF and Fleet Air Arm fighter pilot.

December 1943.

El 20 de abril de 1945 Hitler cumplía 56 años y la artillería rusa alcanzaba Berlín.

The story of the complex relationship between two world leaders during one of the greatest crises in human history.

'Next to being a mother, I'd have loved to write books.

'A superb work of scholarship, full of riveting detail' Sunday TimesA powerful and revelatory history book about the bloodlands - the lands that lie between Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany - where 14 million people were killed during the years 1933 - 1944.

The second volume of a new narrative history of the rise and fall of the Nazi regime, by an expert on the Third Reich.

Politikverdrossenheit entsteht wenn die Menschen in den Kommunen das Gefühl haben, dass Themen wie Klimaschutz, Armutsbekämpfung und bezahlbarer Wohnraum nicht vorrangig behandelt werden.

Why was Canada not preparing for the Second World War when the rest of the world was ready to meet Hitler's threats?

'A riveting trip down the corridors of Soviet deception' Sunday Telegraph (Five-Star Review)'Philps' book vindicates the value of truth' Washington Post'Philps has an eye for detail and a heart for those left behind' The Times'A tale of intrigue and suppression' New York Times'A compelling and often horrifying tale of moral degradation and occasional heroism superbly told' Economist'An engaging and insightful account of foreign correspondents living in the Moscow landmark during the Second World War' History TodayReporters.

Red November delivers the real life feel and fears of submariners who risked their lives to keep the peace.

'A fine and deeply affecting work of history and memoir' Philippe SandsDecades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where his family originated: Krakowiec (Krah-KOV-yets).

This is the autobiography of Alan Deere, New Zealand's most famous RAF pilot who saw action from the Munich Crisis to the invasion of France in 1944.

WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018WINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018'A masterpiece of history and memoir' Evening Standard'Superb.

During the Nazi regime, people were primarily evaluated based on their economic utility to the "e;national community.

'Ambitious, wide-ranging and learned' Times Literary Supplement 'Vivid and extraordinary' Wall Street JournalFrom Boudicca to Ukraine, battlefields have always contained a surprising number of female fighters.

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An incredible insight into the origins, training and earliest operations of the special service volunteer soldiers who formed the original units of the world's most famous military force.

A moving and personal account of a young woman's experiences of the Second World War from the mother of Sir Tim Rice.

History's greatest story reinvigorated as only Alex Kershaw canAdam Makos, New York Times bestselling author of A Higher CallAn absolute triumph James M.

Berlin was the nerve-centre of Hitler's Germany - the backdrop for the most lavish ceremonies, it was also the venue for Albert Speer's plans to forge a new 'world metropolis' and the scene of the final climactic bid to defeat Nazism.

[With Wings Like Eagles is] bold and refreshing Korda writes with great elegance and flair.

A pesar de que durante los últimos treinta años el delito ha disminuido a nivel mundial, la criminalidad en América Latina ha alcanzado niveles sin precedentes.

»Bei Arendts Bericht über den Eichmann-Prozeß« handelt es sich »um eine nachgerade apokryphe Schrift […], in der bei weitem mehr abgehandelt wird als der nationalsozialistische Judenmord allein.

Few works of scholarship have so comprehensively recast an existing debate as Chinua Achebe's essay on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.

Während der nationalsozialistischen Herrschaft wurden Menschen vor allem nach ihrem wirtschaftlichen Nutzen für die "Volksgemeinschaft" bewertet.

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'Magnificent, vivid, moving, superb' Max Hastings, Sunday Times______________This is the closest you will ever get to war - the taste, the smell, the noise and the fearThe Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known.

A unique retelling of WWII's most dramatic escape, told through first-hand recollections of the soldiers who experienced it.

Eva was part of the enforced migration of German Jews caused by the coming to power of the Nazi regime.

Betty Friedan's book The Feminine Mystique is possibly the best-selling of all the titles analysed in the Macat library, and arguably one of the most important.

Of all the extraordinary individual accounts that have come out of the Second World War and its aftermath, few can compare with that of Eric Pleasants, a member of the 'bastard' British wing of Hitler's SS - the British Free Corps.

When he died in 1946, Flight Lieutenant Jack Mossop left behind a widow and child, a chest full of medals, and a diary.

A remarkable story of courage in the face of injustice and brutality in the Second World War Books such as this are essential: they remind modern readers of events that should never be forgotten' - Caroline Moorehead On March 25, 1942, nearly a thousand young, unmarried Jewish women boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia.

'The last great, untold story of WWII.

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Writing in response to our current constitutional crisis, New York Times bestselling author and Christian activist Jim Wallis urges America to return to the tenets of Jesus once again as the means to save us from the polarizing bitterness and anger of our tribal nation.