Throughout history, battlefields have placed a soldiers instinct for self-preservation in direct opposition to the armys insistence that he do his duty and put himself in harms way.
By prosecuting war crimes, the Nuremberg trials sought to educate West Germans about their criminal past, provoke their total rejection of Nazism, and convert them to democracy.
A Theory of De Facto States offers a new perspective on the phenomenon of de facto states - political communities that manifest forms of statehood in international politics but lack international legal recognition - zooming in on two prominent examples, Somaliland and Kosovo.
China's explosive transformation from a planned economy to a more market-oriented one over the past three decades owes much to the charismatic reformer Zhu Rongji.
One of seven children raised in abject poverty by a single parent, Luiz In,cio Lula da Silva acquired his politics on the hard road of personal suffering, inspired by the selfless example of his mother.
Der kanadisch-amerikanische Ökonom John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) gilt als einer der profiliertesten Kommentatoren von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft in der zweiten Hälfte des 20.
In 'Rilla of Ingleside' by Lucy Maud Montgomery, readers are transported to the captivating world of Ingleside, where they follow the coming-of-age journey of Rilla Blythe during World War I.
Die "Flugblätter der Weißen Rose" sind eine Sammlung von Pamphleten, die während des Zweiten Weltkriegs von der studentischen Widerstandsgruppe Die Weiße Rose verfasst und verbreitet wurden.
Born in the Netherlands at a time when girls are to be housewives and mothers and nothing else, Hendrika de Vries is a ';daddy's girl' until her father is deported from Nazi-occupied Amsterdam to a POW camp in Germany and her mother joins the Resistance.
This carefully crafted ebook: "e;Looking Further Backward (Political Dystopia)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
A groundbreaking history of the wars of the Ottoman Expansion, a truly global conflagration that crisscrossed three continents and ultimately defined the borders and future of modern Europe.
Contemporary bipartisan politics undermines socialist solidarity by ignoring class issues and pitting advocates of social justice against ethno-national chauvinists.
En un ensayo que narra el corto y turbulento siglo XX en la Argentina, Tulio Halperin Donghi pone el foco en el peronismo para entender no solo a esa fuerza política, sino al país que hizo nacer.
In 'The Pictures of Slavery in Church and State (Complete Edition)' by John Dixon Long, readers are taken on a thought-provoking journey delving into the complex relationship between slavery, religion, and government.
At the tense intersection of biblical interpretation and contemporary politics, this book stands out as an imagined political campaign guide based on a creative deep dive into Luke's vibrant evangelical account of Jesus's messianic mission.
Stanley Aylett's remarkable account of six years' service as a front-line surgeon with the British Army is that rare thing: a complete narrative from the first week of the Second World War until months after the fi nal capitulation of Nazi Germany.
The Soviet Economy on the Brink of Reform (1988) is a collection of essays in honour of Alec Nove and covers such topics as Leon Trotsky, Navrozov, Soviet Investment criteria, Soviet Agricultural, and economic politics under Andropov and Chernenko.
Zwischen 1933-1941 verließ knapp die Hälfte der aufgrund ihrer jüdischen Wurzeln verfolgten Münchner Bürger ihre Heimatstadt, um sich im Ausland ein neues Leben aufzubauen.
Als eine der großen Veteranenorganisationen und rechte Sammlungsbewegung war der "Stahlhelm – Bund der Frontsoldaten" ein bedeutender politischer Akteur der Weimarer Republik.
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