At the beginning of World War II, a young Luftwaffe pilot, lured into defending Germany from an attack by a great enemy, soon learns the horrifying truth of Adolf Hitler's intent to conquer the world through violence.
In this second of Tim Saunders' volumes on the opening stage of the 1945 Rhineland Campaign, the focus is to the north of the Reichswald, on the flood plain of the River Rhine and a narrow strip of slightly higher ground.
This is a true story of how a young man in his prime becomes sick with an undiagnosed illness now known as chronic fatigue syndrome or CFS, which is characterized by extreme fatigue and can't be explained by any underlying medical condition.
2018 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD BOOK OF THE YEARIn this dual autobiography, the Klarsfelds tell the dramatic story of fifty years devoted to bringing Nazis to justiceFor more than a century, Beate and Serge Klarsfeld have hunted, confronted, and exposed Nazi war criminals, tracking them down in places as far-flung as South America and the Middle East.
Uses diaries, first-hand accounts, and official records to take the reader through the Mosquito intruders' three-year campaign to help force the Japanese out of Burma, living and dying with the brave warriors in the five squadrons which flew the FB VI.
Né en Algérie en 1894 et mort en banlieue parisienne en 1953, l’anarchiste kabyle Mohamed Saïl fut toute sa vie un infatigable militant antimilitariste, anticolonialiste et anticapitaliste.
«C’est la seule œuvre pleinement développée de Reclus dont l’objet est strictement politique; elle contient quelques-unes de ses discussions les plus soutenues au sujet du développement historique, de la nature de l’anarchisme et de la domination.
Over the last thirty years, the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies has grown from a small group of disaffected conservative law students into an organization with extraordinary influence over American law and politics.
Sheppard explores Mexico's profound political, social, and economic changes through the lens of the persistent political power of Mexican revolutionary nationalism.
Apocalypse Undone recounts Preston Hubbards four-and-a-half year odyssey from a young, idealistic CCC worker to a much older, troubled man full of contempt for war and those who make it.
From Democratic Party rising star Jane Kleeb, an urgent and stirring road map showing how the Democratic Party can, and should, engage rural AmericaThe Democratic Party has lost an entire generation of rural voters.
In his historical series Hinze provides the only comprehensive account of events on the central and southern portions of the German Eastern Front during the years of German retreat.
Fin 1943, après deux ans de combats lointains et relativement indolores pour les États-Unis, la population américaine qui, jusque-là, soutenait inconditionnellement la décision d’intervenir dans la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, est soudainement frappée d’effroi.
Grâce aux ouvrages de David Harvey, Mike Davis ou même Henri Lefebvre, on connaît aujourd’hui la géographie radicale ou critique née dans le contexte des luttes politiques des années 1960 aux États-Unis et qui a, comme le disait Harvey, donné à Marx « la dimension spatiale qui lui manquait ».
Following decades of silence about the involvement of doctors, medical researchers and other health professionals in the Holocaust and other National Socialist (Nazi) crimes, scholars in recent years have produced a growing body of research that reveals the pervasive extent of that complicity.
During World War II, it quickly became apparent that the physical and tactical demands placed upon paratroopers required men of exceptional stamina, courage and intelligence.
Cet ouvrage aborde le néolibéralisme sur le terrain qui, dès ses origines, fut le sien : le choix de la guerre civile en vue de réaliser le projet d’une pure société de marché.
A beautifully illustrated art history and cultural biography, The Street of Wonderful Possibilities focuses on one of the most influential artistic quarters in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - London's Tite Street, where a staggering amount of talent thrived, including James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Oscar Wilde and John Singer Sargent.
