A gripping, vividly told journey into a family's wartime past, from the bestselling author of The Ruin of All Witches 'Endearingly personal, honest and reflective .
Im Januar 2013 begann Frankreich mit der Operation Serval einen militarischen Einsatz in Mali, der innerhalb weniger Wochen weltweit Aufmerksamkeit erregte.
'Richly-layered and packed with insight, this riveting account of terrible events tells us as much about the present as it does the past' Patrick Bishop, author of Paris '44From Peter the Great to Putin, a biography of the city Hitler tried - and failed - to wipe off the mapThe siege of Saint Petersburg - then known as Leningrad - stands as a testament to human endurance.
One of the last major untold stories of the war, this is the first-hand account of a conscientious objector born into a famous artistic family who, after the death of his brother on active service, decides to fight the Nazis and joins SOE.
Being an Account: The Memoirs of Ernest Lycette, 1911–1921 is the first-hand memoir of Ernest Lycette, a Staffordshire scoutmaster and St John Ambulance volunteer who enlisted in the British Army in August 1914 and served through the First World War and its aftermath.
In 1977, the Colombian journal Ideología y Sociedad devoted twenty-eight pages of its twenty-first issue to an attack on Ernest Mandel's The Leninist Theory of Organisation.
218,000,000 years ago, the impact of a large asteroid on Wilkes Land, Antarctica, caused a crater 500 km in diameter, the collision would have produced about 8000 million megatons.
In the middle of the nineteenth century, Europe was shaken by a conflict that revealed both the ambitions of empires and the changing nature of modern warfare.
La guerra -que Tucidides definio como "e;maestra de modales violentos"e; que disolvia los usos civilizados- vuelve a instalarse en el horizonte de la Europa actual.
La guerra -que Tucidides definio como "e;maestra de modales violentos"e; que disolvia los usos civilizados- vuelve a instalarse en el horizonte de la Europa actual.
