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Langer, by the force of scholarship and literary precision rather than dogmatic affirmation and pathos, is one of the few writers, with the exception of significant poets and novelists, who unsettles both our customary language and conceptual instruments.

The Great Escape was one of the most remarkable episodes of the Second World War.

Imprisoned in a remote Turkish POW camp during the First World War, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, cunningly join forces.

Anyone who has ever experienced a sporting event in a large stadium knows the energy that emanates from stands full of fans cheering on their teams.

This is the remarkable account of Medal of Honor recipient Leslie Sabo Jr, whose brave actions in Vietnam and Cambodia were forgotten for over three decades.

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¿Hay una continuidad en la violencia ejercida contra las mujeres en escenarios de paz y de guerra?

"Cafés con el diablo describe algunos abismos del mal entre los que ha transcurrido y aún transcurre nuestra existencia, a los que sólo nos asomamos de forma ocasional y somera en reportajes de televisión y artículos de prensa, cuya brevedad –y, últimamente– escasez no nos permite mantenernos conscientes de su gravedad ni, por tanto, combatirlos.

El Comando Conjunto fue un organismo represivo de la dictadura chilena del que nada se sabía hasta que uno de sus agentes –Andrés Valenzuela Morales, alias Papudo– desertó y, arriesgando la vida, entregó su testimonio.

A first-hand account of China's cultural revolution.

Two weeks before Dunkirk, Anthony Eden, Minister of War, announced to the nation on BBC radio his concept of a Local Defence Volunteer force.

Though less iconic than the nimble Spitfire, the Hawker Hurricane was a vital stalwart in the British war effort.

How to fly the legendary fighter plane in combat using the manuals and instructions supplied by the RAF during the Second World War.

Movies like American Sniper and The Hurt Locker hint at the inner scars our soldiers incur during service in a war zone.

On the early morning of March 16, 1968, American soldiers from three platoons of Charlie Company (1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, 23rd Infantry Division), entered a group of hamlets located in the Son Tinh district of South Vietnam, located near the Demilitarized Zone and known as "e;Pinkville"e; because of the high level of Vietcong infiltration.

Nearly every day an active-duty soldier in the United States military resorts to suicide, and nearly every hour a veteran does the same.

Nearly every day an active-duty soldier in the United States military resorts to suicide, and nearly every hour a veteran does the same.

Movies like American Sniper and The Hurt Locker hint at the inner scars our soldiers incur during service in a war zone.

On the early morning of March 16, 1968, American soldiers from three platoons of Charlie Company (1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, 23rd Infantry Division), entered a group of hamlets located in the Son Tinh district of South Vietnam, located near the Demilitarized Zone and known as "e;Pinkville"e; because of the high level of Vietcong infiltration.

In vast swathes of America, the sacredness of the Second Amendment has become a political third rail, never to be questioned.

In vast swathes of America, the sacredness of the Second Amendment has become a political third rail, never to be questioned.

Norths gesammelte Reden zum Maifeiertag sind keine Analysen und Warnungen eines passiven Beobachters.

Norths gesammelte Reden zum Maifeiertag sind keine Analysen und Warnungen eines passiven Beobachters.

A compelling insight into the lives of the soldiers behind the war that not only changed the direction of world affairs but also brought with it a modernised, mechanised style of warfare.

A classic memoir of prison breaks and adventure - a bestselling phenomenon of the 1960sCondemned for a murder he had not committed, Henri Charriere (nicknamed Papillon) was sent to the penal colony of French Guiana.

An unprecedented, page-turning narrative of the Nazi rise to power, the Holocaust, and Hitler's post-invasion plans for Russia told through the recently discovered lost diary of Alfred Rosenberg - Hitler's 'philosopher' and architect of Nazi ideology.

This moving and timely book explores the way the First World War has been thought about and commemorated, and how it has affected its own, and later, generations.

Operation Protective Edge, Israel's seven-week bombing campaign and ground invasion of Gaza in the summer of 2014, resulted in half a million displaced Gazans, tens of thousands of destroyed homes, and more than 2,000 deaths-and, yet, it was only the latest in a long series of assaults endured by Palestinians isolated in Gaza.

Israel's 2009 invasion of Gaza was an act of aggression that killed over a thousand Palestinians and devastated the infrastructure of an already impoverished enclave.

A rich account of the impact of the Second World War on the lives of people living in the farms and villages of Britain.

A full and detailed history of the military sniper, from the American Civil War to the war on terror, packed with first-hand accounts.

A full and detailed history of the military sniper, from the American Civil War to the war on terror, packed with first-hand accounts.

Bomb Hunters tells the story of the British army's elite bomb disposal experts in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.

From the author of the existential thriller 'The Execution' comes 'Colony', a novel set in French Guiana as the age of Empire draws to a close and anarchy beckons.

World War II affected the lives of ordinary men and women more directly than any other conflict before or since.

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREThe heartbreaking and inspiring story of one of the deadliest battles of the Afghanistan war, acclaimed by critics as a classic.

A legacy of an empire and a nation at war, Letters from the Front is a collection of correspondence sent by British and Commonwealth troops from the front line of war to their loved ones at home.

Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction - ShortlistedOn April 5, 1999, Serbian police found a truck half-submerged in the Danube River.

A legacy of an empire and a nation at war, Letters from the Front is a collection of correspondence sent by British and Commonwealth troops from the front line of war to their loved ones at home.

'There is no doubt that [Quartered Safe Out Here] is one of the great personal memoirs of the Second World War' John KeeganLife and death in Nine Section, a small group of hard-bitten and (to modern eyes) possibly eccentric Cumbrian borderers with whom the author, then nineteen, served in the last great land campaign of World War II, when the 17th Black Cat Division captured a vital strongpoint deep in Japanese territory, held it against counter-attack and spearheaded the final assault in which the Japanese armies were, to quote General Slim, "e;torn apart"e;.

La cartapesta es el término italiano para designar la técnica que emplea trozos de papel, ya sea de periódico, de cocina o similar, cortados a mano y unidos con cola blanca, colocados sobre una base o un molde.

Eine packende neue Geschichte Russlands – über 500 Jahre Herrschaft und Macht im Kreml, von Iwan dem Schrecklichen bis Wladimir PutinDer Kreml ist das imposante Symbol der russischen Nation.

Nach den bürgerkriegsähnlichen Unruhen in Vierteln von Newark, Detroit und anderen Städten der USA faßte Fulbright Anfang August 1967 in einer Rede vor der amerikanischen Anwaltsvereinigung in Honolulu seine Kritik an der Innen- und Außenpolitik der USA zusammen in dem Urteil, die Vereinigten Staaten «übten Macht um der Macht willen» aus und sie seien auf dem Wege, «eine imperialistische Nation zu werden».

Afghanistan, Summer 2006.

Irish Sunday Times BestsellerA true story of war, peace and friendship: a Nazi colonel and an Irish priestThe story begins in Rome at the outbreak of WWII, when ardent Nazi Herbert Kappler, SS Obersturmbanfuhrer, and Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty would become adversaries in a real-life game of 'cat and mouse' of epic proportions.

Patrick Bishop looks at the lives and the extraordinary risks that the painfully young pilots of Bomber Command took during the air-offensive against Germany from 1940-1945.

The Final Curtain: Burma 1941-1945 comprises interviews with some of the very few surviving veterans of this most arduous of campaigns.

In The Beekeeper of Sinjar, the acclaimed poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail tells the harrowing stories of women from across Iraq who have managed to escape the clutches of ISIS.

Lessons from Veterans provides an array of personal storiesfrom nightmarish fights on the islands of Iwo Jima to the shores of Normandy on D-Day.