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- Icon Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 25,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-118-6
EAN 9781785781186
High in the Tuscan hills above Florence, the menacing Vincigliata Castle - a very special prisoner-of-war camp converted on Mussolini's personal orders - held thirteen of the most senior British and Commonwealth officers captured during the campaign in North Africa. Against insuperable odds, these extraordinary middle-aged POWs drove a complex tunnel beneath the castle, and ...
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- IBTauris, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-764-7
EAN 9781784537647
In this classic account, Bernard Wasserstein draws on the files of the Shanghai Police as well as the intelligence archives of the many countries involved, to provide the definitive story of Shanghai's secret war. Bernard Wasserstein introduces the British, American and Australian individuals who collaborated with the Axis powers as well as subversive warfare operatives ...
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- IBTauris, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-763-0
EAN 9781784537630
His promising education was aborted; his close-knit family splintered. When the Gestapo came for Orbach's mother on Christmas Eve 1942, they escaped with false papers; his mother found sanctuary with a family of Communists and Orbach - under the assumed identity of Gerhard Peters - entered Berlin's underworld of 'divers'. He scraped a living by ...
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- Viking, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-29818-3
EAN 9780241298183
This landmark work answers two of the most fundamental questions in history - how, and why, did the Holocaust happen? Laurence Rees has spent twenty-five years meeting survivors and perpetrators of the Third Reich and the Holocaust. Now, in his magnum opus, he combines largely unpublished testimony with the latest academic research to create the ...
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The twentieth century - a century of bombingEver since its invention, aviation has embodied the cosmopolitical dream of perpetual peace between the nations of the earth, yet the other side of this is the nightmare of an unprecedentedly deadly power. A power initially deployed on populations that the colonizers deemed rather too restive, before it ...
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- Harper Collins, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-0-06-265965-1
EAN 9780062659651
In her acclaimed 1993 book Denying the Holocaust, Deborah Lipstadt called David Irving, a prolific writer of books on World War II, "one of the most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial." The following year, after Lipstadt's book was published in the United Kingdom, Irving filed a libel suit against Lipstadt and her publisher. She prepared ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 31,20 €
ISBN 978-0-19-967246-2
EAN 9780199672462
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No End Save Victory
How FDR Led the Nation into War
- Basic Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
ISBN 978-0-465-05298-1
EAN 9780465052981
While Franklin Delano Roosevelts first hundred days may be the most celebrated period of his presidency, the months before the attack on Pearl Harbor proved the most critical. Beginning as early as 1939 when Germany first attacked Poland, Roosevelt skillfully navigated a host of challenges'a reluctant population, an unprepared military, and disagreements within his cabinet'to ...
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Dadland : A Journey into Uncharted Territory
Costa Biography Award Winner 2016
- Vintage UK, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-315-8
EAN 9781784703158
It is shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award. Keggie Carew grew up under the spell of an unorthodox, enigmatic father. An undercover guerrilla agent during the Second World War, in peacetime he lived on his wits and dazzling charm.But these were not always enough to sustain a family. As his memory began to fail, Keggie ...
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The War Within
Diaries from the Siege of Leningrad
- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 302 páginas
PVP: 31,25 €
ISBN 978-0-674-97155-4
EAN 9780674971554
In September 1941, two and a half months after the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, the German Wehrmacht encircled Leningrad. Cut off from the rest of Russia, the city remained blockaded for 872 days, at a cost of almost a million civilian lives, making it one of the longest and deadliest sieges in modern history.The ...
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Winston Churchill is a renowned historical figure, whose remarkable political and military career continues to enthral. This book consists of short, highly readable chapters on key aspects of Churchill's career. Written by leading experts, the chapters draw on documents from Churchill's extensive personal papers as well as cutting-edge scholarship.Ranging from Churchill's youthful statesmanship to the ...
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Who Killed Hammarskjold?
The UN, the Cold War and the White Supremacy in Africa
- Hurst, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 23,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84904-802-6
EAN 9781849048026
The death of UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld remains one of the biggest mysteries of the twentieth century.Shortly after midnight on 18 September 1961, an aircraft carrying Hammarskjöld and his UN team crashed into dark forest in the British colony of Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), abruptly ending his mission to bring peace to the Congo. Many ...
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The soldiers who occupied Germany after the Second World War were not only liberators: they also brought with them a new threat, as women throughout the country became victims of sexual violence. In this disturbing and carefully researched book, the historian Miriam Gebhardt reveals for the first time the scale of this human tragedy, which ...
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PVP: 24,81 €
ISBN 978-1-107-65828-8
EAN 9781107658288
This is an innovative account of how the concept of comradeship shaped the actions, emotions and ideas of ordinary German soldiers across the two world wars and during the Holocaust. Using individual soldiers' diaries, personal letters and memoirs, Kuhne reveals the ways in which soldiers' longing for community, and the practice of male bonding and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 496 páginas
PVP: 47,65 €
ISBN 978-0-226-38649-2
EAN 9780226386492
National identity and political legitimacy always involve a delicate balance between remembering and forgetting. All nations have elements in their past that they would prefer to pass over the catalog of failures, injustices, and horrors committed in the name of nations, if fully acknowledged, could create significant problems for a country trying to move on ...
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- MIT Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 47,57 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03503-3
EAN 9780262035033
In the fascist regimes of Mussolini's Italy, Salazar's Portugal, and Hitler's Germany, the first mass mobilizations involved wheat engineered to take advantage of chemical fertilizers, potatoes resistant to late blight, and pigs that thrived on national produce. Food independence was an early goal of fascism; indeed, as Tiago Saraiva writes in Fascist Pigs, fascists were ...
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The Tunnels
The Untold Story of the Escapes Under the Berlin Wall
- Bantam, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-0-593-07597-5
EAN 9780593075975
In the summer of 1962, one year after the rise of the Berlin Wall, a group of daring young West Germans risked prison, Stasi torture and even death to liberate friends, lovers, and strangers in East Berlin by digging tunnels under the Wall.Then, as the world's press heard about the secret projects, two television networks ...
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Joseph Stalin began life as a frail child, with an abusive father and an inferiority complex. This triggered an early desire for greatness and respect that would eventually turn the young Bolshevik idealist into one of the most ruthless dictators in modern history. Like his contemporary, Adolf Hitler, Stalin was responsible for millions of deaths ...
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- Picador USA, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-1-250-07875-9
EAN 9781250078759
More addictive and mind-blowing true tale from history told by one of our most entertaining historians, Giles MiltonThe second installment in Milton's outrageously entertaining series, History's Unknown Chapters: colorful and accessible, intelligent and illuminating, Milton shows his customary historical flair as he delves into the little-known stories from the past.Covering everything from adventure, war, murder ...
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The Good Occupation
American Soldiers and the Hazards of Peace
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 380 páginas
PVP: 31,25 €
ISBN 978-0-674-54570-0
EAN 9780674545700
Waged for a just cause and culminating in total victory, World War II was Americas 'good war.' Yet for millions of GIs overseas, the war did not end with Germany and Japans surrender. The Good Occupation chronicles Americas transition from wartime combatant to postwar occupier, by exploring the intimate thoughts and feelings of the ordinary ...
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