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At the outbreak of the First World War, an entire generation of young men charged into battle for what they believed was a glorious cause. Over the next four years, that cause claimed the lives of some 13 million soldiers--more than twice the number killed in all the...
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Oxford University Press
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1991-12-12
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This book makes two distinctive contributions to one of the most fundamental debates in modern European history. First, it presents readable and judicious accounts of the events and decisions directly precipitating the outbreak of war in each of the main belligerent...
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Clarendon Press
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1990-09-27
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This book makes two distinctive contributions to one of the most fundamental debates in modern European history. First, it presents readable and judicious accounts of the events and decisions directly precipitating the outbreak of war in each of the main belligerent...
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Clarendon Press
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1988-11-10
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The Third Reich, a regime which instigated the most destructive war in modern history, still evokes fascination and horror today. Yet how were the lives of ordinary German people of the 1930s and 1940s affected by the politics of Hitler and his folllowers? Looking...
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OUP Oxford
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1987-09-17
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The author examines fully the military role of chemical warfare and its effects on the people, industries, and administrations on both sides; he also considers the growing moral problems it created.The launching of an entirely new weapon that did not discriminate...
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Clarendon Press
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1986-02-20
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A fascinating analysis of world history immediately after WWII, including the causes of the War from the post-War perspective. This work will forever change your understanding of how America was dragged into that war.
Chapter 1. Revisionism and the Historical Blackout...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2025-12-22
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Wedemeyer Reports! is a book written by Albert C. Wedemeyer, a retired U.S. Army general who played a significant role in World War II. As the chief planner for General Marshall, and co-author of the Victory Plan, GeneralWedemeyer had a truly significant hand in shaping...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2025-12-22
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My Experiences in the World War by General John J. Pershing is a landmark two-volume memoir that offers a firsthand account of America’s involvement in World War I, written by the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) in Europe. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize...
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Asimis Books
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2025-10-31
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The Way of the Eagle by Charles J. Biddle is a vivid and personal memoir of aerial combat during World War I, written by one of America’s pioneering fighter pilots. First published in 1919, the book offers a firsthand account of Biddle’s experiences flying with both the...
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Asimis Books
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2025-10-03
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Considered by many to be the finest American combat memoir of the First World War, Hervey Allen's Toward the Flame vividly chronicles the experiences of the Twenty-eighth Division in the summer of 1918. Made up primarily of Pennsylvania National Guardsmen, the...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2025-07-25
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Fix Bayonets! offers a vivid, firsthand account of World War I through the eyes of Captain John W. Thomason, an American Marine who witnessed some of the conflict’s most intense and harrowing moments. With striking illustrations and a soldier’s authentic voice, Thomason...
Editeur :
Andrii Ponomarenko
Parution :
2024-12-11
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Influenzato dalle teorie della biologia darwiniana e da quelle di Cesare Lombroso, Guglielmo Ferrero ritiene che l'uomo “naturale” sia essenzialmente violento. I suoi atti violenti sono determinati dalla paura e dalla libido dominandi, e infatti la civiltà raffinata del...
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Cactus
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2024-12-01
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La Prima Guerra Mondiale non è stata solo una pagina della storia europea - e di conseguenza italiana - ma ha rappresentato anche l'enorme trauma collettivo di un popolo che ha scoperto la propria consistenza di comunità, pur in abissali differenze da regione a regione,...
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Cactus
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2024-08-23
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The Wimsey Papers are a series of articles by Dorothy L. Sayers published between November 1939 and January 1940 inThe Spectator. They had the form of letters exchanged by members of the Wimsey Family and other characters familiar to readers from the Lord Peter Wimsey...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2024-05-22
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Finalist, Toronto Book Awards A Heritage Toronto Awards (Book) Nominee“A hospital ... is like a roosting box: a communal space that provides ideal but temporary shelter for [the] vulnerable.” In the aftermath of the First World War, a cash register factory in the west...
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Goose Lane Editions
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2024-02-20
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A renowned historian and Resistance fighter - later executed by the Nazis - analyzes at first hand why France fell in 1940. Marc Bloch wrote Strange Defeat during the three months following the fall of France, after he returned home from military service. In the midst...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2021-11-09
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The author had enlisted in 1901 in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and was a reservist when the First World War broke out. He rejoined his old, 2nd Battalion and landed in France with them on 11 August 1914. He went right through the war with the battalion, never missing a...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2021-11-06
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WINNER OF THE HUBERT REEVES 2021 AWARD FOR SCIENCE COMMUNICATORS
It’s a story peopled by leading figures of modern nuclear physics, bold chemists, and scientists accused of spying. The one idea driving them is to master the atom, whatever the result may be.
With war...
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Baraka Books
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2021-09-30
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Private Charles Smith had been dead for close to a century when Jonathan Hart discovered the soldier’s small diary in the Baldwin Collection at the Toronto Public Library. The diary’s first entry was marked 28 June 1915. After some research, Hart discovered that Charles...
Editeur :
AU Press
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2019-04-25
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In Two Years Below the Horn, engineer Andrew Taylor vividly recounts his experiences and accomplishments during Operation Tabarin, a landmark British expedition to Antarctica to establish sovereignty and conduct science during the Second World War. When mental strain...
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University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2017-05-17
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