A Companion to the First World War brings together an international team of distinguished historians who provide a series of original and thought-provoking essays on one of the most devastating events in modern history. Comprises 38 essays by leading scholars who...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2010-03-16
Collection : Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
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The arms race, on the run up to the Second World War, followed the faultless logic of paranoia. Before the First World War, the Great Powers measured the strength of their rivals by comparing the size of armies and navies, and the money spent on them. Afterwards, having...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2010-03-04

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From the earliest times, commanders have sought knowledge of the enemy, his strengths and weaknesses, his dispositions and intentions. But how much effect, in the 'real time' of a battle or a campaign, can this knowledge have? In this magisterial new study, the author...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-02-23

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Want to know more about American military history? U.S. Military History For Dummies presents concise and revealing accounts of all of the nation's armed conflicts from the French and Indian War to Iraq. It explains how the U.S. military is organized and how its...

Editeur : For Dummies
Parution : 2010-01-28

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This comprehensive but concise narrative of China since the eighteenth century builds its story around the delicate relationship between central government and local communities. Rejects the traditional view of China as a wholly harmonious society based on principles...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2010-01-28

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6 June 1944: the day Allied forces crossed the Channel and began fighting their way into Nazi-occupied Northwest Europe. Initiated by airborne units and covered by air and naval bombardment, the Normandy landings were the most ambitious combined airborne and amphibious...

Editeur : Ebury Digital
Parution : 2010-01-26

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Definitive life of the author of CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, journalist, political commentator and biographer.Thomas De Quincey's friendships with leading poets and men of letters in the Romantic and Victorian periods - including William Wordsworth, Samuel...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2009-12-17

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A brilliant appraisal of the Civil War and its long-term consequences, by an acclaimed historian.The political upheaval of the mid-seventeenth century has no parallel in English history. Other events have changed the occupancy and the powers of the throne, but the...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2009-11-19

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At the moment of crisis in 1941 on the Eastern front, with the forces of Hitler massing on the outskirts of Moscow, the miraculous occurred: Moscow was saved. Yet this turning point was followed by a long retreat, in which Russian forces, inspired by old beliefs in the...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2009-11-12

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In 1683, two empires - the Ottoman, based in Constantinople, and the Habsburg dynasty in Vienna - came face to face in the culmination of a 250-year power struggle: the Great Siege of Vienna. Within the city walls the choice of resistance over surrender to the largest...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2009-11-10

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At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have resonated deeply in twentieth-century history - Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann and Klaus Barbie - not just for the...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2009-11-10

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On the evening of 30 March, 1982, Commander David Hall, chief engineer of the British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror received a telephone call giving him the order to 'store for war'. At first he didn't believe it. In the early hours of 2 April, Argentine forces...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2009-11-10

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Lt Colonel E.W. Hermon died in a hail of bullets on the 9th April 1917, the first day of the Battle of Arras, leading his men of the 24th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers into the attack. Like hundreds of thousands of others in the Great War, he gave his life for his...

Editeur : Preface Digital
Parution : 2009-11-10

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'The things I saw completely defy description': when British troops entered Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945, they uncovered scenes of horror and depravity that shocked the world. But they also confronted a terrible challenge - inside the camp were some...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2009-11-10

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Cultures of Plague opens a new chapter in the history of medicine. Neither the plague nor the ideas it stimulated were static, fixed in a timeless Galenic vacuum over five centuries, as historians and scientists commonly assume. As plague evolved in its pathology, modes...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2009-11-05

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German policy in occupied France during the Second World War was in many ways a story of bitter internal conflict between the variousGerman agencies in charge of the occupation. After the Fall provides a detailed analysis of the struggle between these different...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2009-11-05

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German policy in occupied France during the Second World War was in many ways a story of bitter internal conflict between the variousGerman agencies in charge of the occupation. After the Fall provides a detailed analysis of the struggle between these different...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2009-11-05

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With more than 60 essays, A Companion to American Military History presents a comprehensive analysis of the historiography of United States military history from the colonial era to the present. Covers the entire spectrum of US history from the Indian and imperial...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2009-11-03
Collection : Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
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Utilizing hundreds of confidential documents from authorities in the Franco government, Fear and Progress: Ordinary Lives in Franco's Spain, 1939-1975 recounts the experiences of Spanish citizens who lived during the 40-year Franco dictatorship. Rejects traditional...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2009-10-27
Collection : Blackwell Ordinary Lives
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Utilizing hundreds of confidential documents from authorities in the Franco government, Fear and Progress: Ordinary Lives in Franco's Spain, 1939-1975 recounts the experiences of Spanish citizens who lived during the 40-year Franco dictatorship. Rejects traditional...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2009-10-27
Collection : Blackwell Ordinary Lives
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