“A provocative, revisionist take on the Second World War” (Financial Times) by a prize-winning historianWe remember World War II as a struggle between good and evil, with Hitler propelling events and the Allied powers saving the day. But Hitler’s...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2021-04-20

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Go deeper than the Black History you may think you know! Black American History For Dummies reveals the terrors and struggles and celebrates the triumphs of Black Americans. This handy book goes way beyond what you may have studied in school, digging into the...

Editeur : For Dummies
Parution : 2021-04-19

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Larinum, a pre-Roman town in the modern region of Molise, underwent a unique transition from independence to municipal status when it received Roman citizenship in the 80s BCE shortly after the Social War. Its trajectory during this period illuminates complex processes...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2021-04-18

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In April 1917, Lenin arrived at Petrograd's Finland Station and set foot on Russian soil for the first time in over a decade. For most of the past seventeen years, the Bolshevik leader had lived in exile, moving between Europe's many "Russian colonies"--large and...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2021-04-16

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This book presents a rough sketch of Dr. Yat-sen Sun’s (1866-1925) requirements for modernizing China and elaborates on Sun’s desire for the then China to implement a sweeping wave of economic reconstruction and development reforms concerning its railroads and highways,...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2021-04-16

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Whenever leadership emerges within a group, there will be resistance to that leadership. Discontent may manifest in a number of ways, and action will always be determined by factors such as resource, numbers, time, space, and the legitimacy of the resistance. What,...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2021-04-15

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Whenever leadership emerges within a group, there will be resistance to that leadership. Discontent may manifest in a number of ways, and action will always be determined by factors such as resource, numbers, time, space, and the legitimacy of the resistance. What,...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2021-04-15

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'The wartime spy career of Mathilde Carré - aka "the Cat" and "Agent Victoire" - is so extraordinary it almost defies belief' The TimesAn exhilarating true story of espionage, resistance, and one of WW2's most charismatic double-agents.Occupied Paris, 1940. A woman in a...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2021-04-15

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One of the most important untold stories of World War II, The Light of Days is a soaring landmark history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who inspired Poland's Jewish youth groups to resist the Nazis. Witnesses to the brutal...

Editeur : Virago
Parution : 2021-04-15
Collection : Language Acts and Worldmaking
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Latin Poetry in the Ancient Greek Novels establishes and explores connections between Greek imperial literature andLatin poetry. This work challenges conventional thinking about literary and cultural interaction of the period, which assumes that imperial Greeks were not...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2021-04-15

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Latin Poetry in the Ancient Greek Novels establishes and explores connections between Greek imperial literature andLatin poetry. This work challenges conventional thinking about literary and cultural interaction of the period, which assumes that imperial Greeks were not...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2021-04-15

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Making the most of the longest days of the year.Summer is a season of sun, heat and daylight that brings activity to all corners of life, from plants bearing fruit to animals and birds feeding their young. It also brings people together in the open air, whether on...

Editeur : OH
Parution : 2021-04-15

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'The definitive back story of Mount Everest' Stewart Weaver, co-author of Fallen Giants 'Craig Storti has given us the Everest book that we've needed all along' Scott Ellsworth, author of The World Beneath Their FeetThe seventy-one-year quest to find the world's...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2021-04-15

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A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER'The best single-volume account of the Barbarossa campaign to date' Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny'A page-turning descent into Hell and back . . . this fresh and compelling account of Hitler's failed invasion...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2021-04-15

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During the years of the Early Republic, prominent Native leaders regularly traveled to American cities--Albany, Boston, Charleston, Philadelphia, Montreal, Quebec, New York, and New Orleans--primarily on diplomatic or trade business, but also from curiosity and...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2021-04-13

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An update of a popular work that takes on the myths of the Spanish Conquest of the Americas, featuring a new afterword. Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest reveals how the Spanish invasions in the Americas have been conceived and presented, misrepresented and...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2021-04-13

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*Shortlisted for the Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History*'An enthralling account of a pivotal moment in modern history. . . replete with startling revelations about the deception and mutual suspicion that brought the US and Soviet Union to the brink of...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2021-04-13

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This book presents seven diplomats, seven Slovaks. Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Štefan Osuský, Vladimír S. Hurban, Vladimír M. Palic, Juraj Slávik, Ivan Krno and Ján Papánek. They were also authors, poets, soldiers, politicians, and international lawyers. They represent a...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2021-04-12

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Archives brought from Egypt to southern France in the early 19th century fell into the hands of a secret group whose own archives were confiscated by Occupation authorities during World War II. In 1942 some of these confiscated documents were appropriated by a young...

Editeur : P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution : 2021-04-12

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This book investigates the representation of the Axis War – the wars of aggression that Fascist Italy fought in North Africa, Greece, the Soviet Union, and the Balkans, from 1940 to 1943 – in three decades of Italian literature. Building on an innovative and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-04-11

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