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This book is the first comprehensive scientific reconstruction of the captivity experience of Allied prisoners in Italy. Between 1940 and 1943, around 70,000 Allied soldiers, mostly British, were imprisoned in Italy, that was unable to fulfil its duties as a holding...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-04-02
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The Classic Collection of T. E. Lawrence. Illustrated: Guerrilla Warfare, Revolt in the Desert, Seven Pillars of Wisdom,The Forest Giant and Others brings together the essential writings of T. E. Lawrence, the legendary “Lawrence of Arabia.”
This richly illustrated...
Editeur :
Asimis Books
Parution :
2026-04-04
epub sans DRM
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On 10 July 1943, British soldiers landed in south-eastern Sicily as part of a major Allied invasion. As they fought their way northwards through the Italian peninsula, they frequently encountered local populations, imposing a forced cohabitation that would have a...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-25
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On 10 July 1943, British soldiers landed in south-eastern Sicily as part of a major Allied invasion. As they fought their way northwards through the Italian peninsula, they frequently encountered local populations, imposing a forced cohabitation that would have a...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-11
ePub
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Why were the United States and its Western Allies so lenient after the most atrocious war of all times? Out of Hitler's Shadow answers this question, and considers why the Allies concluded that imposing unrealistic financial conditions on a defeated country would do...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-30
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Why were the United States and its Western Allies so lenient after the most atrocious war of all times? Out of Hitler's Shadow answers this question, and considers why the Allies concluded that imposing unrealistic financial conditions on a defeated country would do...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-30
ePub
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The world's eyes were on Austria-Hungary on June 28, 1914. But both inside and outside of Austria, few could imagine the dramatic consequences of the events in Sarajevo.The popular shock and anger that greeted the assassination did not mean war was a likely or necessary...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-26
ePub
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The world's eyes were on Austria-Hungary on June 28, 1914. But both inside and outside of Austria, few could imagine the dramatic consequences of the events in Sarajevo.The popular shock and anger that greeted the assassination did not mean war was a likely or necessary...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-26
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From the author of Nuclear War: A Scenario, this is the gripping story of how a select group of scientists, under the watchful eye of the CIA, sought to harness the power of the mind as tools of espionage and warfare.‘A well-researched and fascinating tale’ ForbesThis...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2025-09-25
ePub
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'Indefatigable reporting . . . it has become newly topical, too' TelegraphIn this engrossing and deeply disturbing exposé from the bestselling author of Nuclear War: A Scenario, Annie Jacobsen tells the gripping story of a decades-long, covert project to bring Hitler's...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2025-09-25
ePub
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Editeur :
Monoray
Parution :
2025-07-24
ePub
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Have you ever wondered... Who fired the first British shot of the First World War? Who claimed the glory of downing the Red Baron? Who was the first WW1 soldier to receive the Victoria Cross?Telling the stories of the battles, the aircraft, the weapons, the soldiers,...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2025-07-10
ePub
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Have you ever wondered... Who was the deadliest sniper of the war? How low did the Dambusters fly? How many ships were sunk at Pearl Harbor?Telling the stories of the Battle of Britain, the Siege of Leningrad, the horrors of the Holocaust, the D-Day landings and the...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2025-07-10
ePub
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Washington's Spies, "a page-turning thriller" (James M. Scott) about one of the greatest heists in history: the U.S. Navy’s clandestine capture of a Nazi U-boat at the climax of World War II....
Editeur :
Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2025-05-20
ePub
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America's preeminent naval historian offers a history of the Second World War based on the experiences of the young officers--fresh out of the United States Naval Academy--who served on its front lines.
They arrived in Annapolis as teenagers the year Hitler...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-05-05
PDF, ePub
Offre spéciale
-40%
23,28€
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From actor, comedian, writer, and host of the hit history podcast SNAFU, Ed Helms brings you an absurdly entertaining look at history's greatest screwups, complete with lively illustrations. History contains a plethora of insane screwups-otherwise known as SNAFUs....
Editeur :
Wildfire
Parution :
2025-04-29
ePub
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A new perspective on Japanese tactics during the Asia-Pacific War, using remarkable first-hand Japanese source material.Even after eighty years since the end of a conflict that killed at least thirty-five million people, there remains a deep well of bitterness and anger...
Editeur :
Wildfire
Parution :
2025-04-24
ePub
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Celebrating the 80th anniversary of VE Day, bestselling historians James Holland and Al Murray tell the unflinching story of the eight surrenders that brought victory to the Allies and ended the Second World War.‘A gripping, eye-opening and satisfying new account’ The...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2025-04-24
ePub
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In 1943, German SS officers in charge of Auschwitz-Birkenau ordered that an orchestra should be formed among the female prisoners. Almost fifty women and girls from eleven nations were drafted into a hurriedly assembled band that would play marching music to other...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2025-03-27
ePub
Offre spéciale
-47%
14,99€
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