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The untold story of how Winston Churchill and the Conservative Party envisioned Britain's post-war future
We think we know all there is to know about Britain's Second World War. We don't.
This radical re-interpretation of British history and British Conservatism...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-08-28
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Herbert Kenny, an army dispatch rider, was the first ally to push open the gates at Belsen Concentration Camp, in April 1945.He kept his story from the world until a chance correspondence with a trainee journalist brought it to light. Now, forty years on, that reporter...
Editeur :
Cassell
Parution :
2024-08-01
ePub
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13,99€
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The Mighty Moo is the tale of how a scrappy little World War II aircraft carrier and its untested crew earned a distinguished combat record and beat incredible odds to earn 12 battle stars in the Pacific. The USS Cowpens and her crew weren’t your typical...
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Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2024-06-11
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7,99€
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Editeur :
Monoray
Parution :
2024-02-29
ePub
Offre spéciale
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5,49€
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At Terezín, many children sang for the Nazi officials and the Red Cross. They were used as propaganda tools, between 1943 and 1944, to make the world believe that Hitler had given a "paradise" to the Jews. Only around 100 of the 15,000 innocent people who passed through...
Editeur :
Max Milo Éditions
Parution :
2023-09-15
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Many of the academic refugees Esther Simpson helped rescue are well remembered. But who was she and why has history forgotten her?This is the story of Esther Simpson, a woman whose dedication to the cause of freedom in science and learning left an indelible mark on the...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2023-07-06
ePub
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'Ambitious, wide-ranging and learned' Times Literary Supplement 'Vivid and extraordinary' Wall Street JournalFrom Boudicca to Ukraine, battlefields have always contained a surprising number of female fighters. We have all heard of Joan of Arc, but not the...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2023-06-22
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On July 25, 1943, news of Mussolini's resignation and subsequent arrest stunned Italians leaving them dumbfounded. After two decades, fascism had fallen without any advance warning. As festive events marked the incredible outcome and reminders of the past were...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-06-07
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On July 25, 1943, news of Mussolini's resignation and subsequent arrest stunned Italians leaving them dumbfounded. After two decades, fascism had fallen without any advance warning. As festive events marked the incredible outcome and reminders of the past were...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-05-23
ePub
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This book discusses ethical behavior through the genocidal stages of the Holocaust. Paul E. Wilson first looks at the antisemitism in Germany and Europe beginning in the decades preceding the Nazis reign of terror, and goes on to discuss the ethical decisions made in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-05-12
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The Damanhur Federation, situated in Valchiusella, North-West Italy, is one of Europe’s longest-lasting spiritual-esoteric communities. Nevertheless, there has hitherto been nearly no scientific study of this group, with the exception of a handful of specialised-journal...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-26
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Editeur :
Headline
Parution :
2022-11-10
ePub
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Editeur :
Quercus
Parution :
2022-10-27
ePub
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One of Grossman's three great war novels - alongside Life and Fate and Stalingrad."A significant, valuable addition to Grossman's small but powerful body of work" WILLIAM BOYD"A remarkable novel that illuminates the terrible realities of Barbarossa and the banal horror...
Editeur :
Maclehose Press
Parution :
2022-08-18
ePub
Offre spéciale
-40%
7,49€
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The Death of Transcendence presents a clear and compelling close reading and interpretation of the five essays included in Jean Améry’s At the Mind’s Limits, describing them as one continuous and progressing argument on the possibility of human society in the wake of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-26
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A fascinating portrait of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the darkest figures of Hitler's elite, featuring words with those who knew him best, including in-depth and rare interviews with his wife, Lina. He was called the 'Hangman of the Gestapo' and the 'Butcher of Prague'....
Editeur :
Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction
Parution :
2022-05-26
ePub
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From America's preeminent naval historian, the first full-length portrait in over fifty years of the man who won the war in the Pacific in World War Two—"destined," says Andrew Roberts, "to be the defining life of Chester Nimitz for a long time to come."
Only days...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-05-02
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In a new interpretation of the history of the Balkans during the Second World War, Alfred J. Rieber explores the tangled political rivalries, cultural clashes, and armed conflicts among the great powers and the indigenous people competing for influence and domination....
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-04-07
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In a new interpretation of the history of the Balkans during the Second World War, Alfred J. Rieber explores the tangled political rivalries, cultural clashes, and armed conflicts among the great powers and the indigenous people competing for influence and domination....
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-03-10
ePub
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