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75th Infantry Division: Ardennes, Central Europe, Rhineland is a comprehensive history of one of the most distinguished divisions of World War II. This history traces their 1943 activation at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, and follows through to the most memorable battles of War-Ardennes, the Colmar Pocket, the Ruhr, and more. History is complimented by hundreds of photographs, maps and honor roll. Includes special stories from veterans of the 75th...
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The First World War claimed over 995,000 British lives, and its legacy continues to be remembered today. Great War Britain: Kidderminster offers an intimate portrayal of the town and its people living in the shadow of the Great War for five years. A beautifully illustrated and highly accessible volume it explores the town's recruiting drives, the background and fate of the area's men on the frontline, the changing face of industry, the vital role...
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A deeply personal and revealing eyewitness narrative of one airmans life as a bomber pilot in England s RNAS (Royal Naval Air Service) in WWI. It is a true story, an adventure, and a war memoir carefully constructed from Captain Donald E. Harknesss unpublished diaries, letters, sketches and photographs only recently uncovered nearly a century later that documented his remarkable experiences and military adventures over England, France and Belgium....
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The Dutch in Wartime: Survivors Remember is a series of books with wartime memories of Dutch immigrants to North America, who survived the Nazi occupation of The Netherlands.
Book 8, The Hunger Winter, contains memories of the devastating winter of 1944-45 when a famine, intentionally brought about by the Nazi occupation forces, ravaged the Netherlands. More than 200,000 people suffered from severe malnutrition and an estimated 20,000 people died...
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The Dutch in Wartime, Survivors Remember is a series of books containing the wartime memories of Dutch immigrants to Canada and the USA, who lived through the occupation of the Netherlands and its colonies in World War II.
Book 6, War in the Indies, covers the occupation of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) by the Japanese and the wholesale incarceration of civilians of European and partial European descent in internment camps, where a cruel regime...
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• Essential primary source on the German defense of Western Europe in World War II
• Concise chapter introductions provide historical context for the reports
In May 1944 German Army Group B, headquartered in France, requested weekly reports from its commanders. These accounts included assessments of the general situation, estimates of the Allies' situation, casualty figures, equipment losses, and descriptions of resistance activities. Commanded...
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As the Queen marks seventy years on the throne, this engaging work examines Canada's constitutional monarchy.
As Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her Platinum Jubilee in 2022 and nears the conclusion of her reign, much discussion and debate has taken place about the monarchy in Canada.
A Resilient Crown examines a broad range of issues related to Canada's constitutional monarchy, its present state, and its future. Topics include Crown-Indigenous...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of James D. Hornfischer's The Fleet at Flood Tide by Instaread Preview: James D. Hornfischer's The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945 is a history of the Pacific naval battles that led to American victory at the end of World War II. The book focuses primarily on battles under the aegis of Admiral Raymond Spruance including the invasion of Truk, the invasion of the Marianas Islands, and the...
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The Leeds Pals were men and boys from Leeds who formed the 15th Battalion (Prince of Wales's Own) West Yorkshire Regiment. Many enlisted as volunteer soldiers at the outset of World War I, as part of the national phenomenon of "Pals" that sprang up across the nation. These people from Leeds trained in rugged Colsterdale, guarded the Suez canal and were changed irrevocably by their experiences on the Battle of the Somme in 1916. Who were these men?...
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This startling book reveals the military and political plans of the Axis in the very words of its own generals and admirals.
The advent of Adolf Hitler has Germany's supreme leader marked the inauguration of the deliberate plans for world domination by the Third Reich. These plans were not secret; other nations simply refused to take them seriously. They followed the tradition of one hundred years of German military thinking form Clausewitz to Ludendorff....
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In this exciting, interactive eBook, the minds behind HowStuffWorks.com's top-rated podcast Stuff You Missed in History Class bring you the real scoop on history's biggest myths, mysteries, and marvels. Discover history as you never knew it. For years, the hosts of Stuff You Missed in History Class, the popular podcast from Discovery's award-winning website HowStuffWorks.com, have been giving listeners front-row seats to some of the most astonishing...
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Excerpt: "On the morning of September 11, 1879, I lay shivering with fever and ague at Alikhel in Afghanistan. So sick did I seem that it was decided I should be carried a day's march back to G.H.Q. on the Peiwar Kotal to see if the air of that high mountain pass would help me to pull myself round. Polly Forbes, a boy subaltern not very long from Eton, was sent off to play the part of nurse. We reached the Peiwar Kotal without any adventure, and were...
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Esta obra, dirigida tanto al cinéfilo como al estudioso de la política, reúne por primera vez a un grupo de politólogos de ocho países y diferentes generaciones que están ligados por una doble pasión la ciencia política y el cine. La pasión compartida por los autores encuentra una confluencia en la consideración de estos fenómenos como objetos de estudio, pero también como asuntos que llenan sus existencias vitales. A partir de esta coincidencia,...
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The debate surrounding economic policy in the UK has recently been heavily focused on determining the appropriate response to the financial crisis and recession. There has been less discussion about the nature of the UK's political economy.
Leaving the UK's model of political economy unchanged is, however, not an option in the modern global economy. The existing model has resulted in an unbalanced economy with relatively low productivity and a structural...
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• Rare account of a non-German who fought in the elite Waffen-SS
• New information on the 11th SS Panzergrenadier Division
• No-holds-barred narrative of the Eastern Front
This is the story of Erik Wallin, a Swede who volunteered for the Waffen-SS, serving in the panzer reconnaissance battalion of the 11th SS Panzergrenadier Division, a unit composed mainly of volunteers from Scandinavia. The division saw combat in the Courland Pocket, along...
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Five years ago, Good Governance Africa undertook to focus its National Security Program on a core phenomenon that actively seeks to disrupt, undermine and destroy peace, development and security across Africa. This is the problem of extremisms in Africa – an increasing scourge. These movements are religious, ethnic and race-based in nature, and represent complex and supreme threats to stability.
To better prepare ourselves to understand and...
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The world is facing many great challenges: from pandemics to climate change, and from increasing inequality to the issues surrounding digitalization. In a new and rapidly changing global landscape, Europe must look for solutions to these difficulties to follow up on its impressive decades-long process of integration. Europe has the capacity to chart a progressive course in the world. Our European Future offers solutions to rethink our socioeconomic...
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Activists in Transition examines the relationship between social movements and democratization in Indonesia. Collectively, progressive social movements have played a critical role over in ensuring that different groups of citizens can engage directly in-and benefit from-the political process in a way that was not possible under authoritarianism. However, their individual roles have been different, with some playing a decisive role in the destabilization...
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