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The victory over Nazi Germany in 1945, in which the Soviet Union played both the greatest part and suffered the greatest losses, found the country in a state of devastation. Military strength could not compensate for the damage wreaked by war, especially in the western areas of the USSR.
Within just over ten years, not only was Stalin dead and the relative freedoms of the Khrushchev 'Thaw' in progress, but the Soviet Union was ahead in the Space...
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Denby & District in the First and Second World Wars: Their Ultimate Sacrifice, commemorates and celebrates the lives of the soldiers from this part of the world and the role they played during hostilities. For the vast number of people the local War Memorial is something taken for granted, it has always been there and though it is respected it is not really understood anymore. The names upon it might be familiar to some but the lives and stories behind...
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David Balme will be forever known as the 20-year-old hero who, on 9 May 1941, boarded a German U-boat in mid-Atlantic, and captured one of the greatest secrets of the Second World War. This capture – or 'pinch' as it was known within secret, inner circles – changed the course of the Battle of the Atlantic and shortened the war itself. Balme was part of a team comprising officers and men of the Third Escort Group ably led by Commander Joe Baker...
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León Trotsky escribió su Historia de la Revolución Rusa, durante su exilio en la isla turca de Prinkipo. Por entonces comenzaba en la URSS la campaña estalinista contra Trotsky. Para justificar su tiranía "socialista", Stalin reescribió la historia del Partido Bolchevique y de la Revolución Rusa e invirtió la teoría marxista de la revolución.
Historia de la Revolución Rusa es, en primer lugar, una defensa de la verdadera historia del Partido...
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Extrait: "Le versant septentrional des Pyrénées apparaît, à première vue, d'un dessin fort simple, partant noble. Ces montagnes élégantes et gracieuses, dressés comme un écran au fond des horizons méridionaux, n'offrent aucune trace, en France du moins, de la fantaisie fougueuse et massive qui caractérise les Alpes."
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Popular TV ghosthunter Clive Kristen takes the reader in search of grueseome events in his home county of Lancashire. The stories are woven into their historical context and take the reader to spooktacular places. From grisly murders to wronged women to unfinished business, Lancashire has a haunting story...
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With several million copies sold in the last fifty years, My Secret Life, first published by Grove Press in the 1960s, is one of the most famous pornographic works in literary history. What readers of this long-banned and troubling book of violent sexual fantasies failed to realize is that it is also the confession of history's most fiendish killer.
Written during the era of Jack the Ripper, it's narrated by "Walter," the pseudonym of textile millionaire...
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Extrait: "Le costume suivant est encore tiré de cet inépuisable manuscrit de Tite-Live conservé dans la bibliothèque Ambrosienne, à Milan, duquel j'ai emprunté un si grand nombre de détails précieux sur les mœurs et les costumes italiens du XIVe siècle. Ce noble Italien est vêtu d'un ample manteau écarlate agrafé sur l'épaule et doublé d'hermine. Cette sorte de vêtement ne pouvait guère convenir aux peuples de l'Italie méridionale..."
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10829) Dorothy's Story
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This is Dorothy's story, one of five stories extracted from The Sweethearts. Whether in wartime or peace, tales of love, laughter and hardship from the girls in the Rowntree's factory in Yorkshire.
"'Every Friday when we got paid, they used to come round with your pay packet and a tin for charity and you'd put a penny in, and they'd go round all the machines for people to put money in. That was a very Rowntree's thing to do.' Dorothy gave all her...
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur la Résistance durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale en moins d'une heure!
Le 1er septembre 1939, l'Allemagne envahit la Pologne, déclenchant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Loin de s'arrêter là, la Wehrmacht continue son avancée à travers l'Europe et se rend maître de nombreux pays européens. La population y est presque asservie et doit se résoudre à respecter de très nombreux règlements sous peine...
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A thrilling new account of the tragic story and troubled times of Henry VI, who inherited the crowns of both England and France and lost both.
Firstborn son of a warrior father who defeated the French at Agincourt, Henry VI of the House of Lancaster inherited the crown not only of England but also of France, at a time when Plantagenet dominance over the Valois dynasty was at its glorious height. And yet, by the time he died in the Tower of London...
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Politics took him to the Swedish Parliament in the 1940's, but illness forced him to retire from politics after ten years of service. He energetically devoted his last dozen years to a number of cultural projects, including work for the National Arts Council and the East Asian Museum. Åke Wiberg was a man whose determination and personality have apparently moved many of those who knew him.
The Åke Wiberg Foundation was created in 1954, and has since...
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The year 2018 will herald the 200th anniversary of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. The timing seems right for the story of a real monster. German-born immigrant Anton Probst arrived in New York in 1863. Within two hours of his arrival, he enlisted in the Union Army. During the American Civil War, Probst bore witness to mankind's brutality. Afterwards, he became an inmate at the disreputable Blockley Almshouse...
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The "Tragic Week" in Spain, which took place in July 1909, began as anti-conscription riots, but soon evolved into a widespread uprising attacking the pillars of Spanish society: Church and State. It is known today mostly for its most famous martyr, Francisco Ferrer, the radical educator and founder of the Modern School who was executed by the Spanish army. But, Ferrer was, only one of hundreds of people who died that week in a brutal crackdown on...
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An unprecedented look at German operations on the Russian Front during World War II.
The Anvil of War collects U.S. Army—commissioned reports by two highly ranked German officers who served on the disastrous Russian Front: Military Improvisations During the Russian Campaign, German Defense Tactics Against Russian Breakthroughs by Erhard Raus, and Operations of Encircled Forces by Oldwig von Natzmer. The reports show how the Germans adapted techniques...
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An excellent biography of one of the great heroes of the War of Independence.
Johann von Robais, Baron de Kalb (June 19, 1721—August 19, 1780), born Johann Kalb, was a Franconian-born French military officer who served as a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He was mortally wounded while fighting the British Army during the Battle of Camden.
10837) Lumen
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Part wartime political intrigue, detective story, psychological thriller, and religious mystery, Ben Pastor's debut follows a German army captain and a Chicago priest as they investigate the death of a nun in Nazi-occupied Poland. In October 1939 Captain Martin Bora discovers the abbess, Mother Kazimierza, shot dead in her convent garden. Her alleged power to see the future has brought her a devoted following; her work and motto, "Lumen Christi Adiuva...
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85 authentic recipes for your manor or boarding house … The mouthwatering Poldark cookery book you've dreamed about!
The ultimate gift for Poldark fans! Divided into boarding house or manor, and complete with homey and festive dishes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert, this Poldark cookbook features these classic recipes from the show including:
Cornish Pasties
Ale-Battered Fried Fish
Red Lion Mutton Pie
Truro Turnip Gratin
Blueberry and...
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur Darwin et la théorie de l'évolution en moins d'une heure !
En participant à une expédition scientifique qui met le cap vers l'Amérique du Sud, Charles Darwin fait un constat surprenant : comparant le bec de plusieurs pinsons, il en dénombre 13 espèces différentes. De cela, il tire un constat : ces pinsons doivent avoir un ancêtre commun, ce qui implique qu'ils ont évolué différemment à...
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The Troubles may have developed into a sectarian conflict, but the violence was sparked by a small band of leftists who wanted Derry in October 1968 to be a repeat of Paris in May 1968. Like their French comrades, Northern Ireland's 'sixty-eighters' had assumed that street fighting would lead to political struggle. The struggle that followed, however, was between communities rather than classes. In the divided society of Northern Ireland, the interaction...
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