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The author of Dowding of Fighter Command examines the relationships Churchill had with the airmen of the RAF.
Winston Churchill probably had more impact on 20th-century British military history than any other person, especially during World War II. Yet of the many volumes since that war that deal with his relationships with generals and admirals, most surprisingly, there seems not to be a single book devoted to Churchill as a would-be...
Winston Churchill probably had more impact on 20th-century British military history than any other person, especially during World War II. Yet of the many volumes since that war that deal with his relationships with generals and admirals, most surprisingly, there seems not to be a single book devoted to Churchill as a would-be...
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Steeped in conspiracy, scandal and socialism – the disappearance of radical icon Victor Grayson is a puzzle that's never been solved. A firebrand and Labour politician who rose to prominence in the early twentieth century, Grayson was idolised by hundreds of thousands of Britons but despised by the establishment. After a tumultuous life, he walked out of his London apartment in September 1920 and was never seen again.
After a century, new documents...
2523) Verdun 1916
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1916 was a year of killing. The British remember the Somme, but earlier in the year the heart of the French army was ripped out by the Germans at Verdun. The garrison city in northeastern France was the focus of a massive German attack; the French fought back ferociously, leading to a battle that would permanently scar the French psyche. Using original French sources and eyewitness accounts from both sides, Malcolm Brown brings the horror of Verdun...
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur le maréchal Pétain en moins d'une heure!
L'histoire de France est jalonnée de grands personnages qui ont façonné son destin. Philippe Pétain, quoi qu'on en dise, est l'un d'eux. Adulé par ses soldats pour sa clairvoyance tactique, particulièrement lors de la bataille de Verdun, ou abhorré par ses concitoyens pour l'autoritarisme antisémite du régime de Vichy, le maréchal Pétain continue...
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre el mariscal Pétain, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá:
• Descubrir el misterio que rodea a Pétain, que gana la batalla de Verdún gracias a sus tácticas militares innovadoras, pero que firma un armisticio con Hitler que conduce al régimen de Vichy
• Conocer todos los acontecimientos mayores en Francia,...
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In October 1918, war-weary German sailors mutinied when the Imperial Naval Command ordered their engagement in one final, fruitless battle with the British Royal Navy. This revolt, in the dying embers of the First World War, quickly erupted into a full scale revolution that toppled the monarchy and inaugurated a period of radical popular democracy.
The establishment of the Weimar Republic in 1919 ended the revolution, relegating all but its...
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A history of American cameramen covering the news of World War I, from the dangerous front line and the risk of execution to red tape and censorship.
At the start of hostilities in World War I, when the United States was still neutral, American newsreel companies and newspapers sent a new kind of journalist, the film correspondent, to Europe to record the Great War. These pioneering cameramen, accustomed to carrying the Kodaks and Graflexes of still...
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The incredible life story of Eugene Bullard, the first African American military pilot in WWI, who went on to become a self-taught jazz musician, a Paris nightclub impresario, a spy in the French Resistance and an American civil rights pioneer. Eugene Bullard lived one of the most fascinating lives of the twentieth century. The son of a former slave and an indigenous Creek woman, Bullard fled home at the age of eleven to escape the racial hostility...
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"With critical success over the past four years, artist Deborah Sengl (b. 1974) has exhibited taxidermied rats, drawings, and paintings in order to restage Karl Kraus' nearly-unperformable play The Last Days of Mankind (Die Letzten Tage der Menschheit, 1915-22). Featuring Sengl's entire installation, the DoppelHouse Press edition also includes essays that examine her ambitious dramaturgy, which condenses Kraus' ten-to-fifteen hour drama into an abridged...
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