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Télécharger le livre :  The Resilient City in World War II
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The Resilient City in World War II


Simo Laakkonen , J. R. Mcneill , Richard P. Tucker , Timo Vuorisalo


The fate of towns and cities stands at the center of the environmental history of World War II. Broad swaths of cityscapes were destroyed by the bombing of targets such as transport hubs, electrical grids, and industrial districts, and across Europe, Asia, and the...

Parution : 2019-05-27
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Revenants of the German Empire
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Revenants of the German Empire


Sean Andrew Wempe


In 1919 the Treaty of Versailles stripped Germany of its overseas colonies. This sudden transition to a post-colonial nation left the men and women invested in German imperialism to rebuild their status on the international stage. Remnants of an earlier era, these...

Parution : 2019-05-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Bringing Mulligan Home
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Bringing Mulligan Home


Dale Maharidge


Now an Audible Original "THE DEAD DRINK FIRST"Sergeant Steve Maharidge returned from World War II an angry man. For a long time, the only evidence that remained of his service in the Marines was a photograph of himself and a buddy that he tacked to the basement wall....

Parution : 2019-05-21
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : PublicAffairs
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Télécharger le livre :  The Baghdad Set
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The Baghdad Set


Adrian O'sullivan


This book provides the first ever intelligence history of Iraq from 1941 to 1945, and is the third and final volume of a trilogy on regional intelligence and counterintelligence operations that includes Nazi Secret Warfare in Occupied Persia (Iran) (2014), and Espionage...

Parution : 2019-05-06
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  An Equal Burden
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An Equal Burden


Jessica Meyer


This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. An Equal Burden is the first scholarly...

Parution : 2019-01-31
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  An Equal Burden
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An Equal Burden


Jessica Meyer


This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. An Equal Burden is the first scholarly...

Parution : 2019-01-31
Format(s) : PDF
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  The Palgrave Handbook of Artistic and Cultural Responses to War since 1914
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The Palgrave Handbook of Artistic and Cultural Responses to War since 1914


Margaret Baguley , Martin Kerby , Janet Mcdonald


This handbook explores a diverse range of artistic and cultural responses to modern conflict, from Mons in the First World War to Kabul in the twenty-first century. With over thirty chapters from an international range of contributors, ranging from the UK to the US and...

Parution : 2018-12-05
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Ypres
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Ypres


Mark Connelly , Stefan Goebel


In 1914, Ypres was a sleepy Belgian city admired for its magnificent Gothic architecture. The arrival of the rival armies in October 1914 transformed it into a place known throughout the world, each of the combatants associating the place with it its own particular...

Parution : 2018-11-10
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  The King's War
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The King's War


Peter Conradi , Mark Logue


The broadcast that George VI made to the nation on the outbreak of war in September 1939 - which formed the climax of the multi Oscar-winning filmThe King's Speech - was the product of years of hard work with Lionel Logue, his iconoclastic Australian-born speech...

Parution : 2018-11-01
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Quercus
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Télécharger le livre :  The Eastern Front 1941-43
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The Eastern Front 1941-43


James Holland


Part of the Ladybird Expert History of the Second World War series, The Eastern Front 1941-1944, is an authoritative and accessible introduction to the brutal confrontation between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union along a 1,200 mile front. Historian, author and...

Parution : 2018-11-01
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  Ypres
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Ypres


Mark Connelly , Stefan Goebel


In 1914, Ypres was a sleepy Belgian city admired for its magnificent Gothic architecture. The arrival of the rival armies in October 1914 transformed it into a place known throughout the world, each of the combatants associating the place with it its own particular...

Parution : 2018-10-17
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Classic Stories of World War I
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Classic Stories of World War I


Pyramid


Published to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of The Great War, Classic Stories of World War I is a compilation of fiction and non-fiction excerpts from the works of world-class authors - such as Joseph Conrad and W. Somerset Maugham - who lived through the...

Parution : 2018-10-04
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Pyramid
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Télécharger le livre :  Fallout
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Fallout


Peter Watson


The justification for the atomic bomb was simple: it would defeat Hitler and end the Second World War faster, saving lives.The reality was different.Fallout dismantles the conventional story of why the atom bomb was built. Peter Watson has found new documents showing...

Parution : 2018-09-18
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : PublicAffairs
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Télécharger le livre :  The Indian Empire At War
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The Indian Empire At War


George Morton-Jack


'Essential to a proper understanding of the war and of our world of today' Michael Morpurgo1.5 million Indians fought with the British in the First World War - from Flanders to the African bush and the deserts of the Islamic world, they saved the Allies from defeat in...

Parution : 2018-09-06
Format(s) : ePub
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Télécharger le livre :  Big Week
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Big Week


James Holland


'James Holland is a master' BBC HistoryIt was to be the battle to end the air war once and for all.During the third week of February 1944, the combined Allied air forces launched their first-ever round-the-clock bomber offensive against Germany. The aim was to smash the...

Parution : 2018-08-16
Format(s) : ePub
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Télécharger le livre :  The Desert War
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The Desert War


James Holland


Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES.____________Why was North Africa such a key component in Britain's success over Mussolini and his Italian Army?How did they blunt Italy's actions?What challenges did they face?And what new technologies were brought to bear?When...

Parution : 2018-07-12
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  Indian Army and the First World War
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Indian Army and the First World War


Kaushik Roy


Accustomed to conducting low-intensity warfare before 1914, the Indian Army learnt to engage in high-intensity conventional warfare during the course of World War I, thereby exhibiting a steep learning curve. Being the bulwark of the British Empire in South Asia, the...

Parution : 2018-06-29
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP India
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Télécharger le livre :  Coping with Hunger and Shortage under German Occupation in World War II
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Coping with Hunger and Shortage under German Occupation in World War II


Peter Haslinger , Agnes Laba , Tatjana Tönsmeyer


This volume demonstrates how German expansion in the Second World War II led to shortages, of food and other necessities including medicine, for the occupied populations, causing many to die from severe hunger or starvation. While the various chapters look at a range of...

Parution : 2018-06-22
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Monash's Masterpiece
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Monash's Masterpiece


Peter Fitzsimons


The Battle of Le Hamel on 4 July 1918 was an Allied triumph, and strategically very important in the closing stages of WW1. A largely Australian force commanded by the brilliant John Monash, fought what has described as the first modern battle - where infantry, tanks,...

Parution : 2018-06-07
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Constable
Collection : Tom Thorne Novels
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Télécharger le livre :  Mussolini and the Salò Republic, 1943–1945
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Mussolini and the Salò Republic, 1943–1945


H. James Burgwyn


This book is a long overdue in-depth study of the Italian Social Republic. Set up in 1943 by Hitler in the town of Salò on Lake Garda and ruled by Mussolini, this makeshift government was a last-ditch effort to ensure the survival of Fascism, ending with the murder of...

Parution : 2018-05-31
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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