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Jews of Kaiserstrasse vividly details the fate of the Jewish residents of single street in Mainz, Germany from 1939-45. This book is the culmination of Michael Phillips' meticulous research into the lives of approximately 300 individuals that at one...

From Volyn To Kherson, tells the stories of hardship and suffering and bewilderment experienced by the people of Ukraine in the early weeks of the 2022 Russian invasion and war.The collection draws on news reports and social media postings during the...

Sheldon Webster's recognition of our obligation to our veterans and particularly to Gold Star families who have sacrificed so much inspired Sheldon to create the Burton Place Veterans Chapel and Library. In this book, he not only tells the story of his...

A personal diary and history from the parade fields of West Point to the 101st Airborne Division and the 1968 Tet Offensive in Vietnam. This book is not only a very personal story it is also a unit history and a selective history of the Vietnam War from...

Sailing Directions For The West Coasts Of France, Spain And Portugal (1891) is a comprehensive guidebook published by the Great Britain Hydrographic Office. The book is intended for sailors and navigators who are planning to sail along the west coasts of...

The book ""Report Of Major-General E. S. Otis On Military Operations And Civil Affairs In The Philippine Islands (1899)"" is a historical account of the military operations and civil affairs in the Philippine Islands during the Philippine-American War...

Co-edited by Aaron Hughes, Ronak K. Kapadia, Therese Quinn, Meranda Roberts, and Amber Zora, Surviving the Long Wars offers a groundbreaking exploration into the complex histories of US warfare and militarism, illuminating the pivotal role of art in...

In "Der Völkermord in der Demokratischen Republik Kongo: Die vergessene Tragödie ans Licht bringen" werden endlich die unsagbaren Schrecken eines der verheerendsten und am meisten übersehenen Konflikte der modernen Geschichte ans Licht gebracht. Dieses...

En El genocidio en la República Democrática del Congo: Desvelando la tragedia olvidada, por fin salen a la luz los horrores inconfesables de uno de los conflictos más devastadores y pasados por alto de la historia moderna. Este libro de gran alcance y...

Have you ever wondered how a single event can change the course of history? Assassinations and assassinations have shaped politics, unleashed wars, brought down empires, and sometimes caused irreversible social changes. If you are interested in...

The book contains events and event-makers of Indian Army during the last 72 years. The Book also recounts the stories of the brave hearts who were involved in peace-time conflict and outstanding men and women who participated in sports and adventure...

Why was there such a far-reaching consensus concerning the utopian goal of national homogeneity in the first half of the twentieth century? Ethnic cleansing is analyzed here as a result of the formation of democratic nation-states, the international...

Massacres and mass killings have always marked if not shaped the history of the world and as such are subjects of increasing interest among historians. The premise underlying this collection is that massacres were an integral, if not accepted part (until...

Colonial Genocide has been seen increasingly as a stepping-stone to the European genocides of the twentieth century, yet it remains an under-researched phenomenon. This volume reconstructs instances of Australian genocide and for the first time places...

This book offers a multidisciplinary examination of the international crimes committed in the Russia-Ukraine War, and the challenges of their prosecution and documentation.

The town of North Petherton in Somerset, like so many others across the country, lost a number of its own during the major conflicts of the twentieth century. This book aims to serve as a unique record to the fifty-five names commemorated on the North...

Few Americans know the facts about the final year of US combat operations in South Vietnam. As political will to sustain the fight shrank and the US withdrew most of their ground forces, the Soviets and North Vietnamese sought battlefield success to...

Le Catalogue De La Mappotheque Du Depot De La Guerre (1849) est un livre publi����� par l'Imprimerie De F. Parent Publisher. Ce livre est un catalogue d�����taill����� de la collection de cartes et de plans conserv�����s au D�����p�����t de la Guerre en...

Cartas Pehuenches es un libro escrito por Juan Egana que se public������ en 1819. El libro trata sobre la correspondencia de los indios naturales del Pire-Mapu, tambi�����n conocidos como pehuenches. Estas cartas fueron escritas en su lengua nativa y...

Le livre intitul����� ""Osteographie De La Baleine Echouee A L'Est Du Port Dostende: Le 4 Novembre 1827 (1828)"" a �����t����� �����crit par Dubar, J. Il s'agit d'un ouvrage qui porte sur l'�����tude de l'ost�����ologie d'une baleine �����chou�����e...

I came back alive when so many did not. My life forever changed. Not the same man that went to war. My own mother said, "What happened to my son?" War took a nice boy and turned him into a ghost of who he was and a lost soul forever because politicians...

After the death of their British-born Grandma Gladys in 2021, siblings Claudia and Lance took a sudden interest in the Canadian fiancé Gladys lost during World War II, Wendell "Del" Pierce Drew, a member of the elite RAF Pathfinder Force with Bomber...

This book offers an anthropological account of Sri Lanka's Eelam Wars III and IV. It is based on the life-narratives of ex-servicemen who fought on the frontlines. The volume approaches militarism as a practice of masculinity. It explores the sense of...

This book presents an innovative model linking insights from democratization, development and conflict studies to explain personalist behavior and their violent transitions.

This book brings together a diverse range of international voices from academia, policymaking and civil society to address the failure to connect historical dialogue with atrocity prevention discourse and provide insight into how conflict histories and...

The Ukraine-Russia Conflict - is an in-depth analysis of one of the most significant conflicts of our time. From its origins in the political upheaval of the Euromaidan protests to the ongoing military tensions in the Donbass region, this book...

"Battle Studies: Ancient and Modern Battle" is a seminal military history book written by Charles Ardant du Picq, a colonel in the French Army who was killed in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War. The book is divided into two main parts. In the first...

The end of World War II marked the beginning of one of the most gruesome genocides in history: the expulsion and destruction of the Sudeten German ethnic group as it existed at that time in the border districts of Czechoslovakia, a country that had been...

The mighty U.S.S. Kitty Hawk traveled rough cold waters of the Pacific on the night Alfonso Apdal Amos disappeared.Days before, Typhoon Zeb had materialized in the Philippine Sea, picking up moisture, speed and strength over the warm water's surface. In...

Los acontecimientos de la última década exigen nuevos enfoques para prevención de atrocidades que sean adaptables, innovadoras y independiente de una doctrina centrada en el estado. Con el Objetivo de reducir los factores de riesgo como la guerra civil,...

Step into the soul-stirring world of Dennis Jackson, a post-Vietnam Veteran whose poetry transcends time and trauma. In "Bitterest Truth," Jackson bares his heart and soul, offering readers an intimate glimpse into the tumultuous journey of a soldier who...

The Trial of a Nazi Doctor examines the life of Franz Bernhard Lucas (1911-1994), an SS camp doctor with assignments in Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Stutthof, Ravensbrück, and Sachsenhausen. Covering his career during the Third Reich and then his prosecution...

Two modern cases of genocide and extermination began in Southeast Asia in the same year

This volume deals with aspects of genocide in Rwandaand Cambodia that have been largely unexplored to date, including the impact of regional politics and the role played by social institutions in perpetrating genocide

This is a quality full color reproduction of the 1945 original story of the American Volunteer Group (AVG) and their actions in China. There are over 70 pages of history and information contained within on this famous unit.

A History of Rwanda: From the Monarchy to Post-genocidal Justice provides a complete history of Rwanda, from the precolonial abanyiginya kingdom, through the German and Belgian colonial periods and subsequent independence, and then the devastating 1994...