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Il volume raccoglie i dati di cento musei sparsi nel territorio italiano, un numero di collezioni tematiche non riscontrabile in altre nazioni, a testimonianza di quanto sia tenuta tuttora in consid……続きを見る

By the winter of 1916/17, World War I had reached a deadlock. While the Allies commanded greater resources and fielded more soldiers than the Central Powers, German armies had penetrated deep into R……続きを見る

As close as you can get to the reality of war. Three generations of front line soldiers recount their experiences. Few people today experience a live war situation; even professional soldiers can se……続きを見る

This is naval action adventure with a difference - thirteen naval engagements in which gunboats won the day against every kind of enemy, large and small Britain, like other colonial powers, establis……続きを見る

One of the greatest tragedies in Australian military history occurred at Gallipoli on 7 August 1915, when hundreds of Australian light horsemen were repeatedly ordered to charge the massed rifles an……続きを見る

World War I describes how the major power struggles of Europe (supported by various colonial holdings and the British alliance with Japan) erupted into a global war that was marked by new forms of c……続きを見る

World War I explores the secrets of World War I. As in all wars, each side needed to keep secrets from the enemy. At the same time, they tried to discover the enemy's secrets, using spies and code-b……続きを見る

In World War I, significant battles, treaties, conferences and other dramatic events during World War I are explored, including: the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand; the first Zeppelin raid on L……続きを見る

When careful consideration is given to Nietzsche’s critique of Platonism and to what he wrote about Bismarck, Kaiser Wilhelm, and to Germany’s place in “international relations” (die Große Politik),……続きを見る

FREELANCE WRITER AND PLAYWRIGHT Joan Sullivan’s book In the Field is a work of non-fiction that tells the story of one young Newfound〓lander soldier, Stephen Norris, lost in WWI, and how his death ……続きを見る

The Great War of 1914-18 was a conflict which engulfed the whole world, directly or indirectly. It was an imperialist world war that tugged the new Union of South Africa and its people into a series……続きを見る

This book is written in the belief that the time has come to reassess Titoism: from its Western-sponsored seizure of power and its Western-assisted development since 1939, to its present and resente……続きを見る

The soldier-horse relationship was nurtured by The British Army because it made the soldier and his horse into an effective fighting unit. Soldiers and their Horses explores a complex relationship f……続きを見る

Tatiana L. Dubinskaya’s autobiographical novel of life in the Russian army marked the first major work published by a female World War I soldier in the Soviet Union. Often compared to All Quiet on t……続きを見る

The dramatic story of the last fifty years of the Speyer banking dynasty, a Jewish family of German descent, is surprisingly little known today, yet at the turn of the 20th century, Speyer was the t……続きを見る

The Punjab region of India sent more than 600,000 combatants to assist the British war effort during World War I. Their families back home, thousands of miles from the major scenes of battle, were d……続きを見る

A widespread policy prescription among defense experts of the Atlantic Alliance is the strengthening of conventional forces to reduce dependence on the early use of nuclear weapons in the event of S……続きを見る

Delville Wood in the Somme was the most famous battle ever fought by South Africans. Through this action other nations learnt to respect the fighting qualities of the men from the fledgling Union of……続きを見る

The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells, first serialized in 1897 by Pearson's Magazine in the UK and by Cosmopolitan magazine in the US. The novel's first app……続きを見る

The Turkish ordeal: Being the further memoirs of Halide Edib, incorporates the author’s personal account of the Turkish War of Independence. About the Author Halide Edip Adivar (1884-1964) was a Tur……続きを見る

Excerpt: "If the intelligent foreigner, who is supposed to make so many interesting and novel observations on the aspect of the countries he visits, and on the manners of the people among whom he tr……続きを見る

Written in 1865 by the war correspondent of the Times (London), William H. Russell, this book tells the story of the 1865 attempt to lay the Atlantic Cable from the Great Eastern, Brunel's mammoth s……続きを見る

This is an assessment of the contribution of a man called Pinckney to the drafting of the US constitution. 続きを見る

Russell's dispatches via telegraph from the Crimea remain as his legacy; for the first time he brought the realities of war home to readers. This helped diminish the distance between the home front ……続きを見る

Excerpt: "The Russians advanced down the hill at a slow canter, which they changed to a trot, and at last nearly halted. Their first line was at least double the length of ours ー it was three times……続きを見る

Excerpt: "There is a general admission that the means to such an end are wanting, and that the desire cannot be gratified. But the admiration for monarchical institutions on the English model, for p……続きを見る

Excerpt: "There was a young man in my squadron whom I shall call Frank Gillham. He was the son of a Wisconsin farmer, and had enlisted in the ranks as a patriotic duty. Frank was young and handsome,……続きを見る

Excerpt: "As we arrived a steady down-pour of rain was falling from an inky sky; the white men who met us on the wharf appeared ghostly and wraith-like, and the very negroes seemed pale and wan. The……続きを見る

This book tells us the story of the fifteen military engagements (from Marathon to Waterloo) which, had a significant impact on world history. The selection reflects the worldview of a 19th-century ……続きを見る

A rare and poignant testimony of a survivor of the Armenian genocide. The twentieth century was an era of genocide, which started with the Turkish destruction of more than one million Armenian men, ……続きを見る