著者:Robert F Dorr
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日: 2012年12月20日
Ever present in the Pacific from Pearl Harbor to VJ-Day, the B-24 Liberator proved to be the staple heavy bomber of the campaign.
From its ignominious beginnings in the Allied rout in the Philippine……続きを見る
著者:Robert F Dorr
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日: 2012年12月20日
The B-24 Liberator was built in greater numbers than any other US warplane, yet its combat crews live, even today, in the shadow of the less plentiful, but better-known, B-17. This is their fully-il……続きを見る
著者:Robert F Dorr
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日: 2012年12月20日
The sterling work of the Fifteenth Air Force is often overshadowed by the glamorous 'Mighty Eighth', yet the men flying the B-24 fought ceaselessly right through to VE Day.
The B-24 was heavily util……続きを見る
The first virtually all-jet war, the conflict in Korea saw F-86 Sabres of the USAF take on MiG-15s of the North Korean and Chinese air forces. Although the Allied pilots were initially taken aback b……続きを見る
Illustrated throughout, this book describes the action pilots of the Polish Air Force saw from the first day of World War 2 until the final victory in Europe.
Flying hopelessly outmoded P.11 fighter……続きを見る
著者:Rob Christensen
出版社: The University of North Carolina Press
発売日: 2025年02月28日
Newspapers are a tough business, and no one knows that better than Rob Christensen, who was chief political reporter at North Carolina’s capital newspaper, the News and Observer, for decades. Here h……続きを見る
2021 SABR Baseball Research Award
2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Silver Medal Winner
Baseball has been called America’s true melting pot, a game that unites us as a people. Issei Baseball i……続きを見る
The City of Hip-Hop positions a unique conceptualization of the history of Hip-Hop, that it was a combination of forces that produced the environment for Hip-Hop to specifically grow in the geograph……続きを見る
Trust the power of cognitive science to help students to understand more, remember more and feel more confident about their exams.
This textbook is guaranteed to make learning more effective. The ap……続きを見る
In ‘Rode kameraden’ vertelt Rob Hartmans de kleurrijke geschiedenis van het communisme in Nederland in de twintigste eeuw.
De twintigste eeuw was de ‘eeuw van de ideologieën’, politieke bewegingen d……続きを見る
Initially designed as a fast medium bomber, the Junkers Ju 88 was also used as a Zerstörer heavy fighter by the Luftwaffe.
It saw its combat debut over Poland in 1939, and heavy fighter variants saw……続きを見る
The Cold War reconsidered as a limited nuclear war
“Inexorable clarity and care for his fellow humans mark Robert Jacobs's guide to the Cold War as a limited nuclear war, whose harms disfigure any p……続きを見る
著者:Robert O. Paxton
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2015年02月18日
Uncompromising, often startling, meticulously documentedーthis book is an account of the government, and the governed, of colaborationist France.
Basing his work on captured German archives and cont……続きを見る
In The Revolution Has Come Robyn C. Spencer traces the Black Panther Party's organizational evolution in Oakland, California, where hundreds of young people came to political awareness and journeyed……続きを見る
A "gripping, sensitive" biography of the trailblazing singer who carved a path for African American artists including Marian Anderson and Paul Robeson ( The Atlanta Voice).
Performing in a country r……続きを見る
In "The Peace Negotiations," Robert Lansing offers a meticulous account of the complex diplomatic discussions that followed World War I, focusing on the intricacies and challenges of establishing la……続きを見る
著者:Robert Lynch
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2019年04月11日
Partition represents the most fundamental revolution in modern Irish history. By 1925 the country had been divided into two states embodying rival religious and political identities, an outcome unth……続きを見る
A controversial account of the Churchill years by a bestselling historian.
'The best sort of history - revealing, gossipy and acidulous' OBSERVER
This highly praised book by the Wolfson History Priz……続きを見る
Over 170 years, Pittsburgh rose from remote outpost to industrial powerhouse. With the formation of the United States, the frontier town located at the confluence of three rivers grew into the linch……続きを見る
著者:Rob Goldberg
出版社: Duke University Press
発売日: 2023年07月28日
In Radical Play Rob Goldberg recovers a little-known history of American children’s culture in the 1960s and 1970s by showing how dolls, guns, action figures, and other toys galvanized and symbolize……続きを見る
著者:Rob Kroes
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2023年08月18日
Soldiers and Students (1975) adopts an original approach to the confrontation of deprived and possessing parties under conditions of scarcity. With reference to the course of conflict, the actions o……続きを見る
'Colonization through a process of affection', wrote the London-based Barbadian novelist George Lamming in 1960, was 'the worst form of colonization'. Lamming's London was marked by the violent curr……続きを見る
Een allesomvattend portret van deze invloedrijke en niet zelden onbegrepen figuur uit het zo bewogen Nederlandse literaire landschap van de twintigste eeuw.
Victor E. van Vriesland (1892-1974) wilde……続きを見る
'Early in my research, a friend with excellent knowledge of the United Auto Workers internal operations told me, "Don't give up. They are hiding something"…'
It’s 1990, and US labour is being outsou……続きを見る
The Soviet Union shocks the world by placing a satellite in orbit and accomplishing many impressive feats high above Earth. The United States must prevent its Cold War rivals from controlling space,……続きを見る
In ‘Guernica’ laat Rob Hartmans zien hoe dit monumentale schilderij van Pablo Picasso een symbool vormde tegen terreur en een hartstochtelijke verdediging van de vrede.
Een jammerklacht tegen terreu……続きを見る
'Het levensverhaal van Salo Muller, even hartverscheurend als hoopgevend, is geweldig meeslepend om te lezen.' Claudia de Breij
Op wrede wijze wordt de zesjarige Salo Muller in 1942 na een razzia va……続きを見る
This book showcases British decorative tiles from 1945 to 1975. ‘Mid-century Modern’ had its roots in the 1930s, with influences especially from California and Europe. Pioneers include the architect……続きを見る
During the twentieth century, the relationship between the Church of England and the British state was transformed. The character and dynamics of the connections shifted as politics became more demo……続きを見る
The First World War in the Middle East swept away five hundred years of Ottoman domination. It ushered in new ideologies and radicalised old ones - from Arab nationalism and revolutionary socialism ……続きを見る