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Newfoundland, 1919. Buffeted by winds, an unwieldy aircraft – made mainly from wood and stiff linen – struggled to take off from the North American island’s rocky slopes. Cramped side by side in its open cockpit were two men, freezing cold and barely able to move but resolute. They had a dream: to be the first in human history to fly, non-stop, across the Atlantic Ocean. But there were three other teams competing against them, and as the waves raged a few miles below, memories of wartime crashes resurfaced . . .

A remarkable story of courage, resistance and ultimately betrayal in the Third Reich captured by internationally bestselling author and prize-winning journalist Jonathan Freedland.

What kind of political structure might one day enable Israelis and Palestinians to overcome the seemingly interminable cycle of violence and live in peace with one another? For many years, politicians and citizens have called for a two-state solution—two independent states, Israel and Palestine, coexisting side by side. This was Shlomo Sand's view too, but as more settlements were built in the occupied West Bank and millions of Palestinians were forced to live in a situation of de facto apartheid.

In the 1690s a contentious debate broke out in Suffolk, England, between an Anglican rector and those we have come to know as Particular Baptists. The purpose of this book is to examine this controversy and consider some crucial issues it raised, principally the nature of the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. It involved three men, William Burkitt (1650–1703), John Tredwell, and Benjamin Keach (1640–1704).

Over the course of the last four years, the American public looked on as the former president faced a series of daunting obstacles to return to the White House. The lingering cloud of January 6, a shadow effort within the Republican establishment to defeat him in the primary, multiple indictments, assassination attempts, and an 11th hour change of his opponent all threatened to derail his return to power at any moment.

È stata una guerra particolare, forse destinata ad essere il prototipo di altre che potrebbero avvenire. Non solo una lotta fra stati o poteri economici per assicurarsi il mercato, ma un tentativo di imporre un diverso modo di concepire la vita dei singoli e delle comunità. L’8 gennaio 1945, con altri 480 prigionieri stipati in carri bestiame, Luigi Massignan iniziò la sua terribile esperienza come prigioniero nel campo di sterminio nazista di Mauthausen.

The liberal democratic order that seemed so stable in North America and Western Europe has become precarious. James E. Cronin argues that liberalism has never been secure and that since the 1930s the international order has had to be crafted, redeployed, and extended in response to both victories and setbacks.

A compelling history of the British Army in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—showing how the military gathered knowledge from campaigns across the globe.

Esteemed historian Dr Carter Malkasian explains how this conflict in a small peninsula in East Asia had a tremendous impact on the entire international system and the balance of power between the two superpowers, America and Russia. In this history, he examines how the West demonstrated its resolve to thwart Communist aggression and the armed forces of China, the Soviet Union and the United States came into direct combat for the only time during the Cold War.

Motherlode: A Mosaic of Dutch Wartime Experience is Carolyne Van Der Meer’s creative reinterpretation through short stories, poems, and essays of the experiences of her mother and other individuals who either spent their childhoods in Nazi-occupied Holland or were deeply affected by wartime in Holland. The book documents the author’s personal journey as she uncovers her mother’s past through their correspondence and discussion and through research in the Netherlands. Motherlode also considers mother-daughter relationships and the effect of wartime on motherhood.

Lidia was just three years old when she arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau with her mother, grandparents and foster brother. They were from Belarus, their ‘crime’ that they supported the partisan resistance to Nazi occupation. Lidia was picked by Dr Josef Mengele for his experiments and sent to the children’s block where she survived eighteen months of hell. Injected with infectious diseases, desperately malnourished, she came close to death. Her mother - who risked her life to secretly visit Lidia - was her only tie to humanity.

Una ricostruzione che diventa un racconto pieno di fascino: siamo sul campo di battaglia, ascoltiamo i suoni, vediamo i colori, odoriamo il fumo. Viviamo con i soldati francesi e poi con quelli inglesi e poi con i prussiani in una sorta di ripresa cinematografica a tratti dall'alto, a tratti dal basso, ad altezza d'uomo. Questo libro è il primo ad analizzare la battaglia in una prospettiva europea, dando voce a tutti coloro che vi presero parte, di qualsiasi nazionalità: le loro emozionanti testimonianze costituiscono il filo conduttore del libro.

Das berührende Memoir und die einzigartige Biographie einer Shoah-Überlebenden, die sich bis heute gegen das Vergessen engagiert. Als junges Mädchen läuft sie unbeschwert durch die staubigen Gassen des kleinen ungarischen Dorfes, in dem sie mit ihrer Familie lebt. Bis sie eines Tages nach Auschwitz deportiert wird. Edith Bruck, eine der letzten Überlebenden der Shoah, blickt zurück auf ihre eigene Geschichte.

"100 Quotes by Jean Giraudoux" takes readers on a journey behind the scenes of one of the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II. A novelist, essayist, diplomat, and playwright, Giraudoux’s work features stylistic elegance and poetic fantasy – during a time when the world was far from at ease. An ideal book for dipping in and out of, this must-read collection is ideal for history buffs looking to uncover the greatest thinkers of an unprecedented period. Jean Giraudoux (1882-1944) was a French literary figure of immense might.

Das Unheil nimmt seinen Lauf bei Kaffee und Kuchen. Karlrobert Kreiten, 27 Jahre alt, ein hochbegabter Pianist, verliert im März 1943 ein unbedachtes Wort gegenüber einer Freundin seiner Mutter: "Der Führer ist krank", der Krieg sei verloren. Sechs Monate später stirbt er am Galgen. Sein Schicksal steht im Mittelpunkt von Oliver Hilmes' Buch über das einschneidende Jahr 1943. In dem immer noch getanzt wird, auch wenn bei Stalingrad eine ganze Armee vernichtet wird und die Städte schon in Trümmern liegen.

Da den garvede kriminalassistent Bjørn Agger finder ud af at hans nye chef bliver den uerfarne stivstikker Ulrik Ludvigsen fra administrationsafdelingen i Rigspolitiet, beslutter han sig for at tage imod et tilbud om at blive en del af Task Force One, en afdeling, der er oprettet til at bekæmpe organiseret kriminalitet. Og organiseret kriminalitet er der nok af i København; bankkup, kvindehandel, systematisk afpresning, tyveri og narko.

Emerging from the ruins of Aztec civilization and from centuries of Spanish contact with indigenous people, Mexican culture followed the Spanish colonial frontier northward and put its distinctive mark on what became the southwestern United States. Shaped by their Indian and Spanish ancestors, deeply influenced by Catholicism, and often struggling to respond to political and economic precarity, Mexicans play an important role in United States society even as the dominant Anglo culture strives to assimilate them.

War presents the most degraded moral environment humanity creates. Individuality is subsumed in collective violence, and humanity is obscured as a faceless, merciless enemy. A barbaric logic has guided the conduct of war throughout history. Yet as Cathal Nolan reveals in this powerful book, even as war can obliterate hope and decency at the grand level it simultaneously produces conditions that permit astonishing exceptions of mercy and shared dignity. Pulling the trigger is usually both the expedient thing and required by war's grim and remorseless calculus.

It has been said that the number of women who served as soldiers, both North and South, approached 400. It is known that a large number of women disguised themselves and enlisted in the service, for one cause or another. Entrenched in secrecy, and regarded as men, they were sometimes revealed as women, by pregnancy or casualty.

Quando diciamo: "Prima gli italiani!" cosa intendiamo? Chi ha la cittadinanza italiana o chi in Italia ci abita? Chi parla italiano? Chi ha genitori italiani o chi in Italia ci è nato? E non è la prima volta che ci poniamo questa domanda: ha cominciato Dante con la ‘serva Italia’; poi d’Azeglio con gli ‘italiani da fare’; e ancora, i ‘santi, poeti e navigatori’; gli ‘italiani nuovi’ fascisti o ‘gli italiani brava gente’. Urliamo questo slogan in un paese dai confini incerti, diviso tra nord e sud, est e ovest, città e campagna.