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The Battle of Gettysburg, which took place July 1–3, 1863 in and around the town of Gettysburg, PA resulted in the largest number of casualties of the entire American Civil War and is seen as the key turning point in the conflict. On its first day, Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia sought to destroy the Union army, forcing its men to retreat through the streets of the Pennsylvania town to the hills just to the south.

In 1519, the Conquistador Hernán Cortés landed on the mainland of the Americas. His quest to serve God, win gold, and achieve glory drove him into the heartland of what is now Mexico, where no European had ever set foot before. He marched towards the majestic city of Tenochtitlan, floating like a jewel in the midst of Lake Texcoco. This encounter brought together cultures that had hitherto evolved in complete isolation from each other – Catholic Spain and the Aztec Empire.

The history of the Catholic Church in the twentieth century is one of spies, scandals and bad political choices. It's a shadowy, ornate world of cover-ups and hidden motives. In this book, Ambrogio Caiani lifts back the heavy velvet curtains of the chancel and peers behind the locked mahogany doors of the Vatican to reveal the shocking truths that make up a century of Catholic corruption.

Having fought hard just to reach the outskirts of Stalingrad, the Axis forces found themselves embroiled in a protracted urban battle amid the ruins of a devastated city on the Volga. The Soviet Red Army was able to hold onto the city then mount a surprise winter counter-offensive known as Operation Uranus, which succeeded in encircling the German 6.Armee at Stalingrad. Despite a desperate German relief operation, the Red Army eventually crushed the 6.Armee and hurled the remnants of the German southern front back in disorder.

King Philip's War was the result of over 50 years' tension between the native inhabitants of New England and its colonial settlers as the two parties competed for land and resources. A coalition of Native American tribes fought against a force of over 1,000 men raised by the New England Confederation of Plymouth, Connecticut, New Haven and Massachusetts Bay, alongside their Native allies the Mohegans and Mohawks.

Des premiers peuplements gaulois aux réalités contemporaines de son auteur, Théophile Lavallée offre, dans ce premier volume, une fresque accessible de la capitale. Entre formation de la cité, développement des institutions, mutations urbaines et vie des habitants, il suit, siècle après siècle, l’essor d’un lieu devenu cœur de la France. Portée par la curiosité et la rigueur d’un historien du XIXe siècle, cette Histoire de Paris guide l’auditeur à travers les grandes étapes qui ont façonné la ville et révèle, avec clarté, les lignes de force d’une métropole en perpétuelle transformation.

SS-Brigadeführer Odilo Globocnik ist Manager: Manager des Todes. Seine Geschäfte sind der millionenfache Massenmord und der Raub jüdischen Eigentums. Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler protegiert den ehrgeizigen Kärntner und bewundert seine Energie, Joseph Goebbels fasziniert seine barbarische Methode, Hitler lässt den fanatischen Antisemiten wohlwollend gewähren: Odilo Globocnik, ab November 1939 SS- und Polizeiführer im Distrikt Lublin, entwickelt fantastische Pläne zur Verdeutschung des eroberten Landes.

A riveting, in-the-room account of the pivotal six months in 1941 that turned the tide of World War II, as Churchill and Roosevelt forged a crucial alliance and Hitler squandered his early advantage—from the New York Times bestselling author of Road to Surrender In the summer of 1941, Winston...

Based on never-before-examined Fascist and Vatican archives, a shocking, groundbreaking history of Italy's 1938 racial laws and the desperate measures thousands of Jewish families took to save themselves before and during World War II, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and bestselling...

The true story of Major Jerry Sage, an O.S.S. agent during World War II, who inspired Steve McQueen’s character in The Great Escape. Jerry Sage was a Canadian-born American soldier, special forces operator, spy, and prisoner of war during World War II. He was notable for over 15 prison escape...

The West is losing a war it refuses to admit it’s fighting. For decades, the United States has relied on a military built for a world that no longer exists. While we focus on aircraft carriers and stealth jets, our adversaries have moved the battlefield into shadows and our minds. From the...

Based on a true story of German immigrant struggle to leave home, and settle in America as the civil war ensues.

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Industrial Military Strategies. Mobilization, Railways, and the Rise of Total War. Modern war was not born in the trenches. It was built in rail yards, factories, and war ministries. In the nineteenth century, strategy changed forever. Railways accelerated mobilization. Telegraph lines compressed command. Industrial production multiplied firepower. War shifted from dynastic campaigns to national systems. This book explores how that transformation happened. From Napoleon’s operational art to the Prussian General Staff. From the Russian Campaign to the American Civil War.

Discover the remarkable history of the Arab Spring... The Arab Spring began unexpectedly on December 17, 2010, when Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old fruit seller in the city of Sidi Bouzid in Tunisia, committed suicide in a horrifying and public way. He doused himself in flammable liquid and then set himself on fire. Bouazizi had been driven to this act of despair, it was said, by constant harassment from local representatives of the regime of President Ben Ali, who had been the autocratic ruler of Tunisia for more than twenty years.

¿Te han contado que España fue un "colonizador" malvado? Te han mentido. Es hora de escuchar la verdad que el mundo ha intentado borrar. Durante siglos, España no fue solo una nación; fue la fuerza que construyó la civilización moderna. En "España, Nuestra Historia" , el autor y narrador Robert Portolés Otero revela los hechos que los libros de texto prefieren olvidar: La Heredera de Roma: España recogió el testigo del Imperio Romano, manteniendo viva la llama del derecho, el orden y las estrategias militares para proyectarlas más allá del horizonte.

A remarkable real-life story of how a post World War I broken-propeller monument in North Carolina inspired and launched a return-in-time of a retired U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sergeant to his tenure as director of a unique military education center in Montgomery, Alabama. This memoir is a journey of his experiences and historical events that were collected and developed to educate, motivate, and inspire America and its Airmen, then and now!

A first person memoir of Alice, an indomitable courageous spirit, told by her as she views things in the voice of her age at the time of the Holocaust in Czechoslovakia. Alice will move you, make you want to finish the book in one listening. You will learn about places and times no longer here, about heroism, about acts of kindness remembered for three quarters of a century and now passed on to you, with her diagrams of places and streets, and also a lesson plan for tolerance.

1994年5月、大阪市東淀川区に住む大屋隆司の父親・横山道雄が突然、失踪した。この失踪騒ぎの後、みるみる衰弱していく父を看病する中で、隆司はこれまで知らなかった父の過去を知る。