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From our country's most important war historian, a vital history of the legacy of the Great War and the reverberating impact it has had on Canada since. The Western Front has dominated the culture and memory of the Great War. The lethal power of modern weapons in the form of rapid-firing rifles...

'The world's most successful history podcast ... Holland and Sandbrook have pretty much reinvented popular history for the modern age' THE TIMES 'The history publishing phenomenon of my lifetime' NEW STATESMAN From the award-winning podcast The Rest is History and Sunday Times bestselling...

Inferno is a gripping history of the world wars told through twelve battles that shaped the fate of the 20th century. From Verdun and the Somme to the Battle of Britain, Stalingrad, D-Day and the fall of Berlin, this is war at full intensity: the clashes that shattered armies, toppled regimes...

L'Europe apprend avec consternation l'assassinat de l'archiduc François-Ferdinand à Sarajevo. Car le vieil empereur d'Autriche-Hongrie, François-Joseph, veut punir cet attentat pour rétablir l'honneur de son empire en déclin. Ainsi débute ce terrible mois de juillet, où se noue jour après jour l'invraisemblable crise diplomatique qui va conduire à une guerre que pourtant personne ne souhaite.

Stern & FreddyEine Gaunerkomödie von Andreas Göx, Autor und SprecherAudiobook 121 Minuten, Produktion und Sfx Ulrich Wirth bei pangram audioAls E-Book 60 Seiten bei 22 Kapiteln: https: //www.amazon.co.uk/Stern-Freddy-Eine-Gaunerkom%C3%B6die-German- ebook/dp/B0G2KGMXY5Es sind die 90er, das heißt Globalisierung und organisierte Kriminalität. Das ehrliche Handwerk ist bedroht, der Kleinkriminelle sucht Nischen, nur die persönlichen Kontakte können einen noch über Wasser halten. Das ist die Welt von Stern & Freddy.

Winston Churchill was born in a palace and was given a funeral worthy of a king. His family had enjoyed an intimate association with the British monarchy stretching back centuries. As King Edward VIII said of him, "I have never met anyone of royal blood who exemplified in such high degree the...

Conoce las batallas clave, las tácticas, los avances tecnológicos y los puntos de inflexión de la Primera Guerra Mundial Los acontecimientos esenciales durante y alrededor del conflicto: desde las crecientes tensiones entre las principales potencias de Europa hasta el asesinato del archiduque Francisco Fernando, la invasión alemana de Bélgica, las matanzas interminables en las trincheras, la entrada estadounidense en la guerra, la Revolución Rusa, el Armisticio y la creación de la Sociedad de las Naciones. El conflicto épico que se suponía sería «la guerra que acabaría con todas las guerras».

Nie wieder starben mehr Soldaten auf so engem Raum wie in Verdun 1916. Olaf Jessen zeichnet auf der Grundlage vergessener Dokumente ein neues Bild der Schlüsselschlacht des Ersten Weltkrieges. Glänzend erzählt und unter die Haut gehend: für alle, die den Großen Krieg aus Sicht der Frontsoldaten und Heerführer beider Seiten neu kennenlernen wollen.

From the author of the New York Times bestselling The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel comes the enthralling hidden history of one of the world’s most successful business titans, a rival to the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds, whose legacy was erased in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution...

The First World War hardly ended with the formal Armistice in Europe on November 11, 1918, amid the continuing violence of blockades and epidemics, amid numerous forms of reconstruction and revolution. For many at the time, the outbreak of what would become the First World War was an...

Anatomía del valor es un relato radical sobre los efectos psicológicos de la guerra narrados a través de vívidas observaciones de primera mano, así como de jugosas anécdotas. Al exponer el «metabolismo íntimo» de su propia mente y recordar sus experiencias como oficial médico en las trincheras durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, Lord Moran explora la verdadera naturaleza del valor en el frente.

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.

"A war to end all wars"—but its echoes still shape the modern world. From the blood-soaked trenches of the Western Front to the political upheavals that redrew the globe, World War I – Causes and Consequences offers a powerful, cinematic journey through the war that shattered empires, transformed societies, and set the stage for the century to come. This 30-chapter storytelling narrative weaves together the grand strategy of world leaders and the intimate struggles of ordinary people caught in the storm.

Captain Paul Eugene Betowski MD is a nonfiction WWI story told in the first person about the author's paternal great uncle. The content of the story is entirely culled from contrasting letters that Paul wrote to his brother, Leon S Betowski MD, and to his mother, Mary M Betowski. Letters to Paul's brother, the author's grandfather were more graphic, and letters to his mother inferred that he was on a lovely tour of France. The "Elmira Telegram" and the "Waverly Free Press" support details of Paul's letters.

"The Battle of the Somme" historical fiction that weaves together the cataclysmic events of World War I. The novel centers on Thomas Ashworth, a bright, quick-witted, raised on the outskirts of Manchester in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Thomas’s formative years unfold in a modest family home, where the air is filled with the scent of baked bread. He is shaped by the steady discipline of his father, who teaches him the value of hard work and perseverance, and the gentle curiosity of his mother, Margaret, who nurtures his love of stories and learning.

Durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, mientras Europa se desangraba en los campos de batalla, Alfonso XIII se erigía como un faro de esperanza. Soberano de un país neutral, utilizó su influencia para aliviar el sufrimiento de miles de familias afectadas por el conflicto. A través de historias conmovedoras y detalladas investigaciones, el autor nos muestra las gestiones del monarca y del equipo de hombres y mujeres que trabajaron en el Palacio Real de Madrid junto a decenas de diplomáticos y militares españoles desplegados por los frentes de la contienda.

How, for just over a century, Britain ensured it would not face another Napoleon Bonaparte—manipulating European powers while building a global maritime empire At the conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars, a fragile peace emerged in Europe. The continent's borders were redrawn, and the French...

This is the unknown story of the combat engineers who kept World War I running. Although it has been repeatedly denied by the army, they were the first Australians to land at Anzac Cove: in any combat, even today, sappers are always the first in and last out.

1er mai 1915. Tandis que la Première Guerre mondiale entame son dixième mois, le Lusitania, luxueux paquebot britannique, quitte New York pour rejoindre Liverpool.Près de 2 000 passagers profitent des équipements modernes de ce navire puissant et rapide surnommé " le lévrier des mers ". L'Allemagne a classé en zones de guerre les mers entourant l'Angleterre mais le capitaine, William Thomas Turner, connait les règles interdisant les attaques de bateaux civils.

When World War I began in August 1914, the British confidently predicted that it would be "over by Christmas." In Berlin, Kaiser Wilhelm II told his soldiers that they would be "home before the leaves fall." But by late December, it was clear not only that the war was far from over, but also that this would be a more destructive and deadly conflict than any that had come before. On the Western Front, British troops faced the Germans across two opposing lines of trenches.