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As an epicentre of sectarian conflict before and after the Arab uprising, Syria provides an excellent laboratory for the study of sectarianization. This book compares variance in Syria's sectarianism over time and across place in order to expose its causes and its varying impact on Syria's society and polity.

How often do we hear commanders say they are practically defenceless without machine guns and anti-tank weapons?Yet they have hundreds of men armed with the finest weapon of all - the rifle!For general use there is nothing to take its place. Nothing so universally deadly; nothing to beat it in attack and defence. Fire Control is one of a series of training books written in 1942 by Colonel G. A. Wade for the newly-recruited Home Guard. This reproduction from the Royal Armouries' archive shows how the Second World War trainees learnt to handle their rifles and strategically engage the enemy.

A road block is a tiny battlefield. Here, all the principles of strategy and tactics apply - just as much as when whole armies meet in the field. It is a challenge thrown down by the free world to Hitler and his hordes. A road block is a gesture of defiance that says, 'Beyond this, you shall not come'. Lie doggo. Hit hard. And clear out!Road Blocks is one of a series of training books written in 1942 by Colonel G. A. Wade for the newly-recruited Home Guard. This reproduction from the Royal Armouries' archive shows how the Second World War trainees learnt to set up and defend road blocks amidst the threat of enemy invasion.

We are not dealing with the remote future. The Huns are coming. Will they drop from the skies and surround the village?Will sounds of battle will be heard in the far distance?Or will their armoured fighting vehicles will come careering across the landscape?When they come, your village must be ready. Defence of Villages and Small Towns is one of a series of training books written in 1942 by Colonel G. A. Wade for the newly-recruited Home Guard. This reproduction from the Royal Armouries' archive shows how the Second World War trainees learnt to defend rural villages and small towns from the threat of enemy invasion.

Based on extensive new material, much of it unpublished, by and about Sartre from archives across Europe, this book explores Sartre's lifelong relationship with Italy, its culture, society and, above all, its intellectual left. Starting with his dawning awareness of politics as foremost a moral responsibility during his first tourist trips to Naples in the 1930s and the poverty he encountered there, Italy, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Europe's Cold War examines the relationships Sartre forged with a number of Italian liberal, leftist and communist intellectuals after the war. Immediately drawing him into debates over the ethical crisis that they held responsible for fascism, the war, and now, Europe's Cold War, several of them became lifelong friends of his, as well as collaborators in a number of efforts to address that crisis in Italy and, by the late 1950s, in Eastern Europe. Reconstructing the networks they established through cultural organisations they founded themselves, Nancy Jachec traces how Sartre and his ideas were brought into the Soviet Union, Poland and Czechoslovakia in pursuit of a democratic socialism. Using private correspondence, press reports, memoirs, embassy dispatches, government committee minutes, and surveillance and intelligence reports from Eastern and Western sources, the book reconstructs Sartre's activities and the impact they had in a way that Sartre did not foresee. While his many discussions with his Italian peers on the theme of political morality led him to support the New Left in spite of its organisational problems, in Poland and Czechoslovakia his work was taken in a very different direction, where intellectuals would go on to assume real political responsibility.

The First World War and its aftermath were significant events with widespread consequences that impacted everyday people. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the various ways in which the Great War affected urban life, extending beyond the typically recognized regions such as the European Great powers, the USA, and its colonies and spheres of influence. It explores the impacts on peripheral cities in East Asia, South Europe, Latin America, and Africa, which have often been overlooked in the historiography of the 1914-1918 conflict. Despite their historical neglect, these urban areas felt the repercussions of the war as it reshaped their structures, rhythms, and daily routines. This transformation influenced both private and public life, highlighting the crucial role these cities played as actors during wartime.

Historians consider the Battle of Rzhev "one of the bloodiest in the history of the Great Patriotic War" and "Zhukov's greatest defeat".

A heartbreaking story of friendship, loyalty and the true cost of love, from the bestselling author of The Secret Midwife and Wives of War.Berlin, 1944: Amira and Gisele have been best friends since they were children, and now Gisele is the only person who knows Amira's secret. A secret that puts her and everyone she loves in unimaginable danger amid the daily horror and violence of Nazi Germany.With the threat of exposure drawing closer, Gisele's suggestion that Amira marries her friend Fred, a famous pianist, might just be the lifeline she needs to keep them both safe. Because Fred has secrets too.As the two strangers promise to look after each other, a profound love develops. But while the war rages on, Amira, Fred and Gisele are soon faced with terrible choices that will test their loyalty--and their courage--to the ultimate limits. How far will they go to keep each other alive?An unforgettable World War Two novel about those who chose to defy the Nazis from within Germany.

The third specially photographed book from the much-loved BAFTA-winning TV series The Repair Shop, showcasing repairs of childhood toys and treasures.

Ruth's book is part of the My Voice Project, a collection of firsthand accounts of Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi persecution who settled in the UK. Ruth Lachs began life in Hamburg in 1936 and went on to live in Manchester and work in healthcare. -- .

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The fully illustrated story of the Holocaust with reproduced documents.

The Yarnfield Yanks tells the story of the main American Army Air Force Replacement Depot at Yarnfield, Stone, Staffordshire during World War II and includes many first-hand experiences supplied by relatives of men who were there. It describes the day-to-day workings of the depot and the effect the American servicemen and women temporarily stationed there had on the local people. The book also describes the wider system of air force replacement depots that came under the jurisdiction of the Yarnfield Depot and recounts the activities of other bases in Lancashire, the Midlands and US rest-homes in the south of the UK

The collapse of the Habsburg monarchy in the aftermath of World War I marked a foundational shift in the histories of Austria and Hungary. Previously part of the Habsburg's Austro-Hungarian Empire, this event stripped the two new states of a long-established territorial order, triggering a controversial redrawing of their borders. Whilst scholarship often focuses on the role played by state actors in Vienna and Budapest, The Disputed Austro-Hungarian Border refreshingly re-examines this event through investigating how processes of state and nation-building manifested within the contested region of Western Hungary and Burgenland. In doing so, this book innovatively resituates this border region within the larger context of post-Habsburg historical development taking place across Central Europe.

A unique account of the opening weeks of history's largest, most brutal conflict, told through the eyes of those who were there and based on original source material from across Europe.

A fast-paced and absorbing read of the final months of the crucial Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign during the Pacific War by esteemed World War II historian Jeffrey Cox.

This handbook brings together historical and contemporary essays about Soviet and Russian military studies, to offer a comprehensive volume on the topic.

The story of a road trip undertaken in early summer 1791 through upstate New York and New England by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. A Journey North opens a window onto the post-revolutionary landscape, illuminating the origins of the remarkable bond between two founding figures--one that endured for fifty years and remains one of the most consequential and significant friendships in American political history.

"This book offers both a nuanced picture of language ideologies and language policies in post-Arab Spring Tunisia and a detailed critical and interdisciplinary model of Language Policy and Planning. The authors describe how multiple language ideologies interact and play out as language policy against a background of political turmoil"--

Naval intelligence agents working the most dangerous beat in the world - the narco-state of Panama in the late 1980s - struggle to penetrate Noriega's organization and protect their families on the eve of invasion.