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There can be few military stories which have been written about in such great detail. The story of Dunkirk has found its way into the British consciousness, to such a degree it has come to epitomize the very essence of Britishness at times of national hardship.The phrase 'Dunkirk Spirit' has been used to define the British character. Cartoons of the day re-defined the abbreviation of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) to mean Bravery, Endurance, and Fortitude! This has been the prevailing national narrative of May 1940. A story of small boats that came to the rescue of a stranded Army on the beaches of Dunkirk: brave soldiers who would have died, or been captured had it not been for the flotilla that came to their rescue. This is supported by strong images of stoic British soldiers waiting patiently on the beaches for deliverance.Historians have subsequently identified other factors which contributed to the success of Operation DYNAMO. These include the mild weather and calm sea, as well as the use of the East Mole for the large ships. The smoke which hung in the air as a result of the German shelling and bombardments helped mask the BEF's activities, and Hitler's earlier somewhat unexpected Halt Befehl gave the BEF time to consolidate its bridgehead at Dunkirk. However, if Gort's statement as quoted by Shand is true, that 'without the Twelfth Lancers only a small part of the Army would have reached Dunkirk, ' then it would appear there is another element of the story which is still to be told. It was to account for the five Battle Honors the Regiment would win in just 21 days.

A lavishly illustrated history of this fascinating part of the United States military in the 1980s. Take a step inside the day-to-day operations of PACAF and AAC in the 1980s.

When Darcie takes possession of an old suitcase abandoned in a railway station locker, she doesn't know what to expect.Opening the stiff clasps, she discovers a beautiful silk evening dress for the 1940s, lovingly folded, and a notebook full of sketches. Written inside the cover is the name: Nathalie Leroux.Who was Nathalie? Why did she leave this at the station eighty years ago? And what stopped her from returning for it?Darcie's quest for answers will draw her into the dangerous world of the French resistance as she works to uncover the truth about a devastating wartime secret.But is Darcie prepared for what she will find? And for the power of Nathalie secrets to change her world forever...A heartbreaking and epic wartime story of the bravery of ordinary women and the enduring power of love. Fans of Kate Quinn, Pam Jenoff and Suzanne Goldring will be hooked from the very first page.

This consolidated reference book will be of immense value to maritime researchers, and anyone interested in shipping and maritime/military history.

The autobiography of an individualistic, larger-than-life sailor who lived by his wits. An insightful and unusual look at the development of two navies - the Royal Navy 1889-1913, and the Royal Australian Navy 1913-22

A collection of around 350 letters bound for London from Jamaica reveals much about colonial life in 1756. Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times paints a picture of the daily life of poor and middling whites, free people of colour, and enslaved people against the backdrop of transatlantic slavery in Jamaica and the eighteenth-century British Empire.

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZEA TIMES & SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA NEW STATESMAN'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR A SPECTATOR'S BOOKS OF THE YEARONE OF THE CONVERSATION'S 5 BEST NON-FICTION BOOKS OF 2024'A truly radical book; radical in subject, radical in form. For the most tragic reasons, it could not feel more immediate; and yet it's a fluid, fast-paced, hugely enjoyable and engaging read.' - Andrew Marr''Unforgettable... Non fiction will be different as a result.' - Jonathan Freedland'This is an extraordinarily original way of writing memoir, history and truth. An enthralling book and a wonderful new writer.' - Laura Cumming'So fascinating, so enjoyable, and beautifully told through diaries, memoirs, speeches and newspapers'. - Simon Sebag Montefiore'a remarkable book' - Robert MacfarlaneOn June 7th 1907, a ship packed with Russian Jews sets sail not to Jerusalem or New York, as many on board have dreamt, but to Texas. The man who persuades the passengers to go is David Jochelmann, Rachel Cockerell's great-grandfather. It marks the beginning of the Galveston Movement, a forgotten moment in history when 10,000 Jews fled to Texas in the lead-up to WWI.The charismatic leader of the movement is Jochelmann's closest friend, Israel Zangwill, whose novels have made him famous across Europe and America. As Eastern Europe becomes infected by anti-Semitic violence, Zangwill embarks on a desperate search across the continents for a temporary homeland: from Australia to Canada, Angola to Antarctica. He reluctantly settles on Galveston, Texas. He fears the Jewish people will be absorbed into the great American melting pot, but there is no other hope. In a highly inventive style, Cockerell uses exclusively source material to capture history as it unfolds, weaving together letters, diaries, memoirs, newspaper articles and interviews into a vivid account of those who were there. Melting Point follows Zangwill and the Jochelmann family through two world wars, to London, New York and Jerusalem - as their lives intertwine with some of the most memorable figures of the twentieth century, and each chooses whether to cling to their history or melt into their new surroundings. It is a story that asks what it means to belong, and what can be salvaged from the past.

This is the story of a seventeen year old boy who ran away from home to join the Canadian Army at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. It describes the fateful adventures of two regiments dispatched to the Pacific to face the Japanese, and the courage of two thousand young soldiers who, when faced with an impossible task thousands of miles from home, behaved with honour and distinction. Though they lost the battle of Hong Kong, they succeeded in showing the world the mettle of which they were made.

Discover the captivating history of the first American wars in Africa!In this book, you'll learn about the Barbary Wars of 1801 to 1805 and 1815, the first American wars outside of North America. The enemies were the Muslim Barbary pirates of the North African coast.Discover how American sailors were captured and turned into slaves in Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli. Why did this happen? And why didn't the US Navy do more to stop it? Discover the answers to these in this comprehensive guide!You'll also learn about the origin of the Barbary corsairs who made slave raids on Europe for 250 years and traveled as far as Ireland and Iceland. You'll find out the embarrassing history of how the US Congress authorized paying protection money to these pirates and how American taxes subsidized pirate ships.Discover how the pirates captured a big American frigate and its crew and threatened to burn them alive if they weren't paid a ransom. Learn how one of the most courageous special operations in Navy history stopped a ship from becoming a pirate ship.There is so much to unpack in this book. Some of the things you will be captivated to learn about include the following:How an American warship carried a harem, a zoo, a hundred slaves, and treasure to IstanbulWhy the United States decided to build a navyWhy a big pirate ship was built in New Hampshire and delivered to AlgiersWhere that phrase in the "Marines Hymn" "to the shores of Tripoli" comes fromWhy the US Navy borrowed ships from SicilyAnd so much more!

The intricate power dynamics at play between President Kiir and Vice President Riek Machar created a pernicious environment where inter-tribal tensions were skillfully exploited. The escalation of this volatile situation was exacerbated by the leadership's inability to adeptly navigate disagreements and address the diverse needs of the population. While tribalism may indeed have played a role, it is fundamentally a symptom of a deeper, overarching issue: the absence of capable leadership and a prioritization of personal power over the nation's security and progress.

This is the incredible story of Elzbieta Zawacka, the WW2 female resistance fighter known as Agent Zo. Agent Zo was the only woman to reach London from Warsaw during the Second World War as an emissary of the Polish Home Army command, and then in Britain she became the only woman to join the Polish elite Special Forces, known as the 'Silent Unseen'. She was secretly trained in the British countryside, and then the only female member of these SOE affiliated forces to be parachuted back behind enemy lines to Nazi-occupied Poland. There, whilst being hunted by the Gestapo who arrested her entire family, she took a leading role in the Warsaw Uprising and the liberation of Poland.After the war she was demobbed as one of the most highly decorated women in Polish history. Yet the Soviet-backed post-war Communist regime not only imprisoned her, but also ensured that her remarkable story remained hidden for over forty years. Now, through new archival research and exclusive interviews with people who knew and fought alongside Zo, Clare Mulley brings this forgotten heroine back to life, and also transforms how we see the history of women's agency in the Second World War.

L'un des plus grands camps de prisonniers de guerre du Reich allemand pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, le Stalag VII A, était situé à Moosburg an der Isar. Construit à l'automne 1939 pour 10000 prisonniers, il abritait quelque 70000 soldats de nombreuses nations le 29 avril 1945, jour de la libération. .La brochure aborde divers aspects de la vie des prisonniers et du camp lui-même.

Berlin, 1942. Max and Mally, two out of millions murdered in the Holocaust, are deported to Theresienstadt where they will starve to death.Decades later, on a whim, their granddaughter Jackie googles their names to find two commemorative stones recently placed outside their old home. The discovery compels her to open a long-closed cupboard of haunting family papers, piece together the story of the family she never knew and find her place in it.With searing prose and meticulous detective work, Jackie Kohnstamm offers a gripping and poignant portrait of an ordinary family and reveals a remarkable story of loss, discovery and memory.

Sun Tzu said, "Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat." Your characters deserve your best strategic thinking. Are you ready to learn the secrets known by Sun Tzu, Alexander the Great, Napoleon, Mao, Clauswitz, and other famed strategists? War: A source of enduring fascination to readers and the crucible that reveals character. Quality strategic thinking transforms stories from average to unforgettable and brings new depth to characters and their dilemmas. Backed by years of research into military strategy as well as examples from novels, movies, and short stories, Military Strategy for Writers offers a detailed look at how to incorporate strategic thinking into plots, characters, and structure. Each chapter zeroes in on an aspect of strategy, how it works (or doesn't) in reality and fiction, and how to apply it to your own narratives. Designed as a resource for writers, gamers, and editors this book will:Build your strategic vocabulary ensuring your military genius characters sound like they know what they are talking about.Empower you to use classic strategic thought in your storiesDive down into the strategies of sea power to bring richness to stories set at seaSoar with strategies of air power and learn why experts argue if air power should be regarded as strategic or tacticalDiscuss out how military and civilian strategists use game theory to formulate nuclear strategy in the absence of historical examplesDemonstrate how your characters can fight and win an insurgencyShow how states fight insurgents and how that gives you a secret tool to use in your storiesReveal how the types of terrorism show the character of both terrorists and the states that fight itTake you to the stars to learn about war in the far future and strategy in space, as well as how to apply strategic thinking to fantasy campaignsIncluded at the end is a list of questions to ask as you write, as well as a guide to doing quick military research that will fill you with knowledge and get you back to the keyboard fast. If you're in the mood for more information, Stein offers ten indispensable books on strategy to further your knowledge. Clear, engaging, and written with a dry wit, Stein vividly describes major types of military strategy, their advantages, and disadvantages in various situations. Military Strategy for Writers gives you everything you need to ensure that your characters only make mistakes in their strategy when it will serve the plot and your goals as an author. Quality strategic thinking transforms stories from average to unforgettable and brings new depth to characters and their dilemmas. Be warned! Once you know these secrets, you will see lost opportunities everywhere.

Based on extensive archival research in six countries and intensive fieldwork, the book analyzes the history of the village of Nkholongue on the eastern (Mozambican) shores of Lake Malawi from the time of its formation in the 19th century to the present day. The study uses Nkholongue as a microhistorical lens to examine such diverse topics as the slave trade, the spread of Islam, colonization, subsistence production, counter-insurgency, decolonization, civil war, ecotourism, and matriliny. Thereby, the book attempts to reflect as much as possible on the generalizability and (global) comparability of local findings by framing analyses in historiographical discussions that aim to go beyond the regional or national level. Although the chapters of the book deal with very different topics, they are united by a common interest in the social history of rural Africa in the longue durée. Contrary to persistent clichés of rural inertia in Africa, the book as a whole underscores the profound changeability of social conditions and relations in Nkholongue over the years and highlights how people's room for maneuver kept changing as a result of the Winds of History, the frequent and often violent ruptures brought to the village from outside.

"A study of the stalled/non-existent process of legally reckoning with the 1965 state-sponsored genocide in Indonesia"--

Jews in Japan: Presence and Perception. Antisemitism, Philosemitism and International Relations is a study on the history of real and imagined Jews in Japan, which discusses the little known cultural, political and economic ties between Jews and Japan, and follows the evolution of Jewish stereotypes in Japan in the last century and a half. The book begins with the arrival of Jews and their image in late 19th to early 20th-century Japan, when the seeds of later stereotyped visions were sown. The discussion then focuses on wartime Japan, delving into the complex and mixed attitudes of the Japanese Empire toward Jews. In postwar Japan, the partial reception of the Holocaust intertwined with earlier antisemitic and philosemitic manifestations, resulting in instances of both hatred and admiration toward Jews. Finally, the book explores the recent reframing of Japanese-Jewish historical encounters within the context of the growing ties between Japan and Israel. This study sheds new light on the little explored relations between Jews and Japan, offering thought-provoking insights into the coexistence of antisemitism and philosemitism, the political and diplomatic uses of Jewish history, and the perpetuation of Jewish stereotypes in a land devoid of a local Jewish population.

Dwight Eisenhower's encounter with the Holocaust altered how he understood the Second World War and shaped how he led the United States and the Western Alliance during the Cold War. This book is the first to blend scholarship on Eisenhower, World War II, and the Holocaust together, constructing a narrative that offers new insights into all three, all while uncovering the story of how he became among the first to vow that such atrocities would never again be allowed to happen. From the moment he stepped foot in the concentration camp Ohrdruf in April 1945, defeating Nazi Germany took on a moral hue for Eisenhower that had largely been absent before. It spurred the belief that totalitarianism in all its forms needed to be confronted. This conviction shaped his presidency and solidified American engagement in the postwar world. Putting these pieces of the story together alters how we view and understand the second half of the twentieth century.

Iran am Vorabend der Revolution. Das Schah-Regime wankt. Die Regierungstreuen verlieren an Macht, die revolutionären Kräfte werden rasch von den Mullahs dominiert. Mit Ajatollah Khomeini übernehmen sie schon bald die Herrschaft.Afschin Banai arbeitet in einem Elektrounternehmen. Er hatte einst in Deutschland gegen den Schah demonstriert und bezahlt die Kritik mit einem Ausreiseverbot. Durch das Land geht ein Riss. Gewaltexzesse, Misstrauen und Verrat sind an der Tagesordnung. Dies hinterlässt auch schmerzhafte Wunden zwischen Afschin und seiner großen Liebe Negin. Afschin gerät gleichzeitig ins Fadenkreuz der Regierungstreuen und der islamischen Revolutionäre. Sein Leben ist in Gefahr. Mit Negin versucht er schließlich aus dem Land zu fliehen.'Frühling der Freiheit' ist ein bewegender Roman. Er zeigt, wie die Islamische Republik entstand und schildert, wie die Liebe zweier Menschen in dieser politisch entscheidenden Phase auf eine harte Probe gestellt wird. Ein ergreifendes Zeugnis der Zeitgeschichte.

Der Dorotheenstädtische Friedhof in Berlin ist zwischen Hegels Tod und der Gegenwart allmählich zu einem Mausoleum deutscher Kulturgeschichte geworden. Er bezeugt steinern die Größe deutscher Literatur und Philosophie wie die Irrungen und Wirrungen deutscher Geschichte. In sieben Porträts von dort Begrabenen (Hegel, Bonhoeffer, Heinrich Mann, Brecht, Marcuse, Heiner Müller und Christa Wolf) wird ihr letzter Lebensabschnitt, werden ihre letzten Werke, ihre Auseinandersetzungen mit dem nahen Tod, ihre Beerdigungen und ihr Nachleben dargestellt. Ihre Endzeiten reflektieren das Ende der Goethezeit, den Widerstand gegen den Nationalsozialismus, das Exil und das Scheitern der sozialistischen Hoffnungen, die sich mit der DDR verbanden.