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A St Helena Who's Who details the island of St Helena and its
administration, including military, naval and civil offices as well
as the overall population in the 1820s and expenses. A must have
for Napoleon historians, this comprehensive book chronicles the
residents of Longwood, the 'Who's Who' of St Helena and what
flag-ships were stationed there. As well as listing the regiments
based on the island such as the 53rd Foot Regiment (2nd Battalion)
and artillery and engineers, Napoleon's visitors to the island are
recorded as well as the chronology of his death, the construction
of his tomb and reports on the post-mortem examination. Also, Sir
Hudson Lowe and the East India Company involvement in the island
are exhaustively covered as are stories of military figures,
marriages and the abolition of slavery.
Vicky Unwin had always known her father - an erstwhile intelligence
officer and respected United Nations diplomat - was Czech, but it
was not until a stranger turned up on her doorstep that she
discovered he was also Jewish. So began a quest to discover the
truth about his past - one that perhaps would help answer the
niggling doubts she had always had about her 'perfect' father.
Finally persuading him to allow her to open a closely guarded cache
of family books and papers, Vicky discovered the identity of her
grandfather: the tormented author and diplomat Hermann Ungar,
hugely controversial in both life and in death, who was a protege
and possible lover of Thomas Mann, and a friend of Berthold Brecht
and Stefan Zweig. How much of her father's child was Vicky - and
how much of his father's child was he? As Vicky worked to uncover
deeply buried family secrets, she would find herself slowly
unpicking the lingering power of 'survivors' guilt' on the
generations that followed the Holocaust, and would learn, via a
deathbed confession, of the existence of a previously unknown
sister. Together, the sisters attempted to come to terms with what
had made their father into the deeply flawed, complex, yet
charismatic man he has always been, journeying together through
grief and heartache towards forgiveness.
East-West detente was hotly debated during its heyday in the 1970s.
Critics saw it as a form of appeasement which, they claimed,
strengthened communism while weakening the West. Supporters saw it
variously as a means of reducing the danger of war, subverting
communism and, in Europe, bridging the division of the continent.
This book presents a balanced assessment of the reality of detente,
and of the different interests involved, looking back through the
eyes of expert contributors from Britain, Germany, France, Italy,
Poland, Hungary and Austria. It takes a particularly close look at
the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), which
produced the Helsinki Final Act and a series of follow-up measure
that continue to evolve to the present day. It argues that, in
negotiating the text of the Final Act, the West won a victory that
was insufficiently recognized at the time. Davy concludes that
detente was ambiguous, conferring short-term political and economic
benefits on East European regimes while at the same time weakening
their foundations and contributing to their collapse in 1989.
European Detente will be of interest to students, academics and
practitioners in international relations, strategic studies and
international politics, particularly those specializing in Eastern
Europe.
This work explores the value of the motorcycle to communications,
and how the despatch rider helped prevent German victory.
A gripping first hand account of how Soviet Communism impacted on
those who had to live their daily lives under its rule.
For two decades after the civil war the Franco regime applied
systematic historical propaganda and imposed relentless repression
of history professionals. In the 1960s and 1970s, however, the
balance shifted from all-pervading propaganda to structural but
flexible censorship. Gradually and reluctantly, the regime had to
give back the initiative for explaining the recent past to where it
belonged: to the professional historians, but not without oversee
and livelihood threat. In its efforts to keep control, the regime
could count on historians who were willing to censor their more
adventurous colleagues. But the outcome of this process was biased
and uncertain. The main issue was always whether an author could be
considered a friend of the regime. Personal interventions by Franco
himself regularly played a decisive role. Historians fully loyal to
the regime and its aims were published without difficulty; others
took a reformist path, albeit without endangering the dominant
interpretation that favoured the tropes of inevitability and
positive consequences of Francos rebellion. Reformist historians
avoided criticism of the personal integrity of the dictator and the
army, and did not address the issue of systematically planned
terror in Francos National Zone during the Civil War. Historians
who dared to embrace these topics were condemned to write from
abroad. Historical works dealing with the Spanish Civil War
(19361939) have been regularly studied in-depth. Dutch historian
Jan van Muilekom provides a wider perspective by viewing the Franco
historiography from the time of the preceding Second Republic
(1931-1936). His analysis recognizes the crucial 1939-1952 period
where Franco consolidated his seizure of power. The research is
based on a wealth of published censored books, unpublished
manuscripts, censorship archives and historical propaganda
material. The book is an important complement to earlier studies
that mainly dealt with the regimes dealing with the press, the film
industry and literature. Over a span of four decades, Franco never
lost his grip on how recent Spanish history should be read.
Exploring the historiography of the regime provides multiple
insights into the links between authoritarianism and censorship.
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Roberto Calasso; Translated by Richard Dixon
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While the French Revolution has been much discussed and studied,
its impact on religious life in France is rather neglected. Yet,
during this brief period, religion underwent great changes that
affected everyone: clergy and laypeople, men and women, Catholics,
Protestants and Jews. The "Reigns of Terror" of the Revolution
drove the Church underground, permanently altering the relationship
between Church and State. In this book, Nigel Aston offers a guide
to these tumultuous events. While the structures and beliefs of the
Catholic Church are central, it does not neglect minority groups
like Protestants and Jews. Among other features, the book discusses
the Constitutional Church, the end of state support for
Catholicism, the "Dechristianization" campaign and the Concordat of
1801-2. Key themes discussed include the capacity of all the
Churches for survival and adaptation, the role of religion in
determining political allegiances during the Revolution, and the
turbulence of Church-State relations. In this study, based on the
latest evidence, Aston sheds new light on a dynamic period in
European history and its impact on the next 200 years of religious
life in France.
Over 16 million copies sold worldwide 'One of the most remarkable
books I have ever read' Susan Jeffers One of the outstanding
classics to emerge from the Holocaust, Man's Search for Meaning is
Viktor Frankl's story of his struggle for survival in Auschwitz and
other Nazi concentration camps. Today, this remarkable tribute to
hope offers us an avenue to finding greater meaning and purpose in
our own lives.
A memoir about a Jewish girl growing up in Germany before and
during Hitler's seizure of power, her escape to Palestine and her
subsequent life in Britain after she married an English soldier.
Later in life she came to devote herself to the education of the
young in Germany and Britain on how the horrors of the Third Reich
came into being.
In an era when women were supposed to be disciplined and obedient, Anna proved to be neither. Defying 16th-century social mores, she was the frequent subject of gossip because of her immodest dress and flirtatious behavior. When her wealthy father discovered that she was having secret, simultaneous affairs with a young nobleman and a cavalryman, he turned her out of the house in rage, but when she sued him for financial support, he had her captured, returned home and chained to a table as punishment. Anna eventually escaped and continued her suit against her father, her siblings and her home town in a bitter legal battle that was to last 30 years and end only upon her death. Drawn from her surviving love letters and court records, The Burgermeister's Daughter is a fascinating examination of the politics of sexuality, gender and family in the 16th century, and a powerful testament to the courage and tenacity of a woman who defied the inequalities of this distant age.
Six million-- a number impossible to visualize. Six million Jews were killed in Europe between the years 1933 and 1945. What can that number mean to us today? We can that number mean to us today? We are told never to forget the Holocaust, but how can we remember something so incomprehensible?
We can think, not of the numbers, the statistics, but of the people. For the families torn apart, watching mothers, fathers, children disappear or be slaughtered, the numbers were agonizingly comprehensible. One. Two. Three. Often more. Here are the stories of thode people, recorded in letters and diaries, and in the memories of those who survived. Seen through their eyes, the horror becomes real. We cannot deny it--and we can never forget.
‘Based on diaries, letters, songs, and history books, a moving account of Jewish suffering in Nazi Germany before and during World War II.’ —Best Books for Young Adults Committee (ALA). ‘A noted historian writes on a subject ignored or glossed over in most texts. . . . Now that youngsters are acquainted with the horrors of slavery, they are more prepared to consider the questions the Holocaust raises for us today.’ —Language Arts. ‘[An] extraordinarily fine and moving book.’ —NYT. Notable Children's Books of 1976 (ALA) Best of the Best Books (YA) 1970–1983 (ALA) 1976 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Nonfiction Best Books of 1976 (SLJ) Outstanding Children's Books of 1976 (NYT) Notable 1976 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC) 1977 Jane Addams Award Nominee, 1977 National Book Award for Children's Literature IBBY International Year of the Child Special Hans Christian Andersen Honors List Children's Books of 1976 (Library of Congress) 1976 Sidney Taylor Book Award (Association of Jewish Libraries)
Accompanying this wealth of detailed information are over 100 black
and white photographs, illustrations and maps, plus a list of
Azerbaijani proverbs, suggestions for further reading, a chronology
of Azerbaijani historical events, and a discography.
On 26 April 1986, the unthinkable happened near the Ukrainian town
of Pripyat: two massive steam explosions ruptured No. 4 Reactor at
the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, immediately killing 30 people
and setting off the worst nuclear accident in history. The
explosions were followed by an open-air reactor core fire that
released huge amounts of radioactive contamination into the
atmosphere for the next nine days, spreading across the Soviet
Union, parts of Europe, and especially neighbouring Belarus, where
around 70% of the waste landed. The following clean-up operation
involved more than half a million personnel at a cost of $68
billion, and a further 4,000 people were estimated to have died
from disaster-related illnesses in the following 20 years. Some
350,000 people were evacuated as a result of the accident
(including 95 villages in Belarus), and much of the area returned
to the wild, with the nearby city of Pripyat now a ghost town.
Chernobyl provides a photographic exploration of the catastrophe
and its aftermath in 180 authentic photos. See the twisted wreckage
of No. 4 Reactor, the cause of the nuclear disaster; marvel at
historic photos of the clean-up operation, with helicopters
spraying decontamination liquid and liquidators manually clearing
radioactive debris; see the huge cooling pond used to cool the
reactors, and which today is home to abundant wildlife, despite the
radiation; explore the ghost town of Pripyat, with its decaying
apartment blocks, empty basketball courts, abandoned amusement
park, wrecked schools, and deserted streets.
1930s Europe - as the Roaring Twenties wind down and the world
rumbles towards war, the great minds of the time have other
concerns. Jean-Paul Sartre waits anxiously in a Parisian cafe for
his first date with no-show Simone de Beauvoir. Marlene Dietrich
slips from her loveless marriage into the dive bars of Berlin.
Father and son Thomas and Klaus Mann clash over each other's
homosexuality. And Vladimir Nabokov lovingly places a fresh-caught
butterfly at the end of Vera's bed. Little do they all know, the
book burning will soon begin. Love in a Time of Hate skilfully
interweaves some of the greatest love stories of the 1930s with the
darkening backdrop of fascism in Europe, in an irresistible journey
into the past that brings history and its actors to vivid life.
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