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The tour guide is designed specifically for the enthusiast wanting
to explore and discover more about Israel's military history. But
instead of simply reading about historical events this guide takes
the traveller to the battle sites themselves throughout Israel. The
guide is in chronological order starting with the First World War
and taking you through selective events in history up to 2006. From
a geographical perspective the tour will take you from southern
Israel through the Jordan Valley and on to the Golan Heights in the
north by the Syrian and Lebanese border.
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"Perkins' richly detailed narrative is a reminder that gender
equity has never come easily, but instead if borne from the
exertions of those who precede us."-Nathalia Holt, New York Times
bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls If Yale was going to
keep its standing as one of the top two or three colleges in the
nation, the availability of women was an amenity it could no longer
do without. In the winter of 1969, from big cities to small towns,
young women across the country sent in applications to Yale
University for the first time. The Ivy League institution dedicated
to graduating "one thousand male leaders" each year had finally
decided to open its doors to the nation's top female students. The
landmark decision was a huge step forward for women's equality in
education. Or was it? The experience the first undergraduate women
found when they stepped onto Yale's imposing campus was not the
same one their male peers enjoyed. Isolated from one another,
singled out as oddities and sexual objects, and barred from many of
the privileges an elite education was supposed to offer, many of
the first girls found themselves immersed in an overwhelmingly male
culture they were unprepared to face. Yale Needs Women is the story
of how these young women fought against the backward-leaning
traditions of a centuries-old institution and created the
opportunities that would carry them into the future. Anne Gardiner
Perkins's unflinching account of a group of young women striving
for change is an inspiring story of strength, resilience, and
courage that continues to resonate today. "Yes, Yale needed women,
but it didn't really want them... Anne Gardiner Perkins tells how
these young women met the challenge with courage and tenacity and
forever changed Yale and its chauvinistic motto of graduating 1,000
male leaders every year."-Lynn Povich, author of The Good Girls
Revolt
**THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER** 25th Anniversary Edition. Foreword
by Tom Hanks. The book that inspired Steven Spielberg's acclaimed
TV series, produced by Tom Hanks and starring Damian Lewis. In Band
of Brothers, Stephen E. Ambrose pays tribute to the men of Easy
Company, a crack rifle company in the US Army. From their rigorous
training in Georgia in 1942 to the dangerous parachute landings on
D-Day and their triumphant capture of Hitler's 'Eagle's Nest' in
Berchtesgaden. Ambrose tells the story of this remarkable company.
Repeatedly send on the toughest missions, these brave men fought,
went hungry, froze and died in the service of their country.
Celebrating the 25th anniversary since the original publication,
this reissue contains a new foreword from Tom Hanks who was an
executive producer on the award-winning HBO series. A tale of
heroic adventures and soul-shattering confrontations, Band of
Brothers brings back to life, as only Stephen E. Ambrose can, the
profound ties of brotherhood forged in the barracks and on the
battlefields. 'History boldly told and elegantly written . . .
Gripping' Wall Street Journal 'Ambrose proves once again he is a
masterful historian . . . spellbinding' People
The Spitfire a " there have been many hundreds, maybe even
thousands, of books written about this beautiful R.J Mitchell
designed, elliptically winged areoplane. But there has yet to be a
book published, which has focused solely on the lesser-known
two-seat variant of graceful Spitfirea |Until now! In two-seater
spitfires, Greg Davis, John Sanderson and Peter Arnold trace the
history of this iconic aircraft a " from its initial design through
to those still taking to the skies today.
In the summer of 1943, at the height of World War II, battles were
exploding all throughout the Pacific theater. In mid-November of
that year, the United States waged a bloody campaign on Betio
Island in the Tarawa Atoll, the most heavily fortified Japanese
territory in the entire Pacific. They were fighting to wrest
control of the island to stage the next big push toward Japan--and
one journalist was there to chronicle the horror.
Dive into war correspondent Robert Sherrod's battlefield account as
he goes ashore with the assault troops of the U.S. Marines 2nd
Marine Division in Tarawa. Follow the story of the U.S. Army 27th
Infantry Division as nearly 35,000 troops take on less than 5,000
Japanese defenders in one of the most savage engagements of the
war. By the end of the battle, only seventeen Japanese soldiers
were still alive.
This story, a must for any history buff, tells the ins and outs of
life alongside the U.S. Marines in this lesser-known battle of
World War II. The battle itself carried on for three days, but
Sherrod, a dedicated journalist, remained in Tarawa until the very
end, and through his writing, shares every detail.
'A litany of fresh heroes to make the embattled heart sing' Caitlin
Moran 'Newman is a brilliant writer' Observer A fresh, opinionated
history of all the brilliant women you should have learned about in
school but didn't. For hundreds of years we have heard about the
great men of history, but what about herstory? In this freewheeling
history of modern Britain, Cathy Newman writes about the pioneering
women who defied the odds to make careers for themselves and alter
the course of modern history; women who achieved what they achieved
while dismantling hostile, entrenched views about their place in
society. Their role in transforming Britain is fundamental, far
greater than has generally been acknowledged, and not just in the
arts or education but in fields like medicine, politics, law,
engineering and the military. While a few of the women in this book
are now household names, many have faded into oblivion, their
personal and collective achievements mere footnotes in history. We
know of Emmeline Pankhurst, Vera Brittain, Marie Stopes and
Beatrice Webb. But who remembers engineer and motorbike racer
Beatrice Shilling, whose ingenious device for the Spitfires'
Rolls-Royce Merlin fixed an often-fatal flaw, allowing the RAF's
planes to beat the German in the Battle of Britain? Or Dorothy
Lawrence, the journalist who achieved her ambition to become a WW1
correspondent by pretending to be a man? And developmental
biologist Anne McLaren, whose work in genetics paved the way for in
vitro fertilisation? Blending meticulous research with information
gleaned from memoirs, diaries, letters, novels and other secondary
sources, Bloody Brilliant Women uses the stories of some
extraordinary lives to tell the tale of 20th and 21st century
Britain. It is a history for women and men. A history for our
times.
At the start of his administration John F. Kennedy launched a
personal policy initiative to court African nationalist leaders.
This policy was designed to improve U.S.-African relations and
constituted a dramatic change in the direction of U.S. foreign
relations. The Kennedy administration believed that the Cold War
could be won or lost depending upon whether Washington or Moscow
won the hearts and minds of the Third World. Africa was
particularly important because a wave of independence saw nineteen
newly independent African states admitted into the United Nations
during 1960-61. By 1962, 31 of the UN's 110 member states were from
the African continent, and both Washington and Moscow sought to add
these countries to their respective voting bloc. For Kennedy, the
Cold War only amplified the need for a strong U.S. policy towards
Africa-but did not create it. The Kennedy administration feared
that American neglect of the newly decolonized countries of the
world would result in the rise of anti-Americanism and for this
reason needed to be addressed irrespective of the Cold War. For
this reason, Kennedy devoted more time and effort toward relations
with Africa than any other American president. By making an
in-depth examination of Kennedy's attempt to court African
nationalist leaders, Betting on the Africans adds an important
chapter to the historiography of John F. Kennedy's Cold War
strategy by showing how through the use of personal diplomacy JFK
realigned United States policy towards Africa and to a large extent
won the sympathies of its people while at the same time alienating
more traditional allies.
Tim Wilkinson was born in Liverpool in 1951 and was educated at
Merchant Taylorsa School, Crosby, then at Robert Gordona s College
in Aberdeen. After graduating with an M.A. (Hons) in English at
Aberdeen University, he then spent his entire career teaching
English at Cults Academy. He has now retired to rural
Aberdeenshire. He has written two histories of his local cricket
club, Banchory C.C., for whom he has played for over 50 years. Tim
suffers from the incurable disease of book collecting and has
amassed a collection of over 3,000 first editions. Make that 3,001.
'Lucid and damning ... an absorbing - and infuriating - tale of
complicity, coverup and denial' PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE, author of
EMPIRE OF PAIN A groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis
helped German tycoons make billions from the horrors of the Third
Reich and World War II - and how the world allowed them to get away
with it. In 1946, Gunther Quandt - patriarch of Germany's most
iconic industrial empire, a dynasty that today controls BMW - was
arrested for suspected Nazi collaboration. Quandt claimed that he
had been forced to join the party by his arch-rival, propaganda
minister Joseph Goebbels, and the courts acquitted him. But Quandt
lied. And his heirs, and those of other Nazi billionaires, have
only grown wealthier in the generations since, while their
reckoning with this dark past remains incomplete at best. Many of
them continue to control swaths of the world economy, owning iconic
brands whose products blanket the globe. The brutal legacy of the
dynasties that dominated Daimler-Benz, cofounded Allianz and still
control Porsche, Volkswagen and BMW has remained hidden in plain
sight - until now. In this landmark work, investigative journalist
David de Jong reveals the true story of how Germany's wealthiest
business dynasties amassed untold money and power by abetting the
atrocities of the Third Reich. Using a wealth of untapped sources,
de Jong shows how these tycoons seized Jewish businesses, procured
slave labourers and ramped up weapons production to equip Hitler's
army as Europe burnt around them. Most shocking of all, de Jong
exposes how the wider world's political expediency enabled these
billionaires to get away with their crimes, covering up a
bloodstain that defiles the German and global economy to this day.
During the nineteenth century, European scientists and physicians
considered the tropics the natural home of pathogens. Hot and
miasmic, the tropical world was the locus of disease, for Euopeans
the great enemy of civilization. In the late nineteenth century
when bacteriological laboratories and institutions were introduced
to British India, they were therefore as much an imperial mission
to cleanse and civilize a tropical colony as a medical one to
eradicate disease. Bacteriology offered a panacea in colonial
India, a way by which the multifarious political, social,
environmental, and medical problems and anxieties, intrinsically
linked to its diseases, could have a single resolution.
Bacteriology in British India is the first book to provide a social
and cultural history of bacteriology in colonial India, situating
it within the confluence of advances in germ theory, Pastuerian
vaccines, colonial medicine, laboratory science, and British
imperialism. It recounts the genesis of bacteriology and laboratory
medicine in India through a complex history of conflict and
alignment between Pasteurism and British imperial medicine. By
investigating an array of laboratory notes, medical literature, and
literary sources, the volume links colonial medical research with
issues of poverty, race, nationalism, and imperial attitudes toward
tropical climate and wildlife, contributing to a wide field of
scholarship like the history of science and medicine, sociology of
science, and cultural history. Pratik Chakrabarti is Chair in
History of Science and Medicine, University of Manchester.
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