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Networks of Refugees from Nazi Germany - Continuities, Reorientations, and Collaborations in Exile (Hardcover): Helga... Networks of Refugees from Nazi Germany - Continuities, Reorientations, and Collaborations in Exile (Hardcover)
Helga Schreckenberger
R4,011 Discovery Miles 40 110 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This volume focuses on coalitions and collaborations formed by refugees from Nazi Germany in their host countries. Exile from Nazi Germany was a global phenomenon involving the expulsion and displacement of entire families, organizations, and communities. While forced emigration inevitable meant loss of familiar structures and surroundings, successful integration into often very foreign cultures was possible due to the exiles' ability to access and/or establish networks. By focusing on such networks rather than on individual experiences, the contributions in this volume provide a complex and nuanced analysis of the multifaceted, interacting factors of the exile experience. This approach connects the NS-exile to other forms of displacement and persecution and locates it within the ruptures of civilization dominating the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Contributors are: Dieter Adolph, Jacob Boas, Margit Franz, Katherine Holland, Birgit Maier-Katkin Leonie Marx, Wolfgang Mieder, Thomas Schneider, Helga Schreckenberger, Swen Steinberg, Karina von Tippelskirch, Joerg Thunecke, Jacqueline Vansant, and Veronika Zwerger

A Chronological History of the European Union 1946-2001 (Hardcover): Wim F.V. Vanthoor A Chronological History of the European Union 1946-2001 (Hardcover)
Wim F.V. Vanthoor
R3,479 Discovery Miles 34 790 Out of stock

This fully revised and updated edition of a seminal reference work provides a detailed chronological account of the development of European integration. The history of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), which began immediately after World War II, is recounted in the form of a descriptive summary of the most significant events, measures, arrangements and conferences. The chronology concludes at the end of 2001 with what is arguably one of the most important events in European history; the introduction of the euro notes and coins in twelve nation states. Throughout, Wim Vanthoor offers a detailed yet concise account of the evolution of the economic and political ideas which have culminated in this defining moment. The book is interspersed with quotations from the addresses, orations and comments of politicians and those closely involved with the process of European integration. This accessible book will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in the history of European integration.

Modern European Intellectual History - Individuals, Groupings, and Technological Change, 1800-2000 (Hardcover): David Galaty Modern European Intellectual History - Individuals, Groupings, and Technological Change, 1800-2000 (Hardcover)
David Galaty
R3,202 Discovery Miles 32 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This non-technical introduction to modern European intellectual history traces the evolution of ideas in Europe from the turn of the 19th century to the modern day. Placing particular emphasis on the huge technological and scientific change that has taken place over the last two centuries, David Galaty shows how intellectual life has been driven by the conditions and problems posed by this world of technology. In everything from theories of beauty to studies in metaphysics, the technologically-based modern world has stimulated a host of competing theories and intellectual systems, often built around the opposing notions of 'the power of the individual' versus collectivist ideals like community, nation, tradition and transcendent experience. In an accessible, jargon-free style, Modern European Intellectual History unpicks these debates and historically analyses how thought has developed in Europe since the time of the French Revolution. Among other topics, the book explores: * The Kantian Revolution * Feminism and the Suffrage Movement * Socialism and Marxism * Nationalism * Structuralism * Quantum theory * Developments in the Arts * Postmodernism * Big Data and the Cyber Century Highly illustrated with 80 images and 10 tables, and further supported by an online Instructor's Guide, this is the most important student resource on modern European intellectual history available today.

Destiny's Spear - From Hitler's Obsession to Patton's Possession (Hardcover): Rodney E. Walker Destiny's Spear - From Hitler's Obsession to Patton's Possession (Hardcover)
Rodney E. Walker
R570 R534 Discovery Miles 5 340 Save R36 (6%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Irish Question (Hardcover): H H Asquith Eighty Ewart Gladstone The Irish Question (Hardcover)
H H Asquith Eighty Ewart Gladstone
R731 Discovery Miles 7 310 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Vietnam Helicopter Crew Member Stories - Volume 1 (Hardcover): H.D. Graham Vietnam Helicopter Crew Member Stories - Volume 1 (Hardcover)
H.D. Graham
R731 R660 Discovery Miles 6 600 Save R71 (10%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Nuremberg and Vietnam (Hardcover, Lawbook Exchange ed.): Telford Taylor Nuremberg and Vietnam (Hardcover, Lawbook Exchange ed.)
Telford Taylor; Introduction by Ben Ferencz; Contributions by Joseph Perkovich
R1,080 Discovery Miles 10 800 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

With a New Introduction by Benjamin Ferencz, Chief Prosecutor for the United States at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial Originally published three years before the withdrawal of U.S. troops in 1973, this important book was not a polemic, but a sober account of the Vietnam conflict from the perspective of international law. Framed in reference to the Nuremberg Trials that followed the Second World War, it described problems the United States may have to face due to its involvement in the Vietnam conflict. After presenting a general history of war crimes and an account of the Nuremberg Trials, Taylor turns his attention to Vietnam. Among other points, he examined parallels between actions committed by American troops during the then-recent My Lai Massacre of 1968 and Hitler's SS in Nazi-occupied Europe. Commissioned for this edition, Ferencz's introduction evaluates Taylor's study and its lessons for the present and future. When this book was published in 1970, Telford Taylor had concluded that U.S. involvement in the war in Vietnam was an American tragedy: "Somehow we failed ourselves to learn the lessons we undertook to teach at Nuremberg." What were those lessons? How acceptable were they? Which laws of war could realistically be enforced on a raging battlefield against an implacable foe? Forty years later, it is worth re-examining how it came about that this powerful and humanitarian country could have come to be seen by many as a giant "prone to shatter what we try to save. -From the Introduction by Benjamin B. FerenczTelford Taylor 1908-1998] was chief counsel for the prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials. Later Professor of Law at Columbia University, he was a vigorous opponent of Senator Joseph McCarthy and an outspoken critic of U.S. actions during the Vietnam War. His books include Sword and Swastika: Generals and Nazis in the Third Reich (1952), Grand Inquest: The Story of Congressional Investigations (1955) and The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials: A Personal Memoir (1992). Benjamin Ferencz, a member of Taylor's legal staff, was the Chief Prosecutor for the United States at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial. He is the author of Defining International Aggression-The Search for World Peace (1975), Adjunct Professor of International Law, Pace University and founder of the Pace Peace Center.

Two Colored Women in World War I France (New Intro, Annotated) (Paperback): Kathryn M Johnson, Addie W Hunton Two Colored Women in World War I France (New Intro, Annotated) (Paperback)
Kathryn M Johnson, Addie W Hunton
R288 Discovery Miles 2 880 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
British Railways and the Great War Volume 2 - Organisation, Efforts, Difficulties and Achievements (Hardcover): Edwin A. Pratt British Railways and the Great War Volume 2 - Organisation, Efforts, Difficulties and Achievements (Hardcover)
Edwin A. Pratt
R1,733 Discovery Miles 17 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Tails Of A Military Cook (Hardcover): Mark Druck Tails Of A Military Cook (Hardcover)
Mark Druck
R782 Discovery Miles 7 820 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Chow-hound - The Ordinary yet Extraordinary WWII Story of Courage, Sacrifice, Gratitude, Remembrance, Coincidence and Small... The Chow-hound - The Ordinary yet Extraordinary WWII Story of Courage, Sacrifice, Gratitude, Remembrance, Coincidence and Small Miracles (Hardcover)
Bruce Joel Brittain
R653 R616 Discovery Miles 6 160 Save R37 (6%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
American Legends - The Life of J. Edgar Hoover (Paperback): Charles River Editors American Legends - The Life of J. Edgar Hoover (Paperback)
Charles River Editors
R267 Discovery Miles 2 670 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Stumbling Colossus - The Red Army on the Eve of World War (Paperback): David M. Glantz Stumbling Colossus - The Red Army on the Eve of World War (Paperback)
David M. Glantz
R1,134 Discovery Miles 11 340 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Germany's surprise attack on June 22, 1941, shocked a Soviet Union woefully unprepared to defend itself. The day before the attack, the Red Army still comprised the world's largest fighting force. But by the end of the year, four and a half million of its soldiers lay dead. This new study, based on formerly classified Soviet archival material and neglected German sources, reveals the truth behind this national catastrophe.

Drawing on evidence never before seen in the West-including combat records of early engagements-David Glantz claims that in 1941 the Red Army was poorly trained, inadequately equipped, ineptly organized, and consequently incapable of engaging in large-scale military campaigns--and that both Hitler and Stalin knew it. He provides the most complete and convincing study of why the Soviets almost lost the war that summer, dispelling many of the myths about the Red Army that have persisted since the war and soundly refuting Viktor Suvorov's controversial thesis that Stalin was planning a preemptive strike against Germany.

"Stumbling Colossus" describes the Red Army's command leadership, mobilization and war planning, intelligence activities, and active and reserve combat formations. It includes the first complete Order of Battle of Soviet forces on the eve of the German attack, documents the strength of Soviet armored forces during the war's initial period, and reproduces the first available texts of actual Soviet war plans. It also provides biographical sketches of Soviet officers and tells how Stalin's purges of the late 1930s left the Red Army leadership almost decimated.

At a time when blame for the war in eastern Europe is being laid with a fallen regime, Glantz's book sets the record straight on the Soviet Union's readiness-and willingness-to fight. Boasting an extensive bibliography of Soviet and German sources, "Stumbling Colossus" is a convincing study that overshadows recent revisionist history and one that no student of World War II can ignore.


Were the A-Bombs Necessary? (Hardcover): William Ervin Keener Were the A-Bombs Necessary? (Hardcover)
William Ervin Keener
R602 Discovery Miles 6 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Imag(in)ing the War in Japan - Representing and Responding to Trauma in Postwar Literature and Film (Hardcover): Mark Williams,... Imag(in)ing the War in Japan - Representing and Responding to Trauma in Postwar Literature and Film (Hardcover)
Mark Williams, David Stahl
R5,560 Discovery Miles 55 600 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This study of a series of artistic representations of the Asia Pacific War experience in a variety of Japanese media is premised on Walter Davis' assertion that traumatic events and experiences must be 'constituted' before they can be assimilated, integrated and understood. Arguing that the contribution of the arts to the constitution, integration and comprehension of traumatic historical events has yet to be sufficiently acknowledged or articulated, the contributors to this volume examine how various Japanese authors and other artists have drawn upon their imaginative powers to create affect-charged forms and images of the extreme violence, psychological damage and ideological contradiction surrounding the War. In so doing, they seek to further the process whereby reading and viewing audiences are encouraged to virtually engage, internalize, 'know' and respond to trauma in concrete, ethical terms.

Postwar Germany and the Holocaust (Hardcover): Caroline Sharples Postwar Germany and the Holocaust (Hardcover)
Caroline Sharples
R3,667 Discovery Miles 36 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2016 Focussing on German responses to the Holocaust since 1945, Postwar Germany and the Holocaust traces the process of Vergangenheitsbewaltigung ('overcoming the past'), the persistence of silences, evasions and popular mythologies with regards to the Nazi era, and cultural representations of the Holocaust up to the present day. It explores the complexities of German memory cultures, the construction of war and Holocaust memorials and the various political debates and scandals surrounding the darkest chapter in German history. The book comparatively maps out the legacy of the Holocaust in both East and West Germany, as well as the unified Germany that followed, to engender a consideration of the effects of division, Cold War politics and reunification on German understanding of the Holocaust. Synthesizing key historiographical debates and drawing upon a variety of primary source material, this volume is an important exploration of Germany's postwar relationship with the Holocaust. Complete with chapters on education, war crime trials, memorialization and Germany and the Holocaust today, as well as a number of illustrations, maps and a detailed bibliography, Postwar Germany and the Holocaust is a pivotal text for anyone interested in understanding the full impact of the Holocaust in Germany.

Pollution and Atmosphere in Post-Soviet Russia - The Arctic and the Environment (Hardcover): Lars Rowe Pollution and Atmosphere in Post-Soviet Russia - The Arctic and the Environment (Hardcover)
Lars Rowe
R3,338 Discovery Miles 33 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This study addresses the many initiatives to decrease industrial pollution emitting from the Pechenganikel plant in the northwestern corner of Russia during the final years of the Soviet Union, and examines the wider implications for the state of pollution control in the Arctic today. By examining the efforts of Soviet industry and government agencies, Finnish and Swedish officials, and Norwegian environmental authorities to curb industrial pollution in the region, this book offers an environmental history of the Arctic as well as a transnational, geopolitical history.

Good-Bye, Trieste (Hardcover): Elsa M. Spencer Good-Bye, Trieste (Hardcover)
Elsa M. Spencer
R839 Discovery Miles 8 390 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Thunderbolt! The P-47 (Hardcover): Martin Caidin, Robert S. Johnson Thunderbolt! The P-47 (Hardcover)
Martin Caidin, Robert S. Johnson
R936 Discovery Miles 9 360 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Our Portion of Hell - Fayette County, Tennessee: An Oral History of the Struggle for Civil Rights (Hardcover): Robert Hamburger Our Portion of Hell - Fayette County, Tennessee: An Oral History of the Struggle for Civil Rights (Hardcover)
Robert Hamburger
R2,926 Discovery Miles 29 260 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Our Portion of Hell: Fayette County, Tennessee: An Oral History of the Struggle for Civil Rights offers an unrivalled account of how a rural Black community drew together to combat the immense forces aligned against them. Author Robert Hamburger first visited Fayette County as part of a student civil rights project in 1965 and, in 1971, set out to document the history of the grassroots movement there. Beginning in 1959, Black residents in Fayette County attempting to register to vote were met with brutal resistance from the white community. Sharecropping families whose names appeared on voter registration rolls were evicted from their homes and their possessions tossed by the roadside. These dispossessed families lived for months in tents on muddy fields, as Fayette County became a "tent city" that attracted national attention. The white community created a blacklist culled from voter registration rolls, and those whose names appeared on the list were denied food, gas, and every imaginable service at shops, businesses, and gas stations throughout the county. Hamburger conducted months of interviews with residents of the county, inviting speakers to recall childhood experiences in the "Old South" and to explain what inspired them to take a stand against the oppressive system that dominated life in Fayette County. Their stories, told in their own words, make up the narrative of Our Portion of Hell. This reprint edition includes twenty-nine documentary photographs and an insightful new afterword by the author. There, he discusses the making of the book and reflects upon the difficult truth that although the civil rights struggle, once so immediate, has become history, many of the core issues that inspired the struggle remain as urgent as ever.

John Buchan's 1914 - the War in the West-the First Months of the First World War on the Western Front-June to December... John Buchan's 1914 - the War in the West-the First Months of the First World War on the Western Front-June to December 1914 (Hardcover)
John Buchan
R1,136 Discovery Miles 11 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A unique Leonaur edition-never before available in this form
John Buchan was a popular author of historical and adventure fiction whose works remain in print to the present day. He also wrote important works of non-fiction that are less well remembered. Among these was a commissioned, multi-volume history of the First World War that was so well regarded that it became a source-work for other historians. This Leonaur Original, drawn from Buchan's history, and including many maps, battle plans, photographs and illustrations, has been published to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War on the Western Front as overwhelming German forces swept through Belgium and France. This was a mobile war-much like the wars fought in Europe for hundreds of years-of marching infantry and cavalry armed with lances and swords. The battle at Mons, the dogged retreat of the 'Contemptible Little Army' of the B. E. F., the incredible resistance of the out-dated Belgian Forces, the battles of the Marne and Aisne as the tide turned, and the carnage of the First Battle of Ypres as the war became a stalemate of wire, mud and trenches at the close of the year, are all covered in Buchan's brilliant take on just six months of war in 1914.
Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands.

A Song of the English - Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson (Hardcover): Rudyard Kipling A Song of the English - Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson (Hardcover)
Rudyard Kipling; Illustrated by W.Heath Robinson
R916 Discovery Miles 9 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A History of Modern Europe - From 1815 to the Present (Hardcover): AS Lindemann A History of Modern Europe - From 1815 to the Present (Hardcover)
AS Lindemann
R2,403 Discovery Miles 24 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A History of Modern Europe surveys European history from the defeat of Napoleon to the twenty-first century, presenting major historical themes in an authoritative and compelling narrative. * Concise, readable single volume covering Europe from the early nineteenth century through the early twenty-first century * Vigorous interpretation of events reflects a fresh, concise perspective on European history * Clear and thought-provoking treatment of major historical themes * Lively narrative reflects complexity of modern European history, but remains accessible to those unfamiliar with the field

The Other Side of the Mountain - Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet-Afghan War (Hardcover): Ali Ahmad Jalali, Lester W. Grau The Other Side of the Mountain - Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet-Afghan War (Hardcover)
Ali Ahmad Jalali, Lester W. Grau; Introduction by John E. Rhodes
R1,750 Discovery Miles 17 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Credit of the Nations - a Study of the European War (Hardcover): J. Laurence (James Laurence) Laughlin Credit of the Nations - a Study of the European War (Hardcover)
J. Laurence (James Laurence) Laughlin
R984 Discovery Miles 9 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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