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Without Precedent. 2nd Edition - Commando, Fighter Pilot and the true story of Australia's first Purple Heart (Hardcover,... Without Precedent. 2nd Edition - Commando, Fighter Pilot and the true story of Australia's first Purple Heart (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
Owen Zupp
R974 Discovery Miles 9 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Children of France - A Book of Stories of the Heroism and Self-sacrifice of Youthful Patriots of France During the Great... The Children of France - A Book of Stories of the Heroism and Self-sacrifice of Youthful Patriots of France During the Great War (Hardcover)
Ruth Royce
R715 R663 Discovery Miles 6 630 Save R52 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Exit Right - The People Who Left the Left and Reshaped the American Century (Paperback): Daniel Oppenheimer Exit Right - The People Who Left the Left and Reshaped the American Century (Paperback)
Daniel Oppenheimer
R504 R474 Discovery Miles 4 740 Save R30 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Century's Witness - The Extraordinary Life of Journalist Wallace Carroll (Hardcover): Mary Llewellyn Mcneil Century's Witness - The Extraordinary Life of Journalist Wallace Carroll (Hardcover)
Mary Llewellyn Mcneil
R878 Discovery Miles 8 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Italian Prisoners of War in Pennsylvania - Allies on the Home Front, 1944-1945 (Paperback): Flavio G. Conti, Alan R. Perry Italian Prisoners of War in Pennsylvania - Allies on the Home Front, 1944-1945 (Paperback)
Flavio G. Conti, Alan R. Perry
R1,243 Discovery Miles 12 430 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

During World War II 51,000 Italian prisoners of war were detained in the United States. When Italy signed an armistice with the Allies in September 1943, most of these soldiers agreed to swear allegiance to the United States and to collaborate in the fight against Germany. At the Letterkenny Army Depot, located near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, more than 1,200 Italian soldiers were detained as co-operators. They arrived in May 1944 to form the 321st Italian Quartermaster Battalion and remained until October 1945. As detainees, the soldiers helped to order, stock, repair, and ship military goods, munitions and equipment to the Pacific and European Theaters of war. Through such labor, they lent their collective energy to the massive home front endeavor to defeat the Axis Powers. The prisoners also helped to construct the depot itself, building roads, sidewalks, and fences, along with individual buildings such as an assembly hall, amphitheater, swimming pool, and a chapel and bell tower. The latter of these two constructions still exist, and together with the assembly hall, bear eloquent testimony to the Italian POW experience. For their work the Italian co-operators received a very modest, regular salary, and they experienced more freedom than regular POWs. In their spare time, they often had liberty to leave the post in groups that American soldiers chaperoned. Additionally, they frequently received or visited large entourages of Italian Americans from the Mid-Atlantic region who were eager to comfort their erstwhile countrymen. The story of these Italian soldiers detained at Letterkenny has never before been told. Now, however, oral histories from surviving POWs, memoirs generously donated by family members of ex-prisoners, and the rich information newly available from archival material in Italy, aided by material found in the U.S., have made it possible to reconstruct this experience in full. All of this historical documentation has also allowed the authors to tell fascinating individual stories from the moment when many POWs were captured to their return to Italy and beyond. More than seventy years since the end of World War II, family members of ex-POWs in both the United States and Italy still enjoy the positive legacy of this encounter.

Mendl Mann's 'The Fall of Berlin' (Hardcover, Hardback ed.): Maurice Wolfthal Mendl Mann's 'The Fall of Berlin' (Hardcover, Hardback ed.)
Maurice Wolfthal
R1,330 Discovery Miles 13 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
A Secret Life - The Polish Colonel, His Covert Mission, And The Price He Paid To Save His Country (Paperback, New Ed): Benjamin... A Secret Life - The Polish Colonel, His Covert Mission, And The Price He Paid To Save His Country (Paperback, New Ed)
Benjamin Weiser
R566 R526 Discovery Miles 5 260 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For almost a decade, Col. Ryszard Kuklinski betrayed the Communist leadership of Poland, cooperating with the CIA in one of the most extraordinary human intelligence operations of the Cold War. But even after freedom came to Poland a riddle remained - was Kuklinski a patriot or a traitor? In August 1972, Ryszard Kuklinski, a highly respected colonel in the Polish Army, embarked on what would become one of the most extraordinary human intelligence operations of the Cold War. Despite the extreme risk to himself and his family, he contacted the American Embassy in Bonn, and arranged a secret meeting. From the very start, he made clear that he deplored the Soviet domination of Poland, and believed his country was on the wrong side of the Cold War. Over the next nine years, Kuklinski rose quickly in the Polish defense ministry, acting as a liaison to Moscow, and helping to prepare for a hot war with the West. But he also lived a life of subterfuge - of dead drops, messages written in invisible ink, miniature cameras, and secret transmitters. In 1981, he gave the CIA the secret plans to crush Solidarity. the West. He still lives in hiding in America. Kuklinski's story is a harrowing personal drama about one man's decision to betray the Communist leadership in order to save the country he loves. Through extensive interviews and access to the CIA's secret archives on the case, Benjamin Weiser offers an unprecedented and richly detailed look at this secret history of the Cold War.

12 Million Black Voices (Hardcover, Reprint ed.): Richard Wright 12 Million Black Voices (Hardcover, Reprint ed.)
Richard Wright
R831 Discovery Miles 8 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Theodore Roosevelt, Twenty-sixth President of the United States. A Typical American; 2 (Hardcover): Charles Eugene 1852-1932... Theodore Roosevelt, Twenty-sixth President of the United States. A Typical American; 2 (Hardcover)
Charles Eugene 1852-1932 Banks; Created by Le Roy 1854-1927 Armstrong; Joseph 1836-1906 Wheeler
R1,075 Discovery Miles 10 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Life Is Unfair - The Truths And Lies About John F. Kennedy (Hardcover): Eddy J Neyts Life Is Unfair - The Truths And Lies About John F. Kennedy (Hardcover)
Eddy J Neyts
R1,439 Discovery Miles 14 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
German Conspiracies in America [microform] - From an American Point of View, by an American (Hardcover): William H (William... German Conspiracies in America [microform] - From an American Point of View, by an American (Hardcover)
William H (William Henry) 1 Skaggs
R974 Discovery Miles 9 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
After Dictatorship - Instruments of Transitional Justice in Post-Authoritarian Systems (Hardcover): Peter Hoeres, Hubertus Knabe After Dictatorship - Instruments of Transitional Justice in Post-Authoritarian Systems (Hardcover)
Peter Hoeres, Hubertus Knabe
R2,162 R1,750 Discovery Miles 17 500 Save R412 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Numerous studies concerning transitional justice exist. However, comparatively speaking, the effects actually achieved by measures for coming to terms with dictatorships have seldom been investigated. There is an even greater lack of transnational analyses. This volume contributes to closing this gap in research. To this end, it analyses processes of coming to terms with the past in seven countries with different experiences of violence and dictatorship. Experts have drawn up detailed studies on transitional justice in Albania, Argentina, Ethiopia, Chile, Rwanda, South Africa and Uruguay. Their analyses constitute the empirical material for a comparative study of the impact of measures introduced within the context of transitional justice. It becomes clear that there is no sure formula for dealing with dictatorships. Successes and deficits alike can be observed in relation to the individual instruments of transitional justice - from criminal prosecution to victim compensation. Nevertheless, the South American states perform much better than those on the African continent. This depends less on the instruments used than on political and social factors. Consequently, strategies of transitional justice should focus more closely on these contextual factors.

Books on Trial - Red Scare in the Heartland (Hardcover): Shirley A. Wiegand, Wayne A. Wiegand Books on Trial - Red Scare in the Heartland (Hardcover)
Shirley A. Wiegand, Wayne A. Wiegand
R862 Discovery Miles 8 620 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"How civil liberties triumphed over national insecurity"

Between the two major red scares of the twentieth century, a police raid on a Communist Party bookstore in Oklahoma City marked an important lesson in the history of American freedom.

In a raid on the Progressive Bookstore in 1940, local officials seized thousands of books and pamphlets and arrested twenty customers and proprietors. All were detained incommunicado and many were held for months on unreasonably high bail. Four were tried for violating Oklahoma's "criminal syndicalism" law, and their convictions and ten-year sentences caused a nationwide furor. After protests from labor unions, churches, publishers, academics, librarians, the American Civil Liberties Union, members of the literary world, and prominent individuals ranging from Woody Guthrie to Eleanor Roosevelt, the convictions were overturned on appeal.

Shirley A. Wiegand and Wayne A. Wiegand share the compelling story of this important case for the first time. They reveal how state power--with support from local media and businesses--was used to trample individuals' civil rights during an era in which citizens were gripped by fear of foreign subversion.

Richly detailed and colorfully told, "Books on Trial "is a sobering story of innocent people swept up in the hysteria of their times. It marks a fascinating and unnerving chapter in the history of Oklahoma and of the First Amendment. In today's climate of shadowy foreign threats--also full of unease about the way government curtails freedom in the name of protecting its citizens--the past speaks to the present.

Reporting the Siege of Sarajevo (Hardcover): Kenneth Morrison, Paul Lowe Reporting the Siege of Sarajevo (Hardcover)
Kenneth Morrison, Paul Lowe
R3,382 Discovery Miles 33 820 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Siege of Sarajevo remains the longest siege in modern European history, lasting three times longer than the Battle of Stalingrad and over a year longer than the Siege of Leningrad. Reporting the Siege of Sarajevo provides the first detailed account of the reporting of this siege and the role that journalists played in highlighting both military and non-military aspects of it. The book draws on detailed primary and secondary material in English and Bosnian, as well as extensive interviews with international correspondents who covered events in Sarajevo from within siege lines. It also includes hitherto unpublished images taken by the co-author and award-winning photojournalist, Paul Lowe. Together Morrison and Lowe document a relatively short but crucial period in both the history of Bosnia & Herzegovina, the city of Sarajevo and the profession of journalism. The book provides crucial observations and insights into an under-researched aspect of a critical period in Europe's recent history.

Conscription, US Intervention and the Transformation of Ireland 1914-1918 - Divergent Destinies (Hardcover): Emmanuel Destenay Conscription, US Intervention and the Transformation of Ireland 1914-1918 - Divergent Destinies (Hardcover)
Emmanuel Destenay
R3,203 Discovery Miles 32 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book analyses the relationship between the Irish home rule crisis, the Easter Rising of 1916 and the conscription crisis of 1918, providing a broad and comparative study of war and revolution in Ireland at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. Destenay skilfully looks at international and diplomatic perspectives, as well as social and cultural history, to demonstrate how American and British, foreign and domestic policies either thwarted or fed, directly or indirectly, the Irish Revolution. He readdresses-and at times redresses-the well established, but somewhat inaccurate, conclusion that Easter Week 1916 was the major factor in radicalizing nationalist Ireland. This book provides a more nuanced and gradualist account of a transfer of allegiance: how fears of conscription aroused the bitterness and mistrust of civilian populations from August 1914 onwards. By re-situating the Irish Revolution in a global history of empire and anti-colonialism, this book contributes new evidence and new concepts. Destenay convincingly argues that the fears of conscription have been neglected by Irish historiography and this book offers a fresh appraisal of this important period of history.

Light [microform] (Hardcover): Henri 1874-1935 Barbussse Light [microform] (Hardcover)
Henri 1874-1935 Barbussse
R940 Discovery Miles 9 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The AIF in Battle - How the Australian Imperial Force Fought, 1914-1918 (Paperback): Edited by Jean Bou The AIF in Battle - How the Australian Imperial Force Fought, 1914-1918 (Paperback)
Edited by Jean Bou
R1,312 Discovery Miles 13 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

By the end of the First World War the combat formations of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) in both France and the Middle East were considered among the British Empire's most effective troops. While sometimes a source of pride and not a little boasting, how the force came to be so was not due to any inherent national prowess or trait. Instead it was the culmination of years of training, organisational change, battlefield experimentation and hard-won experience-a process that included not just the Australians, but the wider British imperial armies as well. This book brings together some of Australia's foremost military historians to outline how the military neophytes that left Australia's shores in 1914 became the battle winning troops of 1918. It will trace the evolution of several of the key arms of the AIF, including the infantry, the light horse, the artillery, and the flying corps, and also consider how the various arms worked together alongside other troops of the British Empire to achieve a remarkably high level of battlefield effectiveness.

Jesus and John Wayne - How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation (Paperback): Kristin Kobes DuMez Jesus and John Wayne - How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation (Paperback)
Kristin Kobes DuMez
R477 R444 Discovery Miles 4 440 Save R33 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In Jesus and John Wayne, a seventy-five-year history of American evangelicalism, Kristin Kobes Du Mez demolishes the myth that white evangelicals "held their noses" in voting for Donald Trump. Revealing the role of popular culture in evangelicalism, Du Mez shows how evangelicals have worked for decades to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism in the mould of Ronald Reagan, Mel Gibson and above all, John Wayne. As Du Mez observes, the beliefs at the heart of white evangelicalism today preceded Trump and will outlast him.

A Son at the Front (Hardcover): Edith Wharton A Son at the Front (Hardcover)
Edith Wharton
R725 Discovery Miles 7 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Charity Market and Humanitarianism in Britain, 1870-1912 (Hardcover): Sarah Roddy, Julie-Marie Strange, Bertrand Taithe The Charity Market and Humanitarianism in Britain, 1870-1912 (Hardcover)
Sarah Roddy, Julie-Marie Strange, Bertrand Taithe
R3,895 Discovery Miles 38 950 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Manchester University. This book examines the business of charity - including fundraising, marketing, branding, financial accountability and the nexus of benevolence, politics and capitalism - in Britain from the development of the British Red Cross in 1870 to 1912. Whilst most studies focus on the distribution of charity, Sarah Roddy, Julie-Marie Strange and Bertrand Taithe look at the roots of the modern third sector, exploring how charities appropriated features more readily associated with commercial enterprises in order to compete and obtain money, manage and account for that money and monetize compassion. Drawing on a wide range of archival research from Charity Organization Societies, Wood Street Mission, Salvation Army, League of Help and Jewish Soup Kitchen, among many others, The Charity Market and Humanitarianism in Britain, 1870-1912 sheds new light on the history of philanthropy in the Victorian and Edwardian periods.

The U.S. Navy and Its Cold War Alliances, 1945-1953 (Hardcover): Corbin Williamson The U.S. Navy and Its Cold War Alliances, 1945-1953 (Hardcover)
Corbin Williamson
R1,833 Discovery Miles 18 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

After World War I, the U.S. Navy's brief alliance with the British Royal Navy gave way to disagreements over disarmament, fleet size, interpretations of freedom of the seas, and general economic competition. This go-it-alone approach lasted until the next world war, when the U.S. Navy found itself fighting alongside the British, Canadian, Australian, and other Allied navies until the surrender of Germany and Japan. In The U.S. Navy and Its Cold War Alliances, 1945-1953, Corbin Williamson explores the transformation this cooperation brought about in the U.S. Navy's engagement with other naval forces during the Cold War. Like the onetime looming danger of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, growing concerns about the Soviet naval threat drew the U.S. Navy into tight relations with the British, Canadian, and Australian navies. The U.S. Navy and Its Cold War Alliances, 1945-1953, brings to light the navy-to-navy links that political concerns have kept out of the public sphere: a web of informal connections that included personnel exchanges, standardization efforts in equipment and doctrine, combined training and education, and joint planning for a war with the Soviets. Using a 'history from the middle' approach, Corbin Williamson draws upon the archives of all four nations, including documents only recently declassified, to analyze the actions of midlevel officials and officers who managed and maintained these alliances on a day-to-day basis. His work highlights the impact of domestic politics and security concerns on navy-to-navy relations, even as it integrates American naval history with those of Britain, Canada, and Australia. In doing so, the book provides a valuable new perspective on the little-studied but critical transformation of the U.S. Navy's peacetime alliances during the Cold War.

Untold Valor - The Second World War in the Pacific (Hardcover): Rob Morris Untold Valor - The Second World War in the Pacific (Hardcover)
Rob Morris
R771 R656 Discovery Miles 6 560 Save R115 (15%) Out of stock

Military author Rob Morris spent three years tracking down and interviewing veterans of the war in the Pacific, focusing on men who had undergone extreme combat, imprisonment, and/or or sinking. Each stand-alone chapter tells the reader, through the eyes of one to three survivors, what is was like to live through some of the greatest challenges of the Pacific War. From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima, from Bataan to the sinking of the USS Indianapolis, each chapter of untold valour and against-the-odds survival tells an intensely personal tale of young Americans fighting for survival. The book is certain to interest anyone with interest in the Second World War, told with the intensely personal style and attention to background research that has become Morris's trademark.

Wilson, N.C. Directory [1908-1909]; 1 (Hardcover): Hill Directory Company Wilson, N.C. Directory [1908-1909]; 1 (Hardcover)
Hill Directory Company
R861 Discovery Miles 8 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 (Hardcover): Philip 1877-1962 Gibbs From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 (Hardcover)
Philip 1877-1962 Gibbs
R1,038 Discovery Miles 10 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Culture of Samizdat - Literature and Underground Networks in the Late Soviet Union (Hardcover): Josephine Von Zitzewitz The Culture of Samizdat - Literature and Underground Networks in the Late Soviet Union (Hardcover)
Josephine Von Zitzewitz
R3,554 Discovery Miles 35 540 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Samizdat, the production and circulation of texts outside official channels, was an integral part of life in the final decades of the Soviet Union. But as Josephine von Zitzewitz explains, while much is known about the texts themselves, little is available on the complex communities and cultures that existed around them due to their necessarily secretive, and sometimes dissident, nature. By analysing the behaviours of different actors involved in Samizdat - readers, typists, librarians and the editors of periodicals in 1970s Leningrad, The Culture of Samizdat fills this lacuna in Soviet history scholarship. Crucially, as well as providing new insight into Samizdat texts, the book makes use of oral and written testimonies to examine the role of Samizdat activists and employs an interdisciplinary theoretical approach drawing on both the sociology of reading and book history. In doing so, von Zitzewitz uncovers the importance of 'middlemen' for Samizdat culture. Diligently researched and engagingly written, this book will be of great value to scholars of Soviet cultural history and Russian literary studies alike.

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