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Was the outcome of the First World War on a knife edge? In this
major new account of German wartime politics and strategy Holger
Afflerbach argues that the outcome of the war was actually in the
balance until relatively late in the war. Using new evidence from
diaries, letters and memoirs, he fundamentally revises our
understanding of German strategy from the decision to go to war and
the failure of the western offensive to the radicalisation of
Germany's war effort under Hindenburg and Ludendorff and the
ultimate collapse of the Central Powers. He uncovers the struggles
in wartime Germany between supporters of peace and hardliners who
wanted to fight to the finish. He suggests that Germany was not
nearly as committed to all-out conquest as previous accounts argue.
Numerous German peace advances could have offered the opportunity
to end the war before it dragged Europe into the abyss.
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 It also includes hitherto unpublished images taken by the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.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SALTIRE SOCIETY FIRST BOOK OF THE YEAR Remzije
Sherifi worked as a journalist with Radio Gjilan in Kosova. She
lost her job, and almost her life, as the Milosevic regime steadily
tightened its grip on the Albanian people who lived there. In
Shadow Behind The Sun she recounts her family's history, shining a
new light on the terrible events of the 1990s. Beside the history
of the Kosovar people she describes the plight of Asylum Seekers in
the here and now. The shadow of past events stands behind the
sunrise of every new constitutional or social development. Can they
be forgotten? Should they be forgotten? Now a British citizen
Remzije has made her commitment to Asylum Seekers and other
refugees, working with the Maryhill Integration Network in Glasgow.
Through her story, Remzije Sherifi is revealed as a compassionate
and visionary presence in difficult and changing times.
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.
To understand the turnaround in Spain's stance towards Japan during
World War II, this book goes beyond mutual contacts and explains
through images, representations, and racism why Madrid aimed at
declaring war on Japan but not against the III Reich -as London
ironically replied when it learned of Spain's warmongering against
one of the Axis members.
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