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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre la ONU, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá:
• Profundizar en el contexto en el que surge la necesidad de crear la ONU, tras el fin de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y de la Sociedad de Naciones
• Descubrir los objetivos y los principios de la ONU, descritos en la Carta de las Naciones Unidas, y la estructura...
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The complete guide to visiting one of the most famous sites in the history of warfare, just in time for the 75th anniversary of D-Day.
The D-Day Visitor's Handbook includes everything you need to know to plan and make your visit to the site of the biggest seaborne invasion in history. Newly updated and revised in time for the 75th anniversary of the battle, this compact guidebook not only describes the most significant land invasion of World War...
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur les Nations unies en moins d'une heure!
Fondée au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, l'Organisation des Nations unies se donne d'emblée des objectifs pour le moins ambitieux. Elle cherche en effet à maintenir la paix et la sécurité à l'échelle mondiale, à développer et à entretenir des relations amicales entre les différentes nations, ainsi qu'à rétablir dans la mesure du possible...
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur la bataille de Koursk en moins d'une heure !
Après la cuisante défaite de Stalingrad, Adolf Hitler a besoin d'un coup d'éclat pour rassurer le peuple allemand et rétablir son prestige. Son choix se porte sur la région de Koursk, un secteur qui forme une avancée dangereuse dans le front allemand. Le 4 juillet 1943, c'est l'assaut ! Mais les Soviétiques sont prêts et attendent les Allemands...
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5545) Denville in World War II
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The bucolic small-town life of Denville in the 1940s would change forever with the outbreak of World War II. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the town mobilized, creating the Denville Local Defense Council, designating air wardens to watch the skies and establishing air raid sirens. Schoolchildren gathered around home radios to learn if there were enough supplies to heat the school, and families learned to live within the confines of a ration book....
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An edited collection of peer-reviewed articles using newly-released sources - British, German and Italian - integrated to form a fascinating narrative of the intelligence-led fight of the British Secret Service in the existential struggle with Nazi Germany. The main sections are: British Secret Warfare and the Nazi Challenge; Counter-Intelligence Against Axis Spies; and Hugh Trevor-Roper and Secret Service. An inside and authentic story with original...
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L'histoire poignante de ces pilotes japonais sacrifiés pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale
A l'heure actuelle, il existe encore des hommes et des femmes qui apprennent, jour après jour, les moindres détails de leur mission suicide, et qui se préparent psychologiquement à sacrifier leur vie à un idéal dont on les a persuadés, à force de manipulations, qu'il était grand et noble. Tels ont été les pilotes kamikazes qu'en un geste désespéré...
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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the history of the United Nations in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the history and principal achievements of the United Nations. The UN was founded in 1945 in the aftermath of the bloodiest war the world had ever seen, with its founding members aiming to maintain international peace and security and prevent destruction on such a...
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Discover the Thrill of Owning and Shooting the M1 Garand!
See why today's shooters prefer the reliability and firepower of
the Garand - for survival, competition and fun!
Few American firearms have stood the test of time like the M1
Garand. The World War II-era semi-automatic rifle designed by John C. Garand has
been immortalized by General George S. Patton, who described it as "The
greatest battle implement ever devised." It embodies the...
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Following her acclaimed memoirs Against the Stream and Out of Passau, Anna Rosmus revisits the crimes perpetrated in her German hometown during the Second World War Passau, a small Bavarian city situated along the border with Austria, had gone decades without acknowledging the roles-however small or large-its citizenry played in the atrocities of World War II. When Anna Rosmus attempted to rectify this oversight, she was met with praise from everywhere...
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Bernard Law Montgomery was a dedicated battlefield tactician, though a controversial one. In North Africa in 1942, he commanded the Eighth Army to a great triumph against Rommel at El Alamein, which Churchill hailed as the beginning of the end of the war. During the planning stages for the invasion of Sicily, Montgomery proved himself to be a splendid organizer and a great believer in simplicity. But he was also known as a complicated man whose legacy...
5553) Overture of Hope
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“Schindler's List” meets “The Sound of Music” as best-selling New York Post investigative journalist Isabel Vincent delves into pre-World-War-II history to recover the amazing story of two British spinsters who masterminded a plan to spirit dozens of Jewish stars and personnel of the German and Austrian opera to England and save them from a terrible fate under the Third Reich. Will resonate with readers of “The Nazi Officer's Wife” and...
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While World War II raged overseas, the people of midcoast Maine responded with remarkable achievements on the homefront. The shipyard at Bath Iron Works launched a new destroyer every seventeen days. Bowdoin College had more military than civilian students and held three commencements per year. Boothbay Harbor, Bailey Island and Damariscotta all had military bases, and anyone who owned or sailed a boat was recruited for coastal defense. Women worked...
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When WWII ends, Bruce Duncan, a battlefront surgeon, returns home to a small town in Pennsylvania with plans of opening a general practice, fly fishing in his spare time, and forgetting the past. But the ravages of his war aren't over. Haunted by images of soldiers he tried to save, his own near-death experiences, and the love he lost, Bruce has little respite before new battles grip him. His brother, a decorated fighter pilot, is sinking fast and...
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A comprehensive look at World War II battle sites in the German capital.
On April 16, 1945, the Red Army unleashed a colossal offensive against Berlin with the aim of destroying Hitler's armies in the East and capturing the German capital before the Western Allies. Over two million soldiers confronted each other in the last act in the war against Nazi Germany.
In the course of the next three weeks, relentless Soviet assaults crashed against a desperate,...
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Michael Haskew takes us on a tremendous journey through de Gaulle's pivotal years, his leadership of the resistance, and beyond to understand the man who remade both modern military tactics and global leadership.
Charles de Gaulle once stated, "France has no friends, only interests," and it was this strength of mind and love of country that took the region from an occupied territory during World War II to a leader in the Allied cause. Convinced that...
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Lieutenant General Andrey Andreyevich Wlassow (or Vlasov) was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, the Soviet Union's first, and at the time highest, military decoration. This was in recognition of his handling of the 37th Army when Hitler's forces invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, and for his efforts in the defence of Moscow. But during the siege of Leningrad in 1942 he was taken prisoner. During his time in captivity, Wlassow defected to the Germans....
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre la batalla de Stalingrado, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá:
• Descubrir el contexto político y social en el que se enmarca la batalla de Stalingrado, en plena Operación Azul de los alemanes, dispuestos a doblegar a los soviéticos
• Profundizar en las biografías y actuaciones de los dos personajes...
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The Nazis believed their mission was to 'masculinize' life in Germany. Hermann Goering told women, 'Take a pot, a dustpan and a broom, and marry a man,' but many still became active participants in murder and mayhem.
From the Reich Bride Schools through the Bund Deutscher Mädel and the bizarre Lebensborn Aryan breeding programme to the brothels of the Sicherheitsdienst, this book covers the lives of women in the Third Reich, concentrating on those...
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