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  • The Great Boer War

    par Byron Farwell ...
    The story of the battle for independence from the British Empire in South Africa by " a vivid chronicler of military forces, generals, and wars" ( Kirkus Reviews).The Great Boer War (1899-1902), more properly known as the Great Anglo-Boer War, was one of the last romantic wars, pitting a sturdy, stubborn pioneer people fighting to establish the independence of their tiny nation against the British ... En savoir plus

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    The Great Anglo-Boer War

    par Byron Farwell ...
    Lu par Nigel Patterson ...

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    23 heure 24 min

    The Great Boer War (1899–1902)—more properly the Great Anglo-Boer War—was one of the last romantic wars, pitting a sturdy, stubborn pioneer people fighting to establish the independence of their tiny nation against the British Empire at its peak of power and self-confidence. It was fought in the barren vastness of the South African veldt, and it produced in almost equal measure extraordinary feats ... En savoir plus

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    Burton

    A Biography of Sir Richard Frances Burton

    par Byron Farwell ...
    Lu par Simon Vance ...

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    18 heure 38 min

    Explorer and inventor, soldier and poet, archaeologist and diplomat, Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890) was the most versatile and remarkable man of his age. But he was foremost an adventurer: “an adventurer in the intellectual and the spiritual as well as the physical world.” The pioneering traveler in Central Africa who discovered Lake Tanganyika was also the translator of The Arabian Nights and ... En savoir plus

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  • The Grand Scuttle

    The Sinking of the German Fleet at Scapa Flow in 1919

    par Dan van der Vat ...
    A true account of a unique event in naval history from "a superb storyteller" ( Northern Mariner).On June 21, 1919, the German High Seas Fleet, one of the most formidable ever built, was deliberately sent to the bottom of the sea at the British Grand Fleet's principal anchorage at Orkney by its own officers and men.The Grand Scuttle became a folk legend in both Germany and Britain. However, few ... En savoir plus

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  • Slaughter at Sea

    The Story of Japan's Naval War Crimes

    par Mark Felton ...
    The author of Japan's Gestapo details the atrocities committed by the Japanese Navy during World War II.While the Japanese Navy followed many of the British Royal Navy's traditions and structures, it had a totally different approach to the treatment of its foes. Author Mark Felton has uncovered a plethora of outrages against both servicemen and civilians that make chilling and shocking reading. ... En savoir plus

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  • Death March Through Russia

    par Klaus Willmann ...
    This World War II memoir by a Nazi soldier details his unimaginable experience as a German prisoner-of-war in the Soviet Union.Lothar Hermann grew up in Bavaria, going through the RAD (Nazi Labor Service) before being conscripted into a Wehrmacht Mountain Division (the Gebirgsdivision) in 1940. He participated in Germany's advance through southern Ukraine in 1941 and, in 1944, was arrested in ... En savoir plus

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  • The Real Dirt on America's Frontier Legends

    par Jim Motavalli ...
    Collections series The Real Dirt
    Learn the truth behind the famous characters of the Wild West—and how the legends got it wrong—in this lively history that separates fact from fiction.The historic figures of the Western frontier have fascinated us for generations. But in many cases, the stories we know about them are little more than inventions. Popular legend won't tell you, for instance, that David Crockett was a congressman, ... En savoir plus

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  • The Sea and the Second World War

    Maritime Aspects of a Global Conflict

    par Marcus Faulkner, Alessio Patalano ...
    Collections series New Perspectives on the Second World War
    An in-depth study of World War II's naval operations. "Rarely does a collection of essays offer so many new and persuasive assessments. Well done!"—Professor David Snead, Liberty UniversityThe sea shaped the course and conduct of World War II, from the first moments of the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, to the Japanese surrender on September 2, 1945. The impact could be felt far ... En savoir plus

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  • Rome, Blood & Politics

    Reform, Murder and Popular Politics in the Late Republic, 133–70 BC

    par Gareth C. Sampson ...
    This in-depth chronicle examines the series of political upheavals that led to division, violence, and civil war in the ancient Roman Republic.The last century of the Roman Republic saw the consensus of the ruling elite shattered by a series of high-profile politicians who proposed political or social reform programs, many of which culminated in acts of bloodshed on the streets of Rome itself. ... En savoir plus

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  • Serving the Reich

    The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler

    par Philip Ball ...
    This historical analysis of Heisenberg, Planck, Debye, and other German physicists during WWII "is a stunning cautionary tale, well researched and told" ( Choice).After World War II, most scientists in Germany maintained that they had been apolitical or actively resisted the Nazi regime, but the true story is much more complicated. In Serving the Reich, Philip Ball takes a fresh look at that ... En savoir plus

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  • The Spanish Flu Epidemic and Its Influence on History

    par Jaime Breitnauer ...
    A look at the 1918 influenza pandemic from its outbreak to its effects on the global population and its legacy.On the second Monday of March, 1918, the world changed forever. What seemed like a harmless cold morphed into a global pandemic that would wipe out as many as a hundred-million people—ten times as many as the Great War. German troops faltered, lending the allies the winning advantage, and ... En savoir plus

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  • The Devil's Doctors

    Japanese Human Experiments on Allied Prisoners of War

    par Mark Felton ...
    The author of Guarding Hitler delivers "a study revealing the Japanese use of Allied POWs in medical experiments during WWII."—The GuardianThe brutal Japanese treatment of Allied POWs in WW2 has been well documented. The experiences of British, Australian and American POWs on the Burma Railway, in the mines of Formosa and in camps across the Far East, were bad enough. But the mistreatment of those ... En savoir plus

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