Автор: Piotr S. Wandycz
Издательство: University of Washington Press
Год издания: 1993
isbn: 0295953586
Количество страниц: 431
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
The Lands of Partitioned Poland, 1795-1918 comprehensively covers an important, complex, and controversial period in the history of Poland and East Central Europe, beginning in 1795 when the remnanst of the Polish Commonwealth were distributed among Prussia, Austria, and Russia, and culminating in 1918 with the re-establishment of an independent Polish state. Until this thorough and authoritative study, literature on the subject in English has been limited to a few chapters in multiauthored works. Chronologically, Wandycz traces the histories of the lands under Prussian, Austrian, and Russian rule, pointing out their divergent evolution as well as the threads that bound them together. The result is a balanced, comprehensive picture of the social, political, economic, and cultural developments of all nationalities inhabiting the land of the old commonwealth, rather than a limited history of one state (Poland) and one people (the Poles).
Автор: William K. Klingaman
Издательство: Harper & Row
Год издания: 1989
isbn: 0060972513
Количество страниц: 689
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
This book is a collection of accounts about the crucial year in world history. The Versailles Peace Conference takes center stage, while many other details, including the baseball season which will culminate with the Black Sox scandal, social trends of great and minor import (Prohibition and Votes for Women, as well as new fashion trends), Herbert Hoover's observations on the humanitarian crisis the world faced in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, and revolutionary fervor in Germany, Russia, Ireland, India, and elsewhere, are interspersed throughout the book, giving us a feel of what life was like in 1919. One world war comes to an end while the roots of a second begin, the shooting continues in eastern Europe, and the seeds of future wars are planted in the Middle East.
Автор: Michael F. Hamm
Издательство: Princeton University Press
Год издания: 1993
isbn: 069103253X
Количество страниц: 304
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
In an "urban biography," Michael Hamm tells the story of one of Europe's most diverse cities and its distinctive mix of Ukrainian, Polish, Russian, and Jewish inhabitants. A splendid urban center in medieval times, Kiev became a major metropolis in late Imperial Russia, and is now the capital of independent Ukraine. After a concise account of Kiev's early history, Hamm focuses on the city's dramatic growth in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The first historian to analyze how each of Kiev's ethnic groups contributed to the vitality of the city's culture, he also examines the violent conflicts that developed among them. He shows why Kiev came to be known for its "abundance of revolutionaries" and its anti-Semitic violence. This carefully detailed account reveals another side of the city's history. It helps to put present events in context, showing that at least one of the 'new' nationalisms in the former Soviet Union has old and very deep roots.
Автор: Anne Rooney
Издательство: Arcturus Publishing Ltd
Год издания: 2006
isbn: 1841934127
Количество страниц: 210
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
Got a thirst for knowledge of all things nasty? Then this yuckopedia’s for you! A team of cartoon characters guides you through a feast of festering facts so horrible they’re hard to believe. Featuring gross truths about the human body, food, animals, history, science, and even world records in horribleness, it’s a real education in all things rotten . . . Enter ye not, those of a weak constitution . . .
Автор: Leroy Thompson
Издательство: Greenhill Books
Год издания: 2002
isbn: 1853675067
Количество страниц: 74
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
Leroy Thompson documents the various airborne, infantry, recon and amphibious sectors as they have grown in response to conflicts in Vietnam, the Middle East, Latin America, and to the increasing threat of terrorism on the home front. More than 100 rare and unusual photographs cover the uniforms, equipment and insignia of formations such as Ranger battalions; LRRP units; Special Forces Groups (Airborne); USAF combat control teams; pararescuemen and PJs; Navy Seals; Marine Recons and Delta.
Автор: John Langellier
Издательство: Greenhill Books
Год издания: 1999
isbn: 1853673579
Количество страниц: 74
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
A remarkable study of an age that incorporated the spirit of the nineteenth-century with the technology of modern aggression One hundred years ago American colonial ambition found expression in the seizure and occupation of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines, and intervention in the Boxer Rebellion in China. These military enterprises cast the American Army in a dramatic new role; the G.I.s had to suddenly adapt from policing the American interior to sustaining an international power in far-flung corners of the world.
Автор: Christopher J. Anderson
Издательство: Greenhill Books
Год издания: 1997
isbn: 1853672904
Количество страниц: 73
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
General George Patton was one of the most successful generals of World War II and arguably one of America's greatest commanders. His army marched further and more quickly than any other Allied army during the 1944-45 campaign in Europe, and its contribution to the Allied victory was enormous. More than 100 photographs in this volume show what uniforms the American G.I.s who served under Patton wore, what weapons they had, and what equipment they carried, from their landing in France to the German surrender.
The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road 1567-1659: The Logistics of Spanish Victory and Defeat in the Low Countries' Wars (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History)
Автор: Geoffrey Parker
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год издания: 1975
isbn: 0521084628, 0521099072
Количество страниц: 309
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
The publication of The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road marked the birth of the "new military history", which emphasized military organization--mobilization, pay, supply, morale and, above all, logistics--rather than military "events" such as sieges and battles.
Автор: Michael Khodarkovsky
Издательство: Indiana University Press
Год издания: 2002
isbn: 0253217709, 9780253217707
Количество страниц: 290
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
Drawing on sources and archival materials in Russian and Turkic languages, Russia's Steppe Frontier presents a complex picture of the encounter between indigenous peoples and the Russians. An original and invaluable resource for understanding Russia's imperial experience.
Автор: Paul Johnson
Издательство: Harper Perennial
isbn: 0060922826
Количество страниц: 1095
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
This hefty book is a chronicle of the period that laid the foundations of the modern world. From the terrible conflicts of this century we have learned that, in addition to the devastation they wreak, big wars can accelerate ongoing innovations in organization and material technologies that will in turn expand the scale, complexity, and logistical reach of those human communities able to recover quickly from the conflagrations. Just so, Paul Johnson boldly argues in this vast and vastly rich book, the matrix of the modern world was largely formed in the years between the battles of Waterloo and New Orleans in 1815 and the overthrow of the restored French monarchy in 1830. According to Johnson, modernity was conceived in the 1780′s. But the actual birth, delayed by the long, destructive gestation period formed by the Napoleonic wars, could begin in full measure only when peace came and the immense new resources in finance, management, science, and technology which were now available could be put to constructive purposes.
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