Into Exile: A Life Story of War and Peace, Paperback - Elin Toona Gottschalk

Reducere. In September 1944, seven-year old Elin, her mother and grandmother fled Estonia ahead of the advancing Soviet Army escaping the risk of deportation...

From the celebrated author of Border, here is a portrait of an ancient but little-understood corner of Balkans, and a personal reckoning with the p...

Reducere. The first history of the epic defeat of Napoleon's empire told from the Russian perspective. Though much has been written about Napoleon's doomed i...

Publisher: Good Read PublishingAuthor(s): Paul HenkeNumber of pages: 639Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 176 x 110 x 30Cover type: Paperback / sof...

Description"If you want peace, prepare for war." "A buildup of offensive weapons can be purely defensive." "The worst road may be the best route to...

Reducere. Hugo Grotius lived during Eighty and Thirty Years' Wars which influenced his concern with the issues of conflicts between nations and religions. Th...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Provides a view of global diplomacy during one of the most tumultuous periods in UN history. This title shows readers a world where solutions are a...

Sixteen life-changing live music events are looked at to address how music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries has interacted with politics...

Reducere. Part memoir, part reportage, Louder Than Bombs is a story of music from the front lines. Ed Vulliamy, a decorated war correspondent and journalist,...

A global history of world politics, offering a corrective to Western views of history and diplomacy. The East/West spanning approach allows Holslag...

Policymakers, legislators, scientists, thinkers, military strategists, academics, and indeed all with an interest in understanding the future want ...

Reducere. Description"A story of love and courage amid brutality and terror, this is the testimony of a child who has endured the unthinkable." --J.K. Rowlin...

From the award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov comes this magnificent new translation of Tolstoy's masterwork.War a...

A fine tribute to the unsung heroes and vessels during war and peace which is complemented with many evocative photographs.Publisher: Whittles Publ...

Reducere. Hailed as one of the greatest novels of all time and a classic of world literature, War and Peace unfolds in the early nineteenth century during th...

A new edition of the classic Russian novel, published to tie in with a new 6-part BBC TV adaptation. With an introduction by the screenwriter, Andr...

Reducere. Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once an epic of the Napoleonic Wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of ...

'A fascinating collection of military stories ... The sort of book that can be picked up at intervals ... [but] once tasted, is hard to put down' W...

Published to coincide with the centenary of Tolstoy's death, here is an exciting new edition of one of the great literary works of world literature...

From Hannah Arendt's "banality of evil" to Joseph Conrad's "fascination of the abomination, " humankind has struggled to make sense of human-upon-h...

Reducere. DescriptionBattles, protests, standoffs, strikes. We hear about them all the time. On the surface, a battle and a protest don't seem to have much i...

Travel writer Julia Cooke's exhilarating portrait of Pan Am stewardesses in the Mad Men era.Publisher: Icon BooksAuthor(s): Julia CookeIllustration...

A powerful and poignant memoir of survival and resistance by the critically acclaimed author of She Would Be King, about her family's dramatic esca...

Reducere. Rage & Revenge is a terrifying, up-close and personal look at what war and its aftermath are really like. For too long, the true nature of combat a...

The Armistice of 1918 brought ceasefire to the war on the Western Front, but 'the Great War' would not as hoped be 'the war to end all wars'.

Reducere. DescriptionDe jure belli ac pacis (English: On the Law of War and Peace) is a 1625 book in Latin, written by Hugo Grotius and published in Paris, o...

Reducere. On a pier in Marseille in 1942, with desperate refugees pressing to board one of the last ships to escape France before the Nazis choked off its po...

DescriptionAfter the death of Joanie Holzer Schirm's parents in 2000, she found hundreds of letters, held together by rusted paperclips and stamped...

3, 000 Years of War and Peace in the Maya Lowlands presents the cutting-edge research of 25 authors in the fields of archaeology, biological anthro...

Clearly and accessibly written, Dixon provides a lively introduction to the nature and politics of the Northern Ireland conflict and of successive ...

This final volume of John C. G. R hl's acclaimed biography of Kaiser Wilhelm II reveals the Kaiser's central role in the origins of the First World...

Reducere. This book is about a child, a semi-orphan, with an absentee mother, who was a professional athlete. The child grew up in a communist system without...

Edited by one of the most renowned scholars in the field, this reader assembles classic and contemporary readings on enduring problems of internati...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Hundred Years' War, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one book: The Hundred...

Reducere. Pave Low. The term itself generates an image: a dark, wispy night; a low, pulsating rumble approaching from the distance. The rumble becomes a pres...

A lively introduction to one of the oldest but still most relevant ethical debates. The third edition has been revised and updated throughout. The ...

Reducere. The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into the concentration camp, Buna-Monow...

A study of how artists and photographers shaped imperial visions of war and peace in the Victorian periodPublisher: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies ...

Reducere. War is hell so is peace tells one man's story of the realities of a Vietnam veteran's road to peace. Learn how ourVietnam veterans trullcy desire t...

Reducere. Brian Castner served three tours of duty in the Middle East, two of them in Iraq as the head of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit. Whenever IEDs ...

Reducere. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "The plot provided by the universe was filled with starvation, war and rape. I would not--could not--live in that tale....

The strangely named First Aid Nursing Yeomanry traces its origins to the Great War.

This epic autobiography will grip all whose lives have been touched by Jennifer Rees Larcombe, and surprise those who thought they already knew her...

Publisher: Anthem PressAuthor(s): Jeffrey S. ReznickNumber of pages: 226Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 160 x 235 x 23Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

Reducere. 2018 Book Prize from the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies 2018 Vine Award for Canadian Jewish Literature in Nonfiction from the Ko...

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