Rising 44

Author : Norman Davies
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780330475747

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Rising '44 by Norman Davies Pdf

Rising '44 is a brilliant narrative account of one of the most dramatic episodes in 20th century history, drawing on Davies' unique understanding of the issues and characters involved. In August 1944 Warsaw offered the Wehrmacht the last line of defence against the Red Army's march from Moscow to Berlin. When the Red Army reached the river Vistula, the people of Warsaw believed that liberation had come. The Resistance took to the streets in celebration, but the Soviets remained where they were, allowing the Wehrmacht time to regroup and Hitler to order that the city of Warsaw be razed to the ground. For 63 days the Resistance fought on in the cellars and the sewers. Defenceless citizens were slaughtered in their tens of thousands. One by one the City's monuments were reduced to rubble, watched by Soviet troops on the other bank of the river. The Allies expressed regret but decided that there was nothing to be done, Poland would not be allowed to be governed by Poles. The sacrifice was in vain and the Soviet tanks rolled in to the flattened city. It is a hugely dramatic story, vividly and authoritatively told by one of our greatest historians.

Author : Norman Davies
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39076002809965

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Rising '44 by Norman Davies Pdf

In a brilliant narrative of one of the most dramatic episodes in twentieth-century history, Davies spotlights sixty-three days in 1944 when the Wehrmacht crushed the Polish Resistance in Warsaw, slaughtered thousands and destroyed the city.

Author : Alexander Gillespie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847318626

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A History of the Laws of War: Volume 2 by Alexander Gillespie Pdf

This unique new work of reference traces the origins of the modern laws of warfare from the earliest times to the present day. Relying on written records from as far back as 2400 BCE, and using sources ranging from the Bible to Security Council Resolutions, the author pieces together the history of a subject which is almost as old as civilisation itself. The author shows that as long as humanity has been waging wars it has also been trying to find ways of legitimising different forms of combatants and ascribing rules to them, protecting civilians who are either inadvertently or intentionally caught up between them, and controlling the use of particular classes of weapons that may be used in times of conflict. Thus it is that this work is divided into three substantial parts: Volume 1 on the laws affecting combatants and captives; Volume 2 on civilians; and Volume 3 on the law of arms control. This second book on civilians examines four different topics. The first topic deals with the targetting of civilians in times of war. This discussion is one which has been largely governed by the developments of technologies which have allowed projectiles to be discharged over ever greater areas, and attempts to prevent their indiscriminate utilisation have struggled to keep pace. The second topic concerns the destruction of the natural environment, with particular regard to the utilisation of starvation as a method of warfare, and unlike the first topic, this one has rarely changed over thousands of years, although contemporary practices are beginning to represent a clear break from tradition. The third topic is concerned with the long-standing problems of civilians under the occupation of opposing military forces, where the practices of genocide, collective punishments and/or reprisals, and rape have occurred. The final topic in this volume is about the theft or destruction of the property of the enemy, in terms of either pillage or the intentional devastation of the cultural property of the opposition. As a work of reference this set of three books is unrivalled, and will be of immense benefit to scholars and practitioners researching and advising on the laws of warfare. It also tells a story which throws fascinating new light on the history of international law and on the history of warfare itself.

Author : Edward Tuckerman Mason
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : HARVARD:HWPLTK

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Wordsworth. Coleridge. Lamb. Hazlitt. Leigh Hunt. Proctor by Edward Tuckerman Mason Pdf

Author : Edward Tuckerman Mason
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015470185

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Scott by Edward Tuckerman Mason Pdf

Author : Edward Tuckerman Mason
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : NYPL:33433067285274

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Scott. Hogg. Campbell. Chalmers. Wilson. De Quincey. Jeffrey by Edward Tuckerman Mason Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C2622251

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The Railway Engineer by Anonim Pdf

Author : Daniel Balderston
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1993-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0822313162

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Out of Context by Daniel Balderston Pdf

By providing the historical context for some of the writer's best-loved and least understood works, this study gives us a new sense of Borges' place within the context of contemporary literature.

Author : M. Azmitia
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781978595446

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Rising Out by M. Azmitia Pdf

Anaya knows great things are expected of her: go to college, find a good man, and make her mother proud. But going to college means leaving behind her best friend, Eri. Eri is an Afrolatina transgender woman living in a closed-minded world and only Anaya knows her secret. The two decide to take a cross-country road trip, where Eri is finally able to open up to who she is, and Anaya finds out that she might be in love with her best friend.

Author : John Richard Green
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UCAL:$B749016

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History of the English People by John Richard Green Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PSU:000019268613

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Long-term Strategies for Health Care by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means Pdf

Abstract: This hearing transcript debates the current administration's degree of support for pursuing the problem of freeing the environment of lead, which is poisoning approximately 3 million American each year.

Author : Paul Gordon Guest
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Anesthesia
ISBN : MINN:319510003785721

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Static Electricity in Hospital Operating Suites by Paul Gordon Guest Pdf

Author : Irene Rima Makaryk,Marissa McHugh
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781442644021

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Shakespeare and the Second World War by Irene Rima Makaryk,Marissa McHugh Pdf

Shakespeare's works occupy a prismatic and complex position in world culture: they straddle both the high and the low, the national and the foreign, literature and theatre. The Second World War presents a fascinating case study of this phenomenon: most, if not all, of its combatants have laid claim to Shakespeare and have called upon his work to convey their society's self-image. In wartime, such claims frequently brought to the fore a crisis of cultural identity and of competing ownership of this 'universal' author. Despite this, the role of Shakespeare during the Second World War has not yet been examined or documented in any depth. Shakespeare and the Second World War provides the first sustained international, collaborative incursion into this terrain. The essays demonstrate how the wide variety of ways in which Shakespeare has been recycled, reviewed, and reinterpreted from 1939–1945 are both illuminated by and continue to illuminate the War today.

Author : Asiatic Society (Kolkata, India)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 994 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Asia
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119137078

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Journal by Asiatic Society (Kolkata, India) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Asia
ISBN : HARVARD:32044106340383

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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal by Anonim Pdf