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Join us as we explore the pivotal State of the Union addresses delivered by President Gerald Ford during a transformative period in American history. These speeches not only reflect the state of the nation but also reveal the legislative priorities and challenges faced by the President in collaboration with Congress. This collection offers a unique opportunity to hear firsthand the vision and aspirations put forth by Ford during his presidency. - Summary by KevinS

An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Secret War. Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the...

El país cambió en los últimos años de la dictadura. La censura empezó a relajarse. Hubo una explosión cultural en el cine, la música, la televisión y las publicaciones. Los españoles habían modernizado su vida con esfuerzo. Las familias compraban una vivienda, un coche, electrodomésticos; iban al cine, a la universidad, leían y se divertían. Jorge Vilches realiza un retrato certero, entre lo sociológico, lo cultural y lo político, de cómo se llegó al año de la muerte de Franco, y nos devuelve una imagen documentada de cómo éramos, con lo positivo y lo negativo.

The last half century has seen society, technology, the character of conflict and the British Army itself all change greatly. From a low point in the 1970s, the Army’s war fighting capability increased in the 1980s in the face of a prospective war with the Soviet Union. This capability was then tested on operations from Kuwait in 1991 through to Afghanistan in 2001 and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Dansk Kriminalreportage indeholder en lang række spændende autentiske sager, som er skrevet af de politifolk, der var med i opklaringsarbejdet. Sagerne er alle afsluttede, og domsfældelse har fundet sted. Det er hæsblæsende læsning, og ofte overgår virkeligheden fantasien. Læseren kommer med ind bag nogle af de mest dramatiske sager i dansk politihistorie, og får stiftet bekendtskab med det puslespil, det er at finde frem til gerningsmændene.

Ghostriders: Mors De Caelis is a comprehensive history of AC-130 gunship combat operations in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. The story begins with the first AC-130 in 1968, and ends in 1975 at the end of the war in Vietnam. It tells the life and death stories of Spectre crews, who faced extreme danger while hunting trucks on the Ho Chi Minh Trail and providing fire support for US and allied ground forces.

The writing of Death of a President, William Manchester's award-winning account of President Kennedy's assassination, is the topic of the title essay in this collection, as it was a controversy like few others, pitting one of the most prominent historians of the day against Jackie Kennedy, the most famous and private widow in the world. The essay provides an insider's account of the struggle to see the book published.

Featuring material only recently discovered in the archives of Swedish television, here is the Black Power movement as you've never heard it. Based on the award-winning documentary of the same name, Black Power Mixtape presents powerful interviews with Stokely Carmichael, Angela Davis, and others who shaped the struggle of their day. Mixed with the contemporary reflections of leading activists, musicians, and scholars, this book aims to introduce a new generation to the legacy of Black Power.

Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975) led the Republic of China for almost fifty years, starting in 1926. He was the architect of a new republican China, a hero of the Second World War, and a faithful ally of the United States. Simultaneously a Christian and a Confucian, Chiang dreamed of universal equality yet was a perfidious and cunning dictator responsible for the deaths of over 1.5 million innocent people. This critical biography is based on Chiang Kai-shek's unpublished diaries, his extensive personal files from the Russian archives, and the Russian files of his relatives, associates, and foes.

The second of a two-volume biography of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter by historian E. Stanly Godbold, Jr., this book offers a comprehensive account of the professional and personal lives of the powerful couple who have worked together as reformers in Georgia, President and First Lady of the United States, and founders of the Carter Center to promote international health, conflict resolution, and democracy.

Spagna 20/11/ 1975 Franco muore di vecchiaia: dopo 36 anni di dittatura si apre un periodo di incertezza e speranza : inizia la transizione alla democrazia con la musica della Movida Madrilena a fare da colonna sonora a quegli anni.Il podcast racconterà quegli anni inevitabilmente straordinari ma cosi poco conosciuti alle nostre latitudini: la morte di Franco, la successione di Juan Carlos I , le legge per la riforma politica, le grandi manifestazioni per l'amnistia e la libertà, gli eccidi di via Atocha e di Vitoria, le prime elezioni libere, la stagione di sangue dell'Eta, Madrid come ...