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Discover the key battles, tactics, technologies and turning points of the First World War - the epic conflict that was supposed to be "the war to end all wars". With authoritative, exciting text, The World War I Book explores the historical background to the war, its causes, all of key events...

Den økonomiske vækst i Jugoslavien aftager med udgangen af 1960erne. Samtidig øges den politiske undertrykkelse og censur. En ny forfatning i 1974 skal imødegå den økonomiske og politiske krise, men i stedet slipper det nationalistiske monster ud af flasken. Titos død i 1980 efterlader et...

Ved indgangen til 1946 lever drømmene hos familien Tsirkul og det jugoslaviske folk, hvor freden er vundet efter nazisternes besættelse. Petr og Laura venter deres første barn, mens landet omstiller sig fra krig til fred og fra kongedømme til kommunisme. Petr kæmper med fortrængte dæmoner...

With authoritative, exciting text, The World War I Book explores the historical background to the war, its causes, all of key events across the major theatres of conflict, and its aftermath. Using the original approach of the series, entries profile more than 90 of the key events during and surrounding the conflict - from tensions between Europe's major powers to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the German invasion of Belgium, the endless slaughter in the trenches, the American entry into the war, the Russian Revolution, the Armistice, and the creation of the League of Nations.

You might already know that World War I was the Great War, and be familiar with its images; muddy trenches, poison gas, and a no-man's land of craters and barbed wire. But when it comes to understanding its causes, why it dragged on for four years, and how it set the stage for World War II, you...

The Complete Idiots Guide to World War II features coverage of the fateful D-Day invasion, a critical timeline of major WW II events, and a WW II timeline highlighting the crucial and most important events of the war. It also includes details about major battles on land, in the air, and on the...

The Complete Idiots Guide to World War II features coverage of the fateful D-Day invasion, a critical timeline of major WW II events, and a WW II timeline highlighting the crucial and most important events of the war. It also includes details about major battles on land, in the air, and on the...

You might already know that World War I was the Great War, and be familiar with its images; muddy trenches, poison gas, and a no-man's land of craters and barbed wire. But when it comes to understanding its causes, why it dragged on for four years, and how it set the stage for World War II, you...

Medal of Honor recipient Jack H. Lucas’s classic memoir of his heroics at the Battle of Iwo Jima—with a foreword by Bob Dole and reissued to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the battle in 2020. On February 20, 1945, the second day of the assault on Iwo Jima—one of the bloodiest...