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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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War
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
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Pages : 94
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War & Peace
Author: graf Leo Tolstoy
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Category : Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Category : Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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To Desire Desire
Author: Andrew B. Perry
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595218954
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This book is an anthology of poetry of the highest quality, revolutionizing the field of poetry. Some of the themes considered are: love,peace,death,war,friendship,hatred, the tragedies of September 11, heroism, mathematics, proof, and life in general. All poetry in this anthology is deep and profound. In the unlikely event that any reader feels otherwise, it is only because they don't understand poetry.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595218954
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This book is an anthology of poetry of the highest quality, revolutionizing the field of poetry. Some of the themes considered are: love,peace,death,war,friendship,hatred, the tragedies of September 11, heroism, mathematics, proof, and life in general. All poetry in this anthology is deep and profound. In the unlikely event that any reader feels otherwise, it is only because they don't understand poetry.
War and Peace
Author: graf Leo Tolstoy
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Category : Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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Category : Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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And this is War
Author: Carl Hermon Dudley
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Category : War
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Category : War
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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The Unwomanly Face of War
Author: Svetlana Alexievich
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0399588736
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
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A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia—from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • The Guardian • NPR • The Economist • Milwaukee Journal Sentinel • Kirkus Reviews For more than three decades, Svetlana Alexievich has been the memory and conscience of the twentieth century. When the Swedish Academy awarded her the Nobel Prize, it cited her invention of “a new kind of literary genre,” describing her work as “a history of emotions . . . a history of the soul.” In The Unwomanly Face of War, Alexievich chronicles the experiences of the Soviet women who fought on the front lines, on the home front, and in the occupied territories. These women—more than a million in total—were nurses and doctors, pilots, tank drivers, machine-gunners, and snipers. They battled alongside men, and yet, after the victory, their efforts and sacrifices were forgotten. Alexievich traveled thousands of miles and visited more than a hundred towns to record these women’s stories. Together, this symphony of voices reveals a different aspect of the war—the everyday details of life in combat left out of the official histories. Translated by the renowned Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, The Unwomanly Face of War is a powerful and poignant account of the central conflict of the twentieth century, a kaleidoscopic portrait of the human side of war. THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE “for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.” “A landmark.”—Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century “An astonishing book, harrowing and life-affirming . . . It deserves the widest possible readership.”—Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train “Alexievich has gained probably the world’s deepest, most eloquent understanding of the post-Soviet condition. . . . [She] has consistently chronicled that which has been intentionally forgotten.”—Masha Gessen, National Book Award–winning author of The Future Is History
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0399588736
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia—from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • The Guardian • NPR • The Economist • Milwaukee Journal Sentinel • Kirkus Reviews For more than three decades, Svetlana Alexievich has been the memory and conscience of the twentieth century. When the Swedish Academy awarded her the Nobel Prize, it cited her invention of “a new kind of literary genre,” describing her work as “a history of emotions . . . a history of the soul.” In The Unwomanly Face of War, Alexievich chronicles the experiences of the Soviet women who fought on the front lines, on the home front, and in the occupied territories. These women—more than a million in total—were nurses and doctors, pilots, tank drivers, machine-gunners, and snipers. They battled alongside men, and yet, after the victory, their efforts and sacrifices were forgotten. Alexievich traveled thousands of miles and visited more than a hundred towns to record these women’s stories. Together, this symphony of voices reveals a different aspect of the war—the everyday details of life in combat left out of the official histories. Translated by the renowned Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, The Unwomanly Face of War is a powerful and poignant account of the central conflict of the twentieth century, a kaleidoscopic portrait of the human side of war. THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE “for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.” “A landmark.”—Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century “An astonishing book, harrowing and life-affirming . . . It deserves the widest possible readership.”—Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train “Alexievich has gained probably the world’s deepest, most eloquent understanding of the post-Soviet condition. . . . [She] has consistently chronicled that which has been intentionally forgotten.”—Masha Gessen, National Book Award–winning author of The Future Is History
Echoes of the war, and other poems, by E.A.G.
Author: E A. G
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Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Languages : en
Pages : 92
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The Living Age
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Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Pages : 604
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Memoirs of Frederick A.P. Barnard
Author: John Fulton
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Languages : en
Pages : 514
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Pages : 514
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Disunited Kingdoms
Author: Michael Brown
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131786512X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
In the last decades of the thirteenth century the British Isles appeared to be on the point of unified rule, dominated by the lordship, law and language of the English. However by 1400 Britain and Ireland were divided between the warring kings of England and Scotland, and peoples still starkly defined by race and nation. Why did the apparent trends towards a single royal ruler, a single elite and a common Anglicised world stop so abruptly after 1300? And what did the resulting pattern of distinct nations and extensive borderlands contribute to the longer-term history of the British Isles? In this innovative analysis of a critical period in the history of the British Isles, Michael Brown addresses these fundamental questions and shows how the national identities underlying the British state today are a continuous legacy of these years. Using a chronological structure to guide the reader through the key periods of the era, this book also identifies and analyses the following dominant themes throughout: - the changing nature of kingship and sovereignty and their links to wars of conquest - developing ideas of community and identity - key shifts in the nature of aristocratic societies across the isles - the European context, particularly the roots and course of the Hundred Years War This is essential reading for undergraduates studying the history of late Medieval Britain or Europe, but will also be of great interest for anyone who wishes to understand the continuing legacy of the late medieval period in Britain.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131786512X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
In the last decades of the thirteenth century the British Isles appeared to be on the point of unified rule, dominated by the lordship, law and language of the English. However by 1400 Britain and Ireland were divided between the warring kings of England and Scotland, and peoples still starkly defined by race and nation. Why did the apparent trends towards a single royal ruler, a single elite and a common Anglicised world stop so abruptly after 1300? And what did the resulting pattern of distinct nations and extensive borderlands contribute to the longer-term history of the British Isles? In this innovative analysis of a critical period in the history of the British Isles, Michael Brown addresses these fundamental questions and shows how the national identities underlying the British state today are a continuous legacy of these years. Using a chronological structure to guide the reader through the key periods of the era, this book also identifies and analyses the following dominant themes throughout: - the changing nature of kingship and sovereignty and their links to wars of conquest - developing ideas of community and identity - key shifts in the nature of aristocratic societies across the isles - the European context, particularly the roots and course of the Hundred Years War This is essential reading for undergraduates studying the history of late Medieval Britain or Europe, but will also be of great interest for anyone who wishes to understand the continuing legacy of the late medieval period in Britain.