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Wickham, Chris, 1950- author.
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940.1 23
Fecha de publicación
2016
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"The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period--one not easily chronicled within the scope of a few hundred pages. Yet distinguished historian Chris Wickham has taken up the challenge in this landmark book, and he succeeds in producing the most riveting account of medieval Europe in a generation. Tracking the entire sweep of the Middle Ages across Europe, Wickham focuses on important changes century by century, including such pivotal crises and moments as the fall of the western Roman Empire, Charlemagne's reforms, the feudal revolution, the challenge of heresy, the destruction of the Byzantine Empire, the rebuilding of late medieval states, and the appalling devastation of the Black Death. He provides illuminating vignettes that underscore how shifting social, economic, and political circumstances affected individual lives and international events. Wickham offers both a new conception of Europe's medieval period and a provocative revision of exactly how and why the Middle Ages matter"--
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Bartrop, Paul R. (Paul Robert), 1955- author.
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940.531832 23
Fecha de publicación
2016
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This book enables readers to learn about upstanders, partisans, and survivors from first-hand perspectives that reveal the many forms of resistance to the Nazis during the Holocaust.
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Saporito, Anastasia V., 1928-2007.
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940.5481497 23
Fecha de publicación
2014
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Wealth and family privilege are no match for the brutal forward march of two armies intent on eliminating each other. As a teenager, Anastasia Saporito discovered just that truth as she and her family found themselves exiled, vulnerable, and no longer able to call on their societal standing and accumulated riches as the Soviet and German armies converged during World War II. Saporito recounts in vivid detail the difficulties of her childhood as the daughter of White Russian aristocrats forced to flee their native Russia for refuge in Yugoslavia. In Ancient Furies.
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Stout, Jay A., 1959- author.
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940.5426 22
Fecha de publicación
2013
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The nearly half-million American aircrewmen who served during World War II have almost disappeared. And so have their stories. Award-winning writer and former fighter pilot Jay A. Stout uses Unsung Eagles to save an exciting collection of those accounts from oblivion. These are not rehashed tales from the hoary icons of the war. Rather, they are stories from the masses of largely unrecognized men who-in the aggregate-actually won it. They are the recollections of your Uncle Frank who shared them only after having enjoyed a beer or nine, and of your old girlfriend's grandfather who passed away.
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Besier, Gerhard, author.
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940.55 23
Fecha de publicación
2013
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"How could it happen that continental Europe became a 'Europe of the Dictatorships' in the twentieth century? It requires some effort to understand such processes. It is insufficient to observe merely the dictatorships and their mechanisms, one must also incorporate the seemingly harmless history leading up to that time and, above all, the transitions that took place. The book begins with a description of the historical situation after the First World War. Europe's brutalization through colonial wars and inter-European conflicts, carried out using means of mass extermination, led to fractures in civilized cultures. What follows in the second section is another state-by-state organized design of the transition from countries that were fascist (and countries that were made fascist) into communist states established in accordance with the Soviet model. The third part of the book is devoted to the history of the 'Eastern Bloc' states from 1953 to 2013"--Provided by publisher.
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Anderson, Roberta.
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940.1 21
Fecha de publicación
2013
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Complete with introductions, full commentary, glossary, and a guide to further reading, Medieval Worlds is a comprehensive sourcebook for the study of Western Europe from the fifth to the fifteenth century. Drawing on a wide range of documents, from chronicles, legal, state, and church documents, to biographies, poems, and letters from all over Europe, the authors expertly illustrate to the reader the unity - and complexity - of the medieval world. Amongst many more, central issues discussed include:the diverse world of monasteriesthe Papacy
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Unsworth, Richard P.
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940.5318092244595 23
Fecha de publicación
2012
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Explores the lives of heralded Holocaust rescuers Andre and Magda Trocme, and the people of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon France who saved thousands of Jews from the Nazis.
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Greble, Emily, 1978-
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940.5349742 22
Fecha de publicación
2011
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This history of the city of Sarajevo during the Second World War examines the strategies of various ethnic and religious minorities in dealing with the brutal Ustasha regime. Greble (history, City College of New York) presents a clear and dramatic narrative outlining the lengths to which civic and religious leaders went to preserve some of the unique character of their city. The work includes numerous maps and illustrations.
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Judt, Tony.
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940.5 22
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2011 1996
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"I am enthusiastically European; no informed person could seriously wish to return to the embattled, mutually antagonistic circle of suspicious and introverted nations that was the European continent in the quite recent past. But it is one thing to think an outcome desirable, quite another to suppose it is possible. It is my contention that a truly united Europe is sufficiently unlikely for it to be unwise and self-defeating to insist upon it. I am thus, I suppose, a Euro-pessimist."--Tony Judt.
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Ozsváth, Zsuzsanna, 1934-
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940.5318092
Fecha de publicación
2010
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Lambert, Raymond-Raoul, 1894-1943.
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940.5318092 22
Fecha de publicación
2007
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Raymond-Raoul Lambert's Diary has been among the most important untranslated records of the experience of French Jews in the Holocaust. Lambert, a leader of the Union of French Jews (UGIF), was, in the words of the historian Michael Marrus, ""arguably the most important Jewish official in contact with the Vichy government and the Germans."" Lambert's Diary survived the war and was published in France in 1985. It reveals Lambert's efforts to save the Jews in France, particularly the children.
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Megargee, Geoffrey P., 1959-
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940.54217 22
Fecha de publicación
2007
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In War of Annihilation, noted military historian Geoffrey P. Megargee provides a clear, concise history of the Germans' opening campaign of conquest and genocide in 1941. By drawing on the best of military and Holocaust scholarship, Megargee dispels the myths that have distorted the role of Germany's military leadership in both the military operations themselves and the unthinkable crimes that were part of them.
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