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Brand: Gábor T. Szántó
EAN: 9788889076477
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Sono otto i racconti che compongono questa raccolta di Gábor T. Szántó che riflettono tematiche tra le più importanti del nostro tempo e della nostra storia: il genocidio degli ebrei e le riflessioni ancora poco approfondite sul secondo dopoguerra come la questione delle proprietà abbandonate degli ebrei deportati, delle sepolture di coloro che non sono sopravvissuti e dei monumenti (mancanti) commemorativi; l'incapacità di fare i conti con il passato traumatico e il bisogno di rielaborarlo sia da parte di chi il trauma lo ha subito sia da chi è rimasto solo a guardare; i legami familiari, le condizioni di chi è gravemente disabile e lo stigma nei confronti di coloro che se ne prendono cura; l'omosessualità e la questione di genere anche negli ambienti dove meno sembra possibile. Sono racconti audaci, profondi e taglienti, ma nello stesso tempo toccanti, grazie allo stile asciutto e senza fronzoli dell'autore, spinto da un elementare senso di giustizia e compassione per le prospettive dei sommersi che vivono con noi (immancabile il riferimento a Primo Levi).

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Brand: James T. Patterson
EAN: 9780195117974
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Beginning in 1945, America rocketed through a quarter-century of extraordinary economic growth, experiencing an amazing boom that soared to unimaginable heights in the 1960s. At one point, in the late 1940s, American workers produced 57 percent of the planet's steel, 62 percent of the oil, 80 percent of the automobiles. The U.S. then had three-fourths of the world's gold supplies. English Prime Minister Edward Heath later said that the United States in the post-War era enjoyed \"the greatest prosperity the world has ever known.\" It was a boom that produced a national euphoria, a buoyant time of grand expectations and an unprecedented faith in our government, in our leaders, and in the American dream--an optimistic spirit which would be shaken by events in the '60s and '70s, and particularly by the Vietnam War.\n Now, in Grand Expectations, James T. Patterson has written a highly readable and balanced work that weaves the major political, cultural, and economic events of the period into a superb portrait of America from 1945 through Watergate. Here is an era teeming with memorable events--from the bloody campaigns in Korea and the bitterness surrounding McCarthyism to the assassinations of the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, to the Vietnam War, Watergate, and Nixon's resignation. Patterson excels at portraying the amazing growth after World War II--the great building boom epitomized by Levittown (the largest such development in history) and the baby boom (which exploded literally nine months after V-J Day)--as well as the resultant buoyancy of spirit reflected in everything from streamlined toasters, to big, flashy cars, to the soaring, butterfly roof of TWA's airline terminal in New York. And he shows how this upbeat, can-do mood spurred grander and grander expectations as the era progressed.\n Of course, not all Americans shared in this economic growth, and an important thread running through the book is an informed and gripping depiction of the civil rights movement--from the electrifying Brown v. Board of Education decision, to the violent confrontations in Little Rock, Birmingham, and Selma, to the landmark civil rights acts of 1964 and 1965. Patterson also shows how the Vietnam War--which provoked LBJ's growing credibility gap, vast defense spending that dangerously unsettled the economy, and increasingly angry protests--and a growing rights revolution (including demands by women, Hispanics, the poor, Native Americans, and gays) triggered a backlash that widened hidden rifts in our society, rifts that divided along racial, class, and generational lines. And by Nixon's resignation, we find a national mood in stark contrast to the grand expectations of ten years earlier, one in which faith in our leaders and in the attainability of the American dream was becoming shaken.\n Grand Expectations is the newest volume in the prestigious Oxford History of the United States. The earlier releases were highly acclaimed, and one, Battle Cry of Freedom,...

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Brand: Elizabeth A. T. Smith
EAN: 9783836557498
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Le cosiddette Case Study Houses sono una pietra miliare dell'architettura americana. La forza motrice di questo progetto di architettura residenziale, John Entenza, era un fautore del Modernismo che riuscì a riunire alcuni dei più talentuosi architetti della storia, tra cui Richard Neutra, Charles e Ray Eames, ed Eero Saarinen. Questa retrospettiva riprende tutti i 36 prototipi di casa per mezzo di una vastissima opera di documentazione, che include fotografie, piante e disegni. Il Case Study Houses program (1945-1966) è stato un evento eccezionalmente innovativo nella storia dell'architettura americana e rimane ancora oggi ineguagliato. Il programma si concentrava sull'area di Los Angeles e sovrintese alla progettazione di 36 prototipi abitativi, con l'obiettivo di rendere disponibili i progetti di abitazioni moderne che potessero essere costruite in maniera facile ed economica durante il periodo del boom edilizio post-bellico. L'anima e il motore del programma era il direttore di Arts & Architecture, John Entenza, figura chiave del modernismo americano che riuscì a catalizzare intorno a sé alcuni dei più grandi talenti dell'architettura, come Richard Neutra, Charles e Ray Eames, ed Eero Saarinen. La grande influenza sull'architettura americana e internazionale di questo programma altamente sperimentale, che aspirava a ridefinire i canoni dell'abitazione moderna, perdura fino ai giorni nostri. Taschen vi offre qui una retrospettiva completa di quel programma attraverso fotografie d'epoca e scatti contemporanei delle case ancora esistenti, oltre a numerose piante e disegni.

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Brand: William T. Mccroden;thomas E. Nutter
EAN: 9781611211092
Categoria: Libri e riviste

This massive new reference work is broken up into sections presenting a detailed analysis of each corresponding order of battle for every German field formation above division. Additional new ground is broken by describing the orders of battle of the myriad German and Axis satellite formations assigned to security commands throughout occupied Europe and the combat zones, as well as those attached to fortress commands and to the commanders of German occupation forces in Eastern and Western Europe. An accompanying narrative describes the career of each field formation and includes the background and experience of many of their most famous commanding officers.\n\nUnlike similar works, these orders of battle are dynamic, and so account for the continuously changing character of Germany’s ground forces at war. For the first time, readers can follow the career of every German division, corps, army, and army group as the German armed forces shifted units to and from theatres of war, from the period of triumphant successes to the years of grinding defensive warfare and eventual defeat.

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Brand: Daniel Cowling
EAN: 9781800243507
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Germany, spring 1945. Hitler is dead and his armies crushed. Across the conquered Reich, cities lie devastated by Allied saturation bombing; their traumatised populations, exhausted and embittered by defeat, face a future of acute privation and hardship.\n\nSuch was the broken state of the nation in which a British civilian and military force arrived in the spring and summer of 1945. Their zone of occupation was the northern and northwestern part of Germany, the country’s former industrial heartland. Their task? To build democracy from the ruins of Hitler’s Reich, and, having defeated Nazism on the battlefield, to ‘win the peace’ by eradicating Nazism from German hearts and minds.\n\nAs well as offering a vivid narrative of the British occupation in political and military terms, from the Potsdam Conference to the Berlin Airlift, Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans explores the day-to-day experiences of the ordinary Britons who worked for the Control Commission for Germany between 1945 and 1949. Some reconstructed bridges and schools, supervised the destruction of military matériel and brought fugitive Nazis to justice; while others became entangled in black marketeering, corruption and sexual scandal. In time, they would find themselves on the front line of the Cold War, as irreconcilable tensions divided Europe between East and West.

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Brand: Paolo Crippa;carlo Cucut
EAN: 9788893275507
Categoria: Libri e riviste

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Brand: Jeremy Dixon
EAN: 9781399030731
Categoria: Libri e riviste

The German fighter pilots of the Second World War are among the undoubted heroes of the conflict, their reputation for flying skill, single-minded determination and solitary courage hasn’t diminished or been clouded by controversy over the years. Their daring and commitment, often displayed when, towards the end of the war, they were fighting against the odds, matches that of any of the other air forces they fought against. This detailed, highly illustrated reference book, which covers the exploits of the most famous and successful individuals among them, shows just how effective and undaunted they were.\n\nAll the Luftwaffe day fighter pilots who flew single-seater aircraft and won the Knight’s Cross during the war are featured. The entries give information about their early lives and pre-war careers and record how many aircraft they shot down, the type of aircraft involved and where and when the combat took place. Included are accounts of particular actions which led to the award of the Knight’s Cross, and the fate of these remarkable pilots later in the war and in the post-war world is described too.\n\nJeremy Dixon’s book will be fascinating reading and reference for anyone who is interested in the aviation history of the Second World War.

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Brand: Stephen Hart
EAN: 9781782744757
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Organised chronologically by type, Russian Tanks of World War II offers a highly-illustrated guide to the main armoured fighting vehicles used by the Red Army during World War II. The book offers a comprehensive survey of Soviet AFVs, from the pre-war T-18 light tank and BT fast tank series to the heavy Joseph Stalin tanks and self- propelled guns of the final months of the war. \nAll the major and many minor tanks are featured, including every significant variation of the T-26 light tank, KV series and T-34 to see action on the Eastern Front. There are also chapters on the many types of self-propelled guns developed by Soviet industry, as well as Allied Lend-Lease AFVs, such as the British Churchill and Valentine tanks and American Sherman and Stuart tanks. \nEach featured profile includes authentic markings and colour schemes, while every separate model is accompanied by exhaustive specifications. \nPacked with 120 newly-commissioned, full-colour artworks with exhaustive specifications, Russian Tanks of World War II is a key reference guide for military modellers and World War II enthusiasts.

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Brand: Elizabeth A. T. Smith
EAN: 9783836587877
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Il Case Study House program (1945–1966) è stato un evento eccezionalmente innovativo nella storia dell’architettura americana e rimane ancora oggi ineguagliato. Il programma si concentrava sull’area di Los Angeles e sovrintese alla progettazione di 36 prototipi abitativi, con l’obiettivo di rendere disponibili i progetti di abitazioni moderne che potessero essere costruite in maniera facile ed economica durante il periodo del boom edilizio post-bellico.

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Brand: T. H. Meyer
EAN: 9781906999643
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Finally available in English, Thomas Meyer's major biography of Ludwig Polzer-Hoditz (1869-1945) offers a panoramic view of an exceptional life. One of Rudolf Steiner's most valued and independent-minded colleagues, Polzer-Hoditz was born in Prague - in the midst of the Austro-Hungarian Empire - to an aristocratic family with royal connections. Leaving behind the traditions of his background, he was to become a key actor in Steiner's regenerative 'threefold' social impulses, working tirelessly for a genuinely unified and free Europe. Polzer-Hoditz also fought to protect Rudolf Steiner's esoteric legacy and the integrity of the Anthroposophical Society that had been founded to further his work. Following Steiner's untimely death, Polzer-Hoditz fostered a broad range of friendships and alliances with key figures such as D.N. Dunlop, Walter Johannes Stein and Ita Wegman. In a bid to avoid further division and conflict, he made significant interventions to alter the tragic course of events that consumed the Anthroposophical Society, although he was unable to stop the major split within the membership that was to follow.\nIn the final decade of his life he concentrated his energies on world issues, seeking to influence events in Europe in particular, lecturing widely and writing a number of books and memoranda. In contrast to the destructive 'special interests' of the national and religious groups that craved dominion and power, Polzer-Hoditz sought to build a true understanding between Central and Eastern Europe and to cultivate a spiritual connection with the West. Meyer's book is a pioneering work in biographical literature, structured in four main sections that reflect the stages of an individual's personal development. In the concluding section he studies world events up to the present day, practising a method referred to as a 'symptomatological observation of history', which Polzer-Hoditz himself sought to develop. Much more than a standard biography, Ludwig Polzer-Hoditz presents a vibrantly living picture of how a spiritual individuality can work in human culture and history - in past, present and future. This first English edition is based on the latest German version and features additional material.

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Brand: Didier Andres
EAN: 9781636241609
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Between 1940 and 1945, the Diamond T Motor Car Company supplied just over 50,000 vehicles to the US military, and also to the Allies. Of these, just over 30,000 were heavy 4-ton 6x6 trucks of varying types: cargo, tow truck, pontoon carrier, engineer, and cartographic. The 'Diamond' would serve in all theatres of operations, wherever its robustness and reliability were necessary to complete the mission. Due to its expertise, Diamond T also produced the famous half-track, with more than 10,000 manufactured. \n\n \n\nAll of these models are described in this book by Didier Andres, an expert in the subject. It is illustrated throughout using archival and period photographs and diagrams.

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Brand: Elizabeth A. T. Smith
EAN: 9783836535601
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Il progetto Case Study House (1945–1966) è stato un evento unico nella storia dell'architettura statunitense. Finanziato dalla rivista Arts & Architecture, si proponeva di rispondere al boom edilizio del dopoguerra con case-modello moderne facilmente riproducibili e all'immediata portata dell'americano medio. Concentrate nel distretto di Los Angeles, le Case Study Houses consistevano in 36 case-modello commissionate a importanti architetti dell'epoca come Richard Neutra, Raphael Soriano, Craig Ellwood, Charles e Ray Eames, Pierre Koenig, Eero Saarinen, A. Quincy Jones e Ralph Rapson. Le linee guida del programma prevedevano, tra le altre cose, “l'utilizzo, nei limiti del possibile, di tecniche e materiali nati dallo sforzo bellico e pertanto particolarmente adatti a esprimere la vita dell'uomo nel mondo moderno”. I risultati del programma avrebbero ridefinito la casa moderna ed esteso la propria influenza non soltanto da un capo all'altro degli Stati Uniti ma in tutto il mondo. Oltre a presentare tutte le Case Study Houses con oltre 150 foto e planimetrie, questa guida compatta è corredata di una mappa in cui è indicata l'ubicazione di tutti gli edifici, compresi quelli che non esistono più.

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Brand: Deon Meyer
EAN: 9780340953617
Categoria: Libri e riviste

A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pick!\n\nShortlisted for the CWA International Dagger Award 2010\n\nThey killed her best friend. Now they are chasing Rachel Anderson through the streets of Cape Town. The young tourist doesn't dare trust anyone - except her father, back home in America. When he puts pressure on the politicians, they know that to protect their country's image, they must find Rachel's hiding place before the killers.\n\nSo Benny Griessel - detective, maverick and father of teenagers himself - has just 13 hours to crack open a conspiracy which threatens the whole country.

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Brand: Kit Kowol
EAN: 9780198868491
Categoria: Libri e riviste

The untold story of how Winston Churchill and the Conservative Party envisioned Britain's post-war future\n\nWe think we know all there is to know about Britain's Second World War. We don't. \n\nThis radical re-interpretation of British history and British Conservatism between 1939 and 1945 reveals the bold, at times utopian, plans British Conservatives drew up for Britain and the post-war world. \n\nFrom proposals for world government to a more united Empire via dreams of a new Christian elite and a move back-to-the-land, Blue Jerusalem reveals how Conservatives were every bit as imaginative and courageous as their Labour and left-wing opponents in their wartime plans for a post-war world.\n\nBringing these alternative visions of Britain's post-war future back to life, Blue Jerusalem restores politics to the centre of the story of Britain's war. It demonstrates how everything from the weapons Britain fought with, to the theatres in which the fighting took place and the allies Britain chose were the product of political decisions about the different futures Conservatives wanted to make. \n\nRejecting notions of a 'people's war' that continue to cloud how we think of World War II, it explores how the Tories used their control of the home and battle front to fight a deeply Conservative war and build the martial, imperial, and Christian nation of which many of a conservative disposition had long dreamed.\n\nA study of political thinking as well as political manoeuvre, Blue Jerusalem goes beyond an examination of the usual suspects - such as Winston Churchill and Neville Chamberlain - to reveal a hitherto lost world of British Conservativism and a set of forgotten futures that continue to shape our world.

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Brand: L. Annette Binder
EAN: 9781526616746
Categoria: Libri e riviste

'A heartbreaking portrait of an ordinary family shattered by a war they didn't want' The Times\n\nThey've wrecked the world, these men, and still they're not done. They'd take the sky if they could.\n\nGermany, 1945, and the bombs are falling. In Heidenfeld, Etta and her husband Josef roam an empty nest: their eldest son Max is fighting on the frontlines, while fifteen-year-old Georg has swapped books for guns at a Nurnberg school for the Hitler Youth. At home, news of the war provokes daily doses of fear as the planes grow closer, taking one city after the next.\n\nWhen Max is unexpectedly discharged, Etta is relieved to have her eldest home and safe. But soon after he arrives, it's clear that the boy who left is not the same returned. With Georg a hundred miles away and a husband confronting his own difficult feelings toward patriotic duty, Etta alone must gather the pieces of a splintering family, determined to hold them together in the face of an uncertain future.

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Brand: Katie Stallard
EAN: 9780197575352
Categoria: Libri e riviste

History didn't end. Democracy didn't triumph. America's leading role in the world is no longer assured. Instead, autocrats and populist strongmen are on the rise, and the global order established after 1945 is under attack. This is the phenomenon Katie Stallard tackles inDancing on Bones, as she examines how the leaders of China, Russia, and North Korea manipulate the past to serve the present and secure the future of authoritarian rule.\n\nRussia has annexed Crimea, started a war in eastern Ukraine, and repeatedly massed troops on its borders. China has stepped up war games near Taiwan and militarized the South China Sea, while North Korea has resumed missile testing and blood-curdling threats against the United States. These three states consistently top lists of threats to US and European security, and yet the leaders of all three insist that it is their country that is threatened, rewriting history and exploiting the memory of the wars of the last century to justify their actions and shore up popular support. Since coming to power, Xi Jinping has almost doubled the length of China's World War II, Vladimir Putin has elevated the memory of the Great Patriotic War to the status of a national religion, and Kim Jong Un has invested vast sums in rebuilding war museums in his impoverished state, while those who try to challenge the official version of history are silenced and jailed. But this didn't start with Putin, Xi, and Kim, and it won't end with them.\n\nDrawing on first-hand, on-the-ground reporting,Dancing on Bonesargues that if we want to understand where these three nuclear powers are heading, we must understand the stories they are telling their citizens about the past.

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Brand: Liz Flavell
EAN: 9781781453728
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Most people know that Bob Marley (1945-1981) was a singer-songwriter who popularised reggae music and whose Jamaican culture and Rastafarian beliefs have attained worldwide influence. What, perhaps, they don't know is that his music inspired 7,000 prisoners of war to escape; that after running out of money he was forced to spend two years living in London; that he has sold more than 75 million records around the world; and that he was shot twice while trying to bring peace between two political groups. Biographic: Marley presents an instant impression of his life, work and legacy, with an array of irresistible facts and figures converted into infographics to reveal the musician behind the music.

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Brand: Chris Mcnab
EAN: 9781782745938
Categoria: Libri e riviste

'The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But we don't ask for their love; only for their fear.' - Himmler\nMost people would associate the SS with Heinrich Himmler, but the latter was not the first (or the last) leader of this infamous body. SS 1923- 1945 examines the history and development of the Schutzstaffel from its origin as Hitler's personal bodyguard to its growth into a millions-strong organisation by the war's end in 1945. \nBroken down by the key constituent parts of the SS, such as the police, concentration camps, security services, Waffen-SS, slave labour, Einsatzgruppen and so forth, the book includes exhaustive reference tables, diagrams, maps and charts, presenting all the core subject information in easy-to-follow formats. The SS 1923-1945 will be an essential reference guide for anyone interested in the history or demographics of this infamous organisation.

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Brand: Sally Worboyes
EAN: 9781804363492
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Is their love strong enough to weather the storm?It’s 1945, the war is over and the soldiers are coming back to the bomb-ravaged East End. Tom Smith is one of the thousands who are returning home. He can’t wait to see his wife, Jessie, their son, Billy, and the new baby daughter he hasn’t even laid eyes on.\n\nBut life back home wasn’t easy, especially once Jessie’s army pension was stopped after Tom deserted. So when she was told to put her infant daughter Emma-Rose into a home for her own good, she thought it was for the best. But how will Tom take the news? And how will he react when he learns that Jessie’s old boyfriend has been helping her during the war?\n\nA compelling family drama set in London, perfect for fans of Katie Flynn and Mary Collins.

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