Preventa de eBooks de II Guerra Mundial y guerra fría

El 7 de octubre de 2023, mientras se bañaba con sus amigos en una playa de Gaza, Atef Abu Saif fue sorprendido por un ataque cercano del ejército israelí. Lo que parecía algo casi cotidiano para un palestino nacido en un campo de refugiados, enseguida se convirtio en la masacre mas sangrienta de la historia de Palestina. A lo largo de sesenta dias, Atef describio en su diario la pesadilla: el silbido de los misiles contra panaderias, escuelas y hospitales, las visitas a su joven sobrina mutilada en el hospital, el asesinato de sus familiares, vecinos y amigos mas intimos, las colas eternas para conseguir harina o agua, los paseos por la devastacion del paisaje de su infancia. Un testimonio desgarrador que nos abre los ojos ante un genocidio desplegado a tiempo real delante de nosotros y del que no podemos ni queremos ser complices.

The Pacific Theatre was the setting for some of World War IIs bloodiest battles, and yet much of its history remains untold. As the war in Europe was winding down, fierce Japanese resistance and mounting casualties slowed the US advance toward Japan. The terrible death toll of doctors, medics and corpsmen forced the United States Navy to deploy combat nurses to contested airfields, where they triaged desperately wounded men and evacuated them to safety.In The Flight Nurses War, award-winning historian Leah Garrett traces the lives of eight nurses from their small-town origins to the devastation of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. They risked their lives on rickety, unpressurized aircraft and braved constant enemy assaults. As the battles intensified, Army nurses were also deployed to hospital ships and the infantry front-line, where they endured disease, snipers, and Kamikazes. Successfully evacuating thousands of wounded men from danger, the combat nurses freed up troops to secure both islands and help win the war.Uncovering an extraordinary story of Second World War heroism, The Flight Nurses War powerfully brings to life the remarkable women who risked everything to save lives and assure Allied victory.

In a court appearance in September 1930, Adolf Hitler declared we would never again try to overthrow the Weimar Republic by violent means. Rather, he informed the packed courtroom, once he had achieved power legally, he intended to destroy the countrys democratic systems by moulding the government as he saw fit. So, through constitutional means? the presiding judge asked. Jawohl! Hitler replied.It took just 53 days - one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and forty minutes - from the moment Hitler became Chancellor on January 31, 1933 for him to transform the Weimar Republic into the Third Reich. And the minutes mattered. In a short, compelling book, and in our era of astonishing far-right political gains, historian Timothy Ryback chillingly evokes the playbook by which the democratic German constitutional republic was torn down.