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In "Brave Men," Ernie Pyle crafts a poignant and unvarnished portrayal of American soldiers during World War II. Written in the first person, the narrative employs a blend of journalistic precision and lyrical prose, resonating with both emotional depth and stark realism. Pyles accounts from the front lines illuminate the experiences of ordinary men caught in extraordinary circumstances, revealing their vulnerabilities, camaraderie, and heroism amidst the chaos of war. Set against the backdrop of the tumultuous 1940s, the book serves as both a historical document and a deeply human exploration of courage, loss, and sacrifice. Ernie Pyle, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, became renowned for his vivid reporting from the front during World War II. His deep empathy and commitment to showcasing the everyday lives of soldiers stemmed from his own experiences as a war correspondent. Having covered various theaters of war, Pyles encounters with these brave individuals inspired him to humanize the conflict, reflecting their struggles and triumphs in a manner that transcended mere battlefield accounts. "Brave Men" is highly recommended for readers seeking an authentic and heartfelt perspective on the realities of war. Pyles ability to capture the essence of the human spirit in dire times resonates powerfully, making this work a vital resource for anyone interested in military history, journalism, or the profound complexities of human nature.

During the Second World War the Royal Navys vitally important Anti-submarine Experimental Establishment was secretly moved from Portland in Dorset to the Ayrshire village of Fairlie, to escape German bombing on the south coast. For the next six years it occupied the boatyard of yacht builder William Fife on the Firth of Clyde. During this time, highly confidential world-leading research on the acoustic detection of submarines by asdic now known as sonar was carried out by hundreds of scientists, officers and local men and women based at Fairlie. As experiments took place into new ways of sinking German U-boats, the peace of the quiet village was shattered. Winston Churchill described the work done at Fairlie as critical to winning the Battle of the Atlantic and ultimately the war. The research remained relevant to anti-submarine warfare long after the war, and is still relevant today. Fairlies role in the war was not disclosed until relatively recently. Highly illustrated throughout and making use of previously unpublished material, this book tells the full story of the establishment at Fairlie for the first time. It describes the impact it had on local people, and their relationship with the naval officers and scientists who came to work there. Winner of the John Strawhorn Memorial Quaich, awarded by the Ayrshire Federation of Historical Societies to an individual or group who is judged to have made an outstanding contribution to the local history of Ayrshire.

The Tin Ringis a moving memoir of love, loss and hope. This new edition has been published in celebration of Zdenkas 100th birthday.Zdenkas peaceful life was changed forever when she was sent to Terezin concentration camp. Here, she was given a humble engraved tin ring by her first love Arno. She survived six concentration camps, endured horrors the like of which most of us cant begin to comprehend, yet never lost the will to live.When Arno gave her the ring he said, Thats for our engagement. And, to keep you safe. If we are both alive when the war ends I will find you.The ring was the symbol of his love a tin ring that gave her the hope to endure unimaginable suffering and survive in the belief that they would one day be re-united.Zdenka protected this little tin ring with her life and with astonishing determination. Never falling into destructive self-pity, her compassion for other people, her sense of humour and the ability to take remarkable risks, are just part of Zdenkas indomitable spirit.Zdenka survived six concentration camps including Auschwitz, Gross Rosen, Mauthausen and Belsen the worst of all. In the last chaotic days of the war in Belsen she crawled to a Red Cross post. There she was saved by an unknown British soldier to whom the book is dedicated.

Syndrome K is the story of how 80 per cent of Italys Jews escaped the Holocaust, with the help of their fellow countrymen, the Allies and even some Germans. From claiming sanctuary in the Vatican to pitched battles by partisans, and even inventing a highly contagious Jewish disease, it was an ingenious, covert and complicated effort and one that saved the lives of thousands of people. Drawing on original archive material from Italy, Germany, the Vatican City, Switzerland, the UK and US, acclaimed historian Christian Jennings tells the whole story in English for the first time.

Close to a miracle... The Shortest History of the Soviet Union is an immensely readable overview of the entire history of the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1991, full of anecdotes and lively detail, but also meeting the highest academic standards Slavoj iekThe U.S.S.R. A nation that arrived in the world accidentally, and departed unexpectedly. Over a century after the Russian Revolution, the tumultuous history of the Soviet Union continues to fascinate us and influence global politics.From revolution and Lenin to Stalins Terror, from World War II to glasnost, this is an authoritative distillation of 75 years of communist rule, and the disintegration of an empire.Fitzpatrick charts the fate of countries often left out of Soviet histories, gives vivid portraits of key figures, and traces the aftermath of the regimes sudden collapse. She explores the rise of the oligarchs, the rebirth of the Church and the enigmatic figure of Vladimir Putin: a Soviet creation but no Soviet nostalgic. Lastly, she considers the future of Communism. Who still worships Marx and Lenin? What lessons has todays superpower, China, learned from yesterdays Soviet failure?

The Ukrainian pogroms of 1919 constitute a striking exhibition of mass savagery. Approximately 120,000 men, women and children were killed; whole villages were wiped out; the entire Jewish population of southern Russia was reduced to the brink of complete destruction. But Dr. Heifetz is not content merely to set down a tale of horrors. He seeks to analyze the social and psychological factors which lie behind this explosion of wholesale murder. He discovers three separate sets of motives, which hold good for the three classes of pogroms, those committed by Denikin, those committed by Petlura, and those committed by the Ukrainian guerilla leaders.The political viewpoint of General Denikin, widely hailed in western Europe and America as a champion of democracy against Bolshevik tyranny, was very simple. He believed that all the troubles of Russia should be ascribed to the overthrow of the Tsar, which, in his opinion, was brought about by the intrigues of Jews and professional revolutionists. His remedy was correspondingly simple. Kill off as many Jews and revolutionists as possible. Then the peasants would gladly surrender their land ; the workers would hasten to give up their factories; all classes again be well with Holy Russia. Something miscarried in Denikins calculations: for the Red Army routed his Cossacks near Orel; and his defeat was completed by tumultuary uprisings of the Ukrainian peasants in his rear. But, before he was obliged to seek a hospitable refuge in England, he enjoyed the satisfaction of killing about 50,000 Jews. Dr. Heifetz adduces many eye witness reports of pogroms committed by Denikins troops, together with specimens of the violently anti-Semitic literature distributed by order of his propaganda department.The case of the Ukrainian nationalist leader, Petlura, is somewhat different. Petlura claimed to be a Socialist; and he can scarcely have regarded pogroms as a necessary part of his political and economic policy. But he was unable to resist the temptation to make political capital by denouncing "the Jews at Moscow" and to attract the ruffianly elements to his side by offering prospects of unlimited looting. The protestations of Petluras apologists that he actively opposed anti- Jewish outrages are effectively invalidated by the number of massacres unquestionably committed by his troops, by his appointment of a notorious organizer of pogroms, Colonel Petrov, to the post of Minister of War, and by the fact that he was present at a pogrom in Zhitomir without making any effort to stop it.Such bandit leaders as Makhno and Grigoriev may be considered, in a very crude and direct sense, representatives of the economic desires and interests of the Ukrainian peasants. These peasants were very good Bolsheviki, so far as driving out the landlords was concerned. But, having gained possession of the land, they resented and opposed the existence of any strong central government, whether communist or monarchist. What they wanted was complete freedom of their manufactured goods, and incidentally, to murder the Jews.Of all the contending factions the Soviet government alone consistently and vigorously repressed every anti- Jewish manifestation in the territory under its control. Dr. Heifetz gives many instances of the humanity and discipline of the Red troops. Whenever the Soviet forces were compelled to retreat even the Jewish bourgeoisie fled with them for protection.

Edição atualizada dos best-sellers Histórias não (ou mal) contadas: Primeira Guerra Mundial e Segunda Guerra MundialDada a sua complexidade, mesmo a imensa bibliografia produzida sobre o século XX pa

No auge do Holocausto, 25 jovens prisioneiras do campo de concentração de Auschwitz-Birkenau desenharam, cortaram e coseram elegantes peças de vestuário para as mulheres da elite Nazi. Um trabalho qu

The Nuremberg trials were a series of military tribunals held after World War II by the Allied forces under international law and the laws of war. The trials were most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, judicial, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany, who planned, carried out, or otherwise participated in the Holocaust and other war crimes. The trials were held in Nuremberg, Germany.This edition presents the complete transcript of the proceedings from the very beginning of the trials until the end and the sentencing:I. Introduction: Pre-Trial Documents, Tribunals Judgment and the SentenceII. Proceedings from Preliminary Hearing Held on the 14th November 1945 until the 30th November 1945III. Proceedings: 1 December 1945 - 14 December 1945IV. Proceedings: 17 December 1945 - 8 January 1946V. Proceedings: 9 January 1946 - 21 January 1946VI. Proceedings: 22 January 1946 - 4 February 1946VII. Proceedings: 5 February 1946 - 19 February 1946VIII. Proceedings: 20 February 1946 - 7 March 1946IX. Proceedings: 8 March 1946 - 23 March 1946X. Proceedings: 25 March 1946 - 6 April 1946XI. Proceedings: 8 April 1946 - 17 April 1946XII. Proceedings: 18 April 1946 - 2 May 1946XIII. Proceedings: 3 May 1946 - 15 May 1946XIV. Proceedings: 16 May 1946 - 28 May 1946XV. Proceedings: 14 November 1945 - 1 October 1946XVI. Proceedings: 11 June 1946 - 24 June 1946XVII. Proceedings: 25 June 1946 - 8 July 1946XVIII. Proceedings: 9 July 1946 - 18 July 1946XIX. Proceedings: 19 July 1946 - 29 July 1946XX. Proceedings: 30 July 1946 - 10 August 1946XXI. Proceedings: 12 August 1946 - 26 August 1946XXII. Sentence Proceedings: 27 August 1946 - 1 October 1946

The Nuremberg trials were a series of military tribunals held after World War II by the Allied forces under international law and the laws of war. The trials were most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, judicial, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany, who planned, carried out, or otherwise participated in the Holocaust and other war crimes. The trials were held in Nuremberg, Germany.This volume contains trial proceedings from 18 April 1946 to 2 May 1946.

The Nuremberg trials were a series of military tribunals held after World War II by the Allied forces under international law and the laws of war. The trials were most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, judicial, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany, who planned, carried out, or otherwise participated in the Holocaust and other war crimes. The trials were held in Nuremberg, Germany.This volume contains trial proceedings from 16 May 1946 to 28 May 1946.

Quando, no ano de 1523, o conquistador do império asteca, Hernán Cortez, enviou seu oficial Pedro de Alvarado e um contingente de seiscentos homens para o território que hoje constitui a Guatemala, os nativos opuseram feroz resistencia aos invasores, graças ao ferreo comando de seu chefe Tecun Uman. Na batalha decisiva, diz a lenda que Alvarado lutou corpo a corpo contra o brioso indigena, e ja estava prestes a abate-lo quando um passaro verde, de beleza incomum, desceu como um lampejo sobre os combatentes, procurando atingir o espanhol com golpes de asa e afiadas garras. Entretanto, o esforço do nobre animal no conseguiu mudar o destino do bravo Tecun Uman, que tombaria traspassado pela espada do conquistador. Cheia de dor, a ave pousou sobre os ferimentos do guerreiro moribundo, procurando reanima-lo e faze-lo retornar ao combate. Era tarde, porem. Tecun Uman ja estava morrendo e, com ele, morria, tambem, a liberdade de um povo. Desde ento, prossegue a lenda, este passaro, que possuia um canto de beleza incomparavel, emudeceu em sinal de luto pela liberdade perdida. Nunca mais cantou e so voltara a faze-lo quando os nativos guatemaltecos conseguirem expulsar os europeus de sua patria.

Em um dos testemunhos mais impressionantes do Holocausto já publicados, Delbo mostra os horrores nazistas sob a ótica de uma mulher comunista.Em sua primeira edição no Brasil, a obra de Charlotte Del

Holocausto , também conhecido como Shoá (em hebraico: השואה, HaShoá, a catástrofe ; em iídiche: חורבן, Churben ou Hurban, do hebraico para destruição ), foi o genocídio ou assassinato em massa de cer

1 de junho de 1943. O aeroporto da Portela, em Lisboa, fervilha de agitaço.O espio alemo aguarda pacientemente para fazer a chamada. Quando o telefone finalmente toca na Embaixada da Alemanha em Lisboa e ditada uma sentença de morte.Mas, a operaço fracassa. No avio que cai nos ceus de Lisboa no esta Winston Churchill, o alvo a abater, mas um sosia.Nesse mesmo ano em novembro, os tres lideres aliados Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill e Joseph Stalin reunem-se secretamente em Teero. Mas os nazis descobrem o plano e Hitler ve aqui uma oportunidade. Embora a guerra esteja perdida acredita que, com novos lideres aliados, as negociaçes dos tratados de paz possam vir a ser mais beneficas para a Alemanha. Uma equipa de elite, altamente treinada e armada, liderada pelo capito das SS Otto Skorzeny, conhecido como O homem mais perigoso da Europa, e reunida e largada de paraquedas no Iro. Tem seis dias para completar a sua misso.O agente dos serviços secretos norte-americano Mike Riley, um irlandes que se descreve como tendo mais musculos que cerebro, responsavel pela segurança pessoal de Roosevelt, tera de trabalhar com o agente sovietico da NKVD, antecessora da KGB, para salvar os tres lideres mundiais.Em A Noite dos Assassinos, Howard Blum, autor best-seller do New York Times, revela a fascinante historia secreta da conspiraço nazi para matar os tres homens mais importantes e fortemente protegidos do mundo. Um plano que, se tivesse sido bem-sucedido, teria mudado o curso da Historia e o futuro do mundo ocidental.Uma historia real repleta de suspense acerca de uma misso impossivel e de um homem que enfrentou o desafio e evitou uma catastrofe mundial.

This book explores the complex causes that led to the perpetration of the most significant genocidal crime in modern history: the Holocaust. The origin of this enquiry lies at the point where the utopia of the civilizing process failed to deliver: how could Auschwitz-Birkenau be possible?Daniel Rafecas builds a concise but explanatory narration supported by a strong, not obvious hypothesis the Holocaust was not arrived at as the result of the willingness of a handful of anti-Semitic fanatics led by Adolf Hitler, but through the overcoming of successive stages across which the criminal decisions regarding the Jewish question were radicalized. Such decisions were gradually processed and rationalized by dozens of thousands of officials involved in the destruction process.This thorough chronicle of the relevant events covers the world war conflict (particularly, the dramatic circumstances that characterized the invasion of the Soviet Union), as well as the key role played by the state bureaucracy in charge of implementing anti-Jewish policies (the SS of Heinrich Himmler). And it sheds light over the path travelled by the Nazi regime towards the consummation of the Final Solution, a process that could only be possible as a result of the progressive trampling of basic human rights, which is typical of authoritarian states.With an austere but didactic style, Daniel Rafecas offers a historical synthesis that is essential to those English-speaking readers who, coming from any area of knowledge, approach this subject, worried by what Rafecas defines as the great black hole of Modernity.

The Great Boer War Arthur Conan Doyle - Arthur Conan Doyles non-fiction work, The Great Boer War, was first published in 1900. By the time the war ended in 1902, the book had been published in sixteen editions, with Doyle constantly revising it.The book was completed in September 1900, when the British believed the war was over; indeed, the penultimate chapter is titled "The Wars End." However, the war was continue to last until 1902.

In "Brave Men," Ernie Pyle delivers a poignant representation of World War II through the voices of the soldiers who fought it. Written in a conversational yet poignant style, the book transcends traditional war narratives by focusing on individual experiences and the humanity within the chaos of conflict. Pyle captures the raw emotions of bravery, fear, and camaraderie, crafting a narrative that is both personal and universally resonant. His vivid descriptions and field journal perspective offer a literary lens that invites readers to empathize with the soldiersAo plights, emphasizing the psychological toll of war over mere military strategies. Ernie Pyle was an acclaimed American war correspondent whose journalistic career was marked by a deep commitment to highlighting the everyday experiences of soldiers. His own background as a storyteller and a keen observer of human nature laid the groundwork for this seminal work. Pyles firsthand accounts from the front lines inform the narrative, establishing him not only as a chronicler of events but as a voice for those who traditionally went unheard in the grander narratives of history. "Brave Men" is an essential read for anyone seeking to understand the profound personal sacrifices made during wartime. PyleAos masterful storytelling invites readers to reflect on the humanity behind the uniforms, making it a timeless exploration of valor, friendship, and the indomitable spirit of those who serve.

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Henry David Thoreau - On the Duty of Civil Disobedience is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice. Thoreau was motivated in part by his disgust with slavery and the MexicanAmerican War (1846-1848).

What was it like to fall in love in Hitlers Germany? As the war tore them apart, how did young couples keep love vibrant, care for their children, and relate to the war? The earthy letters of Ernst and Lilo Sommer depict in unforgettable poignancy the collision of their personal dreams with the political and military realities of the Third Reich. They provide a vivid window into the lives of ordinary people in the midst of horrific conflict. Seventy years later their daughter, Heinke, reflects on this tragedy, while Peter Matheson provides a historical perspective. The encounter between past and present generations provides glimpses of a bygone age, and raises urgent questions for the future.