Remembering the forgotten war

Remembering the Civil War

As early as 1865, survivors of the Civil War were acutely aware that people were purposefully shaping what would be remembered about the war and what

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Story of Tecumseh (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Story of TecumsehLeague. Then he first began to assume importance in the eyes of his enemies and to occupy a place in the his tory of the Border Wars. After the disaster at Tippe canoe, Tecumseh tried in vain to rally his followers in support of their common cause. It was then that in despair he offered his services to the British King.Tecumseh appeared i...

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Remembering the War, Forgetting the Terror

A study of the popular appeal of the cult of Soviet victory in World War II and the collective incapacity to reckon with the Soviet state terror in Pu

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Forgotten War Against Napoleon

Graphic history of the struggle for the Mediterranean during the Napoleonic Wars

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Remembering World War I in America

An exploration of the American publicÂ’s collective memory and common perception of World War I, analyzed from the perspective of the production of cu

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Remembering the Fallen of the First World War

A moving and detailed look at how the dead of the First World War were commemorated, both during the war and in the years since 1918

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Remembering the Great War in the Middle East

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Forgotten Battles of the Zulu War

The Anglo-Zulu War has a growing following. A fresh angle on the War, written by the leading expert.

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Forgotten Voices of the Secret War

The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a secret British organisation created early in the Second World War to encourage resistance and carry out s

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Forgotten Voices Of The Second World War

The Imperial War Museum holds a vast archive of interviews with soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians of most nationalities who saw action during WW

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Forgotten Voices Of The Great War

Offers accounts from ordinary men and women who were there. This book features personal experiences of these soldiers, civilians, marines and medics f

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Forgotten Soldier

The devastating true story of a young Franco-German soldier trapped in the lethal machinery of total war on the Eastern Front in the Second World War.

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Forgotten Warrior

First full-scale biography of the most senior English soldier to die in a prisoner of war camp during the Second World War, revealing the courage, fai

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Not Forgotten

The hidden and often moving story of Britain's coming of age in the First World War.

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Forgotten Orphan

From the internationally bestselling author of The Secret Orphan A world at war A secret from her past

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Forgotten Cup

The Mitropa Cup was the inter-war equivalent of today's Champions League - and was born out of the frictions of a politically heated era. The top team

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Forgotten Warriors

From the Amazons to the Ukraine conflict, women have always been on the front line of war: this is their surprising and heroic history.

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Forgotten Wars

Provides an account of the creation of an Asia after the Second World War - an unstoppable wave of nationalism that swept the British Empire aside. Th

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Tracing Your Boer War Ancestors: Soldiers of a Forgotten War

As well as offering a guide for researchers, this book will provide a narrative of the conflict, case studies of soldiers, and reveal how soldiers' fa

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Forgotten Voices of The Holocaust

Following the success of Forgotten Voices of the Great War, Lyn Smith visits the oral accounts preserved in the Imperial War Museum Sound Archive, to

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Tales from the Forgotten Front

* Reveals, through the eyes of a conscripted soldier, the day-to-day lives of British soldiers in British West Africa during World War II * Looks at t

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Forgotten Voices of the Falklands

Drawing upon the vast resources of the Imperial War Museum's sound archive, which contains thousands of interviews with both soldiers and civilians, b

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Forgotten Voices of the Somme

Drawing on a wealth of material from the vast Imperial War Museum Sound Archive, this book offers insight into life on the front line: from the day-to

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Forgotten Family of Liverpool

The war is over - but are their troubles just beginning?

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Forgotten German Genocide

Exposes the reality of the fallout of the Second World War, and the reciprocal actions against Germany's initiation of the war.

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Forgotten Voices of Dunkirk

Drawing on the wealth of material from the Imperial War Museum Sound Archive, this title presents in the words of both rescued and rescuers an intimat

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Forgotten Voices of Burma

From the end of 1941 to 1945 a pivotal but often overlooked conflict was being fought in the South-East Asian Theatre of World War 2 - the Burma Campa

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Forgotten Giant of Bletchley Park

Harold Liberty's biography shines light on a man whose contribution was essential to Britain's survival and triumph in the Second World War.

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Latin America and the Global Cold War

Analyses more than a dozen of Latin America's forgotten encounters with Africa, Asia, and the Communist world, and by placing the region in meaningful

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Wirral in the Great War

Fascinating and much forgotten story of Wirral's contribution to the Great War.

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Brighton in the Great War

Fascinating and much forgotten story of Brighton's contribution to the Great War.

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Bomber Crew Mystery: The Forgotten Heroes of 388th Bombardment Group

An in-depth study of 388th Bombardment Group during the Second World War. Paying particular attention to a specific crew whose career was especially i

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Forgotten Voices of D-Day

Their success marked the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany. Drawing on thousands of hours of eyewitness testimony recorded by the Imperial War M

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Bath in the Great War

Covers Bath in the Great War from the commencement of war in July 1914 to the Armistice in November 1918, featuring many forgotten news stories of the

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Things Remembered and Things Forgotten - Kyoko Nakajima

Anotace: 'If we want to understand what has been lost to time, there is no way other than through the exercise of imagination ... imagination applied with delicate rather than broad strokes'. So wrote the award winning Japanese author Kyoko Nakajima of her story, Things Remembered and Things Forgotten, a piece that illuminates, as if by throwing a switch, the l...

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The Kaiser's Holocaust: Germany's Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism (057123142X)

Kniha - autor Casper Erichsen; David Olusoga, 394 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná On 12 May 1883, the German flag was raised on the coast of South-West Africa, modern Namibia - the beginnings of Germany's African Empire. As colonial forces moved in , their ruthless punitive raids became an open war of extermination. Thousands of the indigenous people were k...

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War of Jenkins' Ear

Filled with unforgettable characters and maritime adventure, the incredible story of a forgotten war that shaped the fate of the United States—and th

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Fishermen, the Fishing Industry and the Great War at Sea

This book examines the scale and scope of the largely forgotten role played for the Admiralty by 3000 armed fishing vessels, 39,000 fishermen and many

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Crimean War and Cultural Memory

Exploring the Crimean War through literature, theatre, spectacle, and visual arts, this book reveals how and why a major war was forgotten.

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How to Win an Information War

From one of our leading experts on disinformation, the incredible true story of the complex and largely forgotten WWII propagandist Sefton Delmer - an

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King's Smuggler

Using known and new evidence, John Fox provides the first biography of this extraordinary woman, a forgotten key player in the English Civil War.

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Red Faction: Armageddon Path to War (PC)

To play this content, the base version of Red Faction®: Armageddon™ on Steam.The Earth Defense Force has been defeated, and after centuries of oppression, Mars is finally free. For a time, there was peace. Yet from the forgotten ashes rose Adam Hale, scarred from years of struggle, seeking ultimate revenge against the Red Faction. His target, the one thi...

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Red Faction: Armageddon Path to War

To play this content, the base version of Red Faction®: Armageddon™ on Steam. The Earth Defense Force has been defeated, and after centuries of oppression, Mars is finally free. For a time, there was peace. Yet from the forgotten ashes rose Adam Hale, scarred from years of struggle, seeking ultimate revenge against the Red Faction. His target, the one thing that...

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How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler - Peter Pomerantsev

<p>FROM THE AUTHOR OF NOTHING IS TRUE AND EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE'Elegant, effortlessly readable . . . essential reading for the new dark age of disinformation.' JONATHAN FREEDLAND'Original . . . Pomerantsev digs deep into the past history of information warfare, in order to help us understand how to fight charlatans and fear mongers in the present.' ANNE APPLEBAUM'E...

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Bertus Oficiální soundtrack God of War Ragnarok na 3x LP

Oficiální soundtrack dlouho očekávané hry God of War Ragnarok na trojici vinylových desek. Zaposlouchejte se do skladeb a přeneste se zpět do herního dobrodružství! O hudbu se postaral, stejně jako u prvního dílu, skladatel Bear McCreary. SEZNAM SKLADEBDISC 1 - LP - Side A1 God of War Ragnarök2 A Son's Path3 The Hand of Odin4 Giantess of Ironwood5 Huldra BrothersDI...

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Living by Inches

From battlefields, boxcars, and forgotten warehouses to notorious prison camps, prisoners seemed to be everywhere during the American Civil War. Livin

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Mr. Men: The Christmas Tree

Mr. Forgetful is not at all good at remembering things, so it is hardly surprising that this Christmas he has forgotten to buy a tree. Christmas with

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Flame and the Candle

This is the story of Mayo men and women active during the War of Independence and the Civil War, a story largely untold or forgotten. The myth that li

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To the Lighthouse (024134168X)

Kniha - autor Virginia Woolf, 208 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Every summer, the Ramsays visit their summer home on the beautiful Isle of Skye, surrounded by the excitement and chatter of family and friends, mirroring Virginia Woolf’s own joyful holidays of her yout...

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Fighting for the United States, Executed in Britain

Explores a forgotten chapter in the history of the Second World War. The first book ever published to contain a detailed account of every American mil

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The Buried Giant - Kazuo Ishiguro

<p>The extraordinary new novel from the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize winning The Remains of the Day. The Romans have long since departed, and Britain is steadily declining into ruin. But at least the wars that once ravaged the country have ceased. The Buried Giant begins as a couple, Axl and Beatrice, set off across a troubled land of mist and rain...

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The Volunteer : The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz - The Costa Biography Award Winner 2019 - Jack Fairweather

<p>'Totally gripping'-- Simon Sebag Montefiore‘Pilecki is perhaps one of the greatest unsung heroes of the second world war ... this insightful book is likely to be the definitive version of this extraordinary life’ -- Economist</p> <p>Would you sacrifice yourself to save thousands of others?</p> <p> </p> <p>In the Summer of 1940,...

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The Invisible Hour - Hoffmanová Alice

Anotace: From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of the Practical Magic series comes an enchanting novel about love, heartbreak, self-discovery and the enduring magic of books. Sixteen-year-old Ivy is pregnant and alone. Cast out by her family, she runs away and finds safety in the arms of Joel Davis. He offers a simpler life than the one she had in Boston, a ...

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The Dictionary of Lost Words - Pip Williams

<p>Sometimes you have to start with what's lost to truly find yourself... Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood at her father's feet as he and his team gather words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. One day, she sees a slip of paper containing a forgotten word flutter to the floor unclaimed. And so Esme begins to collect word...

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Citizen 865: The Hunt for Hitl - neuveden

Anotace: The gripping story of a team of Nazi hunters at the U.S. Department of Justice as they raced against time to expose members of a brutal SS killing force who disappeared in America after World War Two. In 1990, in a drafty basement archive in Prague, two American historians made a startling discovery: a Nazi roster from 1945 that no Western investigator had ever ...

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Lenin on the Train - Catherine Merridaleová

Anotace: `The superb, funny, fascinating story of Lenin`s trans-European rail journey and how it shook the world` Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard, Books of the Year`Splendid ... a jewel among histories, taking a single episode from the penultimate year of the Great War, illuminating a continent, a revolution and a series of psychologies in a moment of cataclysm ...

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The First Binding - R. R. Virdi

Anotace: Introducing the Tales of Tremaine, starting with the breath-taking The First Binding. Epic in scope, filled with magic, legends and lies, this is a fantasy filled with the mythos of South Asia, which readers of The Name of the Wind will love. All legends are born of truths. And just as much lies. These are mine. Judge me for what you will. But you will hear my...

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Mickey Storm and the Cursed Mask

Spy up and save your parents in this action-packed platformer! Welcome to the world’s greatest waterpark! In this resort full of wild adventures and thrilling waterslides only you, and your sister, can stop the evil Dr. Fisher! Using the powers of a mysterious mask this vicious villain has enchanted the entire park to finally trap your parents. Why? Because they are...

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Mickey Storm and the Cursed Mask (PC)

Spy up and save your parents in this action-packed platformer!Welcome to the world&rsquo;s greatest waterpark! In this resort full of wild adventures and thrilling waterslides only you, and your sister, can stop the evil Dr. Fisher! Using the powers of a mysterious mask this vicious villain has enchanted the entire park to finally trap your parents. Why? Because they ...

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Agent Zo: The Untold Story of Fearless WW2 Resistance Fighter Elzbieta Zawacka - Mulleyová Clare

Anotace: This is the incredible story of Elzbieta Zawacka, the WW2 female resistance fighter known as Agent Zo. Agent Zo was the only woman to reach London from Warsaw during the Second World War as an emissary of the Polish Home Army command, and then in Britain she became the only woman to join the Polish elite Special Forces, known as the `Silent Unseen`. She was secr...

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