United states and the first world war

United States and the First World War

Now in its second edition, The United States and the First World War draws on the most recent scholarship to examine the significance of World War I i

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United States and World War Two

The politics, diplomacy and military strategy of the Second World War form the core of the book. Coverage of the social issues is integrated into the

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Northern Ireland, the United States and the Second World War

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Northern Ireland, the United States and the Second World War

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Making History: The First World War

Covering one of the most catastrophic events in human history, Making History: The First World War offers a strategic level experience in a turn-based global game of conflict. It’s a war between the Great Powers of the age, each straddling to one degree or another, the old world and the new. This is the moment when the industrialization of warfare became fully reali...

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Making History: The First World War (PC)

Covering one of the most catastrophic events in human history, Making History: The First World War offers a strategic level experience in a turn-based global game of conflict. It’s a war between the Great Powers of the age, each straddling to one degree or another, the old world and the new.This is the moment when the industrialization of warfare became fully re...

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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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United States Tanks and Tank Destroyers of the Second World War

Comprehensive highly illustrated overview of US armour in the Second World War.

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World War II: The US Home Front During World War II

This book describes the ways that World War II affected production and daily life in the United States, as well as government programs for rationing,

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World War II: The US Home Front During World War II

This book describes the ways that World War II affected production and daily life in the United States, as well as government programs for rationing,

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Winning the Third World

Examines afresh the intense and enduring rivalry between the United States and China during the Cold War. Gregg Brazinsky shows how both nations fough

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Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World - Zakaria Fareed

Anotace: Since the end of the Cold War, the world has been shaken to its core three times. 11 September 2001, the financial collapse of 2008 and - most of all - Covid-19. Each was an asymmetric threat, set in motion by something seemingly small, and different from anything the world had experienced before. Lenin is supposed to have said, `There are decades when nothing h...

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American Expeditionary Forces in the Great War

This new Battleground Europe title is the first in the series to examine the part of the United States in the Great War.

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ACTS OF WAR

A group of terrorists destroy a dam in Turkey, threatening the water supply of their homeland. It's the first step in a plan: force all-out war in the Middle East. This will draw elite troops out of the capital of Damascus, leaving the Syrian president unprotected- and an easy target for assassination.What the terrorists don't know is that a new Regional Op-Center is now ...

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Acts Of War - Tom Clancy

Anotace: A group of terrorists destroy a dam in Turkey, threatening the water supply of their homeland. It's the first step in a plan: force all-out war in the Middle East. This will draw elite troops out of the capital of Damascus, leaving the Syrian president unprotected- and an easy target for assassination.<br><br>What the terrorists don't know ...

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Acts Of War - Tom Clancy

<p>A group of terrorists destroy a dam in Turkey, threatening the water supply of their homeland. It's the first step in a plan: force all-out war in the Middle East. This will draw elite troops out of the capital of Damascus, leaving the Syrian president unprotected- and an easy target for assassination.<br /><br />What the terrorists don't know is that...

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Race in a Godless World

This is the first historical analysis of the racial views of atheists and freethinkers. Focusing on Britain and the United States in the second half o

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The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War - Scott Anderson

<p>‘A darkly entertaining tale about American espionage, set in an era when Washington’s fear and skepticism about the agency resembles our climate today.’ New York Times At the end of World War II, the United States dominated the world militarily, economically, and in moral standing – seen as the victor over tyranny and a champion of freedom. But it was clear – to ...

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Generals in the Making

This book is is first comprehensive history of te United States' World War II generals between the wars, covering not only their lives and careers of

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My Beloved World

The first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has become an instant American icon. Now, with a candor and intimacy never undertaken by a sitting Justice, she recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a journey that offers an inspiring testament to her own extraordinary determination and the powe...

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Avalon Hill desková hra Axis a Allies WWI 1914 english

Experience Axis a Allies in the setting of World War I with the familiar, time-tested A a A rules adapted to let players control the armies of 1914.The Central Powers of Germany, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the Ottoman Empire are aligned against the great alliance of France, the British Empire, the Russian Empire, Italy and the United States on a new game board ext...

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Penguin Readers Level 3: The Extraordinary Life of Michelle Obama (ELT Graded Reader) - neuveden

Anotace: Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introduci...

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Antisemitism Before the Holocaust Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book examines the history of antisemitism in the United States and Germany in a novel way by placing the two countries side by side for a sustained comparison of the anti-Jewish environments in both countries from the 1880s to the end of the Second World War. Antisemitism Before the Holocaust is an essential volume for students and scholars alike interested in Europ...

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The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to be Calm in a Busy World - Haemin Sunim

<p>The Times Top 10 Bestseller THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, WITH OVER THREE MILLION COPIES SOLD AROUND THE WORLD 'Is it the world that's busy, or my mind?' The world moves fast, but that doesn't mean we have to. In this timely guide to mindfulness, Haemin Sunim, a Buddhist monk born in Korea and educated in the United States, offers advice on everything from hand...

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Australia & the Pacific: A history

Anotace: There are many ways to present a history of Australia and its Pacific neighbourhood, though there have been remarkably few attempts to do so. Had I worked as a reporter, administrator, aid worker or entrepreneur my insights would be very different. So, too, if I were a missionary or the son of the same. Instead, I am a historian... Australia & the Pacific is a r...

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The Good Die Young: The Verdict on Henry Kissinger - René Rojas

<p>If the American foreign policy establishment is a grand citadel, Henry Kissinger is the specter haunting its dusty hallways. For half a century, he was an omnipresent figure in war rooms and at press briefings, dutifully shepherding the American empire through successive attempts at expansion. For multiple generations of antiwar activists, Kissinger personified t...

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To the Castle and Back

From the former president of the Czech Republic comes this first-hand account of his years in office and the transition to democracy following the fall of Communism. A renowned playwright, Vaclav Havel became one of Czechoslovakia's most prominent dissidents under Communist rule - and the president after the Velvet Revolution, making him a key player in European politics....

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The Choice, 1. vydání - Edith Eva Egerová

THE AWARD-WINNING INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERby Edith Eger, as seen on BBC BreakfastEven in hell, hope can flower'I'll be forever changed by her story' - Oprah Winfrey 'One of those rare and eternal stories you don't want to end' - Desmond Tutu'A masterpiece of holocaust literature. Her memoir, like her life, is extraordinary, harrowing and inspiring in equal measure' – The ...

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Long Shadow of Default

Rethinking the causes and consequences of BritainÂ’s default on its First World War debts to the United States of America

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On the Waves of TSF

The famous modernist manifesto Revolutionary Anthology Devětsil, published in the winter 1922, lists two editors, Jaroslav Seifert (1901–1986) and Karel Teige (1900–1951). Similarly, we should preface the 1925 collection Na vlnách TSF (On the Waves of TSF) with the names of these two authors, leading representatives of the Czech avantgarde between the two World Wars and f...

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Women Who Run With the Wolves - Contacting the Power of the Wild Woman - Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Anotace: "Women Who Run With The Wolves isn't just another book. It is a gift of profound insight, wisdom and love. An oracle from one who knows.' Alice Walker In the classic Women Who Run With The Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estes tells us about the 'wild woman', the wise and ageless presence in the female psyche that gives women their creativity, energy and power. For c...

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The Prophet, 1. vydání - Kahlil Gibran

<p>One of the most beloved spiritual classics of our time, Gibran's masterpiece, The Prophet, has sold millions of copies in more than forty languages since it was first published in 1923. The Prophet contains powerful words of wisdom on such essential subjects as marriage, children, friendship, work, and pleasure--words that readers from around the world have found...

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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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To the Castle and Back - Václav Havel

<p>From the former president of the Czech Republic comes this first-hand account of his years in office and the transition to democracy following the fall of Communism. A renowned playwright, Vaclav Havel became one of Czechoslovakia's most prominent dissidents under Communist rule and the president after the Velvet Revolution, making him a key player in European po...

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To the Castle and Back - Václav Havel

<p>From the former president of the Czech Republic comes this first-hand account of his years in office and the transition to democracy following the fall of Communism. A renowned playwright, Vaclav Havel became one of Czechoslovakia's most prominent dissidents under Communist rule and the president after the Velvet Revolution, making him a key player in European po...

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Encountering U.S. Empire in Socialist Venezuela

Since the end of World War II, the United States has come to dominate the world economically and politically, leading many to describe the United Stat

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On The Road, 1. vydání - Jack Kerouac

<p>Five decades after it was first published, Jack Kerouac's seminal Beat novel On the Road finally finds its way to the big screen, in a production from award-winning director Walter Salles (Motorcycle Diaries) starring Sam Riley (Control, Brighton Rock), Garret Hedlund (Friday Night Lights), Kristen Stewart (Twilight), Kirsten Dunst, Amy Adams and Viggo Mortensen....

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Atlas of Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century - Richard Crampton

<p>An invaluable guide to a complex subject, this atlas: * gives a general introduction to the physical, ethnic and religious composition of the region * includes summary maps of Eastern Europe in 1900, 1923, and 1945 * charts the ebb and flow of the first and second world wars in Eastern Europe * presents detailed information relating to consituent territories, ele...

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Deterring Democracy

From World War II until the 1980s, the United States reigned supreme as both the economic and the military leader of the world.

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The New York Times The Complete Front Pages 1851-2 - Bill Keller

<p>New edition of the national blockbuster and New York Times bestseller—with more than a dozen new front pages, including Obama's election and inauguration, his first trip abroad, the financial meltdown, Madoff, and more. One of the most popular gift books of the 2008 holiday season now includes the history-making Obama front pages and so much more. The book and th...

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The Queen : Quotes to live by - Orange Hippo!, Orange Hippo!

Anotace: Queen Elizabeth II is a force of stability in a turbulent, changing world. Revered for her calm dignity and sense of duty, the queen has rarely put a foot wrong in her 68 years - and counting - on the British throne. Her extraordinary reign has seen many changes: in 1953, the year of her Coronation, Winston Churchill was prime minister, Harry Truman President of...

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The Queen : Quotes to live by - Hippo! Orange

<p>Queen Elizabeth II is a force of stability in a turbulent, changing world. Revered for her calm dignity and sense of duty, the queen has rarely put a foot wrong in her 68 years - and counting - on the British throne. Her extraordinary reign has seen many changes: in 1953, the year of her Coronation, Winston Churchill was prime minister, Harry Truman President of ...

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Restraining Great Powers : Soft Balancing from Empires to the Global Era - Paul T. V.

Anotace: How subtler forms of balance-of-power politics can help states achieve their goals against aggressive powers without wars or arms races At the end of the Cold War, the United States emerged as the world`s most powerful state, and then used that power to initiate wars against smaller countries in the Middle East and South Asia. According to balance-of-power theor...

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Restraining Great Powers : Soft Balancing from Empires to the Global Era - T. V. Paul

<p>How subtler forms of balance-of-power politics can help states achieve their goals against aggressive powers without wars or arms races At the end of the Cold War, the United States emerged as the world's most powerful state, and then used that power to initiate wars against smaller countries in the Middle East and South Asia. According to balance-of-power theo...

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Admirals

How history's only five-star admirals triumphed in World War II and made the United States the world's dominant sea power.

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The Courtship of Eva Eldridge : A Story of Bigamy in the Marriage-Mad Fifties - Simmonsová Diane

Anotace: Everyone Got marrIed In the 1950s, then moved to the suburbs to have the children of the soon-to-be-famous baby boom. For Americans who had survived the Great Depression and World War II, prosperous married life was a triumph. The unwed were objects of pity, scorn, even suspicion. And so in the 1950s, Eva Eldridge, no longer so young and marginally employed, was...

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Pearl Harbor

The gripping and definitive account of the Day of Infamy, the attack on Pearl Harbor that led to the United States' entry into the Second World War.

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The Rise & Fall of Great Powers - Rachman Tom

Anotace: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYNPR - The Seattle Times - The Globe and Mail - Kirkus Reviews - Daily Mail - The Vancouver Sun From the author of The Italian Teacher and The Imperfectionists comes a brilliant, intricately woven novel about a young woman who travels the world to make sense of her puzzling past. Look in the back of the book for a convers...

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The Rise &amp; Fall of Great Powers - Tom Rachman

<p>NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR - The Seattle Times - The Globe and Mail - Kirkus Reviews - Daily Mail - The Vancouver Sun From the author of The Italian Teacher and The Imperfectionists comes a brilliant, intricately woven novel about a young woman who travels the world to make sense of her puzzling past. Look in the back of the book for a convers...

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Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval - Gaia Vince

<p>Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize, the Zócalo Book Prize and the Christopher Moore Prize For Human Rights Writing 'Gaia Vince's new book should be read not just by every politician, but by every person on the planet' ObserverAn urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change: how it will force us to change where - and how ...

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On the Waves of TSF / Na vlnách TSF - Jaroslav Seifert

<p>The famous modernist manifesto Revolutionary Anthology Devětsil, published in the winter 1922, lists two editors, Jaroslav Seifert (1901–1986) and Karel Teige (1900–1951). Similarly, we should preface the 1925 collection Na vlnách TSF (On the Waves of TSF) with the names of these two authors, leading representatives of the Czech avantgarde between the two World W...

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On the Waves of TSF / Na vlnách TSF

The famous modernist manifesto Revolutionary Anthology Devětsil, published in the winter 1922, lists two editors, Jaroslav Seifert (1901–1986) and Karel Teige (1900–1951). Similarly, we should preface the 1925 collection Na vlnách TSF (On the Waves of TSF) with the names of these two authors, leading representatives of the Czech avantgarde between the two World Wars and f...

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Settler Garrison

Jodi Kim examines how the United States extends its sovereignty across Asia and the Pacific in the post-World War II era through a militarist settler

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M4 Sherman M4, M4a1, M4a4 Firefly

Covers the M4 Sherman, the most widely used medium tank by the United States and Western Allies in World War II.

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Countdown to Darkness: The Assassination of President Kennedy Volume II

Anotace: The book´s first chapter contains new revelations about how Oswald was a witting false defector to the USSR in a CIA plan to surface a KGB mole in the CIA. The second volume in a series on the assassination of President Kennedy, "Countdown to Darkness" describes events during a dangerous quickening of the Cold War. The race for a long-range delivery system for n...

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Making of American Buddhism

This volume looks at the intersection of race and religion in the United States before, during, and after World War II, when Nisei (second-generation)

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Burn, Bomb, Destroy

The true story of German secret agents engaged in a campaign of subversion and terror in the United States before and during World War I.

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Postwar Moment

An incisive, comparative study of the development of Post–World War II progressive politics in the United States, Britain, and France

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US Navy Light Cruisers 1941-45

During World War II, the United States built 72 light cruisers of various classes. This book examines every US light cruiser produced, including those

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Analysis of Elaine Tyler May's Homeward Bound

With the ending of World War II in 1945, the Soviet Union and the United States began the decades-long confrontation known as the Cold War. American f

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