Historia

The story of Germany's WW2 bomber development programmes.

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Var Sverige med i andra världskriget? Frågan kan verka absurd, men här presenteras flera tidigare opublicerade vittnesmål och bilder av tyska och allierade soldater på svensk mark. Därtill nya uppgifter om hur svenska flygare och soldater korsade ...

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Så länge vi minns är en fängslande berättelse om platsen Särö och fyra familjer från senare delen av 1800-talet fram till idag. Med utgångpunkt i författarens mormor Gladys Heyman och hennes familjs liv får vi möta en ganska typisk Säröfamilj från...

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  Warszawa 1939 till 1945 Den unge pianisten Wladyslaw Szpilman spelar Chopins Nocturne i Polens radio medan de tyska bomberna briserar i staden. Sedan stängs radion ner. När nazisterna tar makten inleds skräckväldet. Den judiska befolkningen...

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A Rough Trade Book of the Year The Sunday Times bestseller The much-anticipated first book from Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler With over 70 million records sold, heavy metal pioneers Black Sabbath are one of the most influential bands of all ...

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'Superb on the human consequences of war, ravishing in its evocations of wartime life' The Times 'Compassionate and thought-provoking history' Daily Telegraph Less than a month after it marched into France in summer 1870, the P...

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'A brilliant work of intellectual interpretation by our foremost historian of Enlightenment ideas. Whatmore rescues the Enlightenment from today's circular debates and places it where it belongs: in the pulsing, chaotic era of its genesi...

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A thrilling study of the greatest of all epic poems, by one of the world's leading classicists Homer's Iliad is the famous epic poem set among the tales of Troy. Its subject is the anger of the hero Achilles and its dreadful consequences...

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A FINANCIAL TIMES AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 Johnsons stories bring this history chillingly alive Christina Patterson, Sunday Times 'An indelible feat of reporting and an urgent read ... It's a privilege to read books like t...

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Henry Kissinger analyses how six extraordinary leaders he has known have shaped their countries and the world 'Leaders,' writes Henry Kissinger in this compelling book, 'think and act at the intersection of two axes: the first, betw...

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This introduction to the field of gender history offers a set of working definitions of gender as a descriptive category and as a category of historical analysis, tracing the emergence, usage, and applicability of these entwined subjects across a ...

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THE MUCH-ANTICIPATED FOLLOW-UP TO INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER HOW DEMOCRACIES DIE essential reading ahead of the 2024 US election Tyranny of the Minority is an exceptional book, one of the best guides out there to the crisis of American democracy Zac...

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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this "gripping . . . spectacular piece of reporting" (Ken Burns), a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines Senator Frank Church, the man at the center of numerous investigations into the abuses...

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A provocative journey through human sexual history, packed with fun factoids and forgotten stories, from the historian and storyteller behind Kinky History, @esme.louisee on TikTok Contrary to popular belief, our predecessors had all sorts of obsc...

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A sharp, fiercely argued takedown of neoliberalism that not only defines this slippery concept but connects it to the climate crisis, poverty, and fascism--and shows us how to fight back. Neoliberalism is the dominant ideology of our time. It shap...

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A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern age In 1346, a catastrophic plague beset Europe and its neighbours. The Black Death was a human tragedy that abruptl...

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Germany, 1918: a country in flux. The First World War is lost, traditional values are shaken to their core, revolution is afoot and the victory of democracy beckons. Everything must change with the times. The country is abuzz with talk of the 'new...

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Discover a comprehensive and cross-disciplinary handbook exploring several sub-regions and key themes perfect for a new generation of students A Companion to the Hellenistic and Roman Near East delivers the first complete handbook in the area of H...

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Now in paperback: the powerful, revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year Award. An unflinching inv...

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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 ...

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An engrossing history of the desperate battles for the Rzhev Salient, a forgotten story brought to life by the harrowing memoirs of German and Russian soldiers. The fighting between the German and Russian armies in the Rzhev Salient during World W...

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A comprehensive and detailed illustrated examination of the development and combat performance of US battle tanks from World War I to the end of World War II. In this, the first of two highly illustrated volumes examining the complete history of U...

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An illustrated account of the little-known operations of the Imperial Japanese Naval Air Forces flying boat units during World War 2. Respectively codenamed the Mavis and Emily by the Allies, Japans H6K and H8K flying boats outstripped their RAF a...

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A detailed re-examination of Midway, one of the most significant battles in the Pacific Theater of World War II. In April 1942, the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy was at the zenith of its power. It had struck a severe blow against th...

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A WATERSTONES, TIMES, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, SPECTATOR AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR The early sixties in Britain told as only David Kynaston ('the most entertaining historian alive' Spectator) can. Running from 1962 to 19...

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The names of few medieval monarchs and their queens are better known than Eleanor of Aquitaine, uniquely queen of France and queen of England, and her second husband Henry II. Although academically labelled medieval, their era was the violent tran...

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*A Waterstones Best Book of 2023* *A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week* *A New York Times Editor's Pick* 'Terrific' SARAH DUNANT 'Lively and intriguing ... You'll never look at Renaissance portraits in the same way' MAGGIE...

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Chosen in 1941 to replace the Bf 109 as the Luftwaffe's standard front-line fighter, Messerschmitt's innovative Me 309 embodied a wealth of hard-won experience from the Battle of Britain. Its sturdy tricycle undercarriage would make landings safer...

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Messerschmitt's Bf 109 remains the single most produced fighter aircraft in history and perhaps the fighter which has seen the most action - having been flown in combat from Murmansk to Martuba. The sheer scale of production over the course of man...

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