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I början av 1960-talet älskade osårbara tjugoåringar att spaka Tunnan och Lansen i ständiga, krigsliknande övningar med otyglade lågflygningar. De övade invasionsförsvar med en outtalad hotbild från öst medan Sverige hävdade sin neutralitet under kalla krigets dagar. En stark ledning inom Flygvapnet hade med hjälp av en expansiv flygindustri och försvarsvänliga politiker skapat världens fjärde största flygvapen, med fler än tusen svenska flygplan. Samtidigt hade Tunnan och Lansen ett förfärligt haverifacit. Var tredje plan havererade eller brann upp. Flygarna betalade priset. Förlustsiffran uppgår till fler än 600 efter andra världskriget. Den mest olycksdrabbade perioden inträffade under Torsten Rapps tid som flygvapenchef, med ett sjuttiotal flyghaverier och 46 döda under femton månader. Sju av offren kom aldrig med i haveristatistiken. De var ett trösklag som drack kaffe i ett kök i Vikbo när ett Lansen som övergetts efter bränslehaveri rammade huset. Tragedin i Vikbo har alltid betraktats som en slumpartad olycka. Den ledde till att åttaåriga Inger miste sin familj och liksom sin farbror fick leva med obearbetade trauman. Inte förrän tre decennier efter Vikboolyckan kunde flygvapnet genom förändrad flygkultur och ett systematiskt säkerhetsarbete nå fram till nollvisionen, ett år utan flyghaveri med dödsoffer. Sedan nästan tjugo år har heller ingen stridsflygare omkommit. Och först femtio år efter den värsta olycka som drabbat civila på marken uppdagades sveket: Rapps ledning hade negligerat kända brister i Lansens bränslesystem och i väntan på beordrade reparationer ändå tillåtit fortsatt flygning.

Haveriet : flygvapnet och kalla krigets offer

AvUlf Eneroth

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Svenska, 2022

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I början av 1960-talet älskade osårbara tjugoåringar att spaka Tunnan och Lansen i ständiga, krigsliknande övningar med otyglade lågflygningar. De övade invasionsförsvar med en outtalad hotbild från öst medan Sverige hävdade sin neutralitet under kalla krigets dagar. En stark ledning inom Flygvapnet hade med hjälp av en expansiv flygindustri och försvarsvänliga politiker skapat världens fjärde största flygvapen, med fler än tusen svenska flygplan. Samtidigt hade Tunnan och Lansen ett förfärligt haverifacit. Var tredje plan havererade eller brann upp. Flygarna betalade priset. Förlustsiffran uppgår till fler än 600 efter andra världskriget. Den mest olycksdrabbade perioden inträffade under Torsten Rapps tid som flygvapenchef, med ett sjuttiotal flyghaverier och 46 döda under femton månader. Sju av offren kom aldrig med i haveristatistiken. De var ett trösklag som drack kaffe i ett kök i Vikbo när ett Lansen som övergetts efter bränslehaveri rammade huset. Tragedin i Vikbo har alltid betraktats som en slumpartad olycka. Den ledde till att åttaåriga Inger miste sin familj och liksom sin farbror fick leva med obearbetade trauman. Inte förrän tre decennier efter Vikboolyckan kunde flygvapnet genom förändrad flygkultur och ett systematiskt säkerhetsarbete nå fram till nollvisionen, ett år utan flyghaveri med dödsoffer. Sedan nästan tjugo år har heller ingen stridsflygare omkommit. Och först femtio år efter den värsta olycka som drabbat civila på marken uppdagades sveket: Rapps ledning hade negligerat kända brister i Lansens bränslesystem och i väntan på beordrade reparationer ändå tillåtit fortsatt flygning.

Vietnam, Jews and the Middle East

Unintended Consequences

AvJudith A. Klinghoffer

Inbunden, Engelska, 1999

544 kr

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In 1967 Moscow created a Middle Eastern crisis in response to Washington's escalation in Vietnam. America's Asian focus had left her Atlantic flank vulnerable to Soviet penetration. Israel refused to plant her flag in Saigon, American rabbis led the peace movement and the President threatened to withdraw his support for Israel. The Palestinians embarked on a Vietnamese inspired 'people's war' and Moscow interpreted Israeli retaliation as support for US policy in Vietnam. The Six Day War turned Israel into a Soviet nuclear target and transformed some liberals into Neo-Conservatives.

Vietnam, Jews and the Middle East

Unintended Consequences

AvJudith A. Klinghoffer

Häftad, Engelska, 1999

544 kr

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In 1967 Moscow created a Middle Eastern crisis in response to Washington's escalation in Vietnam. America's Asian focus had left her Atlantic flank vulnerable to Soviet penetration. Israel refused to plant her flag in Saigon, American rabbis led the peace movement and the President threatened to withdraw his support for Israel. The Palestinians embarked on a Vietnamese inspired 'people's war' and Moscow interpreted Israeli retaliation as support for US policy in Vietnam. The Six Day War turned Israel into a Soviet nuclear target and transformed some liberals into Neo-Conservatives.

Holocaust Testimonies

Reassessing Survivors' Voices and Their Future in Challenging Times

AvThomas Pegelow Kaplan,Wolf Grunerm. fl.

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

1 228 kr

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Close to a time when there will be no more survivors to speak about their suffering, this innovative study takes much-needed stock of the past, present and future of Holocaust testimony. Drawing from a vast range of witness accounts – including a never-before-published survivor interview – and carefully situating analysis within broader historical and political discourses, this international team of scholars address many pertinent issues of testimony in the post-witness age. These include: questions of representation and testimony form; memory politics and the role of the witness; the legacy of the Holocaust and impact on future generations; the digital turn and issues of access; and gender and testimony in the wake of #MeToo. Stressing the importance of re-assessing, re-contextualizing, and re-presenting testimonies, these essays make a powerful case for the ongoing centrality of witnesses and witnessing in Holocaust research, education and memory. In doing so, Holocaust Testimonies skillfully paves the way for future research with survivor testimonies.

Holocaust Testimonies

Reassessing Survivors' Voices and Their Future in Challenging Times

AvThomas Pegelow Kaplan,Wolf Grunerm. fl.

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PDF, Engelska, 2025

1 325 kr

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Close to a time when there will be no more survivors to speak about their suffering, this innovative study takes much-needed stock of the past, present and future of Holocaust testimony. Drawing from a vast range of witness accounts – including a never-before-published survivor interview – and carefully situating analysis within broader historical and political discourses, this international team of scholars address many pertinent issues of testimony in the post-witness age. These include: questions of representation and testimony form; memory politics and the role of the witness; the legacy of the Holocaust and impact on future generations; the digital turn and issues of access; and gender and testimony in the wake of #MeToo. Stressing the importance of re-assessing, re-contextualizing, and re-presenting testimonies, these essays make a powerful case for the ongoing centrality of witnesses and witnessing in Holocaust research, education and memory. In doing so, Holocaust Testimonies skillfully paves the way for future research with survivor testimonies.

Holocaust Testimonies

Reassessing Survivors' Voices and Their Future in Challenging Times

AvThomas Pegelow Kaplan,Wolf Grunerm. fl.

E-bok

Engelska, 2025

1 325 kr

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Close to a time when there will be no more survivors to speak about their suffering, this innovative study takes much-needed stock of the past, present and future of Holocaust testimony. Drawing from a vast range of witness accounts – including a never-before-published survivor interview – and carefully situating analysis within broader historical and political discourses, this international team of scholars address many pertinent issues of testimony in the post-witness age. These include: questions of representation and testimony form; memory politics and the role of the witness; the legacy of the Holocaust and impact on future generations; the digital turn and issues of access; and gender and testimony in the wake of #MeToo. Stressing the importance of re-assessing, re-contextualizing, and re-presenting testimonies, these essays make a powerful case for the ongoing centrality of witnesses and witnessing in Holocaust research, education and memory. In doing so, Holocaust Testimonies skillfully paves the way for future research with survivor testimonies.

Holocaust Testimonies

Reassessing Survivors' Voices and Their Future in Challenging Times

AvThomas Pegelow Kaplan,Wolf Grunerm. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

509 kr

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Close to a time when there will be no more survivors to speak about their suffering, this innovative study takes much-needed stock of the past, present and future of Holocaust testimony. Drawing from a vast range of witness accounts – including a never-before-published survivor interview – and carefully situating analysis within broader historical and political discourses, this international team of scholars address many pertinent issues of testimony in the post-witness age. These include: questions of representation and testimony form; memory politics and the role of the witness; the legacy of the Holocaust and impact on future generations; the digital turn and issues of access; and gender and testimony in the wake of #MeToo. Stressing the importance of re-assessing, re-contextualizing, and re-presenting testimonies, these essays make a powerful case for the ongoing centrality of witnesses and witnessing in Holocaust research, education and memory. In doing so, Holocaust Testimonies skillfully paves the way for future research with survivor testimonies.

Medieval Combat in Colour

A Fifteenth-Century Manual of Swordfighting and Close-Quarter Combat

AvHans Talhoffer,Dierk Hagedorn

E-bok

Engelska, 2018

146 kr

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An illustrated guide to various forms of medieval combat, originally published in 1467.Hans Talhoffer’s professional fencing manual of 1467 illustrates the intricacies of the medieval art of fighting, covering both the “judicial duel” (an officially sanctioned fight to resolve a legal dispute) and personal combat.Combatants in the Middle Ages used footwork, avoidance, and the ability to judge and manipulate timing and distance to exploit and enhance the sword’s inherent cutting and thrusting capabilities. These skills were supplemented with techniques for grappling, wrestling, kicking, and throwing the opponent, as well as disarming him by seizing his weapon. Every attack contained a defense and every defense a counterattack. Talhoffer reveals the techniques for wrestling, unarmored fighting with the long sword, poleaxe, dagger, sword and buckler, and mounted combat.This unparalleled guide to medieval combat, illustrated with 268 contemporary images, provides a glimpse of real people fighting with skill, sophistication, and ruthlessness. This is one of the most popular and influential manuals of its kind.“[A] book well worth owning. . . . Artistically, the work is a great exemplar of late medieval illustration.” —The Medieval Review

Medieval Combat in Colour

A Fifteenth-Century Manual of Swordfighting and Close-Quarter Combat

AvHans Talhoffer,Dierk Hagedorn

E-bok

PDF, Engelska, 2018

146 kr

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Hans Talhoffer''s professional fencing manual of 1467 illustrates the intricacies of the medieval art of fighting, covering both the ''judicial duel'' (an officially sanctioned fight to resolve a legal dispute) and personal combat.Combatants in the Middle Ages used footwork, avoidance, and the ability to judge and manipulate timing and distance to exploit and enhance the sword''s inherent cutting and thrusting capabilities. These skills were supplemented with techniques for grappling, wrestling, kicking and throwing the opponent, as well as disarming him by seizing his weapon. Every attack contained a defence and every defence a counter-attack. Talhoffer reveals the techniques for wrestling, unarmoured fighting with the long sword, pole-axe, dagger, sword and buckler, and mounted combat.This unparalleled guide to medieval combat, illustrated with 268 contemporary images, provides a glimpse of real people fighting with skill, sophistication and ruthlessness. This is one of the most popular and influential manuals of its kind.

Krigsmalmens offer

AvLennart Lundberg

E-bok

Svenska, 2025

100 kr

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Sveriges roll under andra världskriget har länge varit omdiskuterad. Diskussionerna har sträckt sig från neutralitetspolitik till diplomatiska manövrar, men sällan har fokus riktats mot handeln med Tyskland. Den svenska exporten av järnmalm var kontroversiell, men samtidigt en nödvändighet för Sveriges överlevnad under kriget. Mörka siffror vittnar om det höga priset – 203 sjömän förlorade sina liv i tjänst, ett faktum som ofta förminskats eller glömts bort på grund av ämnets kontroversiella natur.

I ”Krigsmalmens offer” tecknar Lennart Lundberg en minnesbild av den svenska järnmalmsexporten under andra världskriget. Boken är också en hyllning till alla sjömän som riskerade livet i rikets tjänst.

Lennart Lundberg är en före detta sjöingenjör som bland annat har arbetat för marinen och handelsflottan. Han har skrivit ett antal böcker om svensk nutidshistoria, med särskilt fokus på handelsflottan.

Ukraine-Russia Conflict

AvChristoffer Smestad

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

111 kr

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Wooden World

AvN. A. M. Roger

Häftad, Engelska, 1998

133 kr

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America and the Postwar World: Remaking International Society, 1945-1956

AvDavid Mayers

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

2 506 kr

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The main tide of international relations scholarship on the first years after World War II sweeps toward Cold War accounts. These have emphasized the United States and USSR in a context of geopolitical rivalry, with concomitant attention upon the bristling security state. Historians have also extensively analyzed the creation of an economic order (Bretton Woods), mainly designed by Americans and tailored to their interests, but resisted by peoples residing outside of North America, Western Europe, and Japan. This scholarship, centered on the Cold War as vortex and a reconfigured world economy, is rife with contending schools of interpretation and, bolstered by troves of declassified archival documents, will support investigations and writing into the future.By contrast, this book examines a past that ran concurrent with the Cold War and interacted with it, but which usefully can also be read as separable: Washington in the first years after World War II, and in response to that conflagration, sought to redesign international society. That society was then, and remains, an admittedly amorphous thing. Yet it has always had a tangible aspect, drawing self-regarding states into occasional cooperation, mediated by treaties, laws, norms, diplomatic customs, and transnational institutions. The U.S.-led attempt during the first postwar years to salvage international society focused on the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, the Acheson–Lilienthal plan to contain the atomic arms race, the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals to force Axis leaders to account, the 1948 Genocide Convention, the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the founding of the United Nations. None of these initiatives was transformative, not individually or collectively. Yet they had an ameliorative effect, traces of which have touched the twenty-first century—in struggles to curb the proliferation of nuclear weapons, bring war criminals to justice, create laws supportive of human rights, and maintain an aspirational United Nations, still striving to retain meaningfulness amid world hazards. Together these partially realized innovations and frameworks constitute, if nothing else, a point of moral reference, much needed as the border between war and peace has become blurred and the consequences of a return to unrestraint must be harrowing.

America and the Postwar World: Remaking International Society, 1945-1956

AvDavid Mayers

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

704 kr

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The main tide of international relations scholarship on the first years after World War II sweeps toward Cold War accounts. These have emphasized the United States and USSR in a context of geopolitical rivalry, with concomitant attention upon the bristling security state. Historians have also extensively analyzed the creation of an economic order (Bretton Woods), mainly designed by Americans and tailored to their interests, but resisted by peoples residing outside of North America, Western Europe, and Japan. This scholarship, centered on the Cold War as vortex and a reconfigured world economy, is rife with contending schools of interpretation and, bolstered by troves of declassified archival documents, will support investigations and writing into the future.By contrast, this book examines a past that ran concurrent with the Cold War and interacted with it, but which usefully can also be read as separable: Washington in the first years after World War II, and in response to that conflagration, sought to redesign international society. That society was then, and remains, an admittedly amorphous thing. Yet it has always had a tangible aspect, drawing self-regarding states into occasional cooperation, mediated by treaties, laws, norms, diplomatic customs, and transnational institutions. The U.S.-led attempt during the first postwar years to salvage international society focused on the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, the Acheson–Lilienthal plan to contain the atomic arms race, the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals to force Axis leaders to account, the 1948 Genocide Convention, the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the founding of the United Nations. None of these initiatives was transformative, not individually or collectively. Yet they had an ameliorative effect, traces of which have touched the twenty-first century—in struggles to curb the proliferation of nuclear weapons, bring war criminals to justice, create laws supportive of human rights, and maintain an aspirational United Nations, still striving to retain meaningfulness amid world hazards. Together these partially realized innovations and frameworks constitute, if nothing else, a point of moral reference, much needed as the border between war and peace has become blurred and the consequences of a return to unrestraint must be harrowing.

Allies at the End of Empire

Loyalists, Nationalists and the Cold War, 1945-76

AvDavid M. Anderson,Daniel Branch

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

2 506 kr

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The wars of decolonization fought by European colonial powers after 1945 had their origins in the fraught history of imperial domination, but were framed and shaped by the emerging politics of the Cold War. In all the counter-insurgencies mounted against armed nationalist risings in this period, the European colonial powers employed locally recruited militias – styled as ‘loyalists’ – to fight their ‘dirty wars’. These loyalist histories have been neglected in the nationalist narratives that have dominated the post-decolonization landscape, and this book offers the first comparative assessment of the role played by these allies at the end of empire. Their experience illuminates the deeper ambiguities of the decolonization story: some loyalists were subjected to vengeful violence at liberation; others actually claimed the victory for themselves and seized control of the emergent state; while others still maintained a role as fighting units into the Cold War. The overlap between the history of decolonization and the emergence of the Cold War is a central theme in the studies presented here. The collection discusses the categorization of these ‘irregular auxiliary’ forces after 1945, and presents seven case studies from five European colonialisms, covering nine former colonies – Portugal (Angola), the Netherlands (Indonesia), France (Algeria), Belgium (Congo) and Britain (Cyprus, Kenya, Aden, South Yemen and Oman). This book was originally published as a special issue of the International History Review.

Presidential Rhetoric from Wilson to Obama

Constructing crises, fast and slow

AvWesley Widmaier

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

1 417 kr

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Over the past century, presidential constructions of crises have spurred recurring redefinitions of U.S. interests, as crusading advance has alternated with realist retrenchment. For example, Harry Truman and George W. Bush constructed crises that justified liberal crusades in the Cold War and War on Terror. In turn, each was followed by realist successors, as Dwight Eisenhower and Barack Obama limited U.S. commitments, but then struggled to maintain popular support.To make sense of such dynamics, this book synthesizes constructivist and historical institutionalist insights regarding the ideational overreactions that spur shifts across crusading excesses and realist counter-reactions. Widmaier juxtaposes what Daniel Kahneman terms the initial "fast thinking" popular constructions of crises that justify liberal crusades, the "slow thinking" intellectual conversion of such views in realist adjustments, and the tensions that can lead to renewed crises. This book also traces these dynamics historically across five periods – as Wilson’s overreach limited Franklin Roosevelt to a reactive pragmatism, as Truman’s Cold War crusading incited Eisenhower’s restraint, as Kennedy-Johnson Vietnam-era crusading led to Nixon’s revived realism, as Reagan’s idealism yielded to a Bush-Clinton pragmatism, and as George W. Bush’s crusading was followed by Obama’s restraint. Widmaier concludes by addressing theoretical debates over punctuated change, historical debates over the scope for consensus, and policy debates over populist or intellectual excesses.This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of U.S. Foreign Policy

Bonaparte

AvCorelli Barnett

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

1 879 kr

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This book, originally published in 1978, argues that there was no ‘turning-point’ in Bonaparte’s career, but rather a consistent pattern from beginning to end. As a commander Bonaparte’s forte was speed and aggressiveness. As a planner, however he was slapdash: his armies starved and went barefoot. The author argues that far from being a master of concentration of force on the battlefield, he was again and again caught with his army dispersed and only rescued from disaster by the last-minute arrival of reinforcements.

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Masters of War

Frederick the Great

AvJ F Atkinson

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

471 kr

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