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Under the Axe of Fascism
By Gaetano Salvemini. 2018
THE march on Rome of October 28th 1922 marked the advent to…
power of the Fascist Party in Italy under the leadership of Benito Mussolini The seizure of the government through a coup d tat was justified by the claim that Italy had to be rescued from the imminent danger of a Bolshevist revolution Before the eyes of a world horrified by the tragedy of Russia Italian Fascism assumed the role of the knightly Saint George who had slain the red dragon of Communism The legend appealed to the imaginations and soothed the fears of all the good people of Europe and America It became the sacred myth around which was woven the early Fascist propaganda In the present book the reader will find hard facts not vague legal formul concrete realities not abstract doctrines Its purpose is to provide the English-speaking public with accurate information not about the whole economic social and political system of the Fascist dictatorship but about one single phase of it i e those institutions through which Fascism claims to have solved the problem of the relations between capital and labourBlood and Ink: An Italo-Ethiopian War Diary
By Floyd Gibbons, W W Chaplin. 2018
In the history books the Italo-Ethiopian War will doubtless be entered as one of the strangest wars ever waged…
History will record the spectacle of a primitive people haphazardly armed and lacking in modern military technique seeking to resist Mussolini s modern war machine by tribal cunning on the battlefield and up-to-date intrigue in the diplomatic councils of Europe But what the history books will not record W W Bill Chaplin tells in this fascinating volume It is behind the scenes of politics and bloodshed in this curious conflict that Mr Chaplin takes the reader in a vivid diary of his day-by-day experiences and observations at the Italo-Ethiopian War front Written with the dramatic simplicity of a newspaperman trained in the art of brevity Mr Chaplin s account of the thousand and one quixotic incidents in a war correspondent s life in Ethiopia sparkles with interest and amusement From the beginning when he describes his departure on an Italian troop-ship at Naples to the very end when he returns to the same port as the approaching rainy season slows down the pace of the war Mr Chaplin records an odyssey as strange as the war itself The reader is led through picturesque by-ways into the heart of the Ethiopian war zone and shown not only what war has wrought on the battlefield but what it has wrought in the hearts of fighting men This and much more that is of human texture Mr Chaplin tells in a diary that reflects undiluted curiosity and a subtle sense of the dramaticA Tramp Abroad
By Mark Twain, Hamlin Hill, Robert Gray Bruce. 1871
Cast in the form of a walking tour through Germany, Switzerland, France, and Italy, A Tramp Abroad sparkles with the…
author's shrewd observations and highly opinionated comments on Old World culture, and showcases his unparalleled ability to integrate humorous sketches, autobiographical tidbit, and historical anecdotes in consistently entertaining narrative.The Dissolution of the Habsburg Monarchy
By Oscar Jaszi. 2018
The main factor which destroyed the Habsburg Monarchy was the problem of nationality and its dissolution was hastened but…
not caused by World War I Oscar J szi spent twenty years studying the dangers that threatened this monarchy but his practical plans for averting these dangers were not given a hearing until it was too late This book was the culmination of Mr J szi s theoretical and practical activity and was enthusiastically received when first published in 1929 It is not only effective and dramatic narrative it is also political science of the first order Harold J Laski The work is a liberal education in Central European politics Henry C Alsberg The Nation There have been many books written on the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian Empire but there is none which goes so deeply into the causes in this pitiless yet pitiful analysis rigorously buttressed with statistics the tragedy is described without bitterness but with deep feeling The Manchester GuardianTacitus on Germany
By Tacitus, Thomas Gordon.
Hahnemann: The Adventurous Career of a Medical Rebel
By Martin Gumpert, Claud Sykes. 2018
Samuel Hahnemann 1755-1843 was one of the most notable and controversial figures of his time as physician …
chemist and medical writer In the fight against the inadequacy of conventional medicine and the pursuit of truth he became the founder of the homoeopathic doctrine of healing like with like Enmity and persecution drive him restlessly from place to place A stubborn fool in the eyes of the contemporary medical profession Hahnemann retreats to the loneliness of old age but a fateful encounter with the French painter M lanie d Hervilly towards the end of his life leads to his desired fulfillment In this fascinating biography fellow physician Dr Martin Gumpert provides an exemplary linguistic representation of the great crusader of his field who rebelled against the orthodox medicine of his time as a lost science who oftentimes gave up his medical practice in order not to cause further harm and who tirelessly sought to overcome lack of knowledge within medical scienceCambridge Military Histories: Morale and the Italian Army during the First World War
By Vanda Wilcox. 2016
Italian performance in the First World War has been generally disparaged or ignored compared to that of the armies on…
the Western Front, and troop morale in particular has been seen as a major weakness of the Italian army. In this first book-length study of Italian morale in any language, Vanda Wilcox reassesses Italian policy and performance from the perspective both of the army as an institution and of the ordinary soldiers who found themselves fighting a brutally hard war. Wilcox analyses and contextualises Italy's notoriously hard military discipline along with leadership, training methods and logistics before considering the reactions of the troops and tracing the interactions between institutions and individuals. Restoring historical agency to soldiers often considered passive and indifferent, Wilcox illustrates how and why Italians complied, endured or resisted the army's demands through balancing their civilian and military identities.The Battle for Ireland
By Norman Davies. 2012
The history of contemporary Ireland and its struggle for independence—excerpted from internationally bestselling author Norman Davies’s Vanished Kingdoms Vanished Kingdoms…
introduces readers to once-powerful European empires that have left scant traces on the modern map. In this excerpt from his widely acclaimed book, Norman Davies chronicles the history of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland during what is referred to as the Era of National Liberation. Beginning with the Easter Rising of 1916, Davies recounts the difficulties of establishing Home Rule, which would allow for autonomous self-government under the British Crown, and the impact of the IRA and its fraught relationship with the Catholic Church. Along the way, Davies includes stirring portraits of the groundbreaking leaders who fought for Irish independence, such as Eamon de Valera and his organization Sinn Fein, and the well-known songs and poems that helped galvanize a sense of national pride. A selection from the work The Boston Globe has called “commendably accessible, magisterial, and uncommonly humane,” The Battle for Ireland provides a concise overview of modern Irish politics and history with Davies’s characteristic vigor and intelligence.History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Volume 21
By Thomas Carlyle.
The Last Communard: Adrien Lejeune, the Unexpected Life of a Revolutionary
By Gavin Bowd. 2016
The story of an unexpected heroThe Last Communard offers a brilliant, striking portrait of revolutionary Europe through a remarkable personal…
story.In 1871, Adrien Lejeune fought on the barricades of the Paris Commune. He was imprisoned for treason when the Commune fell and narrowly avoided execution for his role in the struggle for a new future. In later life, he immigrated to Soviet Russia, finding fame as a revolutionary icon. In his native country, he was vaunted as a hero, a touchstone of revolutions past during France's interwar dramas.Abandoned by the Soviet regime, he languished, fortunes foundering, in Russia. Having led a long and extraordinary life, he died in Siberia in 1942 while fleeing Moscow as the Nazi armies swept across western Russia. It was another thirty years before he returned to Paris, his ashes coming to rest in the Communards' plot of the Père Lachaise cemetery, on the centennial of the uprising, a symbol of France's undying radical tradition.Gavin Bowd's stunning narrative shows how an individual can be swept up in the fierce tides of history, and at the same time be defined by his own efforts to force those tides into a different, and better, course. Lejeune's life captures war and revolution in a tumultuous period of European history.From the Hardcover edition.History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Appendix
By Thomas Carlyle.
History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Volume 20
By Thomas Carlyle.
Vernacular Translation in Dante's Italy: Illiterate Literature
By Alison Cornish. 2011
Translation and commentary are often associated with institutions and patronage; but in Italy around the time of Dante, widespread vernacular…
translation was mostly on the spontaneous initiative of individuals. While Dante is usually the starting point for histories of vernacular translation in Europe, this book demonstrates that The Divine Comedy places itself in opposition to a vast vernacular literature already in circulation among its readers. Alison Cornish explores the anxiety of vernacularization as expressed by translators and contemporary authors, the prevalence of translation in religious experience, the role of scribal mediation, the influence of the Italian reception of French literature on that literature, and how translating into the vernacular became a project of nation-building only after its virtual demise during the Humanist period. Vernacular translation was a phenomenon with which all authors in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Europe - from Brunetto Latini to Giovanni Boccaccio - had to contend.Soviet Russians under Nazi Occupation: Fragile Loyalties in World War II (New Studies in European History)
By Johannes Due Enstad. 2018
In this compelling account of life and death in a Russian province under Nazi occupation Johannes Due Enstad challenges…
received wisdom about Russian patriotism during World War II With the benefit of hindsight we know how hopelessly destructive Germany s war against the Soviet Union was Yet ordinary Russians witnessing the advancing German forces saw things differently For many of them having lived through collectivization and Stalinist terror in the 1930s the invasion created hopes of a better life without the Bolsheviks German policies on land and church helped sustain those hopes for parts of the population Drawing on Soviet and German archival sources as well as eyewitness accounts memoirs and diaries Enstad demonstrates the impact of Nazi rule on the mostly peasant population of northwest Russia and offers a reconsideration of the relationship between the Soviet regime and its core Russian population at this crucial moment in their historyForging Europe: Industrial Organisation in France, 1940–1952
By Luc-Andr Brunet. 2017
This book is a detailed and original look at the radical reorganisation of French heavy industry in the turbulent period…
between the establishment of the Vichy regime in 1940 and the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), the forerunner to the European Union, in 1952. By studying institutions ranging from Vichy’s Organisation Committees to Jean Monnet’s Commissariat Général du Plan (CGP), Luc-André Brunet challenges existing narratives and reveals significant continuities from Vichy to post-war initiatives such as the Monnet Plan and the ECSC. Based on extensive multi-archival research, this book sheds important new light on economic collaboration and resistance in Vichy, the post-war revival of the French economy, and the origins of European integration.Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
By Karl Marx.
Greece (Major European Union Nations)
By Kim Etingoff. 2013
Greece's economy has struggled a lot in recent years, but it has a long, rich history to draw on to…
help solve its problems. Greece is known as the birthplace of democracy and the Olympics, among many other things. It has been a member of the EU since 1981. Today, the EU and Greece are working together to help solve this country's serious economic problems. Discover more about this exciting, modern nation!Into a Paris Quartier
By Diane Johnson. 2005
Acclaimed author Diane Johnson brings to life the legendary St. Germain-des-Prs quarter of Paris--her adoptive home for many years--with riveting…
stories that explain its continued mystique in the heart of the world's most alluring city.Here is the remarkable true story of the real Count of Monte Cristo - a stunning feat of historical sleuthing…
that brings to life the forgotten hero who inspired such classics as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.The real-life protagonist of The Black Count, General Alex Dumas, is a man almost unknown today yet with a story that is strikingly familiar, because his son, the novelist Alexandre Dumas, used it to create some of the best loved heroes of literature.Yet, hidden behind these swashbuckling adventures was an even more incredible secret: the real hero was the son of a black slave -- who rose higher in the white world than any man of his race would before our own time. Born in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), Alex Dumas was briefly sold into bondage but made his way to Paris where he was schooled as a sword-fighting member of the French aristocracy. Enlisting as a private, he rose to command armies at the height of the Revolution, in an audacious campaign across Europe and the Middle East - until he met an implacable enemy he could not defeat.The Black Count is simultaneously a riveting adventure story, a lushly textured evocation of 18th-century France, and a window into the modern world's first multi-racial society. But it is also a heartbreaking story of the enduring bonds of love between a father and son. From the Hardcover edition.Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada
By Washington Irving.