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Russian Combat Methods in World War II
By United States Army. 2020
“This publication was prepared by a number of German officers after the end of World War II. There were a…
number of these publications, and…they are all of significant importance in understanding the way in which the war was fought, particularly on the eastern front. This publication looks at the Russian method of waging war, which was not always to use the unsubtle steamroller attack. The pamphlet shows how the Russian was different in outlook to the German soldier, and the role of the Commissar. Each arm is examined in some detail, before the discussion turns to the peculiarities of Russian tactics. Winter warfare was the preferred season for war for the Russians, and the mass attacks of 1941 eventually gave way to much more scientific tank/infantry/air/artillery combined attacks, using the weight of manpower to flatten German defenders where they stood. There is also discussion of the importance of the Red Air Force in the war, and of the partisan movement, which was always a thorn in the German’s side. This publication should be read in conjunction with the Soviet Partisan Movement and Small Unit Actions (both in the German Report Series)”-Print ed.The Autobiography of Sir Patrick Hastings
By Sir Patrick Hastings. 2020
This may well be the most-read, best-loved book that any of our great advocates has given us....Why? Because Sir Patrick…
Hastings brings the human touch into the constellation. Not only human, he is amusing and he is in touch with real life."I have the honour to present to you Mr. Patrick Hastings!" Thus the Reader of the Middle Temple "called him". Perhaps this legal functionary did not realise what it had meant to young Hastings to scrape together the necessary £100....Years of nightly theatrical journalism at 30s a week with an odd article here and there....And before that there had been his boyhood in a family in which "bankruptcy was more of a habit than a misfortune", but which had nevertheless been able to send him to Charterhouse-for a time. Afterwards there was the precarious travelling with his mother on the Continent. Then his adventures as a trooper in the South African war...From these chapters one realises the difficulties to be overcome by a young barrister without money or influence. But with foresight, pluck and luck he did it. The cases began to come in—the Douglas-Pennant case, the "Bob" Sievier case, and then the famous murder cases—Mrs. Barney, Vaquier, the case of the Polish officer, and the drama of betrayal known as the case of the Hooded Man.Here also is his political story. He was Attorney General when the celebrated Campbell case made political history. Not less fascinating is the record of his successes and failures on the capricious London stage. His story is packed with all the good things he himself has found in life— a happy marriage, good friends, the excitement of achievement.Drake and the Tudor Navy Vol. II (Drake and the Tudor Navy #2)
By Sir Julian Stafford Corbett. 2020
THE NAVAL ART IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURYTHE conspicuous technical feature of the maritime revolution which in the…
sixteenth century transferred the focus of the naval art from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic is the transition from galley warfare to warfare under sail; and the history of that transition, of its causes, its development, and its results, is the history of the rise of the English naval supremacy.The whole of maritime warfare falls naturally into three periods, each sharply characterised by a generic difference in the ‘capital ship,’ as in the seventeenth century it was happily called—the ship, that is, which formed the backbone of a fighting fleet and which had a place in the fighting line. The first period is that of the galley, beginning in prehistoric times and culminating in the year 1571, at the battle of Lepanto; the second is that of the ‘great ship,’ or ‘ship of the line,’ which was established in 1588 with the campaign of the Great Armada, and reached its highest development at Trafalgar; the third is that in which we now live, the period of the ‘battleship.’ Or, to state the classification in terms of its real basis, there is a period of oars, a period of sails, and a period of steam.Memoirs of Prince von Bülow Vol. 2: From the Morocco Crisis to Resignation 1903-1909 (Memoirs of Prince von Bülow #2)
By fürst Bernhard Heinrich Martin Karl von Bülow. 2020
From the Morocco Crisis to Resignation 1903-1909“When the last trumpet sounds, I shall present myself before the Sovereign Judge with…
this book in my hand, and say aloud: Thus have I acted; these were my thoughts; such was I.” So Jean-Jacques Rousseau in his celebrated “Confessions.” In their intense subjectivity and frankness the memoirs of Prince von Bulow resemble those of the illustrious Frenchman. Brilliantly composed in an informal conversational style, well spiced with gossip, and containing many striking characterizations of notable contemporaries, the reminiscences of the fourth Chancellor of the German Empire will certainly rank high among the lighter political memoirs of the present century.An eventful life, important contacts, and a long political career supplied Bülow with ideal material for the writing of a stimulating autobiography. Prince Bulow bore a name distinguished in the history of German diplomacy, politics, and military affairs. Trained in the Bismarckian school, and a protege of the Iron Chancellor, Bulow served in every important diplomatic post in Europe with the exception of London and Constantinople. With Bismarck’s resignation in 1890, he might have become a brilliant young diplomat with a great future behind him, had he not caught on with the new regime under William II. In 1897 he was appointed Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and three years later he became Imperial Chancellor. His resignation in 1909 was occasioned by the famous Daily Telegraph incident which cost him the Kaiser’s confidence and embittered his entire later life. He reappeared on the political stage for a brief moment during the War as Ambassador to Italy, but his mission ended in failure when Italy joined the Allied Powers in 1915. Six years later, at the age of seventy-two, he began the composition of his memoirs, a task that occupied him until his death in 1929.-VQRDrake and the Tudor Navy Vol. I (Drake and the Tudor Navy #1)
By Sir Julian Stafford Corbett. 2020
THE NAVAL ART IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURYTHE conspicuous technical feature of the maritime revolution which in the…
sixteenth century transferred the focus of the naval art from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic is the transition from galley warfare to warfare under sail; and the history of that transition, of its causes, its development, and its results, is the history of the rise of the English naval supremacy.The whole of maritime warfare falls naturally into three periods, each sharply characterised by a generic difference in the ‘capital ship,’ as in the seventeenth century it was happily called—the ship, that is, which formed the backbone of a fighting fleet and which had a place in the fighting line. The first period is that of the galley, beginning in prehistoric times and culminating in the year 1571, at the battle of Lepanto; the second is that of the ‘great ship,’ or ‘ship of the line,’ which was established in 1588 with the campaign of the Great Armada, and reached its highest development at Trafalgar; the third is that in which we now live, the period of the ‘battleship.’ Or, to state the classification in terms of its real basis, there is a period of oars, a period of sails, and a period of steam.The Fuel of the Fire
By William Douglas Beattie Grant. 2020
Sir Humphrey Gilbert and the Elizabethan Expedition: Preparing for a Voyage
By Nathan J. Probasco. 2020
This book examines the 1583 voyage of Sir Humphrey Gilbert to North America. This was England's first attempt at colonization…
beyond the British Isles, yet it has not been subject to thorough scholarly analysis for more than 70 years. An exhaustive examination of the voyage reveals the complexity and preparedness of this and similar early modern colonizing expeditions. Prominent Elizabethans assisted Gilbert by researching and investing in his expedition: the Printing Revolution was critical to their plans, as Gilbert’s supporters traveled throughout England with promotional literature proving England’s claim to North America. Gilbert’s experts used maps and charts to publicize and navigate, while his pilots experimented with new navigating tools and practices. Though he failed to establish a settlement, Gilbert created a blueprint for later Stuart colonizers who achieved his vision of a British Empire in the Western Hemisphere. This book clarifies the role of cartography, natural science, and promotional literature in Elizabethan colonization and elucidates the preparation stages of early modern colonizing voyages.The Horn of Africa Diasporas in Italy: An Oral History
By Gabriele Proglio. 2020
This book delves into the history of the Horn of Africa diaspora in Italy and Europe through the stories of…
those who fled to Italy from East African states. It draws on oral history research carried out by the BABE project (Bodies Across Borders: Oral and Visual Memories in Europe and Beyond) in a host of cities across Italy that explored topics including migration journeys, the memory of colonialism in the Horn of Africa, cultural identity in Italy and Europe, and Mediterranean crossings. This book shows how the cultural memory of interviewees is deeply linked to an intersubjective context that is changing Italian and European identities. The collected narratives reveal the existence of another Italy – and another Europe – through stories that cross national and European borders and unfold in transnational and global networks. They tell of the multiple identities of the diaspora and reconsider the geography of the continent, in terms of experiences, emotions, and close relationships, and help reinterpret the history and legacy of Italian colonialism.The international consensus built around the Western model and its civilizational approach, in recent decades, has not been long in…
showing signs of fragility in the face of structural crises induced by the push for unfair globalization. The doubts that are aroused by the not very reassuring management of this project of globalization and major global crises, such as the global Covid-19 pandemic, which has taken hold of all nations, nevertheless deserve a pause for deep reflection to better understand this unprecedented situation in human history! In this essay, I make my significant contribution in understanding the new process of human civilization, which has become a unique model for all contemporary nations, according to my "geocivilizational" approach, and offer a lucid and serene look at the historical causes of the leadership of Westerners.Empire, Early Photography and Spectacle: The Global Career of Showman Daguerreotypist J.W. Newland (Routledge History of Photography)
By Martyn Jolly, Elisa DeCourcy. 2021
James William Newland’s (1810–1857) career as a showman daguerreotypist began in the United States but expanded into Central and South…
America, across the Pacific to New Zealand and colonial Australia and onto India. Newland used the latest developments in photography, theatre and spectacle to create powerful new visual experiences for audiences in each of these volatile colonial societies. This book assesses his surviving, vivid portraits against other visual ephemera and archival records of his time. Newland’s magic lantern and theatre shows are imaginatively reconstructed from textual sources and analysed, with his short, rich career casting a new light on the complex worlds of the mid-nineteenth century. It provides a revealing case study of someone brokering new experiences with optical technologies for varied audiences at the forefront of the age of modern vision. This book will be of interest to scholars in art and visual culture, photography, the history of photography and Victorian history.Lived Religion and Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Themes in Medieval and Early Modern History)
By Raisa Maria Toivo, Sari Katajala-Peltomaa. 2021
This study is an exploration of lived religion and gender across the Reformation, from the 14th–18th centuries. Combining conceptual development with…
empirical history, the authors explore these two topics via themes of power, agency, work, family, sainthood and witchcraft. By advancing the theoretical category of ‘experience’, Lived Religion and Gender reveals multiple femininities and masculinities in the intersectional context of lived religion. The authors analyse specific case studies from both medieval and early modern sources, such as secular court records, to tell the stories of both individuals and large social groups. By exploring lived religion and gender on a range of social levels including the domestic sphere, public devotion and spirituality, this study explains how late medieval and early modern people performed both religion and gender in ways that were vastly different from what ideologists have prescribed. Lived Religion and Gender covers a wide geographical area in western Europe including Italy, Scandinavia and Finland, making this study an invaluable resource for scholars and students concerned with the history of religion, the history of gender, the history of the family, as well as medieval and early modern European history.Past and Prologue: Politics and Memory in the American Revolution
By Michael D. Hattem. 2020
How American colonists reinterpreted their British and colonial histories to help establish political and cultural independence from Britain In Past…
and Prologue, Michael Hattem shows how colonists’ changing understandings of their British and colonial histories shaped the politics of the American Revolution and the origins of American national identity. Between the 1760s and 1800s, Americans stopped thinking of the British past as their own history and created a new historical tradition that would form the foundation for what subsequent generations would think of as “American history.” This change was a crucial part of the cultural transformation at the heart of the Revolution by which colonists went from thinking of themselves as British subjects to thinking of themselves as American citizens. Rather than liberating Americans from the past—as many historians have argued—the Revolution actually made the past matter more than ever. Past and Prologue shows how the process of reinterpreting the past played a critical role in the founding of the nation.Britain and Europe in a Troubled World (The Henry L. Stimson Lectures Series)
By Vernon Bogdanor. 2020
The history of Britain's complex relationship with Europe, untangled&“[A] cool-headed, fair, and judicious analysis of Britain and the EU at…
a decisive period in history&”— Thomas Gallagher, Brexit-Watch.org Is Britain a part of Europe? The British have been ambivalent on this question since the Second World War, when the Western European nations sought to prevent the return of fascism by creating strong international ties throughout the Continent. Britain reluctantly joined the Common Market, the European Community, and ultimately the European Union, but its decades of membership never quite led it to accept a European orientation. In the view of the distinguished political scientist Vernon Bogdanor, the question of Britain&’s relationship to Europe is rooted in &“the prime conflict of our time,&” the dispute between the competing faiths of liberalism and nationalism. This concise, expertly guided tour provides the essential background to the struggle over Brexit.Saracens: Islam in the Medieval European Imagination
By John Tolan. 2002
In the first century of Islam, most of the former Christian Roman Empire, from Syria to Spain, was brought under…
Muslim control in a conquest of unprecedented proportions. Confronted by the world of Islam, countless medieval Christians experienced a profound ambivalence, awed by its opulence, they were also troubled by its rival claims to the spiritual inheritance of Abraham and Jesus and humiliated by its social subjugation of non-Muslim minorities. Some converted. Others took up arms. Still others, the subjects of John Tolan's study of anti-Muslim polemics in medieval Europe, undertook to attack Islam and its most vivid avatar, the saracen, with words.In an effort to make sense of God's apparent abandonment of Christendom in favor of a dynamic and expanding Muslim civilization, European writers distorted the teachings of Islam and caricatured its believers in a variety of ways. What ideological purposes did these portrayals serve? And how, in turn, did Muslims view Christianity? Feelings of rivalry, contempt, and superiority existed on both sides, tinged or tempered at times with feelings of doubt, inferiority, curiosity, or admiration. Tolan shows how Christian responses to Islam changed from the seventh to thirteenth centuries, through fast-charging crusades and spirit-crushing defeats, crystallizing into polemical images later drawn upon by Western authors in the fourteenth to twentieth centuries. Saracens explores the social and ideological uses of contempt, explaining how the denigration of the other can be used to defend one's own intellectual construction of the world.Author of "Kubla Khan" and the epic "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," Samuel Taylor Coleridge is remembered principally for…
his contributions as a romantic poet. This innovative reconsideration of Coleridge's thought and career not only demonstrates his importance as a philosopher but also recovers romanticism as both an aesthetic and a political movement. Pamela Edwards radically departs from classic theories of Coleridge's development and reads his writing within the framework of a constantly shifting political and social landscape. Drawing on the ideology, rhetoric, and institutional theory at the turn of the late British Enlightenment, Edwards unearths the fundamental continuities in Coleridge's writing during the revolutionary period of 1794 to 1834, paying particular attention to the rhetoric of Coleridge's pamphlet and miscellaneous writings, the journalism of the Napoleonic years, his philosophical and ultimately political treatises within the contexts of his notebooks and letters, and his readings and intellectual friendships. What emerges is a clearer understanding of Coleridge's political philosophy and his contributions to the origins and ideology of British Liberalism. Coleridge's interest in history, nature, and law as inherently interconnected projects producing an ideal or scientific reading of society reveals a developed progressive social and cultural state theory anchored in individual conscience, moral autonomy, and a civic and participatory human agency. If the Statesman could understand and finally master this scientific view of the world, he would be able not only to adjust political and social institutions to comprehend the historical contingencies of the moment but to see through the problem of the moment to the dynamic of change itself.Frank Palmeri sees the conjectural histories of Rousseau, Hume, Herder, and other Enlightenment philosophers as a template for the development…
of the social sciences in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Without documents or memorials, these thinkers, he argues, employed conjecture to formulate a naturalistic account of society's commercial and secular progression. Palmeri finds evidence of speculative frameworks in the political economy of Malthus, Martineau, Mill, and Marx. He traces the influence of speculative thought in the development of anthropology and ethnography in the 1860s, the foundational sociology of Comte and Spencer, and the sociology of religion pioneered by Weber, Durkheim, and Freud. Conjectural histories reveal a surprising ambivalence toward progress, modernity, and secularization among leading thinkers of the time, an attitude that affected texts as varied as Darwin's Descent of Man, Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality, and the novels of Walter Scott, George Eliot, and H.G. Wells. Establishing the critical value of conjectural thinking in the study of modern forms of knowledge, Palmeri concludes his investigation with its return in the work of Foucault and in recent histories on early religion, political organization, and material life.Stormtrooper Families: Homosexuality and Community in the Early Nazi Movement
By Andrew Wackerfuss. 2015
Based on extensive archival work, Stormtrooper Families combines stormtrooper personnel records, Nazi Party autobiographies, published and unpublished memoirs, personal letters,…
court records, and police-surveillance records to paint a picture of the stormtrooper movement as an organic product of its local community, its web of interpersonal relationships, and its intensely emotional internal struggles. Extensive analysis of Nazi-era media across the political spectrum shows how the public debate over homosexuality proved just as important to political outcomes as did the actual presence of homosexuals in fascist and antifascist politics.As children in the late-imperial period, the stormtroopers witnessed the first German debates over homosexuality and political life. As young adults, they verbally and physically battled over these definitions, bringing conflicts over homosexuality and masculinity into the center of Weimar Germany's most important political debates. Stormtrooper Families chronicles the stormtroopers' personal, political, and sexual struggles to explain not only how individual gay men existed within the Nazi movement but also how the public meaning of homosexuality affected fascist and antifascist politics—a public controversy still alive today.Scott Curtis draws our eye to the role of scientific, medical, educational, and aesthetic observation in shaping modern spectatorship. Focusing…
on the nontheatrical use of motion picture technology in Germany between the 1890s and World War I, he follows researchers, teachers, and intellectuals as they negotiated the fascinating, at times fraught relationship between technology, discipline, and expert vision. As these specialists struggled to come to terms with motion pictures, they advanced new ideas of mass spectatorship that continue to affect the way we make and experience film. Staging a brilliant collision between the moving image and scientific or medical observation, visual instruction, and aesthetic contemplation, The Shape of Spectatorship showcases early cinema's revolutionary impact on society and culture and the challenges the new medium placed on ways of seeing and learning.This book explores the role of Mediterranean imaginaries in one of the preeminent tropes of Italian history: the formation or…
'making of' Italians. While previous scholarship on the construction of Italian identity has often focused too narrowly on the territorial notion of the nation-state, and over-identified Italy with its capital, Rome, this book highlights the importance of the Mediterranean Sea to the development of Italian collective imaginaries. From this perspective, this book re-interprets key historical processes and actors in the history of modern Italy, and thereby challenges mainstream interpretations of Italian collective identity as weak or incomplete. Ultimately, it argues that Mediterranean imaginaries acted as counterweights to the solidification of a 'national' Italian identity, and still constitute alternative but equally viable modes of collective belonging.Here is the first-ever celebration of all things—and all people—of Scottish descent.While relatively few in number, the Scots have certainly…
made their mark on the world:· More the seventy-five percent of all American presidents have had Scottish ancestors, although fewer than five percent of the American population is of Scottish descent.· Almost eleven percent of all the Nobel Prizes ever awarded have involved Scots and their descendants—even though fewer than one half percent of the people of the world can claim Scottish ancestry· At least five of the twelve astronauts who have walked on the moon were descended from Scots.Today there are almost 28 million people of Scottish ancestry in the world, over 12 million of whom reside in the United States, about 4 million in Canada, and about 5 million in Scotland. Scottish accomplishments throughout history in every field of endeavor—from science to the arts to politics and exploration—rival those of even the largest ethnic groups:· Scots have been significant in most of the major inventions of the past three centuries, including the steam engine, the telegraph, the telephone, radio, television, the computer, transistor, and the motion picture· People as diverse as Sir Isaac Newton, Charles de Gaulle, Katharine Hepburn, Winston Churchill, Elizabeth Taylor, Immanuel Kant, Sir Laurence Olivier, Elvis Presley, Edvard Grieg, John D. Rockefeller, and Ty Cobb could claim Scottish ancestry· Warsaw, Madrid, La Paz, and Stockholm have all had mayors of Scottish Descent.The Mark of the Scots contains thousands of facts and is fully annotated. It is a comprehensive and readable book that deserves a place on the shelve of every genealogist, Scottish-American, and history buff.