This study of the Stalinist regime looks at it from three different perspectives. The first section focuses on interpretations of Stalin's character and attempts to explain the everlasting puzzle of the relationship between events and personality. The second section looks at Stalin's role within the Soviet Union, and sees him as only one part (albeit an important one) of a complex culture of politics and administration. The final section examines the ways in which the Soviet people handled socialism, and how Stalinism functioned on the ground.
This study of the Stalinist regime looks at it from three different perspectives. The first section focuses on interpretations of Stalin's character a...
Living on the Western Front provides a highly original history of the settler experience in Befland ( B]ritish E]xpeditionary F]orce land) during the First World War. Using an unusual representational form that involves the stitching together of over a hundred extracts from primary sources, which can then in turn be read either chronologically or thematically, Chris Ward brilliantly depicts a sense of settlers' lives in Great War Belgium, Northern France and Germany.
Simultaneously an annal and an anthology of stories, this book tells us about landscapes, sounds, smells,...
Living on the Western Front provides a highly original history of the settler experience in Befland ( B]ritish E]xpeditionary F]orce land)...
Living on the Western Front provides a highly original history of the settler experience in Befland ( B]ritish E]xpeditionary F]orce land) during the First World War. Using an unusual representational form that involves the stitching together of over a hundred extracts from primary sources, which can then in turn be read either chronologically or thematically, Chris Ward brilliantly depicts a sense of settlers' lives in Great War Belgium, Northern France and Germany.
Simultaneously an annal and an anthology of stories, this book tells us about landscapes, sounds, smells,...
Living on the Western Front provides a highly original history of the settler experience in Befland ( B]ritish E]xpeditionary F]orce land)...
Many of the 617 Squadron crews who took part in the famous attacks on the Mohne, Eder and Sorpe Dams and also the raids on the Dortmund-Ems Canal did not return. This book takes the reader to many of the crash sites that resulted. They include the coast off Texel, Rees, Marbeck, Emmerich, Hamm, Ostonnen, just north of the Mohne Dam, the former airfield at Gilze-Rijen in Holland and Castricum-aan-Zee, also Holland. The Dortmund-Ems Canal sites are Noordhorn, Recke, Bergeshovede, Ladbergen and Den Ham in Holland. All these sites can be visited within a week's tour by car or public transport....
Many of the 617 Squadron crews who took part in the famous attacks on the Mohne, Eder and Sorpe Dams and also the raids on the Dortmund-Ems Canal did ...
