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Eddie Rickenbacker: The Life and Legacy of America's Top World War I Fighter Ace
ISBN: 9781548484224 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. *Includes pictures
*Includes Rickenbacker's quotes about his life and career *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared." - Eddie Rickenbacker The men and women who won World War II for the Allies have been called "the greatest generation," and rightfully so, for they saved the Western world from destruction and domination by totalitarian dictators. As Winston Churchill so eloquently put it, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to... *Includes pictures
*Includes Rickenbacker's quotes about his life and career *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readi... |
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45,08 |
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After the War: Returned Soldiers and the Mental and Physical Scars of World War I
ISBN: 9781742589497 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Collie in 1929, a murder-suicide took place. The killer was identified as Andrew Straw. Dressed in war uniform and a slouch hat, a hauntingly familiar face stared out at me from the front page of Truth. Andrew Straw bore a striking resemblance to my husband. I had unearthed an unexpected family story. Of the 330,000 Australian men who enlisted and served in World War I, close to 60,000 never returned home. As much as it is important to commemorate the war dead, it is also imperative that we remember the survivors as they moved into peacetime. Of the 32,000 West Australian men who enlisted,...
In Collie in 1929, a murder-suicide took place. The killer was identified as Andrew Straw. Dressed in war uniform and a slouch hat, a hauntingly famil...
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172,59 |
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When the War Came Home: The Ottomans' Great War and the Devastation of an Empire
ISBN: 9781503603639 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Ottoman Empire was unprepared for the massive conflict of World War I. Lacking the infrastructure and resources necessary to wage a modern war, the empire's statesmen reached beyond the battlefield to sustain their war effort. They placed unprecedented hardships onto the shoulders of the Ottoman people: mass conscription, a state-controlled economy, widespread food shortages, and ethnic cleansing. By war's end, few aspects of Ottoman daily life remained untouched. When the War Came Home reveals the catastrophic impact of this global conflict on ordinary Ottomans. Drawing... The Ottoman Empire was unprepared for the massive conflict of World War I. Lacking the infrastructure and resources necessary to wage a modern war,... |
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489,77 |
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When the War Came Home: The Ottomans' Great War and the Devastation of an Empire
ISBN: 9781503604902 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Ottoman Empire was unprepared for the massive conflict of World War I. Lacking the infrastructure and resources necessary to wage a modern war, the empire's statesmen reached beyond the battlefield to sustain their war effort. They placed unprecedented hardships onto the shoulders of the Ottoman people: mass conscription, a state-controlled economy, widespread food shortages, and ethnic cleansing. By war's end, few aspects of Ottoman daily life remained untouched. When the War Came Home reveals the catastrophic impact of this global conflict on ordinary Ottomans. Drawing... The Ottoman Empire was unprepared for the massive conflict of World War I. Lacking the infrastructure and resources necessary to wage a modern war,... |
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115,61 |
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Battle of Britain: another out take of the famous battle that was fought above our cities and in our skies
ISBN: 9781524663087 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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69,62 |
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Die Kaiserliche Marine: Die Kleinen Kreuzer
ISBN: 9781974045440 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. DIE KAISERLICHE MARINE Die Kleinen Kreuzer Das Deutsche Reich begann erst spat mit dem Aufbau einer kampfkraftigen Flotte. Neben dem Aufbau einer Schlachtflotte begann man erst in den 1890iger Jahren auch mit dem Bau von Kreuzern. Ihre Aufgaben waren Handelsstorung, Operationen an feindlichen Kusten, Uberwachung von Seewegen, Prasenz zeigen und auch das Aufspuren und Bekampfen gegnerischer Kreuzer. Fur Deutschland waren die Kreuzer daruber hinaus auch ein wichtiger Bestandteil der Kolonialpolitik. Dieser Bildband beschreibt die verschiedenen Klassen dieser Schiffe und stellt die einzelnen...
DIE KAISERLICHE MARINE Die Kleinen Kreuzer Das Deutsche Reich begann erst spat mit dem Aufbau einer kampfkraftigen Flotte. Neben dem Aufbau einer Schl...
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80,72 |
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Über die sozialen und Fürsorgetätigkeiten Marianne Webers im Ersten Weltkrieg im Kontext des Nationalen Frauendienstes des Bundes Deutscher Frauenvere
ISBN: 9783668487642 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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185,72 |
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On War and Writing
ISBN: 9780226468785 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Retired fighter pilot and English professor combines lifelong interests in war and literature in essays on how writers struggled to comprehend warfare.
Retired fighter pilot and English professor combines lifelong interests in war and literature in essays on how writers struggled to comprehend warfare...
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103,11 |
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Catching the Torch: Contemporary Canadian Literary Responses to World War I
ISBN: 9781771122382 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Looking at the way sacrifice, service, and the commemoration of war are represented in literary works, this book argues that iterations of a notion of national identity work to counter current anxieties about the stability of the nation-state, in particular about the failure of the ideal of a national "character."
Looking at the way sacrifice, service, and the commemoration of war are represented in literary works, this book argues that iterations of a notion of...
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151,83 |
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Frauen und Frieden. Ideologischer Hintergrund und Ziele der deutschen Frauenfriedensbewegung am Vorabend und während des Ersten Weltkrieges
ISBN: 9783668488021 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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159,82 |
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This Beautiful Future
ISBN: 9781786822093 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A play set in World War II about the moment when love confronts extremism.
A play set in World War II about the moment when love confronts extremism.
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51,50 |
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Nova Scotia at War, 1914-1919
ISBN: 9781771085236 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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75,92 |
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Die Kaiserliche Marine: Der Aufbau der Flotte ab 1871
ISBN: 9781974518623 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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80,72 |
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Anzac Cove to Afghanistan: The History of the 3rd Brigade
ISBN: 9781925275551 / Angielski / Twarda / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the first Anzacs to land at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915 and among the last to serve in Afghanistan 100 years later, the men and women of the Australian Armys 3rd Brigade have a long and proud history. Initially raised in 1903, the 3rd Brigade served as part of the Australian Imperial Force during World War I, suffering appalling losses at ...
As the first Anzacs to land at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915 and among the last to serve in Afghanistan 100 years later, the men and women of the Austral...
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115,10 |
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French Battleships 1914–45
ISBN: 9781472818195 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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65,37 |
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Tanks: 100 years of evolution
ISBN: 9781472829818 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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65,37 |
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Commemorating Gallipoli Through Music: Remembering and Forgetting
ISBN: 9781498556200 / Angielski / Twarda / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the role of music and musicians in commemorating the Gallipoli Campaign (1915-6). It shows how music-making can be used to uncover the multiple identities and complex positionalities of former combatants who wish to memorialize a military catastrophe that coincided with the foundation of nation states.
This book examines the role of music and musicians in commemorating the Gallipoli Campaign (1915-6). It shows how music-making can be used to uncover ...
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514,26 |
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The Men Who Planned the War: A Study of the Staff of the British Army on the Western Front, 1914-1918
ISBN: 9781138307193 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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244,84 |
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Battles in the Clouds: Accounts of Conflicts in the Sky during the First World War
ISBN: 9781782826583 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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138,58 |
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Battles in the Clouds: Accounts of Conflicts in the Sky during the First World War
ISBN: 9781782826590 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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80,19 |