Author: Nicholas Stargardt
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1407085662
Size: 76.31 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : History
Languages : un
Pages : 544
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Witnesses of War is the first work to show how children experienced the Second World War under the Nazis. Children were often the victims in this most terrible of European conflicts, falling prey to bombing, mechanised warfare, starvation policies, mass flight and genocide. But children also became active participants, going out to smuggle food, ply the black market, and care for sick parents and siblings. As they absorbed the brutal new realities of German occupation, Polish boys played at being Gestapo interrogators, and Jewish children at being ghetto guards or the SS. Within days of Germany's own surrender, German children were playing at being Russian soldiers. As they imagined themselves in the roles of their all-powerful enemies, children expressed their hopes and fears, as well as their humiliation and envy. This is the first account of the Second World War which brings together the opposing perspectives and contrasting experiences of those drawn into the new colonial empire of the Third Reich. German and Jewish, Polish and Czech, Sinti and disabled children were all to be separated along racial lines, between those fit to rule and those destined to serve; ultimately between those who were to live and those who were to die. Because the Nazis measured their success in terms of Germany's racial future, children lay at the heart of their war. Drawing on a wide range of new sources, from welfare and medical files to private diaries, letters and pictures, Nicholas Stargardt evokes the individual voices of children under Nazi rule. By bringing their experiences of the war together for the first time, he offers a fresh and challenging interpretation of the Nazi social order as a whole.
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Author: Fay Anderson
Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN: 9780522860221
Size: 79.25 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Social Science
Languages : un
Pages : 512
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Witnesses to War is a landmark history of Australian war journalism covering the regional conflicts of the nineteenth century to the major conflicts of the twentieth: World War I, World War II, Vietnam and Bosnia through to recent and ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Fay Anderson and Richard Trembath look at how journalists reported the horrors and politics of war, the rise of the celebrity journalist, issues of censorship and the ethics of 'embedding'. Interviews with over 40 leading journalists and photographers reveal the challenges of covering wars and the impact of the violence they witness, the fear and exhilaration, the regrets and successes, the private costs and personal dangers. Witnesses to War examines issues with continued and contemporary relevance, including the genesis of the Anzac ideal and its continued use; the representation of enemy and race and how technology has changed the nature of conflict reporting.
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Author: Michael Leapman
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
ISBN: 9780141308418
Size: 14.21 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : un
Pages : 127
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Tells the stories of eight children who felt the influence of Nazi persecution, including Beata Siegel, Anne Frank, Alexander Michelowski, and Joseph Steiner.
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Author: Ahmed Aboul Gheit
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789774168857
Size: 60.71 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Arab-Israeli conflict
Languages : un
Pages : 373
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The son of a fighter pilot, raised in an air force barracks, Ahmed Aboul Gheit was privy to the confidential meetings, undisclosed memoranda, and battle secrets of Egyptian diplomacy for many decades. After a stint at military college, he began his career at the Egyptian embassy in Cyprus before later going on to become permanent representative to the United Nations and eventually, Egypt's minister of foreign affairs under Hosni Mubarak. In this fascinating memoir, Aboul Gheit looks back on the 1973 October War and the diplomatic efforts that followed it, revealing the secrets of his long career for the first time. In vivid detail he describes the deliberations of Egypt's political leadership in the run-up to the war, including the process of articulating Egypt's war aims, the secret communications between President Sadat and U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, the role of the Soviet Union during the war, and the unfolding of events on the battlefront in Sinai. He then gives a detailed and deeply personal account of the arduous process of peacemaking that followed, covering the 1973 Geneva Conference, the 1977 Mena House Conference, Sadat's visit to Israel, the 1978 Camp David Accords, and the subsequent 1979 Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty. From Sadat's impassioned address to his cabinet on the eve of the war to delegations ripping out the wiring at their respective hotels, from Jimmy Carter cycling through the bungalows at Camp David to Yitzhak Shamir's blunt admissions to his Arab counterparts in the 1991 Madrid conference, Aboul Gheit offers an information-packed, first-person account of a turbulent time in Middle Eastern history.
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Author: Charles Clements
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 9780553249316
Size: 79.27 MB
Format: PDF
Category : El Salvador
Languages : un
Pages : 288
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Author: Cathryn J. Wellner
Publisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
ISBN:
Size: 61.35 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 277
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Provides an annotated list of books about Hitler, the Hitler Youth, Gestapo, SS, and life in Nazi Germany
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Author: Antoinette May
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 80.85 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Foreign correspondents
Languages : un
Pages : 274
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Author: Bassam Khabieh
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780979180033
Size: 18.19 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category :
Languages : un
Pages :
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Witnesses to War: The Children of Syria by Bassam Khabieh provides an insider's account of the impact that the war in Syria has had on children. It illustrates the incredible resilience of Syria's young in the face of violence as children and their families held onto fragments of normalcy. Bassam did not start out as a photographer. But when the war broke out in Syria and violence escalated, it was clear that there was an urgent need for he and other Syrian's to ensure that the world knew what was happening in their increasingly isolated and dangerous homeland, so he picked up a camera. Now, years after the violence began, the Syrian people are waiting for justice. These photos will not bring back the childhoods that have been lost. But war criminals must be held accountable, and these images bear witness. They are evidence.
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Author: Swetlana Alexijewitsch
Publisher: Hanser Berlin
ISBN: 3446248730
Size: 44.35 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Political Science
Languages : de
Pages : 304
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Jahrzehnte nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs sprechen Männer und Frauen, die beim Einmarsch der Deutschen in Weißrussland noch Kinder waren, zum ersten Mal darüber, woran sie sich erinnern. Ihre erschütternden Berichte vom Krieg machen "Die letzten Zeugen" zu einem der eindringlichsten Antikriegsbücher überhaupt. Oft sind diese Erinnerungen nur Bruchstücke, und doch haben diese Kinder Dinge gesehen und erlitten, die niemand, am allerwenigsten ein Kind, sehen und erleiden dürfte. Alexijewitsch erweist sich einmal mehr als begnadete Zuhörerin und große Chronistin, die es versteht, den Erfahrungen von Menschen in Extremsituationen, im Ausnahmezustand einen einzigartigen Resonanzraum zu verschaffen.
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Author: Maurice Isserman
Publisher: Perigee Trade
ISBN:
Size: 27.54 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : History
Languages : un
Pages : 211
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This is the story of the Vietnam War, told in the words of the people who lived it - soldiers and civilians, officers and political leaders, reporters and diplomats. From the anticolonial uprisings in the 1940s to the crushing defeat of South Vietnam in 1975, Witness to War: Vietnam provides the complete story of America's most controversial war with perspective that goes beyond the battlefields - to offer new insight into events that shaped the course of American history. Witness to War: Vietnam includes a wide selection of personal accounts and records: from discussions of strategy to questions of morality; from public documents to the private opinions and recollections of government leaders; from front-page newspaper stories to front-line soldier accounts. Revealing the human side of the war through actual narratives, it is an indispensable guide to the history of the Vietnam era. Maurice Isserman is a professor of history at Hamilton College.
