Aldo Icardi (1921-2011) was a U.S. Army second lieutenant during World War II who was
sent as a specially-trained soldier by the U.S. Army’s Office of Strategic Services (OSS) on a special mission into enemy-occupied territory in Italy to organize ...
Benito Mussolini (born July 29, 1883 at Dovia di Predappio in the province of Forlì-Cesena
in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy, died April 28, 1945 at Giulino di Mezzegra) is a journalist and Italian statesman, President Council of 1922-1943.Founder of ...
Foreign policy has dominated successive governments' time in office and cast a consistently long shadow
over British politics in the period since 1945. Robert Self provides a readable and incisive assessment of the key issues and events from the retreat ...
Anthony Barne started his diary in August 1939 as a young, recently married captain in
the Royal Dragoons stationed in Palestine. He wrote an entry for every day of the war, often with great difficulty, sometimes when dog-tired or under ...
In this dramatic (and often tragic) story of an era that radically changed the course
of world history, Lawrence James investigates how, within one hundred years, Europeans persuaded and coerced Africa into becoming a subordinate part of the modern world. ...
The astonishing, never before told story of the greatest rescue mission of World War II—when
the OSS set out to recover more than 500 airmen trapped behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia...During a bombing campaign over Romanian oil fields, hundreds of ...
Twenty years after the collapse of the German Democratic Republic, historians still struggle to explain
how an apparently stable state imploded with such vehemence. This book shows how 'national' identity was invented in the GDR and how citizens engaged with ...
AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEARFrom the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and
the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtain, a revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes—the consequences of which still resonate todayIn 1929 Stalin launched ...