Baltic States category: 120 books
by Richard L. DiNardo
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Published during the centennial of the events it considers, this book provides a comprehensive examination of one of the most interesting and influential campaigns of World War I, a campaign that was the apex of mobile warfare at the time. By the late summer of 1915, the Russian threat to Austria-Hungary...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Four major ebooks are included in this massive compilation of official reports and studies about the 1999 intervention by NATO and the Clinton Administration in Kosovo known as Operation Allied Force. It provides a complete review of this important event in world history.
SECTION 1: Kosovo...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Every airman or person interested in the art and science of air and space warfare should read this book. The Air University Balkans Air Campaign Study (BACS) has emerged as a balanced and...
Admiral Thunderbolt
The Spectacular Career of Peter Wessel, Norway’s Greatest Sea Hero
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
“A Sea Cadet in 1711 and a Vice Admiral in 1718, young Wessel barged into battle against his Swedish foes wherever he found them, often in direct violation of orders issued by timid souls in the Admiralty. But Frederik IV, King of Denmark-Norway, loved a winner. He gave his youthful fighting cock...
Early Islamic Spain
The History of Ibn al-Qutiyah
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2009
This book is the first published English-language translation of the significant History of Islamic Spain by Ibn al-Qutiya (d. Cordova 367 / 977). Including extensive notes and comments, a genealogical table and relevant maps, the text is preceded by a study of the author and his work, and is the...
Muslims in Medieval Italy
The Colony at Lucera
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2003
Muslims in Medieval Italy: The Colony at Lucera is the history of a Muslim colony in the southern Italian city of Lucera during the Middle Ages. Author Julie Taylor draws on a vast array of primary sources, unpublished manuscripts, and archeological data to provide a detailed account of the lives...
by Diane Eklund-Abolins
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2017
The Space in Between tells the true story of Nina, a Latvian woman born at the beginning of last century, whose life is impacted by both World Wars and the Russian Revolution. Although strong ties with her brothers and, later, her husband help create some footholds of normality in the chaos around...
by Jasmina Dervisevic-Cesic
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
At 15, Jasmina had typical teenage problems. How could she talk to the boy she liked without making a fool of herself? Would she find the right shoes to wear to the high school party? She had heard the old stories about World War II, when neighbor turned against neighbor, but she never gave...
by Thierry H. De Mortain
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Pourquoi le mot Dieu en Grec et en Latin est-il si court ? Theos/Thea et Deus/Dea. Ne pourrions nous pas interpréter cette écriture ? Ce livre explique pourquoi la première lettre (Theta et D) est la plus importante pour donner sens à cette écriture. Il tend alors à démontrer que ces lettres pourraient être considérées comme des idéogrammes.
I cavalieri della Croce Nera (parte prima)
L’Ordensbuch del 1264: Statuto, Regola e Storia Militare dell’Ordine Teutonico
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 18, 2015
Primo di due volumi dedicato ai cavalieri teutonici e al loro stato sul Baltico. Tra gli Ordini monastico-militari nati durante le Crociate l’Ordine dei Cavalieri dell’Ospedale della Casa di Santa Maria dei teutonici è, insieme a quello del Tempio, il più noto e il meno compreso,...
I cavalieri della Croce Nera (parte seconda)
L’Ordensbuch del 1264: Statuto, Regola e Storia Militare dell’Ordine Teutonico
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 18, 2015
Secondo e ultimo di due volumi dedicato all'ordine teutonico. Tra gli Ordini monastico-militari nati durante le Crociate l’Ordine dei Cavalieri dell’Ospedale della Casa di Santa Maria dei teutonici è, insieme a quello del Tempio, il più noto e il meno compreso, vittima dei miti...
Bulgarie
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Lors du recensement de 2011, la Bulgarie comptait 7 351 000 habitants pour une superficie de 110 912 kilomètres carrés, soit la plus faible densité des Balkans (71 hab./km2). Plusieurs dizaines de milliers de Bulgares ont émigré en Occident depuis la chute du communisme en novembre 1989. Occupée pendant cinq siècles par les Ottomans...
Drie minuten in Polen
de ontdekking van een verloren wereld aan de hand van een familiefilm uit 1938
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 20, 2015
In Drie minuten in Polen vertelt Glenn Kurtz het verhaal van een verloren wereld. In 1938, aan de vooravond van de Tweede Wereldoorlog, trekken de grootouders van Kurtz door Europa en maken een film in hun geboorteplaats Nasielsk, in Polen. Die drie minuten durende film blijkt de belangrijkste getuigenis...
Oostboeren, zee-germanen en turfstekers
kolonisatie tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog
Language: Dutch
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Omdat de Nazi's in de veroverde Oostelijke gebieden Estland, Letland, Litouwen, Oekraine en Wit-Rusland 'Lebensraum' wilden creeren voor raszuivere Germanen, werden vanaf 1941 in bezette landen als Nederland kolonisten geworven. Om de oostelijke veroveringen rijp te maken voor het duizendjarige Germaanse...