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Pulizia etnica e campi di concentramento fascisti per civili jugoslavi 1941-1943
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 27, 2017
Dopo l’aggressione nazifascista alla Jugoslavia, fra il 1941 e il 1943 il regime fascista e l’esercito italiano misero in atto un sistema di campi di concentramento in cui furono internati decine di migliaia di jugoslavi: donne, uomini, vecchi, bambini, rastrellati nei villaggi bruciati con i...
by Roberto Riccardi
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 14, 2010
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 14, 2010
Questo libro racconta la vita di Alberto Sed dalla nascita ai giorni nostri. Rimasto orfano di padre da bambino, Alberto è stato per anni in collegio. Le leggi razziali del 1938 gli hanno impedito di proseguire gli studi. Il 16 ottobre 1943 è sfuggito alla retata effettuata nel ghetto di Roma. È...
by James Buckley Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Get a behind-the-scenes glimpse of what it takes to be considered one of the worst figures in history, with this brand-new nonfiction series that focuses on the most nefarious historical figures.
On a list of the worst people ever, Adolf Hitler is certainly at or near the top.
Born the...
The Rhetoric of Genocide
Death as a Text
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Genocide represents one of the deadliest scourges of the human experience. Communication practices provide the key missing ingredient toward preventing and ending this intensely symbolic activity. The Rhetoric of Genocide: Death as a Text reveals how strategic communication silences make this tragedy...
by Margaret Sanger
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
The Pivot of Civilization was published in 1922. It contains Margaret Sanger's belief that civilization rises or falls on how it views the 'people problem.' It wasn't simply the fact that there were too many people. The kind of people roaming the planet were also a problem. What kind of people? Sanger...
Nazi Hunger Politics
A History of Food in the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
During World War II, millions of Soviet soldiers in German captivity died of hunger and starvation. Their fate was not the unexpected consequence of a war that took longer than anticipated. It was the calculated strategy of a small group of economic planners around Herbert Backe, the second Reich...
by Bernhard Schlink
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
The six essays that make up this compelling book view the long shadow of past guilt as a German experience as well as a global one. International bestselling author Bernhard Schlink explores the phenomenon of guilt and how it attaches to a whole society, not just to individual perpetrators. He considers...
Created from NAFTA: The Structure, Function and Significance of the Treaty's Related Institutions
The Structure, Function and Significance of the Treaty's Related Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
The North American Free Trade Agreement involved much more than simple trade barrier reduction. This volume provides an in-depth examination and analysis of the structure, functions, and performance of the NAFTA institutions from their inception.
by SpeedReader Summaries
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
***SpeedReader Summary and Analysis of The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown ***
About The Boys in the Boat
This is the story of the University of Washington eight-oared crew who struggled to learn to work together to achieve something more incredible than they could have dreamed...
Ballpoint
A Tale of Genius and Grit, Perilous Times, and the Invention that Changed the Way We Write
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
László Bíró's last name is, in much of the world, a synonym for his revolutionary writing tool. But few people know that Bíró began his career in interwar Budapest as a journalist frustrated with spotty ink; that he escaped fascism by fleeing to Paris and, finally, to Buenos Aires; that a fellow...
by Ruth Minsky Sender
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
"WE ARE FREE!"
When Russian soldiers liberate Grafenort, the Nazi labor camp where she is a prisoner, nineteen-year-old Riva discovers that liberation doesn't mean the end of her hardship and suffering.
Cold and starving, threatened with rape by the same Russian soldiers who were her saviors, Riva...
by Magdaléna Platzová
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Told in clear and beautiful prose, Aaron’s Leap is a deeply moving portrait of love, sacrifice, and the transformative power of art in a time of brutal uncertainty.” -SIMON VAN BOOY, author of The Illusion of Separateness
Based on the real-life story of Bauhaus artist Friedl Dicker-Brandeis,...
Españoles en el holocausto (Ed. actualizada)
Vida y muerte de los republicanos en Mauthausen
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 9, 2015
El presente libro describe la experiencia del gran contingente español confinado en uno de los más terribles campos de concentración nazis, el complejo de Mauthausen.
Entre los cientos de miles de prisioneros enviados a este campo, los siete mil españoles que llegaron allí eran republicanos...
by Primo Levi, Leonardo De Benedetti
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Among the first written accounts of the concentration camps—a major literary and historical discovery.
While in a Russian-administered holding camp in Katowice, Poland, in 1945, Primo Levi was asked to provide a report on living conditions in Auschwitz. Published the following year, it was...