Krieg

Die Geschichte Morgenthaus und seiner Anhänger erlaubt einen ungewöhnlichen Blick auf die frühen deutschen Nachkriegsjahre und erklärt zum Beispiel, warum auch die Atombombe für das deutsche Wirtschaftswunder verantwortlich ist.Henry Morgenthau, Jr. habe, so die landläufige Rede, Deutschland in ein »Ackerland« verwandeln und 80 Millionen Menschen dem Hungertod preisgeben oder zur Auswanderung zwingen wollen.Anhand der umfangreichen Tagebücher des amerikanischen Finanzministers Morgenthau wird klar, dass man bereits in den frühen 1940er Jahren über die enge Verzahnung deutscher Großbetriebe mit den Nazis informiert war. Als er seine umstrittenen Gedanken zu Papier brachte, schien es, als würden - von Hitler und seiner engsten Umgebung abgesehen - die für Krieg und Völkermord Verantwortlichen ungestraft davonkommen.

The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915 has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made from scanned copies, the text is readable and clear.

Current History, A Monthly Magazine; The European War, March 1915 has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made from scanned copies, the text is readable and clear.

The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made from scanned copies, the text is readable and clear.

Kentucky, 1861 pulls students into the secession crisis following Lincoln's 1860 election. During a special session of the Kentucky legislature, set against the looming threat of violence, students grapple with questions about the future of slavery and the constitutionality of secession.

Rousseau, Burke, and Revolution in France, 1791 plunges students into the intellectual and political currents that surged through revolutionary Paris in the summer of 1791. As members of the National Assembly gather to craft a constitution for a new France, students wrestle with the threat of foreign invasion, political and religious power struggles, and questions of liberty and citizenship.

Set in Japan during the early years of World War II, this game helps students understand the political and strategic reasons behind Japan's decision to enter the war. Taking on the roles of leading figures in Tokyoarmy or navy officers, bureaucrats, and members of the Imperial Courtstudents are thrust into the middle of Japan's strategic dilemma. Drawing on important works from Japan's past, players must advise the emperor on how to proceed. Will they call for a "e;strike south"e; to seize the natural resources of Southeast Asiaeven at the risk of war with Great Britain and the United States? Or will they seek an understanding with those nationseven if it means giving up the ideal of a Pan-Asian partnership?

Democracy in Crisis explores one of the world's greatest failures of democracy in Germany during the so-called Weimar Republic, 191933a failure that led to the Third Reich. For more than a decade after World War I, liberalism, nationalism, conservatism, social democracy, Christian democracy, communism, fascism, and every variant of these movements struggled for power. Although Germany's constitutional framework boldly enshrined liberal democratic values, the political spectrum was so broad and fully represented that a stable parliamentary majority required constant negotiations. The compromises that were made subsequently alienated citizens, who were embittered by national humiliation in the war and the ensuing treaty and struggling to survive economic turmoil and rapidly changing cultural norms. As positions hardened, the door was opened to radical alternatives. In this game, students, as delegates of the Reichstag (parliament), must contend with intense parliamentary wrangling, uncontrollable world events, street fights, assassinations, and insurrections. The game begins in late 1929, just after the U.S. stock market crash, as the Reichstag deliberates the Young Plan (a revision to the Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I). Students belonging to various political parties must debate these matters and more as the combination of economic stress, political gridlock, and foreign pressure turn Germany into a volcano on the verge of eruption.

The Allied assault on the German-occupied port of Dieppe in France, code-named Operation Jubilee, took place on 19 August 1942. It was a battle that lasted for less than ten hours but it has gone down in history as a military disaster, often spoken of in the same manner as the Charge of the Light Brigade and Gallipoli. The German defences had been underestimated. The numbers killed, wounded and taken prisoner at Dieppe were shockingly high and none of the main objectives were realised. The Third Reich considered the raid as a military joke and it provided a textbook of 'what not to do' in future amphibious operations. Dieppe was the largest tri-service operation ever mounted up until that point, and even if the planning for the operation was woefully inadequate, it showed that the three services could coordinate their movements under one command. Many believe that Dieppe should not be looked upon as an isolated incident because then its purpose is totally obscured by its terrible cost. Put into context, it was one in a series of raids between Dunkirk and D-Day designed to test the defences of Hitler's Atlantic Wall, the most famous and successful being the attack on St Nazaire, which is still considered to be the greatest Commando raid of all time. Author Henry Buckton has searched the voluminous records of interviews with Canadian Dieppe veterans collected by Historica Canada to shed new light on this terrible - but perhaps necessary - failure.

Vitomil Zupan (1914-1987) verfasste mit »Menuett für Gitarre (zu 25 Schuss)« einen der bedeutendsten slowenischen Romane überhaupt. Die autobiografisch grundierte Erzählung handelt vom bewaffneten Partisanenwiderstand der Slowenen gegen die italienischen und deutschen Besatzer. Mit sportlichem Elan und in Erwartung des ohnehin bevorstehendes Sieges ist der Ich-Erzähler Jakob Bergant-Berk in den Kampf gezogen, erlebt diesen aber zusehends als chaotischen Überlebenskampf in einem unübersichtlichen und nicht enden wollenden Krieg. Der anarchistisch angehauchte Berk wird trotz seines verdächtigen Individualismus Kommandant einer Kompanie, die während der deutschen Offensive im Herbst 1943 aufgerieben wird. In einem zweiten Erzählstrang trifft Berk dreißig Jahre später als Tourist in Spanien auf einen ehemaligen Wehrmachtssoldaten, der ihm damals in Slowenien hätte gegenüberstehen können.Meisterhaft und mit unbestechlich präzisem Blick beschreibt Vitomil Zupan den historischen Moment, in dem sich der Volksbefreiungskrieg zum revolutionären Kampf wandelt, und kontrastiert ihn mit dem Chaos, den Zufällen und Widersprüchen, die den hauptsächlich durch Flucht geprägten Alltag der Kämpfer prägen. Erwin Köstler verliert in seiner hellhörigen und nuancenreichen Übersetzung nie den Erzählfaden, in dem Bericht und philosophische Reflexion ineinander verwirkt sind und um den sich Leitmotive, Abschweifungen und Lektürefetzen winden. Mit seinem zersplitterten, vielgestaltigen Eindruck bildet der Roman die menschliche Wahrnehmung in Kriegszeiten ab - und wird zu einem Abgesang auf den falschen Glanz des Kampfes und des Heroischen.

This is the First World War through the eyes of DenisPatrick Kelly, soldier of the 2nd Royal Dublin Fusiliers,from 22nd April, 1914, until the close of the war on 11thNovember, 1918.Denis Kelly went to war on the day his wife gave birthto a healthy boy, and through sheer luck and good fortunedid survive the war having experienced the horrors thatwere the Retreat from Mons, Ypres, The Somme,Langemarck, La Cateau, Loos, Messines, St Quentin andmuch, much more.This is a vivid account of what he went through duringfour years of heinous tragedy.

Say the Name vividly describes in the voice of a fourteen-year-old the experiences of a Jewish girl who was imprisoned in Ravensbruck Concentration Camp during World War II. Miraculously, Judita Sternova of Kurima, Czechoslovakia, survives persecutions, hiding, flight, capture, deportation, and the Camp. Like the few other surviving Jews, she could not bear to remain in her village emptied of family and other Jews and emigrates to England and, eventually, the United States. After more than fifty years Sherman gets up from her years of memories, private resistance, and public silence to write this book. She is triggered to do so upon hearing a lecture by Professor Carrasco at Princeton on "e;Religion and the Terror of History."e; The narrative is interspersed with Sherman's powerful poems that grab the reader's attention. Poignant original drawings made secretly by imprisoned women of Ravensbruck, at risk of their lives, illuminate the text. Sherman courageously bears witness to the terror of man and simultaneously challenges God for answers. This book should "e;jolt us into remembrance, warning, and action."e;

The horrors of 20th century capitalism threw up numerous challenges by workers and peasants, who rose up in their millions to fight the system. Inspired by the successful 1917 Russian Revolution, they repeatedly created their own institutions of collective power and in doing so demonstrated not just how to organise their struggles in the present but also how to build a world free of capitalists, landlords and generals. But these revolutionary movements quickly confronted counter-revolutionary forces, both in the repressive machinery of the state and in the workers' movement itself - trade union and political leaders with no interest in seeing workers take power. Defeating such forces required that at least the leading militants be organised in revolutionary parties dedicated to seeing the struggle through. The victorious Russian revolution brought hundreds of thousands of working class militants together in new Communist parties dedicated to working class emancipation, but tragically the revolution's defeat at the hands of the dictator Joseph Stalin turned these parties into vehicles for betrayal.From Britain to China, from Hungary to Australia, this book tells the story of these inspiring working class struggles and uprisings and recounts the fights within the workers movement over strategies and tactics to take the struggles forward.

This historical study offers ';a new understanding of the human cost of the [Republic of Texas's] vainglorious attempt to attack Mexico' (Western Historical Quarterly). The Somervell and Mier Expeditions of 1842, culminating in the famous black bean episode in which Texas prisoners drew white or black beans to determine who would be executed by their Mexican captors, still capture the public imagination in Texas. But were the Texans really martyrs in a glorious cause, or undisciplined soldiers defying their own government? How did the Mier Expedition affect the border disputes between the Texas Republic and Mexico? What role did Texas President Sam Houston play? In Soldiers of Misfortune, Sam W. Haynes addresses this and other important historical questions. Expertly researched yet accessible and engaging, Haynes's narrative includes many dramatic excerpts from the diaries and letters of expedition participants.

This ';beautifully written... and meticulously researched' Civil War history vividly recounts one of the most decisive battles fought in Texas (Civil War News). Jefferson Davis once said the Battle of Sabine Pass was ';more remarkable than the battle at Thermopylae.' But unlike the Spartans, who succumbed to overwhelming Persian forces at Thermopylae more than two thousand years before, the Confederate underdogs triumphed in a battle that over time has become steeped in hyperbole. Providing a meticulously researched, scholarly account of this remarkable victory, Sabine Pass at last separates the legends from the evidence. In arresting prose, Edward T. Cotham, Jr., recounts the momentous hours of September 8, 1863, during which a handful of Texansalmost all of Irish descentunder the leadership of Houston saloonkeeper Richard W. Dowling, prevented a Union military force of more than 5,000 men, twenty-two transport vessels, and four gunboats from occupying Sabine Pass, the starting place for a large invasion that would soon have given the Union control of Texas.Sabine Pass sheds new light on previously overlooked details, such as the design and construction of the fort that Dowling and his men defended, and includes the battle report prepared by Dowling himself. The result is a portrait of a mythic event that is even more provocative when stripped of embellishment.

';Inside information on a wondrously droll, highly classified yarn from WWII... A well-told, stranger-than-fiction tale that could make a terrific movie.' Kirkus Reviews The plan: attach small incendiary bombs to millions of bats and release them over Japan's major cities. As the bats went to roost, a million fires would flare up in remote crannies of the wood and paper buildings common throughout Japan. When their cities were reduced to ashes, the Japanese would surely capitulate... Told here by the youngest member of the team, this is the story of the bat bomb project, or Project X-Ray, as it was officially known. In scenes worthy of a Capra or Hawks comedy, Jack Couffer recounts the unorthodox experiments carried out in the secrecy of Bandera, Texas, Carlsbad, New Mexico, and El Centro, California, in 1942-1943 by ';Doc' Adams' private army. This oddball cast of characters included an eccentric inventor, a distinguished Harvard scientist, a biologist with a chip on his shoulder, a movie star, a Texas guano collector, a crusty Marine Corps colonel, a Maine lobster fisherman, an ex-mobster, and a tiger. The bat bomb researchers risked life and limb to explore uncharted bat caves and ';recruit' thousands of bats to serve their country, certain that they could end the war with Japan. And they might havein their first airborne test, the bat bombers burned an entire brand-new military airfield to the ground. For everyone who relishes true tales of action and adventure, Bat Bomb is a must-read. Bat enthusiasts will also discover the beginnings of the scientific study of bats.