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The international best-selling author explores the revolutions-past and present-that define the chaotic, polarized and unstable age in which we livePopulist rage, ideological fracture, economic and technological shocks, geopolitical dangers and an international system studded with catastrophic risk - the early decades of the 21st century may be one of the most revolutionary periods in modern history. But they are not the first. Humans have lived, and thrived, through more than one great realignment. What makes an age a revolutionary one? And how do they end?In this major new work, Fareed Zakaria masterfully investigates eras that have shattered and shaped humanity. Four such periods hold profound lessons for today. First, in seventeenth-century Netherlands a series of transformations made that tiny land the richest in thew world - and created modern politics as we know it today. The 'Glorious Revolution' in Britain showed that major political change could happen peacefully. Next, the French Revolution, a dramatic decade and a half that devoured its ideological children and left a bloody legacy that haunts us to this day. Finally, the mother of all revolutions, the Industrial Revolution, which catapulted Britain and the U.S. to global dominance and created the modern world. Against these paradigm-shifting historical eras, Zakaria describes our current situation, unpacking the four revolutions we are living through now; in globalization, technology, identity, and geopolitics.As few public intellectuals can, Zakaria combines intellectual range, deep historical insight, and uncanny prescience to reframe and illuminate a turbulent present.

Justice and War Crimes traces the creation of the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) in early 1994 prior to the arrival of the first Prosecutor, Richard Goldstone and his two successors, and details the Tribunal's incredible journey towards its total success. Much of this story has never been told before.It is a personal and unique look at the inner workings of the OTP (from 1994 to 2004), the first international criminal court since Nuremburg.It describes how, faced with the prospects of a complete failure, the OTP brought about the apprehension of every living person indicted by the Tribunal and prevented the outbreak of war in North Macedonia.It follows the murky path created by those who did not want to see NATO becoming involved in the apprehension of indicted war criminals. It outlines how the Kosovo conflict brought about the indictment and prosecution of Slobodan Milosevic, the first political leader of any country to be indicted for genocide.Justice and War Crimes tells the untold story of a pivotal moment in the history of international justice and is a timely reminder of the difficulties and complexities involved in the prosecution of modern war crimes.

Sept grands-oncles Morts pour la France, et nombre de blessés... Une famille, comme tant d'autres, détruite lors de la Grande Guerre...L'auteur remet pédagogiquement en lumière la vie de ces hommes au front, dans la boue, au plus près des combats. Il s'appuie sur les témoignages que lui ont transmis ses proches et les a accompagnés d'éléments extraits du Service Historique de la Défense, minutieusement replacés dans leur contexte historique.Témoins d'un autre temps, vous découvrirez leurs métiers, leurs amours, leurs doutes, leurs rêves brisés, leur jeunesse sacrifiée... Pas à pas, sans haine, à travers une longue enquête, l'auteur vous conduira à l'aide de cartes et de photos jusqu'à leur dernier jour.Cinq d'entre eux étaient des enfants de Saint-Ouen en Seine-Saint-Denis, deux d'un petit village du côté de Castres dans le Tarn. Tous fantassins, ils appartenaient au 14 BCA, 36 RI, 58 RI, 152 RI, 154 RI et 166 RI.

Die Erfindung der Monarchie: Eine Analyse der politischen Evolution ist eine tiefgreifende Untersuchung, die das Phänomen der Monarchie in der Menschheitsgeschichte von seinen Ursprüngen bis zur modernen Weltordnung durchleuchtet. In diesem bahnbrechenden Werk bietet der Autor eine objektive und wissenschaftliche Analyse der Entstehung und Entwicklung von Monarchien in verschiedenen Gesellschaften.Das Buch beginnt mit einem Blick auf die Frühgeschichte der Menschheit und die Entstehung von Stammesgesellschaften, in denen Autorität und Führung noch nicht fest institutionalisiert waren. Es beleuchtet den Übergang von diesen ursprünglichen sozialen Strukturen zur Herausbildung von Königtümern und Monarchien in verschiedenen Teilen der Welt, darunter Ägypten, Mesopotamien, Griechenland und Rom.Ein zentrales Thema des Buches ist die Frage, warum und wie sich Monarchien in verschiedenen Kulturen entwickelten. Der Autor untersucht Faktoren wie Kriege, wirtschaftliche Veränderungen, religiöse Überzeugungen und soziale Dynamiken, die zur Entstehung und Festigung von Monarchien beigetragen haben.Darüber hinaus analysiert das Buch die unterschiedlichen Formen von Monarchien, von absoluten Monarchien bis zu konstitutionellen Monarchien, und betrachtet die Auswirkungen dieser politischen Systeme auf die Gesellschaften, in denen sie existierten.In einer Zeit, in der Monarchien in vielen Teilen der Welt nur noch symbolische Rollen spielen, wirft dieses Werk auch einen Blick auf die gegenwärtige Rolle von Monarchien und deren Zukunftsaussichten.¿Die Erfindung der Monarchie¿ ist ein anspruchsvolles und faktenbasiertes Werk, das unser Verständnis für die politische Evolution der Menschheit vertieft. Es richtet sich an Historiker, Politikwissenschaftler und alle, die sich für die Entwicklung von Gesellschaften und politischen Systemen interessieren. Mit seiner wissenschaftlichen Herangehensweise und seiner allgemeinverständlichen Darstellung ist dieses Buch eine bedeutende Ressource für die Forschung und ein fesselndes Leseerlebnis für jeden, der sich für Geschichte und Politik interessiert.

The Manhattan Project began a new era in warfare, one that has a far-reaching impact on the health of the environment and human society. In this detailed book, an environmental engineer with more than 50 years of experience in this sector describes the layers of nuclear weapons production and how they continue to change and shape the world we live in. This book describes the history of the uranium industry from the 1930s to the present, focusing on the Western U.S. as well as six major nuclear weapons production facilities in the U.S. and one in Siberia, Russia that have altered the environments in which they reside.Environmental Legacy of the Manhattan Project will appeal to military history enthusiasts, particularly those attracted to the development of the uranium industry. It offers a deep dive into the complex and secretive world of nuclear weapons production and the subsequent growth of commercial nuclear power plants. Readers with an interest in the scientific, political, and environmental aspects of nuclear warfare will find the book informative. Additionally, the book raises important ethical questions about the continuing production of nuclear weapons that all individuals should concern themselves with.

Vaughns Rifles was originally raised in 1849 as the 5th Regiment of Punjab Infantry. Lord Kitchener's Indian Army reforms of 1903 meant the regiment's designation was changed to 58th Vaughan's Rifles (Frontier Force). During the First World War, the regiment was sent with Force A to France to serve with the 21st Infantry Brigade part of the 7th Meerut Division. At the end of 1915, the regiment was sent to Egypt where it initially served with the 31st Indian Brigade and then in 1916, it was transferred to the 20th Indian Brigade. It then served with the Egyptian Expeditionary force for the remainder of the war.

The Last Ghetto is a social and cultural history of Terezín, or Theresienstadt, a transit ghetto for Central and Western European Jews prior to their deportation for murder in the East. It offers the first analytical case study of a Holocaust victim society that explains human behavior in extremis, and demonstrates how prisoners created new social hierarchies, reshaped their conceptions of family, and developed new loyalties. Based on extensive research in archives around the world and empathetic reading of victim testimonies, this history of everyday life in a prisoner society reveals the many forms of agency and adaptation in Nazi concentration camps and ghettos.

Das Jahr 1923 gilt als das Krisenjahr der Weimarer Republik. Hyperinflation, wirtschaftliche Not und Hunger, die Besetzung des Ruhrgebiets durch französische und belgische Truppen und der darauffolgende passive Widerstand, Umsturzversuche der Kommunisten in Hamburg, Sachsen und Thüringen sowie der Hitlerputsch im November, Gewalt auf der Straße und fehlende politische Stabilität ließen ein Gefühl von Unsicherheit und Orientierungslosigkeit in der Gesellschaft entstehen.Peter Tauber beschreibt die Kämpfe der noch jungen Republik, die erst zur Ruhe kam, als Hitlers erster Griff nach der Macht am 9. November 1923 scheiterte. Doch die Folgen des Krisenjahres wurden nie ganz überwunden. Die Reihe »Kriege der Moderne«, herausgegeben vom Zentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr, stellt die wichtigsten militärischen Konflikte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts nach modernsten wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen vor und erläutert ihre geschichtlichen Ursachen und politischen Folgen.

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZEA TIMES & SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA NEW STATESMAN'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR A SPECTATOR'S BOOKS OF THE YEARONE OF THE CONVERSATION'S 5 BEST NON-FICTION BOOKS OF 2024'A truly radical book; radical in subject, radical in form. For the most tragic reasons, it could not feel more immediate; and yet it's a fluid, fast-paced, hugely enjoyable and engaging read.' - Andrew Marr''Unforgettable... Non fiction will be different as a result.' - Jonathan Freedland'This is an extraordinarily original way of writing memoir, history and truth. An enthralling book and a wonderful new writer.' - Laura Cumming'So fascinating, so enjoyable, and beautifully told through diaries, memoirs, speeches and newspapers'. - Simon Sebag Montefiore'a remarkable book' - Robert MacfarlaneOn June 7th 1907, a ship packed with Russian Jews sets sail not to Jerusalem or New York, as many on board have dreamt, but to Texas. The man who persuades the passengers to go is David Jochelmann, Rachel Cockerell's great-grandfather. It marks the beginning of the Galveston Movement, a forgotten moment in history when 10,000 Jews fled to Texas in the lead-up to WWI.The charismatic leader of the movement is Jochelmann's closest friend, Israel Zangwill, whose novels have made him famous across Europe and America. As Eastern Europe becomes infected by anti-Semitic violence, Zangwill embarks on a desperate search across the continents for a temporary homeland: from Australia to Canada, Angola to Antarctica. He reluctantly settles on Galveston, Texas. He fears the Jewish people will be absorbed into the great American melting pot, but there is no other hope. In a highly inventive style, Cockerell uses exclusively source material to capture history as it unfolds, weaving together letters, diaries, memoirs, newspaper articles and interviews into a vivid account of those who were there. Melting Point follows Zangwill and the Jochelmann family through two world wars, to London, New York and Jerusalem - as their lives intertwine with some of the most memorable figures of the twentieth century, and each chooses whether to cling to their history or melt into their new surroundings. It is a story that asks what it means to belong, and what can be salvaged from the past.

Marta Tomczok presents all Polish postmodern novels about the Holocaust, starting with "The First Splendor" by Leopold Buczkowski and ending with "The Suspected Dybbuk" by Andrzej Bart. She also presents their rich relationships with selected foreign-language prose, which intensified especially at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. The culmination of the entire trend is a discussion around two novels: "Tworki" by Marek Bienczyk and "Fly Trap Factory" by Andrzej Bart, which reveals the aestheticizing and post-memorial profile of Polish postmodernization and its advantage over the historiosophical trend. This monograph is not only the first such collection of post-Holocaust postmodern novels, but also the first comprehensive study of postmodernism in the literature about the Holocaust, which, thanks to comparative analysis, tries to analyze and explain the circumstances of the appearance and later disappearance of this trend from cultural landscape of the world and Poland.

Dieses Buch bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über die ­Militär­flugzeuge, die aktuell weltweit im Einsatz sind. Gegliedert nach Einsatzzweck und Generationen werden 67 Flugzeugtypen detailliert vorgestellt - in Fotos und mehr als 100 kunstvollen Illustrationen. Technische Daten und Zusatzinformationen runden das Werk ab.

This is the story of a seventeen year old boy who ran away from home to join the Canadian Army at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. It describes the fateful adventures of two regiments dispatched to the Pacific to face the Japanese, and the courage of two thousand young soldiers who, when faced with an impossible task thousands of miles from home, behaved with honour and distinction. Though they lost the battle of Hong Kong, they succeeded in showing the world the mettle of which they were made.

Discover the captivating history of the first American wars in Africa!In this book, you'll learn about the Barbary Wars of 1801 to 1805 and 1815, the first American wars outside of North America. The enemies were the Muslim Barbary pirates of the North African coast.Discover how American sailors were captured and turned into slaves in Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli. Why did this happen? And why didn't the US Navy do more to stop it? Discover the answers to these in this comprehensive guide!You'll also learn about the origin of the Barbary corsairs who made slave raids on Europe for 250 years and traveled as far as Ireland and Iceland. You'll find out the embarrassing history of how the US Congress authorized paying protection money to these pirates and how American taxes subsidized pirate ships.Discover how the pirates captured a big American frigate and its crew and threatened to burn them alive if they weren't paid a ransom. Learn how one of the most courageous special operations in Navy history stopped a ship from becoming a pirate ship.There is so much to unpack in this book. Some of the things you will be captivated to learn about include the following:How an American warship carried a harem, a zoo, a hundred slaves, and treasure to IstanbulWhy the United States decided to build a navyWhy a big pirate ship was built in New Hampshire and delivered to AlgiersWhere that phrase in the "Marines Hymn" "to the shores of Tripoli" comes fromWhy the US Navy borrowed ships from SicilyAnd so much more!

The intricate power dynamics at play between President Kiir and Vice President Riek Machar created a pernicious environment where inter-tribal tensions were skillfully exploited. The escalation of this volatile situation was exacerbated by the leadership's inability to adeptly navigate disagreements and address the diverse needs of the population. While tribalism may indeed have played a role, it is fundamentally a symptom of a deeper, overarching issue: the absence of capable leadership and a prioritization of personal power over the nation's security and progress.

"Manchmal höre ich sie heute noch schreien!", sagte Josef Altmann mehr als 50 Jahre nach der Schlacht um den Monte Cassino und verlor sich in seinen Gedanken. Instinktiv zuckte er zusammen, duckte sich zur Seite und suchte scheinbar Deckung vor einer imaginär heran rauschenden Granate.Als Angehöriger des Regiments 361 erlebte der ehemalige Fremdenlegionär die erbarmungslosen Kämpfe an der Gustav-Linie und rund um den Monte Cassino. Der Krieg hatte eine unfassbare Grausamkeit erreicht und der Tod schlug täglich gnadenlos zu.Altmann wird im Schnelldurchlauf zum Scharfschützen ausgebildet und sofort an der Front eingesetzt. Er erkennt im Zielfernrohr die Gesichter seiner Opfer. Die Hände beginnen zu zittern, das Herz rast. Gänsehaut überzieht seinen Körper. Angst, Elend, der Verlust seiner engsten Kameraden und die Schreie der Sterbenden lassen ihn, entgegen seiner anfänglichen Zweifel, abdrücken. Ohne Pathos, frei von Heldentum und erschreckend realitätsnah erzählt Josef Altmann seine Geschichte. Dieses Buch ist ein schonungsloser Tatsachenbericht und soll als Mahnmal gegen Kriege dienen.

This is the incredible story of Elzbieta Zawacka, the WW2 female resistance fighter known as Agent Zo. Agent Zo was the only woman to reach London from Warsaw during the Second World War as an emissary of the Polish Home Army command, and then in Britain she became the only woman to join the Polish elite Special Forces, known as the 'Silent Unseen'. She was secretly trained in the British countryside, and then the only female member of these SOE affiliated forces to be parachuted back behind enemy lines to Nazi-occupied Poland. There, whilst being hunted by the Gestapo who arrested her entire family, she took a leading role in the Warsaw Uprising and the liberation of Poland.After the war she was demobbed as one of the most highly decorated women in Polish history. Yet the Soviet-backed post-war Communist regime not only imprisoned her, but also ensured that her remarkable story remained hidden for over forty years. Now, through new archival research and exclusive interviews with people who knew and fought alongside Zo, Clare Mulley brings this forgotten heroine back to life, and also transforms how we see the history of women's agency in the Second World War.

L'un des plus grands camps de prisonniers de guerre du Reich allemand pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, le Stalag VII A, était situé à Moosburg an der Isar. Construit à l'automne 1939 pour 10000 prisonniers, il abritait quelque 70000 soldats de nombreuses nations le 29 avril 1945, jour de la libération. .La brochure aborde divers aspects de la vie des prisonniers et du camp lui-même.

Dr. jur. Manfred Roeder war "Generalrichter" in der Militärjustiz des NS-Regimes und ein überzeugter Nationalsozialist. Vor allem seine Anklagen und die Todesurteile gegen Mitglieder der sogenannten "Roten Kapelle" zeigen, wie kalt und brutal er gegen den Widerstand vorgegangen ist. Er bleibt bis weit in die 1950er Jahre in die rechtsextreme Szene eingebunden und propagiert das Weiterleben der "Roten Kapelle" als kommunistische Spionageorganisation in der Bundesrepublik. Mit seinem Umzug von Neetze/bei Lüneburg nach Glashütten/Ts. im Jahr 1963 wird er in der Kommunalpolitik aktiv. Er wird zunächst 2. Beigeordneter, dann von 1968 - 1971 1. Beigeordneter und damit Stellvertreter des Bürgermeisters.

Tausende von meist jungen Deutschen fanden über Landau in der Pfalz ihren Weg zur französischen Fremdenlegion. Die Garnisonsstadt in der Südpfalz war nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg mit Intensivierung des französisch geführten Indochinakriegs einer der zentralen Anwerbeorte des militärischen Großverbands im französisch besetzten Teil Deutschlands. Wie sich die konfliktträchtige Personalrekrutierung der französischen Besatzungsmacht und die von deutschen Stellen während des ersten Nachkriegsjahrzehnts im Raum Landau eingeleiteten Gegenmaßnahmen beeinflussten und gestalteten, steht im Mittelpunkt dieser Abhandlung. Das Buch schließt eine regionalgeschichtliche Forschungslücke und beruht vorrangig auf deutschem und französischem Archivmaterial.

Berlin, 1942. Max and Mally, two out of millions murdered in the Holocaust, are deported to Theresienstadt where they will starve to death.Decades later, on a whim, their granddaughter Jackie googles their names to find two commemorative stones recently placed outside their old home. The discovery compels her to open a long-closed cupboard of haunting family papers, piece together the story of the family she never knew and find her place in it.With searing prose and meticulous detective work, Jackie Kohnstamm offers a gripping and poignant portrait of an ordinary family and reveals a remarkable story of loss, discovery and memory.