Target Patton
Title | Target Patton PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Wilcox |
Publisher | Regnery Publishing |
Pages | 467 |
Release | 2014-09-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1621572919 |
Murder, He Wrote… … And he wrote the true story. Investigative and military reporter Robert Wilcox unravels the mystery surrounding the death of one of history’s preeminent war heroes: George S. Patton. Wilcox cries foul play and reveals the shocking truth behind Old Blood and Guts' untimely demise in Target: Patton—the Plot to Assassinate General George S. Patton. Conflicting testimony, disappearing witnesses, missing official reports, a suspicious Stalin, and a lack of autopsy comprise the greatest unsolved mystery of World War II. Find out "whodunit" in this thrilling account of America's most famous general.
Sketches from a Secret War
Title | Sketches from a Secret War PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy Snyder |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 2007-10-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0300125992 |
The forgotten protagonist of this true account aspired to be a cubist painter in his native Kyïv. In a Europe remade by the First World War, his talents led him to different roles—intelligence operative, powerful statesman, underground activist, lifelong conspirator. Henryk Józewski directed Polish intelligence in Ukraine, governed the borderland region of Volhynia in the interwar years, worked in the anti-Nazi and anti-Soviet underground during the Second World War, and conspired against Poland’s Stalinists until his arrest in 1953. His personal story, important in its own right, sheds new light on the foundations of Soviet power and on the ideals of those who resisted it. By following the arc of Józewski’s life, this book demonstrates that his tolerant policies toward Ukrainians in Volhynia were part of Poland’s plans to roll back the communist threat. The book mines archival materials, many available only since the fall of communism, to rescue Józewski, his Polish milieu, and his Ukrainian dream from oblivion. An epilogue connects his legacy to the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the democratic revolution in Ukraine in 2004.
Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century
Title | Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Wojciech Roszkowski |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 2563 |
Release | 2016-07-08 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1317475933 |
Drawing on newly accessible archives as well as memoirs and other sources, this biographical dictionary documents the lives of some two thousand notable figures in twentieth-century Central and Eastern Europe. A unique compendium of information that is not currently available in any other single resource, the dictionary provides concise profiles of the region's most important historical and cultural actors, from Ivo Andric to King Zog. Coverage includes Albania, Belarus, the Czech and Slovak Republics, Hungary, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Moldova, Ukraine, and the countries that made up Yugoslavia.
100 YEARS OF STRUGGLE
Title | 100 YEARS OF STRUGGLE PDF eBook |
Author | Volodymyr Viatrovych |
Publisher | Український інститут національної пам’яті. |
Pages | 44 |
Release | |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
The brochure tells the reader in a concise and engaging way about the events of the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917-1921, namely state building processes, Ukrainian nation’s development, the revival of scientific, educational, cultural and spiritual life of Ukraine. Much attention is paid to the leaders of the Ukrainian Revolution, such as Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Symon Petliura, Pavlo Skoropadsky, Yevhen Petrushevych, Noman Chelebidzhikhan and others who developed its ideological principles, set the agenda and led the people’s crusade for freedom. It reveals the institutional development, the creation of legislative, executive and judicial branches of power, building an army, financial system and diplomacy. The photographs and testimonies of contemporaries create the atmosphere of that time, shed light on everyday life of an ordinary person in a revolutionary upheaval. The brochure is prepared by the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance and includes materials of information and education campaign held in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917-1921.
The Refugee Experience
Title | The Refugee Experience PDF eBook |
Author | Wsevolod W. Isajiw |
Publisher | CIUS Press |
Pages | 550 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780920862858 |
Jewish Histories of the Holocaust
Title | Jewish Histories of the Holocaust PDF eBook |
Author | Norman J.W. Goda |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2014-09-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1782384421 |
For many years, histories of the Holocaust focused on its perpetrators, and only recently have more scholars begun to consider in detail the experiences of victims and survivors, as well as the documents they left behind. This volume contains new research from internationally established scholars. It provides an introduction to and overview of Jewish narratives of the Holocaust. The essays include new considerations of sources ranging from diaries and oral testimony to the hidden Oyneg Shabbes archive of the Warsaw Ghetto; arguments regarding Jewish narratives and how they fit into the larger fields of Holocaust and Genocide studies; and new assessments of Jewish responses to mass murder ranging from ghetto leadership to resistance and memory.
In the Maelstrom
Title | In the Maelstrom PDF eBook |
Author | Myroslav Shkandrij |
Publisher | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Pages | 459 |
Release | 2023-03-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0228016541 |
An estimated 25,000 Ukrainians served in the Fourteenth Waffen-SS “Galicia” Division. Conflicting accounts of their reasons for enlistment and continuing accusations of wartime criminality have fuelled controversial debate for decades. The first comprehensive study of the division to address both its wartime experience and its postwar fate, In the Maelstrom draws on archival research that includes interrogation records, interviews, memoirs, testimonies, and creative literature. The accounts of veterans often begin with being drafted into the force in their teenage years and continue into postwar life in Italian and British internment camps. These reminiscences are compared with wartime records and recent narratives. Myroslav Shkandrij discusses the commissions of inquiry into war crimes during the 1980s, recent debates over the issue of monuments and commemoration, and different ways in which veterans, the diaspora community, Western governments, and researchers have approached the division and its history. In the Maelstrom brings to light the underexplored Ukrainian experience in the “Galicia” Division during and after the war – an experience that resonates strongly today.