The Kings and the Pawns
Title | The Kings and the Pawns PDF eBook |
Author | Leonid Rein |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 458 |
Release | 2011-03-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0857450433 |
For many years, the history of Byelorussia under Nazi occupation was written primarily from the perspective of the resistance movement. This movement, a reaction to the brutal occupation policies, was very strong indeed. Still, as the author shows, there existed in Byelorussia a whole web of local institutions and organizations which, some willingly, others with reservations, participated in the implementation of various aspects of occupation policies. The very sensitivity of the topic of collaboration has prevented researchers from approaching it for many years, not least because in the former Soviet territories ideological considerations have played an important role in preserving the topic’s “untouchable” status. Focusing on the attitude of German authorities toward the Byelorussians, marked by their anti-Slavic and particularly anti-Byelorussian prejudices on the one hand and the motives of Byelorussian collaborators on the other, the author clearly shows that notwithstanding the postwar trend to marginalize the phenomenon of collaboration or to silence it altogether, the local collaboration in Byelorussia was clearly visible and pervaded all spheres of life under the occupation.
FROM PAWNS TO KINGS
Title | FROM PAWNS TO KINGS PDF eBook |
Author | Eugene Brown |
Publisher | Wavecloud Corporation |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 2016-10-11 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781622176649 |
Inspiration is a divine source of life, especially being raised in the urban hood subculture. Father and son are able to narrate their experiences after navigating their journey from disgrace to dignity. They shine a spotlight on intergenerational incarceration and family reunification.
Kings of Peace Pawns of War
Title | Kings of Peace Pawns of War PDF eBook |
Author | Harriet Martin |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2006-08-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780826490575 |
In the complex process of turning war into peace, international conflict mediators play an increasingly pivotal role. Yet almost nothing is known about these influential individuals. In Kings of Peace, Pawns of War, six of the world's leading mediators talk in detail for the first time about their efforts to secure peace in Iraq, South Sudan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Cyprus, Iraq and Aceh. Former war correspondent Harriet Martin draws on unparalleled access to top-level mediators at work on the international scene today. Thus she is able to provide for the first time important insights into a profession rarely subjected to public scrutiny. She investigates the tactics they use to keep the two sides talking, and their drive to complete what is often a thankless task. She exposes how the warring parties, and also the international backers of a mediation, will manipulate a peace effort - and the mediator himself - in order to retain the upper hand.
Kings, Queens and Pawns
Title | Kings, Queens and Pawns PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Roberts Rinehart |
Publisher | New York : G.H. Doran Company |
Pages | 398 |
Release | 1915 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Experiences of a correspondent in Belgium during the European War of 1914.
Kings and Pawns
Title | Kings and Pawns PDF eBook |
Author | James L. Nelson |
Publisher | Norsemen Saga |
Pages | 366 |
Release | 2019-05-20 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780578515106 |
With their longships storm-blown to the southern coast of Engla-land, Thorgrim Night Wolf and his men find themselves rich with plunder and safely ensconced in a priory called Christchurch. But that cannot last. Thorgrim, in a wolf dream, has seen the enemy armies closing in, and he knows that their peace will soon be at an end. The gods do not go so easy on him and his men. He has learned that through experience and hard use. Nor are the gods the only threat they face. As Nothwulf, brother of the murdered ealdorman of Dorset, and Cynewise, his sister-in-law, fight for rule of the shire, each seeks to make the raiders unwitting pawns in their game, maneuvering toward a final battle that each hopes will spell the end of the other and crush the Norse strangers who have invaded their shores.
Players and Pawns
Title | Players and Pawns PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Alan Fine |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2015-08-06 |
Genre | Games & Activities |
ISBN | 022626498X |
A chess match seems about as solitary an endeavor as there is in sports: two minds, on their own, in fierce opposition. But is this the case? Inevitably these two minds are in dialogue, and perhaps might be better understood as partners in play. And surrounding that one-on-one contest is a community life that can be as dramatic and intense as the across-the-board confrontation. Gary Alan Fine has spent years immersed in several communities of amateur and professional chess players--children and adults--and in Players and Pawns he takes readers deep inside these worlds, revealing a complex, brilliant, feisty world of commitment and conflict. Opening with a close look at a routine, yet financially troubled, tournament in Atlantic City, Fine carries us from planning and setup through the climactic final day's match-ups between the weekend's top players, introducing us along the way to countless players and their relationships to the game. At tournaments like that one, as well as in locales as diverse as collegiate matches and cash games in Manhattan's Washington Square Park, players find themselves part of what Fine terms a soft community, an open, welcoming space built on their shared commitment to the game. Within that community, chess players find both support and challenges, all amid a shared interest in and love of the long-standing traditions of the game, traditions that help chess players build a communal identity.
Secrets of Pawn Endings
Title | Secrets of Pawn Endings PDF eBook |
Author | Karsten Müller |
Publisher | Gambit Publications |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008-02-24 |
Genre | Chess |
ISBN | 9781904600886 |