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The Sportsman
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Beacons in the Night
Franlin Lindsay (f. 1916) beretter om sine oplevelser som agent for OSS i Jugoslavien fra maj 1944
The Italians and the Holocaust
"A careful historical account linked to personal narratives."-New York Times Book Review. Eighty-five percent of Italy's Jews survived World War II. Nevertheless, more than six thousand Italian Jews were destroyed in the Holocaust and the lives of countless others were marked by terror. Susan Zuccotti relates hundreds of stories showing the resourcefulness of the Jews, the bravery of those who helped them, and the inhumanity and indifference of others. For Zuccotti, the Holocaust in Italy began when the first "black-shirted thug" poured a bottle of castor oil down the throat of his victim, or when the dignity of a single human being was violated. She writes: "We might examine again how most ...
Sporting Magazine
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Storms Over the Balkans During the Second World War
A new interpretation of the history of the Balkans during the Second World War, exploring the tangled political rivalries, cultural clashes, and armed conflicts among the great powers, personified by Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Churchill, and Tito, and the indigenous people competing for influence and domination.
Embattled Mountain
On the 28th May, 1943, the author of this book was parachuted, together with Captain Stuart and a small party, to the highlands of Montenegro. These two officers commanded the first British military mission to Tito's headquarters. They landed unawares in the middle of the most critical Axis operation as yet mounted against the Yogoslav partisan movement, whose main forces of four divisions, lightly armed and burdened with three thousand wounded, were encircled on the 'Embattled Mountain' of Durmitor - the symbol of this book - by double their number, headed by German mountain and SS troops, supported by artillery and aircraft. This account of the breaking of the enemy ring is a classic study...
Forging a Discipline
A broad-ranging analysis and critique of the distinctive contribution of the University of Oxford to the scholarly study of politics over the last 100 years.
