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Crimine di guerra, necessità militare o tragico errore? Inganni, abbagli e menzogne portarono il 15 febbraio 1944 aerei anglo-americani a bombardare la millenaria abbazia di Montecassino. Il libro documenta soprattutto il ruolo dei leader. Hitler ebbe la colpa primaria. Ordinò di abolire l'area neutrale promessa al Vaticano e di attestarsi non "dentro" (come ritenevano soprattutto alcuni generali britannici) ma "fin sotto le mura".Un vantaggio militare, sulla Linea Gustav, comunque decisivo.Illecito. Churchill, con un telegramma al generale Alexander, sollecitò l'attacco del generale Freyberg. Motivi e risultati. Poi di Montecassino non parlò più, per anni. E quando lo fece… Roosevelt...
Autobiography of Charles Biddle, vice-president of the Supreme executive council of Pennsylvania. 1745-1821. Privately printed.
In this ambitious study of the intense and often adversarial relationship between English and American literature in the nineteenth century, Robert Weisbuch portrays the rise of American literary nationalism as a self-conscious effort to resist and, finally, to transcend the contemporary British influence. Describing the transatlantic "double-cross" of literary influence, Weisbuch documents both the American desire to create a literature distinctly different from English models and the English insistence that any such attempt could only fail. The American response, as he demonstrates, was to make strengths out of national disadvantages by rethinking history, time, and traditional concepts of...
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Automotive Scrap Recycling provides a qualitative description of the steel scrap industry by focussing on its largest segment: conversion of obsolete cars into steel scrap. Originally published in1974, this report covers issues such as the structure of the industry and quality problems with scrap steel as well as related policy issues. This title will be of interest to students of Environmental Studies.
In this volume, studies of bone growth and development illustrate new methods and insights that enhance the anthropological understanding of skeletal variation.
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