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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945, Volume IV aims to provide as much basic information as possible about individual camps and other detention facilities. Why were they established? Who ran them? What kinds of prisoners did they hold? What kinds of work did the prisoners do, and for whom? What were the conditions like? The entries detail the sources from which the authors drew their material, so future scholars can expand upon the work. Finally, and perhaps most important, this is a work of memorialization: it preserves the histories of places where people suffered and died. Volume IV examines an under-researched segment of the larger N...
Introduces the reader to the 17th century. Both the epoch and the author's assumptions are completely different here. Jan III Sobieski is the last Polish king who fully and unquestionably deserves this name, and the presented period of the former Polish Republic is the last years of its independent policy in Europe, implemented with the help of the leading army and its own school of war, diplomacy and intelligence, which were important in Europe. The peculiarity of this book is the formal trick chosen by Sadzewicz, which consists in the fact that the narrator, without ceasing to be himself, a man of the twentieth century, finds himself personally among the people of the seventeenth century and takes part in the events taking place at that time. The reader and the narrator stand before the great king, meet the Cossack hetman Piotr Doroshenko and the Crimean Khan Selim Giray, follow the winding paths of intelligence and secret diplomacy, take part in skirmishes and battles, and ... start romances.