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In 1882 the British invaded Egypt in an audacious war that gave them control of the country, and the Suez Canal, for more than seventy years. William Wright gives the first full account of that hard-fought and hitherto neglected campaign, which was not nearly as tidy as the British commander would later claim. Using unpublished documents and forgotten books, including the discovery of General Sir Garnet Wolseleys diaries, Wright highlights how the Egyptian War, climaxing in the dawn battle of Tel-el-Kebir was altogether a close-run thing. The major combined services operation of the late Victorian era also saw the Royal Navy sail into battle for the last time in its old glory and the book has the first full account of the Bombardment of Alexandria.

The Wars of the Roses (1455-85) saw the end of Plantagenet rule in England and Wales, and the accession of the Tudor dynasty to the throne. It is sometimes seen as the end of the Middle Ages in England, and the start of the modern era, and it paved the way for the reigns of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. A surprising number of historic sites from this turbulent period survive: battlefields, castles, churches, monasteries. Peter Bramleys beautifully illustrated field guide and companion to the Wars of the Roses gives full details of both the events and the personalities associated with each of these sites, together with the historical background and the reasons for the struggle between the houses of York and Lancaster. Arranged by region, it covers the whole of England and Wales, and provides invaluable information for anyone visiting or planning to visit any of the sites connected with the conflict, as well as anyone interested in the history of this period in general.

Why is so much heroism attached to the sinking of the Titanic? Why do we accord impossible glory to the miserable, misbegotten drowining of the equivalent of a small town? What process led to the creation of champions? Who were the real heroes, and how were they overlooked? What did society - and the press - do with an overriding need for blame? By identifying the fable-making, and finally throwing off a blanket of boasting, this book enables a fresh, sharp focus on historys most famous shipwreck.We see into the nature of prejudice, public values and political and national motives. It explores the light and the dark of what we thin we know: about the engineers, the musicians, the Captain, his officers, owners and officialdom - as well as the sinking itself and societys curious celebration of abject catastrophe. It also looks at sacrificial victims, in particular the character of Captain Stanley Lord of the Californian, a man tarred with abandoning fifteen hundred people to their fate. Backed up with a new photographic archive and bolstered by a series of contemporary extracts to support its arguments, this is Titanic history presented in an entirely new and authentic light.

In Hitlers Foreign Executioners, Heinrich Himmlers secret master plan for Europe is revealed: an SS empire that would have no place for either the Nazi Party or Adolf Hitler. His astonishingly ambitious plan depended on the recruitment of tens of thousands of Germanic peoples from every corner of Europe, and even parts of Asia, to build an SS Europa. This revised and fully updated book, researched in archives all over Europe and using first-hand testimony, exposes Europes dirty secret: nearly half a million Europeans and more than a million Soviet citizens enlisted in the armed forces of the Third Reich to fight a deadly crusade against a mythic foe, Jewish Bolshevism.Even today, some apologists claim that these foreign SS volunteers were merely soldiers like any other and fought a decent war against Stalins Red Army. Historian Christopher Hale demonstrates conclusively that these surprisingly common views are mistaken. By taking part in Himmlers murderous master plan, these foreign executioners hoped to prove that they were worthy of joining his future SS Europa. But as the Reich collapsed in 1944, Himmlers monstrous scheme led to bitter confrontations with Hitler and to the downfall of the man once known as loyal Heinrich.

Brilliantly researched and written, this is the definitive history of the city of Brighton. Divided into five sections Fishermen and Farmers, Princes and Palaces, Late Georgian, Victorian Marvels and Mysteries, Battle Scene and Transformation it shows how Brighton grew from a small fishing village. For almost thirty years Clifford Musgrave was the director of the Royal Pavilion, the Brighton Library, Art Gallery and Museum. In 1962 Faber and Faber commissioned him to write a comprehensive history of the town. It was published in 1970 to much acclaim. This new edition, published forty years after the original publication, includes a double introduction by the late Clifford Musgraves son, Stephen Musgrave, and the editor of Victoria County History for Brighton and author of Georgian Brighton, Sue Berry. Two letters from Graham Greene to the author are also featured.

In the spring of 1917 the Arras offensive was begun to break the stalemate of the Western Front by piercing the formidable German defences of the Hindenburg Line. The village of Bullecourt lay at the southern end of the battle front, and the fighting there over a period of six weeks from 11 April until late May 1917, epitomised the awful trench warfare of World War I.In Bullecourt 1917, Paul Kendall tells the stories of the fierce battles fought by three British and three Australian divisions in an attempt to aid Allenbys Third Army break out from Arras. Approximately 10,000 Australian and 7,000 British soldiers died, many of whom were listed as missing and have no known grave. The battle caused much consternation due to the failure of British tanks in supporting Australian infantry on 11 April, but despite the lack of tank and artillery support the Australian infantry valiantly fought their way into the German trenches. It took a further six weeks for British and Australian infantry to capture the village. This book tells the story of this bitter battle and pays tribute to the men who took part. Crucially, Paul Kendall has contacted as many of the surviving relatives of the combatants as he could, to gain new insight into those terrible events on the Hindenburg Line.

By the end of 1943 the Japanese had occupied most of South-East Asia. On 6 March 1944, the first units of the Japanese 15 Army crossed the inhospitable border of what was then Burma, and invaded India. At the township of Kohima they were met by a small, hastily assembled force of Indian and British troops, later reinforced by 2 Division of Slims 14 Army, who fought valiantly and forced the Japanese to retreat.Described by Mountbatten as the British/Indian Thermopylae, Kohima was a turning point in Japanese fortunes, heralding their continued defeat in battle until their formal surrender on 2 September 1945. Using extensive research in primary sources and many previously unpublished first-hand accounts, Leslie Edwards presents a definitive analysis of this pivotal battle.

An Unlikely Hero is not only the story of an extraordinary life but also a unique insight into the Great Game played out in Afghanistan in the late nineteenth century. Beginning his career as a British Surgeon Major in Afghanistan, George Scott Robertson found himself defending Chitral Fort in 1895 against a besieging force of thousands of tribesmen. He was celebrated as a hero, but this was only one chapter in what was an extraordinary life. This book is the story of an adventurer, ethnographer, and soldier.

Re-fight some of the bloodiest battles of the ancient and medieval worlds! Seasoned wargamer and author Neil Thomas brings historical perspective to the hobby with a description and interpretation of significant military developments from 3,000BC to AD1500. Wargaming is the simulation of accurate historical battles using miniature figures to fight over three dimensional terrain, their movement and combat being regulated by clearly defined rules. Neil Thomas new book provides specific coverage of ancient and medieval wargaming, thanks to its division into biblical, classical, Dark Age and medieval sections. Each section has its own set of rules and much expanded army lists. The wargamer gains additional perspective from data panels containing facts about weaponry, personalities and chroniclers, and quotations from original document sources. Useful suggestions for further reading are also included, while battle reports in each section provide tactical insights for both novice and veteran wargamers.

The appalling effects of civil war are often suffered most horrifically by the ordinary men, women and children involuntarily caught up in it, as it tears asunder the very fabric of their lives. Such was the fate of the citizens of Chester, who for almost four years found themselves at the centre of the battle between King and Parliament. Chesters inhabitants withstood the terrors of bombardment and the rigours of starvation, in one of the most fiercely contested sieges of the Civil War. Using myriad contemporary sources it is possible for the first time to present a detailed picture of the part played in the siege by the common sort, the forgotten voices of Chester: ordinary citizens forced by their employers to enlist in the City Regiment, their brutal introduction to the realities of war and their gallant defence of Chester.

On the evening of 17 October 1678 the body of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey, a Westminster Justice of the Peace, was discovered in a ditch near Primrose Hill. He had been pierced with his own sword and apparently strangled. His death lead to a widespread popular hysteria about a "Popish Plot". Although a magistrate famous for his fierce rectitude, Godfrey was closely involved with the alternative healer and "stroker", Valentine Greatrakes and also played a part in many plots and and intrigues centred on the uninhibited court of Charles II and Restoration London. His death brought to a head a series of rumours about Catholic plots to kill Charles II and install his brother, James, Duke of York, on the throne. Identified as the victim of a Jesuit hit-man, Godfrey became overnight a Protestant martyr and cult figure.

Eugen Gutmann (18401925) war Mitgrunder der Dresdner Bank und eine der markantesten Personlichkeiten der deutschen Finanz- und Bankgeschichte. Er stand 48 Jahre lang, von 1872 bis 1920, an der Spitze der Dresdner Bank und trug mageblich zu ihrem Aufstieg bei.Diese Biografie behandelt Herkunft und Werdegang des Bankiers Eugen Gutmann und sein Wirken in der Dresdner Bank im zeitgeschichtlichen Kontext. Die Autorin Laura Herr behandelt seinen ausgepragten Fuhrungsstil wie auch das familiare Umfeld, seine Rolle als Kunstsammler und Mazen und seine gesellschaftliche Stellung. Die Biografie Eugen Gutmanns ist zugleich auch ein Teil der Geschichte des deutschen Wirtschaftsburgertums und der deutsch-judischen Geschichte.Laura Herr studierte Geschichte, Judaistik und Rechtswissenschaften an der Goethe-Universitat zu Frankfurt und an der University of Haifa in Israel und wurde mit einer Arbeit uber den Centralverband des deutschen Bank- und Bankiergewerbes im Deutschen Kaiserreich promoviert.Yi Liu studierte Germanistik an der Beijing Foreign Studies University sowie European Culture and Economy an der Ruhr-Universitat Bochum. Derzeit promoviert sie zum Markteintritt deutscher Banken in der Volksrepublik China.

The volume covers the 2008 season of clearing and mapping at the Khentkawes Town (KKT) on the Giza Plateau, and survey, mapping, and excavation of burials in the area. The work at the KKT site encompasses excavations in both the Khentkawes complex and the Menkaure Valley Temple Ante-town. This volume also covers the 2008 results of the 3-D laser scanning of the Djoser Step Pyramid at Saqqara, under the combined auspices of Egypts Supreme Council of Antiquities, Ancient Egypt Research Associates, Osaka University, and DEVELO Solutions of Osaka, Japan.

Preliminary report on the Ancient Egypt Research Associates 2004 field season. The volume covers the 2004 season of clearing and mapping on the 4th Dynasty settlement at the Lost City of the Pyramids (Heit el-Ghurob [HeG] site) on the Giza Plateau. The work at the HeG site encompasses excavations north of the Wall of the Crow; in the area East of the Galleries; within the Royal Administration Building; and in the Eastern Town, the Western Dump, and areas around the Abu Hol Soccer Field.

The volume covers the 2005 season of clearing and mapping at the Khentkawes Town on the Giza Plateau, ongoing work on the 4th Dynasty settlement at the Lost City of the Pyramids (Heit el-Ghurob [HeG] site), and two other projects at the HeG site: conservation of a small residential structure and survey, mapping, and excavation of Late Period burials. The work at the HeG site encompasses excavations at the Wall of the Crow; in the area East of the Galleries; within the Royal Administration Building; and in the Western Town, Pottery Mound, House Units 1 and 3, and the Pedestal Building area.

A NEW TESTAMENT offers a recast economic, legal, and social history of the strangely neglected, enduring and power-laden relationship between a Scandinavian Transatlantic mission and the Santals, Boro and Bengalis of East India, Northern Bangladesh, and Eastern Nepal. Bleies kaleidoscopic portraits transport readers back to the medieval period and Danish and British Company Rule. The British Raj and the early post-Independence period remain her principal framing, however. This customized text enables readers to navigate and selectively immerse themselves in theoretical and descriptive chapters brimming with immersive storytelling.The volume is relevant for university curricula in international history, Scandinavian and Norwegian transnational history, Santal ethnohistory, the history of religion, the sociology of religion, mission history, intercultural history of Christianity, museum studies, subaltern and postcolonial studies, comparative international law, peace and development studies, social anthropology, history of aid, tribal studies, womens studies, and the study of indigenous oral and textual history.

"Popol Vuh" es un relato épico basado en las leyendas de la extraordinaria civilización maya-quiché que habla sobre la creación del mundo. Se sabe que está influenciada por algunos sacerdotes quienes en su evangelizacion ayudaron a conservar lo mas posible la cultura indigena, para evitar la perdida total de estas culturas por lo que fomentaron en 1550 que algunos indigenas trataran de rescatar lo mas posible sus tradiciones para no perderlas y que sean absorbidas y olvidadas por la cultura occidental.El libro tiene un gran valor historico, asi como espiritual, y se le ha llamado Libro Sagrado de los mayas-quiche. Es una narracion que trata de explicar el origen del mundo, la civilizacion y los diversos fenomenos que ocurren en la naturaleza segun la vision teologica de este pueblo.

This book series is the most significant prehistoric period originating a location based Peasantry History story from the lower Kemijoki river region in Lapland. At the same time it is a smokehouse culture living period story of the region.The book series is based on the Peasantry history of Nakkula heritage farm in Laplands Keminmaa. In the story the history is mixed up with the case study findings confirming the ignorance of the heritage history. The story is an appreciation of the ancestors work and a Peasantry history preservation example for the Nordic Countries.This is a reminder that the Peasantry period along the lower Kemijoki river region contributed strongly to the society development of Lapland. The Kemijoki River Salmon was one of the major economic historic building blocks for that part of Lapland. This reality cannot be overlooked while still being ignored (after destroying) by the state companies, affiliates actions or inactions.

Povl og Estrid Stevns var nygifte og midt i 20erne, da de i 1958 kbte en mindre grd i Vendsyssel. Grden blev rammen for deres liv i 42 r. Ved siden af landbruget og familielivet var de engagerede i samfundslivet omkring dem med deltagelse i politik, organisationer og foreninger.Materialet til bogen er nedskrevne erindringer, fyldige breve fra 1958 til 1981, digte skrevet af Povl, interviews fra 2024 og billeder fra familiealbummet. Bogen giver et personligt og nrt portrt af Povl og Estrid og medtager bde alle de sm ting i hverdagslivet i landbruget og i familien og viser desuden forandringerne gennem rtierne bde p hjemmefronten og i landbruget.

Meripartiolippukunta Turun Tahti-Tyttojen historiikki on monipuolinen kuvaus lahes satavuotiaan partiolippukunnan vaiheista. Historiikki kertoo partiotyttojen tarinan alkuaikojen innosta sotavuosien lapi nykypaivan moderniin partiotoimintaan.