A gripping new work of popular history about a critical year in world history, and Britain's bleakest hour, by the acclaimed author of 1983: The World at the Brink.
This book covers the direct ancestors of the Turbit family back to the first to arrive in Australia. It covers 18 convicts and an aboriginal branch that was never spoken of. Interspersed are interesting items on early Australia.
Amhara killed for the love of Ethiopia ( !!): This book is written in Amharic to show how TPLF is the hybrid of ethnic fascism and Nazism that had damaged the East African Region and in particular deployed horrifying genocide and ethnic cleansing against "The Amhara People" for the last 29 years for the very simple reason that ethnic Amhara People loves Ethiopian Statehood and the People of Ethiopia. The Author shows the failure of multiparty politics in Ethiopia in which this
For Amaury Torres, life in Fidel Castro's communist Cuba is all he's ever known, yet he longs for a bigger and bolder life.
Amaury is forced to navigate the unforgiving nature of his mostly-absentee, militaristic father-who fought alongside Fidel Castro himself, the chokehold Castro's Cuba has over his mother, and the growing suspicion that there might be an entire world outside of his reality that he can't quite reach.
After a brief stint in the Cuban Army, Amaury is unfairly targeted by
Just as WWII gave us Catch 22 and Korea produced M*A*S*H, Vietnam delivers 10 cents and a Silver Star. No one can laugh off the incredibly cruel Vietnam War, but Bruce Johnson's sardonic antidote to the plague of PTSD helps recover the truth - if you don't laugh, you'll cry. Humor as an antidote to PTSD. A haunted life laughed at.
Starting at its headwaters in Franconia Notch, the Merrimack rushes 117 miles to its mouth in Newburyport, Massachusetts. But it also spans 20,000 years of American history. This book brims with colorful characters, crucial events and also points towards ways to return the Merrimack to its once pristine state.
Very few books have been written about the early Croats and their history remains in virtual 'terra incognita' to the English-speaking world. This book has been written, specifically in the English language, with the intention to inform my children, family and friends about the history of the early Croats; from the emergence and evolution of the proto-Croatian tribes to the establishment and demise of the various Croatian national states throughout the ancient times and the medieval periods. "A
The book chronicles the onset of the Great Patriotic War in Ukraine, from the first battles in June 1941 near Lviv (Lemberg) to the catastrophic encirclement of the Soviet troops in "the Kiev Cauldron" in September 1941. Using declassified Soviet and German documents and maps, it traces the path of the 48th combat engineer battalion.