Category: History

By Richard Ward

Messerschmitt Bf109B, C, D, E
In Luftwaffe and overseas provider

By Jane Dowson, Alice Entwistle

By Sir Basil Liddell Hart, Barrie Pitt

Vichy Scuttles its Fleet, The Cockleshell Heroes, conflict of Propaganda, final Convoys to Malta.

This quantity comprises Klopstock's biblical dramas "Der Tod Adams" (The demise of Adam), "Salomo" and "David" from the years 1757, 1764 and 1772 respectively. The severe gear contains all extant proof at the production and printing of the works, including crucial debts in their results. The Appendix contains an explanatory index of the biblical folks and areas.

By Michael S. Springer

This publication examines the fight for Protestant consensus and solidarity throughout the paintings of John a Lasco (1499-1560). it is just in recent times that students have all started to acknowledge the significance of Lasco as one of many major figures of the eu Reformation, and a pivotal determine among Lutheran and Reformed theologians. The Polish reformer was once one of the so much dynamic church organizers of the 16th century, devoted to therapeutic the divisions between evangelicals and looking out for the main to Protestant harmony within the instance of the Apostolic Church. It used to be to this finish that he released the Forma ac ratio in 1555, a piece that recorded the rites and practices of the London Strangers' Church (of which he were the 1st superintendent) and to supply a version for uniting the disparate Protestant groups at the Continent. even if a few fresh works have fascinated by elements of Lasco's early occupation in Germany and England, this is often the 1st ebook to supply a entire research of the Forma ac ratio, and the reformer's purposes for writing it. This examine additionally places Lasco's special version for Protestant church buildings into the broader ecu context and assesses his effect at the fight for solidarity via an exam of his correspondence, the response to his writings, and his impact on Protestant congregations throughout Europe.

By Michael Gauvreau

The Catholic Origins of Quebec's Quiet Revolution demanding situations a versionof historical past vital to trendy Quebec's knowing of itself: that theQuiet Revolution all started within the Sixties as a mundane imaginative and prescient of country andsociety which speedily displaced an out of date, clericalized Catholicism.Michael Gauvreau argues that organisations comparable to Catholic youthmovements performed a significant position in formulating the Personalist Catholicideology that underlay the Quiet Revolution and that ordinaryQuebecers skilled the Quiet Revolution basically via a seriesof alterations within the expression in their Catholic id. In sodoing Gauvreau deals a brand new realizing of Catholicism's position intwentieth-century Quebec.

By Janet Colaizzi

By Susan Rose

How have been medieval navies equipped, and the way did strong rulers use them? Medieval Naval war, 1000-1500 presents a wealth of knowledge concerning the technique and strategies of those early fleets and the level to which the probabilities of sea energy have been understood and exploited. This attention-grabbing account brings vividly to existence the risks and problems of medieval seafaring. particularly, it unearths the exploits of the Italian city-states, England and France and examines how battles have been fought from the Mediterranean to the North Sea. With accompanying maps and illustrations, this much-needed account will entice army historians medievalists and the overall reader alike.

De 1955 à 1957, l. a. République française a dépêché en Algérie l'un de ses meilleurs brokers secrets and techniques, Paul Aussaresses. Même si son nom était encore inconnu du grand public, dans les cercles très fermés des prone spéciaux, cet ancien parachutiste de los angeles France libre, baroudeur de los angeles guerre d'Indochine et fondateur du 11e Choc (le bras armé du SDECE) était déjà considéré comme une légende vivante.

Mais ce héros de roman allait être entraîné en Algérie, sans l'avoir aucunement cherché, dans une venture qui allait s'avérer los angeles plus difficile de toutes. L'objectif ? Lutter contre le terrorisme érigé en système par le FLN.

Paul Aussaresses avait fait le vœu de silence qui s'impose aux hommes de l'ombre et ses secrets and techniques auraient pu disparaître avec lui. Ce qu'il a fait en Algérie, peu de gens le savaient. Pourtant, il a décidé de raconter avec une franchise impressionnante, sans tenir compte de l'air du temps, remark il a accompli sa venture au cours de deux épisodes décisifs dont il fut, dans l'ombre, l'un des acteurs essentiels : l'affaire de Philippeville en 1955 et l. a. bataille d'Alger en 1957. Sans fausse honte et sans complaisance, Paul Aussaresses ose dire une vérité souvent difficile, parle de los angeles torture et des exécutions sommaires.

Un témoignage capital, des révélations et des confirmations pour mieux comprendre les problèmes qui se posent à une armée quand l'Etat lui donne pour undertaking de combattre par tous les moyens une rébellion qui va de los angeles terreur pour contraindre l. a. inhabitants à los angeles soutenir et provoquer une répression qui sensibilisera l'opinion internationale.

By Barcz, Warszawski