Stalin's defectors

how Red Army soldiers became Hitler's collaborators, 1941-1945

Stalin's Defectors is the first systematic study of the phenomenon of frontline surrender to the Germans in the Soviet Union's 'Great Patriotic War' against the Nazis in 1941-1945. No other Allied army in the Second World War had such a large share of ...

La Segunda Guerra Mundial para Dummies

La Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945) fue el episodio más sangriento del siglo XX. Fue una guerra total que se extendió por el mundo entero, en la cual los países beligerantes utilizaron todos los medios a su alcance, humanos y tecnológicos, con un único objetivo. Por ...

Acompañando a Simone de Beauvoir

mujeres, hombres, igualdad

No se nace mujer, se llega a serlo': esta afirmación surge como una flecha de El segundo sexo, obra maestra de Simone de Beauvoir, que provocó un verdadero choque cultural en 1949. Más allá de la 'fabricación' de la mujer, hoy vivimos la toma de ...

La guerra en Grecia y Roma

«Clásico» no es un adjetivo baladí a la hora de hablar de un libro cuya influencia lleva proyectándose desde su primera edición en 1981, y que va mucho más allá de la investigación y de lo académico, ya que apunta directamente, como la flecha de ...

Medieval warfare

a reader

Medieval Warfare: A Reader examines how armed conflict was experienced in the Middle Ages both on the field of battle and at home. This comprehensive collection of more than 130 primary-source materials—some translated here for the first time—traces over one thousand years of ...

La Cruzada contra los Cátaros (I)

(Revista Desperta Ferro. Antigua y Medieval, Nº 56, año 2019)

“¡Matadlos a todos! Dios reconocerá a los suyos” (Arnaldo Amalrico, legado papal y líder de la cruzada albigense). A principios del siglo XIII los frutos de la política de intervención de la Corona de Aragón en el sur de Francia eran muy evidentes, hasta el ...

Les opérations guerrières en essaims

combattre autrement

L'intérêt pour les opérations en essaims s'est accru dans les années 1990 aux Etats-Unis, sous le nom de swarming sans avoir encore, malgré la modernité et la pertinence du concept, de résonance en France. Depuis que les hommes s 'affrontent, les opérations en ...

Conversions

gender and religious change in Early Modern Europe

Conversions is the first collection to explicitly address the intersections between sexed identity and religious change in the two centuries following the Reformation. Chapters deal with topics as diverse as convent architecture and missionary enterprise, the replicability of print and the representation of race. Bringing ...

Reformation without end

religion, politics and the past in post-revolutionary England

This study provides a radical reassessment of the English Reformation. No one in eighteenth-century England thought that they were living during 'the Enlightenment'; instead, they saw themselves as facing the religious, intellectual and political problems unleashed by the Reformation, which began in the sixteenth century ...

The hurt (ful) body

performing and beholding pain, 1600-1800

This book offers a cross-disciplinary approach to pain and suffering in the early modern period, based on research in the fields of literary studies, art history, theatre studies, cultural history and the study of emotions. The volume's two-fold approach to the hurt body, defining ...

Florentine political writings from Petrarch to Machiavelli

In the fifteenth-century republic of Florence, political power resided in the hands of middle-class merchants, a few wealthy families, and powerful craftsmen's guilds. The intensity of Florentine factionalism and the frequent alterations in its political institutions gave Renaissance thinkers ample opportunities to inquire into ...

Elizabeth's french wars

1562-1598

The aim of this study is to establish the scale and importance of English intervention during the French Wars of Religion of the late sixteenth century. The author looks at why and how Elizabeth I intervened, and what were the consequences of this intervention. He ...

Leonardo Da Vinci and the book of doom

Bianca Sforza, the Sforziada and Artful propaganda in Renaissance Milan

This in-depth investigation into the art, politics and murderous cynicism of Renaissance Milan is is an academic detective story sketched out with erudition and journalistic panache. Debunking the outrageous claim by the notorious Lancashire forger Shaun Greenhalgh that he produced the mesmerizing portrait of a ...

Tactique cyber

le combat numérique

En France, quelques chercheurs, souvent militaires, ont posé les bases de la réflexion cyberstratégique. Les spécialistes techniques du domaine, ingénieurs et techniciens cyber, possèdent également un savoir précieux. Il manquait une réflexion sur le niveau tactique, intermédiaire entre le stratégique et le technique. C'est ...

Fighting sleep

the war for the mind and the US Military

How the military used sleep as a weapon-and how soldiers fought back On April 21, 1971, hundreds of Vietnam veterans fell asleep on the National Mall, wondering whether they would be arrested by daybreak. Veterans had fought the courts for the right to sleep in ...

Mongrel Firebugs and men of property

capitalism and class conflict in american history

In popular retellings of American history, capitalism generally doesn't feature much as part of the founding or development of the nation. Instead, it is alluded to in figurative terms as opportunity, entrepreneurial vigor, material abundance, and the seven-league boots of manifest destiny. In this ...

The Republic for which it stands

the United States during reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896

The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Richard White offers a fresh and integrated interpretation of Reconstruction and the Gilded ...

Sweet taste of liberty

a true story of slavery and restitution in America

The unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman's fight for justice-and reparations Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848. In 1853, a Kentucky deputy sheriff named Zebulon Ward colluded with Wood's employer, abducted her, and sold her ...

Stalin and the fate of Europe

the postwar struggle for sovereignty

The Cold War division of Europe was not inevitable-the acclaimed author of Stalin's Genocides shows how postwar Europeans fought to determine their own destinies. Was the division of Europe after World War II inevitable? In this powerful reassessment of the postwar order in Europe ...

La vida cotidiana durante el estalinismo

cómo vivía y sobrevivía la gente común en la Rusia soviética

Este es un libro acerca de la vida en la Rusia urbana en el apogeo del estalinismo. Trata de viviendas comunitarias atestadas, de esposas abandonadas y esposos que no pagaban los alimentos de sus hijos, de falta de comida y ropa, de colas interminables que ...