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Boris Yeltsin: The Decade that Shook the World
Paperback || Boris Minaev || Vrije Uitgevers, De
The literature on Boris Yeltsin is vast. Memoirs have been produced not only by politicians - first-hand participants in the events, Yeltsin himself penned three volumes of recollections - but also assistants, press secretaries, political analysts, journalists, MPs, retired members of Gorbachev's Politburo, public figures now long forgotten, generals of special services and security service staff.Boris Minaev started working on Boris Yeltsin's biography when the politician was still alive. In...
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MSM
on spinning and perceptionmanagement
2024 || Paperback || Frank Libertas || Brave New Books || met inkijkexemplaar
We are living in a turbulent extremely dangerous geopolitical period and the Western mainstream media is playing a dubious, incendiary and evil role in it as a willing tool of blind propaganda. For over 2 years, these MSM have been pouring out the utmost nonsense daily on the population when it comes to the proxy war in Ukraine. There is no way that virtually all MSM in the collective West do this independently and without central direction. All the headlines and the interpretations of the re...
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Debates on Islam & Society: Jihad and Islam in World War I
studies on the ottoman jihad on the centenary of snouck hurgronje’s “holy war made in germany”
Paperback || Erik-Jan Zürcher || Leiden University Press
The proclamation of Jihad by the Sultan-Caliph in Constantinople, after the Ottoman Empire's entry into World War I, made the headlines. This book investigates the background and nature of the Ottoman Jihad proclamation in addition to its effects in the wider Middle East - both among the Arabs and the Turks, and among Sunni Muslims as well as Shi'ites. It brings to light the German hopes for and British fears of a worldwide uprising of Muslims in the colonial empires at that time. Moreover, i...
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Colonial Voices
The Anglo-African High Romance of Empire
Paperback || Gerald Monsman || Monbeaulivre.fr
Ever since the nineteenth-century the imperial romance has been understood, on some level, not merely as a self-evident genre of adventure capable of producing an aesthetic experience but as a political construction of ideological identifications and exclusions. There is a serious dearth of critical work on late-imperial writers of popular romances written about the Anglo-African colonies and the regions beyond their imperial frontiers. A growing interest in Africa now means that even the Ang...
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Revisualizing Slavery
Visual sources on slavery in the Indonesian Archipelago & Indian Ocean
Paperback || Wim Manuhutu e.a. || Ef & Ef Media
Revisualizing slavery explores the history of slavery in Asia by focusing on visual sources. The traditional image of slavery in Asia is shaped and dominated by words such as ‘mild’, ‘guilt’ and ‘domestic’. But this is shifting by new historical research that points precisely to the tougher sides and to similarities with the Atlantic slavery past
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A shadow of War
Archaeological approaches to uncovering the darker sides of conflict from the 20th century
Paperback || Claudia Theune || Sidestone Press
This book presents archaeological research from places of war, violence, protest and oppression of the 20th and the 21st centuries; sites where the material relics give a deep insight to fateful events - a shadow of war.
The research started about 25 years ago, at a time when the academy more generally was becoming interested in the history of National Socialism and the Holocaust. The work began in former concentration camps of the Nazi dictatorship.
The focus was on the central places of the...
The Truth About the Wunderwaffe / druk 1
Paperback || Igor Witkowski || RVP Press
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE WUNDERWAFFE is about the Third Reich's weapons of last resort, but it is a book unlike any other on the subject. The author, a former military journalist, has done extensive research on three continents, in the archives of many countries, and he has uncovered a wealth of facts about weapons and weapons systems unknown to the general public. This book is very well documented, and most of the sources have never before been presented in any publication. The main section is an...
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Reintegrating bodies and minds
Disabled Belgian Soldiers of the Great War
2019 || Paperback || Pieter Verstraete e.a. || ASP
In Reintegrating bodies and minds Pieter Verstraete and Christine Van Everbroeck examine the impact of World War I on Belgian soldiers’ bodies and minds. Based of unexplored archives, personal documents and existing historical overviews, initiatives taken during and immediately after World War I to reintegrate Belgian military invalids into the army and society, are reconstructed. The result is a poignant and disconcerting story in which a rather unknown fragment of Belgian history is revea...
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CAMOUFLAGE & DIORAMAS
Waffen SS
2023 || Paperback || Rob Coolen || Boeken uit Limburg
With protection of the individual soldier in mind, the German army introduced a camouflage tent material in the early 1930s. It was the second army in the world to incorporate this idea into production. The material presented a brown, green and tan printed fabric which , in principle, would blend with the landscape. Originally, the Italian army created the first brightly colored camouflage tent in 1929. It should be noted that the design, model, and shape of this material was not modified unt...
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Lacedemoniers
This is Sparta
2023 || Paperback || Frank Libertas || Brave New Books
The history of Sparta is legendary. The author starts his journey in 1888 BC in a small settlement on the Peloponnese to continue via the route Sparta Rotterdam 1888 to the present-day hamlet of Sparta. The gods put you on the horse only to ruthlessly knock you off again. This book traces the early history of Sparta up to the foundation of the city-state of Sparta in roughly 1100 BC and then continues this historical journey through the many highs and lows of the city-state that inspired awe...