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Nowhere does the ceaseless struggle to maintain democracy in the face of political corruption come more alive than in Paul Preston's magisterial history of modern Spain.
Author : Paul Preston
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,83 MB
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9780871408686
Nowhere does the ceaseless struggle to maintain democracy in the face of political corruption come more alive than in Paul Preston's magisterial history of modern Spain.
Author : Linda Melvern
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 35,89 MB
Release : 2014-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1783602708
Events in Rwanda in 1994 mark a landmark in the history of modern genocide. Up to one million people were killed in a planned public and political campaign. In the face of indisputable evidence, the Security Council of the United Nations failed to respond. In this classic of investigative journalism, Linda Melvern tells the compelling story of what happened. She holds governments to account, showing how individuals could have prevented what was happening and didn't do so. The book also reveals the unrecognised heroism of those who stayed on during the genocide, volunteer peacekeepers and those who ran emergency medical care. Fifteen years on, this new edition examines the ongoing impact of the 1948 Genocide Convention and the shock waves Rwanda caused around the world. Based on fresh interviews with key players and newly-released documents, A People Betrayed is a shocking indictment of the way Rwanda is and was forgotten and how today it is remembered in the West.
Author : Alfred Döblin
Publisher : New York, N.Y. : Fromm International Publishing Corporation
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 18,82 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Set in Berlin after Germany's defeat in World War I, Doblin makes vividly real the public and private dramas of a nation on the brink of revolution. He brings to life a fascinating cast of characters that includes both the makers of history and the historically anonymous.
Author : Judy Pasternak
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 20,36 MB
Release : 2011-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1416594833
Tells the story of uranium mining on the Navajo reservation and its legacy of sickness and government neglect, documenting one of the darker chapters in 20th century American history. --From publisher description.
Author : Ronald Radosh
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 28,66 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300089813
"Spain Betrayed provides full documentation of the Soviets' activities during the Spanish Civil War. Documents in the book reveal that the Soviet Union not only swindled the Spanish Republic out of millions of dollars through arms deals but also sought to take over and run the Spanish economy, government, and armed forces in order to make Spain a Soviet possession, thereby effectively destroying the foundations of authentic Spanish antifascism. The documents also shed light on many other disputed episodes of the war: the timing of the Republican request for assistance from the Soviet Union; the rise and fall of the International Brigades; the internal workings of the Comintern and its influence on Spain; and much more."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : J. V. Jones
Publisher : Aspect
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 24,31 MB
Release : 2001-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0759520208
Volume 2 of the Book of Words series, is a fantasy adventure where the lethal conspiracies and deadly intrigues of the mighty can be countered only by the power of magic.
Author : Michael Arthur Ledeen
Publisher : American Enterprise Institute
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 10,27 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780844739922
In Freedom Betrayed, Michael Ledeen weaves together key moments in the fall of communism with the skill of a born storyteller. His insider's knowledge of the interplay of complex personalities and Byzantine strategies makes a compelling narrative - a narrative enlivened by his wit and flair for the dramatic. He observes that just when democracy seemed everywhere triumphant - with the fall of antidemocratic regimes in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa - our leaders failed those fledgling democracies, first by misunderstanding the monumental achievement of that triumph and second by not providing the political, legal, and entrepreneurial know-how and support the new democrats so desperately needed.
Author : Margaret Peterson Haddix
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 17,94 MB
Release : 2011-07-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1442443065
In the third installment of Haddix's series about a futuristic society in which families are forbidden to have more than two children, Nina, a secondary character in Among the Impostors, is falsely accused of treason and imprisoned by the Population Police. Her interrogator gives her an ultimatum: either she can get three other child prisoners, illegal third-borns like Nina, to reveal who harbored them and where they got their fake identification cards, or she will be executed. Nina sees a chance to escape the prison and, taking the prisoners with her, quickly discovers their street smarts. But when their food supply runs out, Nina seeks the boy she knew as Lee.
Author : James Gritz
Publisher :
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 43,73 MB
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Carol Rutz
Publisher :
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 31,41 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN :