Author : Ray Dolphin
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 24,41 MB
Release : 2006-03-20
Category : History
ISBN :
Up-to-the-minute analysis of the impact of the Wall with an introduction by leading journalist Graham Usher.
Author : Peter Andreas
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 24,30 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780742501782
As economic and military walls have come down in the post-Cold War era, states have rapidly built new barriers to prevent a perceived invasion of undesirables. This work examines the practice, politics, and consequences of building these walls.
Author : William Sutcliffe
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 14,95 MB
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1408838435
A powerful, searing story of a divided city - where one boy strays on to the wrong side of the wall, and finds his life changed for ever . . .
Author : Preston Marcia
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 23,46 MB
Release : 2011-10
Category :
ISBN : 1460817672
An act of desperation divides a mother and her child. Only an act of faith can reunite them. Trudy Hulst has no idea if her husband survived his attempted escape past the newly constructed Berlin Wall, but she knows too well the consequences of his actions. Now branded the wife of a defector, she faces a life in prison. With no real choice, she is forced to follow, praying she can find a way to claim their child once she’s in West Berlin. Surviving her harrowing break for freedom, Trudy learns the truth about her husband. Left to wander the wall like a ghost, she lives for brief glimpses of her son, stranded behind barbed wire and surrounded by armed soldiers. And Trudy knows she will do anything to get him back.
Author : Timm Haasler
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 36,62 MB
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0811769291
Hold the Westwall is the dramatic story of Panzer Brigade 105, one of Germany's experimental independent armored brigades, and its formation, deployment (including its defense of the Siegfried Line), and ultimate destruction. Relying heavily on primary documents and interviews, it also presents American accounts of what it was like to fight the brigade. It is the first book in English on Germany’s failed experiment with independent armored brigades in World War II.
Author : Will Hutton
Publisher : Abacus (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,6 MB
Release : 2008
Category : China
ISBN : 9780349118826
Will Hutton presents an incisive and thoroughly accessible account of China's emergence as an economic power and its developing relationship with the West.
Author : Neil Short
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,46 MB
Release : 2004-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781841766782
The West Wall (or the Siegfried Line as the Allies called it) played a crucial role in the bitter fighting of 1944 and 1945 in North-West Europe. Constructed in the period immediately after the remilitarisation of the Rhineland in 1936, the Wall stretched for 300 miles from Cleve in the north to the Swiss Border and consisted of some 14,000 pillboxes. The Wall initially blunted the US attack, and Hitler used it as a foundation from which to launch the Ardennes Offensive. This title takes a detailed look at the development and form of this key fortification, examining the principles of its defence in visual depth, and discussing its fate in the wake of the Allied onslaught.
Author : Leen Engelen Leen Engelen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 25,60 MB
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1442229608
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, transnational European cinema has risen, not only in terms of production but also in terms of a growing focus on multiethnic themes within the European context. This shift from national to trans-European filmmaking has been profoundly influenced by such historical developments as the collapse of the Iron Curtain and the subsequent ongoing enlargement of the European Union. In European Cinema after the Wall: Screening East–West Mobility, Leen Engelen and Kris Van Heuckelom have brought together essays that critically examine representations of post-1989 migration from the former Eastern Bloc to Western Europe, uncovering an array of common tropes and narrative devices that characterize the influences and portrayals of immigration. Featuring essays by contributors from backgrounds as divergent as film studies, Slavic and Russian studies, comparative literature, sociology, contemporary history, and communication and media studies, this volume will appeal to scholars of film, European history, and those interested in the impact of migration, diaspora, and the global flow of cinematic culture.
Author : Mark Richards
Publisher : Cicerone Press Limited
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 20,18 MB
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1787650103
The essential guidebook to walking the 135km (84 mile) Hadrian's Wall Path. One of the UK's most visited National Trails, it runs the length of the Roman Wall from Bowness-on-Solway in Cumbria to Wallsend, Newcastle. The trail is presented here in 10 stages, with suggestions for five and eight-day itineraries. It is suitable for beginners, although a reasonable level of fitness is required if doing it as a multi-day walk. The route is described both west to east and east to west, and the guidebook also features an extension through Newcastle to South Shields on the east coast. This guidebook contains a wealth of information on the history of the Wall, and a range of practical information for walkers, from accommodation and itinerary planning, to details on public transport and refreshments. A separate map booklet of 1:25,000 scale OS maps shows the full route. Clear step-by-step route descriptions in the guide are illustrated by 1:100,000 OS map extracts. The route description links together with the map booklet at each stage along the way, and the compact format is conveniently sized for slipping into a jacket pocket or the top of a rucksack.
Author : Richard Nicklin Hall
Publisher :
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 28,99 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN :
