The Routledge Atlas of American History presents a series of 157 clear and detailed maps, accompanied by informative captions, facts and figures. Updated with additional maps and text and including significant recent events, the complete history of America is unravelled through vivid representations of all the significant landmarks, including: politics – from the annexation of Texas to the battle for black voting rights and the results of the 2004 Presidential election military events – from the War of Independence and America's standing in two world wars to the conflicts in Korea, Vietnam and the Gulf, including new maps covering the war in Iraq, the American campaign in Afghanistan and the War on Terror social history – from the abolition of slavery to the growth of female emancipation transport – from nineteenth-century railroads and canals to recent ventures into space economics – from early farming and industry to the state of America today. The history of North America from early settlement to the present day is presented to students and enthusiasts of the subject in this fundamental reference book.

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Product Description: Frank Blaichman was sixteen when, in September 1939, the Germans invaded Poland, starting World War II. A native of Kamionka--population 2,500, of whom one quarter were Jews--Frank was the oldest of seven children. For centuries, gentiles and Jews had lived in relative harmony, but the arrival of the Nazis changed all that as, first, gratuitous beatings, then roundups and killings began...read more

Product Description: Nach dem so genannten Hohenzollern-Beschluss des BVerfG herrscht in Literatur und Rechtsprechung weitgehend Einigkeit, dass Potestativbedingungen in letztwilligen Verfügungen dann sittenwidrig sind, wenn sie den Betroffenen einem unzumutbaren Druck aussetzen...read more

Product Description: Good condition book with like DJ. Boards are clean with minor wear. Content clean with bright pages and a solid binding. Good DJ with moderate edge wear namely small closed tears and chipping to spine ends and sticker remnants to front.

Product Description: The Allied landings in 1944 had all the prospects for disaster. Churchill thought he would be woken up to be told of massive casualties. Eisenhower prepared a somber broadcast announcing that the enterprise had failed.The specter of failure was always present...read more

Product Description: “Never give in!” Winston Churchill is famous for admonishing: “This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never.” What most people don't know is that when he said this he was addressing not a nation facing the threat of invasion, but a roomful of schoolboys at his old school...read more

Beginning with the founding of the State of Israel in May of 1948 and ending with the status of the nation today, a comprehensive chronicle of the history of Israel explores its political, religious, cultural, and economic development

A portrait of Winston Churchill focuses on his lifelong commitment to the Jewish people, to Zionism, and to the creation of the state of Israel, as well as his firm opposition to anti-Semitism and its implications for twentieth-century history, based on a broad spectrum of archival and private papers, correspondence, speeches, and newspaper coverage. 30,000 first printing.

Product Description: This is a very thorough account of the experience of the Jews of Europe during World War II. It is virtually a day-by-day account, in men and women's own words, of the horrifying events of the Holocaust - the Nazi attempt to exterminate the Jewish race.

Product Description: Martin Gilbert, author of the multivolume biography of Winston Churchill and other brilliant works of history, chronicles world events year by year, from the dawn of aviation to the flourishing technology age, taking us through World War I to the inauguration of Franklin Roosevelt as president of the United States and Hider as chancellor of Germany...read more

Product Description: The Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict traces not only the tangled and bitter history of the Arab-Jewish struggle from the early twentieth century to the present, including the death of Yasser Arafat and recent proposals for territorial settlement, it also illustrates the move towards finding peace and the efforts to bring the horrors of the fighting to an end through negotiation and proposals for agreed boundaries...read more

Product Description: Volume one of a comprehensive series on the Dreyfus Affair, this account chronicles for the first time in English and day by day, the drama that destabilized French society (1894-1906) and reverberated across the world. A deliberate miscarriage of justice, the public degradation of an innocent Jewish officer and his incarceration on Devil's Island, espionage, intrigue, media pressure, vehement antisemitism and political skulduggery - topics so relevant to our times - are set within a broad historical context...read more

This unique Atlas traces the history of Jerusalem from biblical times to the present day. Each map is illustrated by a facing page of prints or photographs, to give a complete pictorial and cartographic overview of this fascinating city of the Middle East. Coverage begins in ancient times, showing the impact of the Jews, Christians, Muslims, Romans and Crusaders on the development of this holy city. Special emphasis is placed on the last 150 years, during which Jerusalem grew from a remote and impoverished town of the Ottoman Empire to a flourishing capital city. Up-to-date maps and figures show the recent expansion of suburbs and settlements, the Wall and new urban and political developments. An extensive bibliography provides a rich source of information on further reading.

Product Description: Winston S. Churchill: World In Torment, 1916-1922 is the fourth volume of the definitive biography of Winston S. Churchill. Covering the years 1917 to 1922, Martin Gilbert’s fascinating account carefully traces Churchill’s wide-ranging activities and shows how, by his persuasive oratory, administrative skill, and masterful contributions to Cabinet discussions, Churchill regained, only a few years after the disaster of Dardanelles, a leading position in British political life...read more

A volume of individual Holocaust stories, collected by Churchill's official biographer, offers insight into the Nazi plan to transport millions of Jewish citizens by railroad and the experiences of individuals who were forced to abandon their homes and possessions for unknown destinations. Original.

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: Visiting Israel in 1972, Gilbert discussed Winston Churchill’s influence on the evolution of the Zionist ideal with the Israeli leader, David Ben-Gurion, at whose last meeting with Churchill in 1960, Churchill declared: “You are a wise leader of a brave people...read more

Drawing on eyewitness testimonies and period accounts of the event, a distinguished British historian offers a compelling account of Kristallnacht, the November 1938 rampage by Nazi storm troopers and Hitler Youth through Jewish neighborhoods throughout Germany, a nationwide destruction that ignited the devastation of the Holocaust. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Product Description: This fourth edition of The Routledge Atlas of British History focuses both on the maps and the economic and social history, which enlightens the changing story of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. This compelling fourth edition atlas now includes: politics: from the Saxon kingdoms to the Commonwealth and Europe war and conflict: the Viking attacks, World Wars One and Two and twenty-first century war in Iraq trade and industry: from the post-Norman economy and international trade routes religion: from the Saxon church to the reformation society and economics: Roman Britain and Agricultural revolutions immigration: growth of immigrant communities...read more

A detailed account of the devastating World War I battle that claimed more than 300,000 lives describes the epic struggle between Allied troops and German forces along a fifteen-mile corridor along the Somme River in France that marked a turning point in World War I and exemplified the changing face of warfare in the twentieth century. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Product Description: Book by Churchill, Randolph S.

Provides a detailed account, based on wartime documents and personal interviews, of the Allies' response, or lack of response, to the reports of Nazi death camps during World War II