Titoli in Guerre e conflitti

‘As gripping as any spy thriller, Hastings’s achievement is especially impressive, for he has produced the best single volume yet written on the subject’ Sunday Times ‘Authoritative, exciting and notably well written’ Daily Telegraph ‘A serious work of rigourous and comprehensive...

"I Reportage di Repubblica" raccolgono i grandi racconti pubblicati sul quotidiano, come la serie "Super8 - Le storie al rallentatore". In ciascun episodio, mettendo in pausa il flusso incessante delle notizie, le firme del giornale accompagnano il lettore alla scoperta di luoghi, personaggi e vicende tramite una narrazione dal respiro lento e approfondito.

Brought to you by Penguin. Adolf Hitler is one of the most studied men in history, and yet the most important things we think we know about him are wrong. As Brendan Simms's major new biography shows, Hitler's main preoccupation was not, as widely believed, the threat of Bolshevism, but that of...

La guerra di Erdogan: Erdogan lancia l'offensiva in Siria contro i curdi. Ma Trump dice no, di Marco Ansaldo; La minaccia di Erdogan, di Marco Ansaldo; Erdogan e i curdi in Siria: che cosa possiamo fare, di Michele Serra; Siria, centinaia di vittime. La grande fuga dei civili dalle bombe di Erdogan, di Marco Ansaldo; Ma l'arsenale di Erdogan è già completo, di Gianluca Di Feo.

Uno de los conflictos más significativos en la historia de Estados Unidos ocurrido entre 1861 y 1865. Esta guerra civil que enfrentó a los estados del norte de carácter industrial y pro abolicionista contra los estados del sur de tendencia agraria y esclavista dividió a un país que se debatía entre dos economías opuestas. Los deseos de independencia de los sureños se hicieron trizas cuando las fuerzas del norte, lideradas por Abraham Lincoln, obtuvieron una crucial victoria.

When the US Navy send their elite, they send the SEALs. When the SEALs send their elite, they send SEAL Team Six. SEAL Team Six is a clandestine unit tasked with counterterrorism, hostage rescue and counterinsurgency. Until recently its existence was a closely-guarded secret. Then ST6 took down...

La extraordinaria historia de cómo un cónsul y sus aliados ayudaron a salvar a miles de judíos del Holocausto en una de las mayores operaciones de rescate del siglo XX.

The AC-130 gunship was quickly developed in 1968 to provide fire support for ground forces in Vietnam. Twenty-eight C-130 cargo aircraft were converted into AC-130s for night attack operations. The AC-130 was crude, ugly, ad hoc, and detested by many within the USAF...but it worked, and it worked well. Likewise, AC-130 crews were deemed unruly “biker gangs” but performed magnificently in every major US military operation from 1976 to 1995. Most of these combat operations were cloaked in secrecy, but records once classified for up to 20 years have now been opened.  

De la guerre, le petit Martin connaîtra tout : les privations, les humiliations, la peur durant le temps passé au ghetto de Varsovie, l'horreur absolue des camps nazis à Treblinka, la fureur de vivre quand il s'en échappera caché sous un camion, l'abattement et aussi le suprême courage quand il apprendra qu'il a perdu tous les siens... Et puisqu'il faut bien vivre, il s'engagera ensuite dans l'armée Rouge, puis partira aux États-Unis... Enfin la paix reviendra. Martin reconstruit alors sa vie et rencontre le grand amour en la personne de Dina.

A princess of White Russian descent, Marie Vassiltchikov was 23 years old when she was trapped in Berlin by the outbreak of World War II. In these secret diaries, she chronicles the glamorous rise and shattering fall of the Nazi Party, as seen from the vantage point of her desk at the Foreign Ministry. She also describes how she and her friends became involved in a desperate conspiracy to murder Hitler.

Fue un terrible conflicto armado entre la República Argentina y el Reino Unido que tuvo lugar en las islas Malvinas, Georgias del Sur y Sándwich del Sur. La guerra, que se desarrolló entre el 2 de abril, día del desembarco argentino en las islas, y el 14 de junio de 1982, fecha de la rendición argentina, conllevó la recuperación de los tres archipiélagos por parte del Reino Unido. La herida incluso hoy, no ha podido ser curada por el pueblo albiceleste.

La guerra di Tripoli in sei articoli di Repubblica: Libia, nel bunker di Tripoli, di Vincenzo Nigro; La guerra di Tripoli, di Vincenzo Nigro; Tripoli, guerra alle porte, di Vincenzo Nigro; Italia-Libia la trattativa, di Gianluca Di Feo; Gli emissari di Haftar sono andati a Parigi, di Gianluca Di Feo e Anais Ginori; Libia, Conte cerca una sponda per fermare il conflitto, di Tommaso Ciriaco e Carmelo Lopapa.

Everyone knows the story of the codebreaker and computer science pioneer Alan Turing. Except …When Dermot Turing is asked about his famous uncle, people want to know more than the bullet points of his life. They want to know everything – was Alan Turing actually a codebreaker? What did he...

The opening salvos of the Battle of the Coral Sea were fired one month before Midway. Gamble in the Coral Sea recounts the story of this battle from the Japanese point of view. Based on extensive Japanese-language sources, author Michal A. Piegzik challenges established Western narratives surrounding this critical engagement in the Pacific War.

'Damien Lewis is both a meticulous historian and a born storyteller' Lee Child FIVE DARING ESCAPES CARRIED OUT BY THE FAMOUS FIGHTING FORCE DURING WWII From the infamous 1944 desert campaign to the unforgiving terrain of the Vosges Mountains; from a perilous escape across Europe aided by...

Twenty-six-year-old cavalry officer Slavomir Rawicz was captured by the Red Army in 1939 during the German-Soviet partition of Poland and sent to the Siberian Gulag. In the spring of 1941, he escaped with six of his fellow prisoners, including one American. Thus began their astonishing trek to freedom.

Als Intimus Hitlers, Propagandaminister und Bevollmächtigter für den totalen Kriegseinsatz war Joseph Goebbels eine der zentralen Gestalten des Dritten Reiches. Kindheit und Jugend sind für Ralf Georg Reuth der Schlüssel zum Verständnis des Mannes, der aufgrund eines körperlichen Makels schon früh zum Außenseiter gestempelt wurde und einen beinahe krankhaften Ehrgeiz entwickelte, um seinen Minderwertigkeitskomplex zu kompensieren.

In 1941 Hitler's armies blocked the last roads leading into Leningrad. What followed was one of the most horrific sieges in history. When the German High Command encircled Leningrad it was a deliberate policy to eradicate the city's civilian population by starving them to death. As winter set in and food supplies dwindled, starvation and panic set in. 

Luego de la Guerra de Indochina a comienzos de los años 50, Vietnam quedó dividida en dos: La del Norte, apoyada por comunistas, y la del sur, por los capitalistas. El empuje ideológico de la primera, y las difíciles relaciones con la URSS a causa de la Guerra Fría, llevaron a Estados Unidos a invadir Vietnam del Sur para enfrentar al Vietcong, la guerrilla comunista financiada por Ho Chi Minh.

For a person seeking a single volume to serve as a captivating introduction and a dependable guide through all the maze of battles and issues of the Civil War, this is an audiobook without parallel. Bruce Catton understood the Civil War - its participants and battles - and he unfolds it with skill and simplicity.