Jan Palmowski: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History : From 1900 to the Present Day


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Find out the facts behind the headlines with this fully updated dictionary of contemporary world history. The revised edition includes many new entries on America and the Middle East, providing both the facts and analysis of figures and events of the modern world from 1900 to the 21st century. Featuring biographical entries on major historical figures, political and military leaders, and leading thinkers who influenced events, the subject entries cover international organizations, treaties, religious and political movements, as well as key incidents, places, and battles. There are over 2600 entries, each written by an authority in the field, resulting in a reference which should prove valuable to a range of readers, from students of history, politics and international relations, to anyone with an interest in the modern world.
When Italy surrendered in 1943, it sparked a resistance movement of anti-German, anti-fascist partisans. This book explores the tactics, organizational structure and equipment of the brave Italian resistance fighters. Beginning with low-level sabotage and assassinations, the groups continued to grow until spring 1944 when a remarkable, unified partisan command structure was created. Working in close co-ordination with the Allies, they received British SOE and American OSS liaison teams as well as supplies of weapons. The German response was ferocious, and in autumn 1944, as the Geronimo : My Life pdf Allied advance stalled, the SS and Italian RSI looked to eradicate the partisans once and for all. But when the Allies made their final breakthrough in the last weeks of the war the partisans rose again to exact their revenge on the retreating Wehrmacht. From an expert on Italian military history in World War II, this work provides a comprehensive guide to the men and women who fought a desperate struggle against occupation, as well as the German and Italian fascist security forces unleashed against them.
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Author: Jan Palmowski
Number of Pages: 736 pages
Published Date: 26 Jun 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Country: Oxford, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9780198604846
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