The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq

The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq

Author: Hanna Batatu

Publisher: Saqi

Published: 2012-11-01

Total Pages: 964

ISBN-13: 0863567711

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This comparative study analyses the traditional elite of Iraq and their sucessors - the Communists, the Bathists and Free Officers - in terms of social and economic relationships in each area of the country. The author draws on secret government documents and interviews with key figures, both in power and in prison, to produce an engrossing story of political struggle and change. 'A landmark in Middle Eastern historical study' Roger Owen, International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 'By far the best book written on the social and political history of modern Iraq' Ahmad Dallal, Professor of Middle Eastern History, Stanford University


Western and Northern Europe 1940–June 1942

Western and Northern Europe 1940–June 1942

Author: Katja Happe

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2021-12-31

Total Pages: 916

ISBN-13: 3110687690

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In April-May 1940 the German Wehrmacht invaded Northern and Western Europe. The subsequent occupation of Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France brought the Jewish population of these countries – both established residents and refugees – under German control. From autumn 1941 in Luxembourg and from spring/summer 1942 in Belgium, the Netherlands and occupied France, Jews were required to wear the ‘Jewish star’ and many were subjected to forced labour. By mid-1942, deportations from Luxembourg and France to the ghettos and extermination camps in occupied Eastern Europe had already begun, while in the other occupied countries they were imminent. In April 1942 Alfred Oppenheimer, the Jewish elder in Luxembourg, wrote: ‘A dreadful fate hangs over our community again. The worst that can happen has now happened and the Poland transport is a certainty.’ This volume covers Norway and Western Europe during the period from the German invasion to mid 1942 (developments in Denmark for this period are documented in vol. 12) and records how Jews in these parts of Europe were excluded from society and stripped of their rights, livelihoods, and property. Letters and diary entries by the persecuted Jews detail life under German occupation and the attempts by many Jews to emigrate. The sources show how Jewish organizations sought to alleviate the impact of persecution, and how the German occupiers and local collaborators targeted Jews with increasingly stringent measures and clamped down on any form of resistance.


Operation Suicide

Operation Suicide

Author: Robert Lyman

Publisher: Quercus

Published: 2013-11-05

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1623652626

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During the Second World War, it is hard to imagine a situation where the British High Command could think that one of the only ways they could attack Hitler was to send ten canoeists with limpet mines to paddle one hundred miles up the Gironde estuary, in the middle of winter, in an attempt to sink German blockade ships in Bordeaux harbor. Yet this is precisely what happened in 1942. The man who gave the go-ahead for the audacious commando raid--Lord Louis Mountbatten, head of Combined Operations--fully anticipated that all ten men would die in the attempt. Mountbatten wasn't far wrong--two ripped their collapsible canoes as they were manhandling them out of the submarine; two drowned when their canoes capsized entering the Gironde estuary; and a further six were captured by the Germans and later executed. By complete chance, the two canoeists who managed to escape--Major "Blondie" Hasler and Marine Bill Sparks--stumbled into the arms of the French resistance. Once in their care, Hasler and Sparks made their way across France and into Spain, crossing the Pyrenees in the company (though they did not know it) of a Gestapo agent intent on bringing down the resistance network. Operation Suicide is the first account of this enthralling raid for over fifty years. In utilizing primary source material, including detailed German records captured by the British in 1944 (which remained censored until 1976), Robert Lyman brings to life one of the most courageous and dramatic events to take place in the darkest days of the Second World War.


Dr. B.R. Ambedkar : True Leader, Not A False God

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar : True Leader, Not A False God

Author: Manoj Kumar Trivedi

Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan

Published: 2023-11-07

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9355215223

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This Book ‘Dr B.R. Ambedkar : True Leader, not a false God’ is written as a rejoinder to Mr. Arun Shourie’s book ‘Worshipping False Gods’ inwhich Mr. Shourie had made various allegations against Dr Ambedkar. The author has tried to give point-to-point rebuttal of Mr. Shourie insinuation against Dr. Ambedkar.

The book tries to cover Dr. Ambedkar’s work from 1932 to 1953—Poona Pact to his resignation from Nehru's Cabinet; his struggle for political and social empowerment of his people(depressed class) and confrontation with Mahatma Gandhi over issue of reservation for depressed class; his tenure as member of Executive Council of Viceroy and his attitude towards Quit India Movement, and finally his work in the formation of the Constitution as Chairman of Drafting Committee. A separate chapter is also added, which is summary of his seminal work‘Thoughts on Pakistan’ to dispel the wrong notion that he was in support of demand for Pakistan. Dr. Ambedkar’s speech while resigning from the Nehru Cabinet is also added as last chapter to highlight his commitment to Hindu Code Bill,which he termed as biggest reform of Hindu society and his frustration and anguish over his failure to get it passed in Parliament.


The Holocaust and History

The Holocaust and History

Author: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2002-07-02

Total Pages: 856

ISBN-13: 9780253215291

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"A huge and hugely significant collection of much of the best Holocaust scholarship to appear in the last half-century." --Kirkus Reviews "... magnificent... surely among the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's] greatest achievements to date.... The range of the essays is nothing short of breathtaking." --Jerusalem Post Fifty-four chapters by the world's most eminent Holocaust researchers probe topics such as Nazi politics, racial ideology, leadership, and bureaucracy; the phases of the Holocaust from definition to expropriation, ghettoization, deportation, and the death camps; Jewish leadership and resistance; the role of the Allies, the Axis, and neutral countries; the deeds of the rescuers; and the impact of the Holocaust on survivors.


New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs.

New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs.

Author: New York (State). Court of Appeals.

Publisher:

Published: 1945

Total Pages: 1452

ISBN-13:

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Volume contains: (Schenck v. Meyer) (Schenck v. Meyer) (Schenck v. Meyer) (Schottland & Co. v. Sodeco Trading Corp.) (Schottland & Co. v. Sodeco Trading Corp.) (Schottland & Co. v. Sodeco Trading Corp.) (Matter of Shattls v. Watson) (Matter of Shattls v. Watson) (Matter of Shattls v. Watson) (Sheriff v. Volk) (Sheriff v. Volk) (Sheriff v. Volk) (Shimel v. Liebowitz) (Shimel v. Liebowitz) (Shimel v. Liebowitz) (Shimel v. Liebowitz) (Matter of Siragusa v. Carey) (Matter of Siragusa v. Carey) (Smith v. U. S. Trust Co.) (Smith v. U. S. Trust Co.) (Smith v. U. S. Trust Co.)


Alarmstart East

Alarmstart East

Author: Patrick G. Eriksson

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

Published: 2018-10-15

Total Pages: 526

ISBN-13: 1445675676

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The experiences of the German fighter pilots in the Second World War, based on extensive recollections of veterans as well as primary documents, and diary and flying log book extracts, with photographs from the veterans themselves, many never previously published.


A Hundred Horizons

A Hundred Horizons

Author: Sugata Bose

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009-06-30

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9780674028579

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"Between 1850 and 1950, the Indian Ocean teemed with people, commodities and ideas ... Sugata Bose finds in these intricate social and economic webs evidence of the interdependence of the peoples of the lands beyond the horizon, from the Middle East to East Africa to Southeast Asia"--Jacket.


Gators of Neptune

Gators of Neptune

Author: Christopher D Yung

Publisher: Naval Institute Press

Published: 2013-09-15

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1612515185

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A research analyst for the Center for Naval Analyses offers a rare historical account of the Royal and U.S. Navies' involvement in one of the greatest amphibious assaults of modern history. It is a story of cooperation and, at times, discord, between the two navies as they planned the naval portion of the Allied invasion of Normandy. With the evolution of amphibious warfare as a backdrop, the book has sufficient technical detail to satisfy the modern day practitioner of amphibious warfare, yet is written in a style that makes it accessible to the general public. Thoroughly researched at the U.S. National Archives and the Naval Historical Center, the book takes the reader from the initial plans created by the Anglo-American Allies in 1942, through the first draft of Operation Overlord, to the final naval plan set down in 1944. It then presents a detailed description of the invasion itself. Christopher Yung covers every obstacle confronted by the naval planners, from the shifting tides of the English Channel to overcoming the European coastal defenses and dealing with the submarine threat. Despite his attention to historical detail, he brings to life the personalities of those who brought Operation Neptune from concept to reality.