Download First Winter on the Eastern Front: 1941-1942 by Michael Olive (.ePUB)

First Winter on the Eastern Front: 1941-1942 (Stackpole Military Photo Series) by Michael Olive, Robert J. Edwards, Chris Evans (Foreword)
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Overview: Photo chronicle of the German-Soviet campaign on the Eastern Front during its first brutal winter after Operation Barbarossa ground to a halt outside Moscow Hundreds of photos, many of them rare and never published before Photos of men, tanks, weapons, uniforms, terrain, winter conditions, soldier life, and much more Color insert features uniforms, guns, and equipment Ideal reference for military history fans, scholars, modelers, and reenactors Perfect complement to the narrative accounts in the Stackpole Military History Series.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History

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Download In the Houses of Their Dead by Terry Alford (.ePUB)

In the Houses of Their Dead: The Lincolns, the Booths, and the Spirits by Terry Alford
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Overview: “Here is Lincoln in the Bardo―for real. You couldn’t make it up―necromancers, mad actors, frauds, true believers, and, in the middle, the greatest President.” ―Sidney Blumenthal, author of The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln

The story of Abraham Lincoln as it has never been told before: through the strange, even otherworldly, points of contact between his family and that of the man who killed him, John Wilkes Booth.

In the 1820s, two families, unknown to each other, worked on farms in the American wilderness. It seemed unlikely that the families would ever meet―and yet, they did. The son of one family, the famed actor John Wilkes Booth, killed the son of the other, President Abraham Lincoln, in the most significant assassination in American history. The murder, however, did not come without warning―in fact, it had been foretold.

In the Houses of Their Dead is the first book of the many thousands written about Lincoln to focus on the president’s fascination with Spiritualism, and to demonstrate how it linked him, uncannily, to the man who would kill him. Abraham Lincoln is usually seen as a rational, empirically-minded man, yet as acclaimed scholar and biographer Terry Alford reveals, he was also deeply superstitious and drawn to the irrational. Like millions of other Americans, including the Booths, Lincoln and his wife, Mary, suffered repeated personal tragedies, and turned for solace to Spiritualism, a new practice sweeping the nation that held that the dead were nearby and could be contacted by the living. Remarkably, the Lincolns and the Booths even used the same mediums, including Charles Colchester, a specialist in “blood writing” whom Mary first brought to her husband, and who warned the president after listening to the ravings of another of his clients, John Wilkes Booth.
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Download War and Trade in Maritime East Asia by Mihoko Oka (.ePUB)

War and Trade in Maritime East Asia (Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History) by Mihoko Oka
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Overview: This book is divided into two parts. One is the state of trade in East Asia before and after the collapse of the tributary system to the Ming Dynasty, and the other is the war of aggression in which Toyotomi Hideyoshi of Japan sent a large number of troops to the Korean Peninsula with a view of conquering China at the end of the sixteenth century. With regard to East Asia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the contributors in this book share a problem awareness in terms of using trade and war as subjects to clarify multi-ethnic, borderless, and multi-layered situations. Although there are many chapters related to Japan, this book tries to grasp the interaction between Japan as a region of East Asia and neighboring countries from a global perspective, not the one singular national history.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History

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Download The Stalin Cult in East Germany 1945-1961 by Alexey Tikhomirov (.ePUB)

The Stalin Cult in East Germany and the Making of the Postwar Soviet Empire, 1945–1961 by Alexey Tikhomirov
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Overview: This book examines the construction, dissemination, and reception of the Stalin cult in East Germany from the end of World War II to the building of the Berlin Wall.

By exporting Stalin’s cult to the Eastern bloc, Moscow aspired to symbolically unite the communist states in an imagined cult community pivoting around the Soviet leader. Based on Russian and German archives, this work analyzes the emergence of the Stalin cult’s transnational dimension. On one hand, it looks at how Soviet representations of power were transferred and adapted in the former “enemy’s” country. On the other hand, it reconstructs “spaces of agency” where different agents and generations interpreted, manipulated, and used the Stalin cult to negotiate social identities and everyday life.

This study reveals both the dynamics of Stalinism as a political system after the Cold War began and the foundations of modern politics through mass mobilization, emotional bonding, and social engineering in Soviet-style societies. As an integral part of the global history of communism, this book opens up a comparative, entangled perspective on the ways in which veneration of Stalin and other nationalistic cults were established in socialist states across Europe and beyond.
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News from Moscow: Soviet Journalism and the Limits of Postwar Reform by Simon Huxtable
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Overview: News from Moscow is a social and cultural history of Soviet journalism after World War II. Focusing on the youth newspaper Komsomol’skaia Pravda, the study draws on transcripts of behind-the-scenes editorial meetings to chart the changing professional ethos of the Soviet journalist. Simon Huxtable shows how journalists viewed themselves both as propagandists bringing the Party’s ideas to the wider public, but also as reformers who tried to implement new ideas that would help usher the country towards Communism.

The volume focuses on both aspects of the journalists’ role, from propaganda editorials in praise of Comrade Stalin and articles lauding young heroes’ exploits in the Virgin Lands, to revolutionary new initiatives, such as the country’s first ever polling institute and clubs promoting the virtues of unfettered public debate. Soviet journalism, argues Huxtable, was riven with an unresolvable tension between innovation and conservativism: the more journalists tried to promote new innovations to perfect Soviet society, the more officials grew anxious about the disruptive consequences of reform.

By demonstrating the day-to-day conflicts that characterised the press’s activity, and by showing that the production of Soviet propaganda involved much more than redrafting orders from above, News from Moscow offers a new perspective on Soviet propaganda that expands our understanding of the possibilities and limits of reform in a period of rapid change.
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