Category: History

World War 2: World War II in 50 Events: From the Very Beginning to the Fall of the Axis Powers by James Weber
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Overview: Do you want to learn how the bloodiest military conflict of all time began, was fought and ultimately won by the Allies

Read about the 50 most important events of World War II, from the very beginning to the fall of the Axis Powers. This book is perfect for history lovers. Author James Weber did the research and compiled this huge list of events and battles that changed the course of history forever. Some of them include: – The Japanese Invasion of Manchuria (September 18, 1931) – The Signing of the Non-Aggression Pact between Germany and the Soviet Union (August 23, 1939) – The Battle of Britain (Summer 1940) – Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941) – The Destruction of Cologne during the Thousand Bomber Raid (May 30, 1942) – The Battles of Midway (June 1942) – The German Surrender at Stalingrad (February 2, 1943) – Drop of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima (August 6, 1945) and many many more The book takes you through the most important events of WWII from before the beginning of the war in 1939 until its end in 1945. It contains all the major battles and fights. You will find pictures and explanations to every event, making this the perfect resource for students and anyone wanting to broaden their knowledge in history.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History

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Van Gogh’s Sunflowers Illuminated : Art Meets Science by Ella Hendriks, Marije Vellekoop
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Overview: Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers are seen by many as icons of Western European art. Two of these masterpieces — the first version painted in August 1888 (The National Gallery, London) and the painting made after it in January 1889 (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam) — have been the subject of a detailed comparison by an interdisciplinary team of experts. The pictures were examined in unprecedented depth using a broad array of techniques, including state-of-the-art, non-invasive imaging analytical methods, to look closely at and under the paint surface.Not only the making, but also the subsequent history of the works was reconstructed, including later campaigns of restoration. The study’s conclusions are set out in this book, along with the fascinating genesis of the paintings and the sunflower’s special significance to Van Gogh.

More than 30 authors, all specialists in the field of conservation, conservation science and art history, have contributed to the research and publication presenting the outcomes of this unique project.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History

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The Operetta Empire: Music Theater in Early Twentieth-Century Vienna by Micaela Baranello
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Overview: When the world comes to an end,” Viennese writer Karl Kraus lamented in 1908, “all the big city orchestras will still be playing The Merry Widow.” Viennese operettas like Franz Lehár’s The Merry Widow were preeminent cultural texts during the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s final years. Alternately hopeful and nihilistic, operetta staged contemporary debates about gender, nationality, and labor. The Operetta Empire delves into this vibrant theatrical culture, whose creators simultaneously sought the respectability of high art and the popularity of low entertainment. Case studies examine works by Lehár, Emmerich Kálmán, Oscar Straus, and Leo Fall in light of current musicological conversations about hybridity and middlebrow culture. Demonstrating a thorough mastery of the complex early twentieth‐century Viennese cultural scene, and a sympathetic and redemptive critique of a neglected popular genre, Micaela Baranello establishes operetta as an important element of Viennese cultural life—one whose transgressions helped define the musical hierarchies of its day.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History

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Irish London: A Cultural History 1850-1916 by Richard Kirkland
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Overview: In the years following the Irish Famine (1845–52), London became one of the cities of Ireland. The number of Irish in London swelled to over 100,000 and from this mass migration emerged a distinctive and vibrant culture based on a shared sense of history, identity and experience. In this book, Richard Kirkland brings together elements in Irish London’s culture and history that had previously only been understood separately or indeed largely overlooked (as in the case of women’s’ contributions to London Irish politics and culture). In particular, Kirkland makes resonant cultural connections between Irish and cockney performers in the music halls, Irish trade fairs, temperance marches, the Fenian dynamite war of the 1880s, St Patrick’s Day events, and the later cultural agitation of revivalists such as W.B. Yeats and Katharine Tynan.

Irish London: A Cultural History 1850–1916 is both a significant contribution to our understanding of Irish emigrant communities in London at this time and an insightful case study for the comparative fields of cultural history and urban migration studies.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History

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The Devil’s Atlas: An Explorer’s Guide to Heavens, Hells and Afterworlds by Edward Brooke-Hitching
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 157 MB
Overview: Edward Brooke-Hitching, author of the international bestseller The Phantom Atlas delivers an atlas unlike any other. The Devil’s Atlas is an illustrated guide to the heavens, hells and lands of the dead as imagined throughout history by cultures and religions around the world. Packed with colourful maps, paintings and captivating stories, the reader is taken on a compelling tour of the geography, history and supernatural populations of the afterworlds of cultures around the globe.

Whether it’s the thirteen heavens of the Aztecs, the Chinese Taoist netherworld of ‘hungry ghosts’, or the ‘Hell of the Flaming Rooster’ of Japanese Buddhist mythology (in which sinners are tormented by an enormous fire-breathing cockerel), The Devil’s Atlas gathers together a wonderful variety of beliefs and representations of life after death. These afterworlds are illustrated with an unprecedented collection of images, ranging from the marvellous ‘infernal cartography’ of the European Renaissance artists attempting to map the structured Hell described by Dante and the decorative Islamic depictions of Paradise to the various efforts to map the Garden of Eden and the spiritual vision paintings of nineteenth-century mediums.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History

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