Category: History

The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox by Stephen Budiansky
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Overview: Between 1867, when the defeated South was forced to establish new state governments that fully represented both black and white citizens, and 1877, when the last of these governments was overthrown, more than three thousand African Americans and their white allies were killed by terrorist violence. That violence was spread by roving vigilantes connected only by ideology, and by the hateful invective printed in widely read newspapers and pamphlets. Amid all the chaos, however, some men and women struggled to establish a “New South” in which former slaves would have new rights and a new prosperity would be shared by all. In his vivid, fast-paced narrative of the era now known as Reconstruction, Stephen Budiansky illuminates the lives of five remarkable men—two Union officers, a Confederate general, a Northern entrepreneur, and a former slave—whose idealism in the face of overwhelming hatred would not be matched for nearly a century. The Bloody Shirt is a story of violence, racism, division, and heroism that sheds new light on a crucial time in America’s history.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History

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The Zimmermann Telegram by Barbara Tuchman
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 1.7 MB
Overview: Barbara Tuchman’s The Zimmerman Telegram is one of the greatest spy stories of all time.

Nothing can stop an enemy from picking wireless messages out of the free air – and nothing did. In England, Room 40 was born . . .

In January 1917, with the First World War locked in terrible stalemate and America still neutral, German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmerman gambled the future of the conflict on a single telegram. But this message was intercepted and decoded in Whitehall’s legendary Room 40 – and Zimmerman’s audacious scheme for world domination was exposed, bringing America into the war and changing the course of history. The story of how this happened and the incalculable consequences are thrillingly told in Barbara Tuchman’s brilliant exploration.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History

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Women: Our History, UK Edition by DK Publishing
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 326.6 MB
Overview: Re-examining history from a female perspective, this book celebrates the numerous important roles women have played in culture and society that are less often told.

Packedfull of evocative images, this gloriously illustrated book reveals the key events in women’s history – from early matriarchal societies through women’s suffrage, the Suffragette movement, 20th-century feminism and gender politics, to recent movements such as #MeToo and International Women’s Day – and the key role women have had in shaping our past.

Learn about the everyday lives of women through the ages as well as the big ?names of women’s history – powerful, inspirational, and trailblazing women such as Cleopatra, Florence Nightingale, Emmeline Pankhurst, Eva Peron, and Rosa Parks – and discover the unsung contributions of lesser-known women who have changed the world, and the “forgotten” events of women’s history.

Placing women firmly centre stage, Women – Our History shows women where they have come from, and, in celebrating the achievements of women of the past offers positive role models for women of today
Genre: Non-Fiction > History

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The Art of Sword Combat: A 1568 German Treatise on Swordmanship by Joachim Meyer
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Overview: Following the success of Jeffrey L. Forgeng’s translation of Joachim Meyer’s The Art of Sword Combat the author was alerted to an earlier recension of the work which was discovered in Lund University Library in Sweden.

The manuscript, produced in Strassburg around 1568, is illustrated with thirty watercolor images and seven ink diagrams.

The text covers combat with the long sword (hand-and-a-half sword), dusack (a one-handed practice weapon comparable to a saber), and rapier. The manuscript’s theoretical discussion of guards is one of the most critical passages to understanding this key feature of the historical practice, not just in relation to Meyer but in relation to the medieval combat systems in general.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History

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Syndrome K: How Italy Resisted the Final Solution by Christian Jennings
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Overview: For the first time, the remarkable full story of how the Holocaust was fought in Italy is told in English

Rome, spring 1944. The Nazi’s persecution of Italian Jews was at its height. Giovanni Borromeo, the head physician at a hospital on the River Tiber, decided to risk his life by disguising members of the local Jewish community as patients afflicted with an imaginary disease, and hid them in closed wards. Fearing catching this highly contagious illness, known only as ‘Syndrome K’, the Germans fell for it, and the Jews escaped deportation to the Nazi death camps. It was just one of many ingenious ways the Italians fought a concerted, covert battle to resist the Holocaust, and in Syndrome K acclaimed historian Christian Jennings explores them for the first time in the English language.

Drawing on original archive material in Italy, Germany, the Vatican, Switzerland, the UK and US, the book tells the complete story of the planning, execution, and resistance to the Final Solution in Italy.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History

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