Résultats pour "Stiller" dans Militaire

I maj 1942 cirklar amerikanska och japanska piloter över Korallhavet öster om Australien. Båda sidor försöker desperat lokalisera fiendens hangarfartyg. Till en början har amerikanerna turen på sin sida, men senare slår japanerna tillbaka. Det är första gången i historien som ett sjöslag utkämpas utan att de inblandade fartygen har kontakt med varandra. Trots att drabbningen i Korallhavet slutar nästan oavgjord blir uppgörelsen ändå en strategisk seger för de allierade. Japans expansion hejdas. Kejsardömet pressas tillbaka mot hemlandet men lämnar död och lidande efter sig.

'a master class in eyewitness storytelling . . . this gripping narrative chronicles one of history's darkest nightmare moments' - Annie Jacobsen, author of Nuclear War: A Scenario On the 80th anniversary of the devastating bombing of Hiroshima, the stories of the hibakusha are more important...

The remarkable and inspiring story of William Still, an unknown abolitionist who dedicated his life to managing a critical section of the Underground Railroad in Philadelphia—the free state directly north of the Mason-Dixon Line—helping hundreds of people escape from slavery. Born free in...

A detailed and comprehensive study of the carrier formations of the Pacific War, including their origins, development, and key battles from the Coral Sea, through Midway and Guadalcanal to the battle of the Philippine Sea.

A reportage from the turbulent, chaotic birth of the free Angola; the author calls it his “first real book”. Ryszard Kapuściński arrives to a country divided by two armies. For some time he's the only foreign correspondent there. Among the unbelievable chaos, he meets more and more people whose fates become the illustration of the cruelty of war. This book is a unique combination of war reportage with literary artistry - so characteristic of Ryszard Kapuściński.