The German Way of War: A Lesson in Tactical Management (Brouwer Jaap Jan)(Pevná vazba)

The German Way of War: A Lesson in Tactical Management (Brouwer Jaap Jan)(Pevná vazba)

The German Army lost two consecutive wars and the conclusion is often drawn that it simply wasn't able to cope with its opponents. This image is constantly reinforced in literature and in the media, where seemingly brainless operating German units led by fanatical officers predominate. Nothing was

German Prisoners of the Great War: Life in a Yorkshire Camp (Buckley Anne)(Pevná vazba)

In Munich in 1920, just after the end of the First World War, German officers who had been prisoners of war in England published a book they had written and smuggled back to Germany. Through vivid text and illustrations they describe in detail their experience of life in captivity in a camp at

German Machine Guns of the Second World War (Seidler Hans)(Pevná vazba)

German Machine Guns of the Second World War is a highly illustrated record of the German war machine between 1939 - 1945. Many of the photographs, all from the author's collection, come originally from the albums of individuals who took part in the war.Arranged by theater chronologically, the book

Personal Effects of the German Soldier in World War II (Mason Chris)(Pevná vazba)

German soldiers, sailors and airmen of WWII went to war with a fascinating variety of personal effects in their pockets and knapsacks. This book explores this most personal, private, and often poignant aspect of military history, through a study of the small items German soldiers used in the

Rations of the German Wehrmacht in World War II: Vol 2 (Pool Jim)(Pevná vazba)

Biology and Management of the German Cockroach (Wang Changlu)(Pevná vazba)

The German cockroach continues to be one of the most important indoor urban pests in the world. They contaminate foods, transmit pathogens and produce allergens that trigger asthma. The last seminal publication dedicated to the German cockroach was published in 1995 by Rust, Owens and Reierson, and

RAF and East German Fast-Jet Pilots in the Cold War: Thinking the Unthinkable (Walpole Nigel)(Pevná vazba)

_RAF and East German Fast-Jet Pilots in the Cold War_ is the result of ten years of research, involving many visits to the former German Democratic Republic by a small Anglo/German team of military specialists. Their purpose was to explore the lives of RAF and East German fighter and

Pediatric Audiology: Diagnosis, Technology, and Management (Madell Jane R.)(Pevná vazba)

The definitive educational resource on the clinical management of hearing disorders in childrenPediatric Audiology: Diagnosis, Technology, and Management, Third Edition is fully updated with cutting edge topics reflecting the latest advances in the field. New chapters include hearing and vestibular

British Submarines in the Cold War Era (Friedman Norman)(Pevná vazba)

British Submarines in the Cold War Era shows how a combination of evolving strategic and tactical requirements and new technology produced successive types of submarines. It is based largely on unpublished and previously classified official documentation, and to the extent allowed by security

Methodological Issues in Management Research: Advances, Challenges and the Way Ahead (Subudhi Rabi N.)(Pevná vazba)

Using contemporary examples of business and management research, predominantly within the context of India, this book offers numerous tools and techniques which can be applied to a diverse range of needs in social science research. With contributions from subject-experts in the field of research

German Jet Aircraft: 1939-1945 (Diedrich Hans-Peter)(Pevná vazba)

Germany was one of the leading developers of jet propulsion during the Second World War - in August 1939 the world's first jet aircraft, the Heinkel He 178, took to the air on its maiden flight. This new book examines all of the developments, production and aircraft types: He 280, Me 262, Ar 234,

Violence in Defeat: The Wehrmacht on German Soil, 1944-1945 (Willems Bastiaan)(Pevná vazba)

In the final year of the Second World War, as bitter defensive fighting moved to German soil, a wave of intra-ethnic violence engulfed the country. Bastiaan Willems offers the first study into the impact and behaviour of the Wehrmacht on its own territory, focusing on the German units fighting in

Belgium in the Great War (Veranneman Jean-Michel)(Pevná vazba)

In August 1914, the German Empire invaded neutral Belgium in order to outflank the defenses of the French army. Unexpectedly, the Belgian army resisted and fought on, holding a small part of unoccupied Belgian territory north of Ypres, alongside the British and French armies, until the Armistice of

Dystopia's Provocateurs: Peasants, State, and Informality in the Polish-German Borderlands (Materka Edyta)(Pevná vazba)

Toward the end of the Second World War, Poland's annexation of eastern German lands precipitated one of the largest demographic upheavals in European history. Edyta Materka travels to her native village in these 'Recovered Territories,' where she listens carefully to rich oral histories told by

The Indoctrination of the Wehrmacht: Nazi Ideology and the War Crimes of the German Military (Sait Bryce)(Pevná vazba)

Far from the image of an apolitical, 'clean' Wehrmacht that persists in popular memory, German soldiers regularly cooperated with organizations like the SS in the abuse and murder of countless individuals during the Second World War. This in-depth study demonstrates that a key factor in the

German Fighter Aircraft in World War I: Design, Construction and Innovation (Wilkins Mark C.)(Pevná vazba)

Fully illustrated overview of the development and different types of German Fighter aircraft during World War I.Fighter aircraft were developed during World War I at an unprecedented rate, as nascent air forces sought to achieve and maintain air supremacy. German manufacturers innovated at top

Turkish Guest Workers in Germany: Hidden Lives and Contested Borders, 1960s to 1980s (Miller Jennifer A.)(Pevná vazba)

Turkish Guest Workers in Germany tells the post-war story of Turkish guest workers, whom West German employers recruited to fill their depleted ranks. Jennifer A. Miller's unique approach starts in the country of departure rather than the country of arrival and is heavily informed by

The Price of Victory: The Red Army's Casualties in the Great Patriotic War (Kavalerchik Boris)(Pevná vazba)

The Red Army's casualties during the Second World War and the casualties sustained by the German army they fought are a key element in any assessment of the conflict on the Eastern Front. Since the war ended over seventy years ago, the statistics have been a source of bitter controversy, of claim

Beyond the Pale: The Holocaust in the North Caucasus (Brooks Crispin)(Pevná vazba)

When war between the Soviet Union and Germany broke out in 1941, thousands of refugees - many of whom were Jews - poured from war-stricken Ukraine, Crimea, and other parts of Russia into the North Caucasus. Hoping to find safety, they came to a region the Soviets had struggled to pacify over the

Privacy on the Ground: Driving Corporate Behavior in the United States and Europe (Bamberger Kenneth A.)(Pevná vazba)

An examination of corporate privacy management in the United States, Germany, Spain, France, and the United Kingdom, identifying international best practices and making policy recommendations.Barely a week goes by without a new privacy revelation or scandal. Whether by hackers or spy agencies or

Hitler's Fatal Miscalculation: Why Germany Declared War on the United States (Schmider Klaus H.)(Pevná vazba)

Hitler's decision to declare war on the United States has baffled generations of historians. In this revisionist new history of those fateful months, Klaus H. Schmider seeks to uncover the chain of events which would incite the German leader to declare war on the United States in December 1941. He

Refugees Welcome?: Difference and Diversity in a Changing Germany (Bock Jan-Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

The arrival in 2015 and 2016 of over one million asylum seekers and refugees in Germany had major social consequences and gave rise to extensive debates about the nature of cultural diversity and collective life. This volume examines the responses and implications of what was widely seen as the

The Girl Who Dared to Defy: Jane Street and the Rebel Maids of Denver (Botkin Jane Little)(Pevná vazba)

In the wake of the violent labor disputes in Colorado's two-year Coalfield War, a young woman and single mother resolved in 1916 to change the status quo for 'girls,' as well-to-do women in Denver referred to their hired help. Her name was Jane Street, and this compelling biography is the first to

The War Criminal's Son: The Civil War Saga of William A. Winder (Singer Jane)(Pevná vazba)

The War Criminal's Son brings to life hidden aspects of the Civil War through the sweeping saga of the firstborn son in the infamous Confederate Winder family, who shattered family ties to stand with the Union. Gen. John H. Winder was the commandant of most prison camps in the Confederacy,