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Cover -- Frontmatter 01 -- Frontmatter 02 -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Photographs -- List of Maps -- Instead of a Prologue -- 1 And once again into battle … -- 2 The start of the operation: 21 July 1942 -- 3 The enemy's situation: 21 July 1942 -- 4 The night of 21-22 July 1942 -- 5 22 July 1942 -- 6 The 148th Tank Brigade in the enemy rear -- 7 The fighting on the evening of 22 July 1942 -- 8 The 2nd Tank Corps, 23 July 1942 -- 9 23 July 1942 on the front of Operational Group Chibisov -- 10 Operational Group Chibisov's reserve enters the fighting -- 11 At the command post of the 2nd Tank Corps on the night of 23/24 July 1942 -- 12 A review of the enemy's actions on 22 and 23 July 1942 -- 13 24 July 1942 -- Plate Section -- 14 25 July 1942 -- 15 A review of the enemy's actions, 24-25 July 1942 -- 16 26 July 1942 -- 17 A review of the enemy's actions on 26 July -- 18 27 July 1942 -- 19 The end of the operation -- 20 Liziukov's Fate -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- I Documents relating to 24 July 1942 -- II Summary protocol of the interrogation of 11 prisoners of the 5th Company of the 9th Panzer Division's 10th Panzer Grenadier Regiment, captured on 25.7.42 -- III Lieutenant Shuklin's exploit: fact and fiction -- IV A veteran tanker's recollections of the fighting on 25 July 1942 -- V Excerpts from documents -- VI The recollections of local residents -- VII Order of the USSR People's Commissar of Defense On measures to strengthen discipline and order in the Red Army and to forbid the voluntary retreat from combat positions -- VIII The formations and units of Briansk Front's operational group under the command of Lieutenant General Chibisov that took part in the operation -- IX German formations and units of the VII Army Corps that took part in the battles with units of Operation Group Chibisov -- Bibliography -- Index.

Alan Houston introduces a new level of rigor into contemporary debates over republicanism by providing the first complete account of the range, structure, and influence of the political writings of Algernon Sidney (1623-1683). Though not well known today, Sidney's Discourses Concerning Government influenced radicals in England and America throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. To many, it was a ""textbook of revolution."" Houston begins with a masterful intellectual biography tracing the development of Sidney's ideas in the political and intellectual context of Stuart England

15. The Rocky Road to Freedom16. Fight for What Is Yours; 17. Climb Your Mountain; 18. New Peaks and New Valleys; 19. Work Your Field; 20. Your Ultimate Success Lies in the Success of Others; 21. Embrace an Attitude of Gratitude; 22. Enjoying the Shade Provided by Others

By the summer of 1863, following Chancellorsville, it was clear to everyone on both sides of the Civil War that the Army of Northern Virginia was the most formidable force Americans had ever put in the field. It could only be ""tied"" in battle, if against great odds, but would more usually vanquish its opponents. A huge measure of that army's success was attributable to its cavalry arm, under Major General J.E.B. Stuart, which had literally ""run rings"" around its enemies.But Northern arithmetic and expertise were gradually catching up. In this work, the sequel to his acclaimed Year of Glory

How the conflict between political Islamists and secular-leaning nationalists has shaped the history of the modern Middle EastIn 2013, just two years after the popular overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian military ousted the country's first democratically elected president—Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood—and subsequently led a brutal repression of the Islamist group. These bloody events echoed an older political rift in Egypt and the Middle East: the splitting of nationalists and Islamists during the rule of Egyptian president and Arab nationalist leader Gamal Abdel Nasser. In Making the Arab World, Fawaz Gerges, one of the world's leading authorities on the Middle East, tells how the clash between pan-Arab nationalism and pan-Islamism has shaped the history of the region from the 1920s to the present.Gerges tells this story through an unprecedented dual biography of Nasser and another of the twentieth-century Arab world's most influential figures—Sayyid Qutb, a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood and the father of many branches of radical political Islam. Their deeply intertwined lives embody and dramatize the divide between Arabism and Islamism. Yet, as Gerges shows, beyond the ideological and existential rhetoric, this is a struggle over the state, its role, and its power.Based on a decade of research, including in-depth interviews with many leading figures in the story, Making the Arab World is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the roots of the turmoil engulfing the Middle East, from civil wars to the rise of Al-Qaeda and ISIS

"The 1970s and 1980s heralded the rise of neoliberalism in United States culture, fundamentally reshaping life and work in the United States. Corporate culture increasingly penetrated other aspects of American life through popular press CEO autobiographies and management books that encouraged individuals to understand their lives in corporate terms. Propelled into the public eye by the publication of 1989's The Art of the Deal, ostensibly a CEO autobiography, Donald Trump has made a career out of reversing the autobiographical impulse, presenting an image of his life that meets his narrative needs. While many scholars have sought a political precedent for Trump's rise to power, this book argues that Trump's aesthetics and life production uniquely primed him for populist political success through their reliance on the tropes of popular corporate culture. Trump and Autobiography contextualizes Trump's autobiographical works as an extension of the popular corporate culture of the 1980s in order to examine how Trump constructs an image of himself that is indebted to the forms, genres, and mechanisms of corporate speech and narrative. Ultimately, this book suggests that Trump's appeal and resilience rest in his ability to signify as though he is a corporation, revealing the degree to which corporate culture has reshaped American society's interpretive processes"--

Pt. I FELDBIN, AKA NIKOLSKY, AKA NIKOLAEV, AKA GOLDIN, AKA ORLOV -- 1. Bobruisk and Moscow -- 2. Paris: August 1926-December 1927 -- 3. Berlin: January 1928-April 1931 -- Interlude 1 First American Adventure: September-November 1932 -- 4. Vienna: April-July 1933 -- 5. Geneva and Paris: Operation express, July 1933-May 1934 -- 6. Enterprise 'O' -- 7. Vienna, Copenhagen, and London: 19 June-25 July 1934 -- Interlude 2 London: September-December 1934 -- 8. London: January-March 1935 -- 9. Copenhagen: Early 1935 -- 10. Comrade Resident: June-September 1935 -- 11. Home, Sweet Home: October 1935-September 1936 -- pt. II IN SPAIN -- 12. The Backdrop: Spilling the Spanish Beans -- 13. Moscow, Madrid, and Valencia: August 1936-January 1937 -- 14. The Internationals -- 15. Juzik will be called Artur -- 16. NKVD and their 'Neighbours', 1937 -- 17. The Secret History of Orlov's Crimes: January 1937-July 1938 -- 18. The POUM Affair: Operation Nikolai -- 19. Murder in Lausanne -- 20.1938 and Beyond -- pt. III THE ORLOV LEGACY -- Interlude 3 The Letter -- 21. From Trotsky to Tito -- 22. True Lies -- 23. The Affair called 'Agent Mark' -- 24. M15: Secrets of Personal File 605.075 -- 25. KGB in the Law Quad -- 26. In and Out of the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire -- 27. Comrade Walter -- 28. Conclusion: Behind Closed Curtains -- Appendices -- I. Dr Arnold Deutsch -- II. Soviet Agents, Suspected Agents, Collaborators, and Sympathizers -- III. Documents.

Brian Abel-Smith was one of the most influential expert advisers of the 20th century in shaping social welfare. He was a modern-day Thomas Paine, driven by a strong socialist mission to improve the lives of the poorest. This valuable and accessible book is the first biography of Abel-Smith. It takes a historical perspective to analyse the development of health and social welfare systems since the 1950s, exposing the critical impact of long-running debates on poverty and state responsibility, especially in Britain. This book also provides the first comparative study of how developing countries sought better health and social welfare, enabled by the World Health Organization and other agencies for whom Abel-Smith regularly worked. This book offers an engaging and useful study for students and researchers in health and social policy, history, politics and economics and interested general readers. It will also be essential reading for professionals working in those government ministries and institutions that Brian Abel-Smith helped to shape. LSE Pioneers in Social Policy Brian Abel-Smith, Richard Titmuss and Peter Townsend, all based at the London School of Economics and Political Science, made major contributions to the development of policies on the elderly, health care, law, poverty and welfare in the 20th century. This series of biographies tells the stories of these outstanding individuals: their backgrounds, ideas and work

Gesellschaften mit starker Einwanderung kennzeichnen vielfältige Formen von Identitätsbildung und das Ringen um politische und zivilgesellschaftliche Partizipation. Dies gilt in besonderer Weise für Luxemburg im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Hier entstand in einem Kleinstaat eine der jüngeren Nationen Europas und zugleich eine besonders offene, plurikulturelle Einwanderungsgesellschaft. Ziel dieses Bandes ist es, die Entstehung dieser Mehr-Kulturen-Gesellschaft im europäischen Zusammenhang zu verstehen. Die einzelnen Beiträge analysieren mit Hilfe unterschiedlicher sozial- und kulturwissenschaftlicher Annäherungen exemplarische Konfliktlinien der Identitätsbildung und des Kampfes um Partizipation.

"William Halsey was the most famous naval officer of World War II. His fearlessness in carrier raids against Japan, his steely resolve at Guadalcanal, and his impulsive blunder at the Battle of Leyte Gulf made him the "Patton of the Pacific" and solidified his reputation as a decisive, aggressive fighter prone to impetuous errors of judgment in the heat of battle. In this definitive biography, Thomas Alexander Hughes punctures the popular caricature of the "fighting admiral" to reveal the truth of Halsey's personal and professional life as it was lived in times of war and peace. Halsey, the son of a Navy officer whose alcoholism scuttled a promising career, committed himself wholeheartedly to naval life at an early age. An audacious and inspiring commander to his men, he met the operational challenges of the battle at sea against Japan with dramatically effective carrier strikes early in the war. Yet his greatest contribution to the Allied victory was as commander of the combined sea, air, and land forces in the South Pacific during the long slog up the Solomon Islands chain, one of the war's most daunting battlegrounds. Halsey turned a bruising slugfest with the Japanese navy into a rout. Skillfully mediating the army and navy's constant strategy disputes--as well as the clashes of ego between General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz--Halsey was the linchpin of America's Pacific war effort when its outcome was far from certain."--Provided by publisher

Analizo la traducción que llevó a cabo José María de Torrijos y Uriarte de las memorias que Napoleón dictó a los generales Baron Gourgaud y Conde de Montholon, y la biografía introductoria de Bonaparte que añadió. Este trabajo era una nueva aportación a las reflexiones sobre el legado histórico del corso que se habían venido dando en la España del Trienio y que él continuó en el exilio inglés entre 1825 y 1826 con la intención de ofrecer un modelo de gestión política a las nacientes repúblicas de Hispanoamérica. Lo que busco con este análisis es estudiar como Torrijos aplicó los criterios del Romanticismo y de la leyenda napoleónica para entender la política de su tiempo y las virtudes que debían tener los líderes que pretendían restablecer el liberalismo en los países regidos por el absolutismo. ; I analyze the translation carried out by José María de Torrijos y Uriarte of the memories that Napoleón dictated to his generals Baron Gourgaud and Count of Montholon, and the introductory biography he added. This work was a new contribution to the reflections on the historical legacy of the Corsican that had been given in the Spain of the Triennium and that he continued in English exile between 1825 and 1826 with the intention of offering a model of political management to the nascent republics of Hispano-America. What I want with this analysis is to study how Torrijos applied the criteria of Romanticism and Napoleonic legend to understand the politics of his time and the virtues that should have the leaders who sought to restore liberalism in countries ruled by absolutism.

Here is the first full-length biography of Herbert Croly (1869-1930), one of the major American social thinkers of the twentieth century. David W. Levy explains the origins and impact of Croly's penetrating analysis of American life and tells the story of a career that included his founding of one of the most influential journals of the period, The New Republic, in 1914 and his writing of The Promise of American Life (1909), a landmark in the history of American ideas. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to

This paper reads Virginia Woolf's biography/novel Orlando through an economic lens, specifically as a work influenced by the Co-operative Movements of the early twentieth century. Woolf viewed the dominant "New Biography" style of the 1920s, which was marked by short, "modern" character sketches and a compressed narrative structure, as complicit with a wider cultural trend towards "efficiency." The "efficiency" ethos of the interwar period implied an explicitly capitalist, and implicitly imperialist, inclination towards the elimination of all that was "wasteful" in society, refining all cultural productions (including the literary) down to those which would produce the most profitable returns for the least effort. Bucking this trend, Woolf's prose in Orlando is digressive and fantastical, and Woolf's biographer/narrator often pokes fun at the impossibilities of an "efficient" literature. My paper argues that Orlando is Woolf's attempt to create a textual economy that is guided by "co-operative" principles, not market forces. This hypothesis is corroborated by the fact that, during much of her literary career, Woolf was engaged in the Women's Co-operative Guild, a feminist and anti-capitalist organization of predominantly working-class women from the English countryside. The WCG aimed to take economic power out of the hands of factory-owners and put it into the hands of household consumers -- who were largely, of course, women -- as well as advocate for women's education and political expression. Orlando's anti-imperial and anti-traditional-marriage arguments, her disavowal of textual "efficiency," and the collaborative origins of the text itself, reflect the deep influence of the WCG and Co-operative economics in general on the biography/novel.