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This classic memoir of the First World War is now a major motion picture starring Alicia Vikander and Kit Harington. In 1914 Vera Brittain was 20, and as war was declared she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the lives of her whole generation - had changed in a way that would have been unimaginable in the tranquil prewar era.

Vera Brittain and the First World War tells the remarkable story of the author behind Testament of Youth while charting the book's ascent to become one of the most loved memoirs of the First World War period. Such interest is set to expand even more in this centenary year of the war's outbreak.

As the head of the French Section of the British Special Operations Executive, Vera Atkins recruited, trained, and mentored special operatives whose job was to organize and arm the resistance in Nazi-occupied France. After the war, Atkins courageously committed herself to a dangerous search for 12 of her most cherished women spies who had gone missing in action. Drawing on previously unavailable sources, Sarah Helm chronicles Atkins’s extraordinary life and her singular journey through the chaos of post-war Europe.

"If war spares me," wrote Vera Brittain to her brother, Edward, in 1916, "it will be my one aim to immortalise in a book the story of us four." Seventeen years later, Vera was to achieve her aim with the acclaimed Testament of Youth. This series of letters was the inspiration behind Testament. Written between Vera; her brother; her fiancé, Roland Leighton; and their two best friends, Victor Richardson and Geoffrey Thurlow, they give a unique perspective on the most horrifying conflict the world has ever seen.

The incredible true story of former Navy SEAL Mike Day, who survived being shot 27 times while deployed in Iraq.

Themes of unspoiled paradise tamed by progress can be seen in stories about pioneer history across the US, especially in Florida. Selling Vero Beach explores how settlers from northern states created myths about the Indian River area on Florida's Atlantic Coast, importing ideas about the region's Indigenous peoples and marketing the land as an idyllic, fertile place of possibilities.

In the year of her 100th birthday, Dame Vera Lynn's fascinating and life-affirming wartime memoir from the forces' sweetheart of her adventures entertaining the troops in far-flung Burma. "I was just 27 years old when I went to Burma. It was an experience that changed my life for ever. Up until that time I had not really travelled anywhere at all, apart from one touring visit to Holland with a band I was singing with before the war, and I had certainly never been in an aeroplane. But I wanted to make a difference, to do my bit." And she did.

A selection of writings about gardens and gardening by six 19th-century women, compiled by Dee Palmer, a journalist and writer with a special interest in gardening. When she started the research for this audiobook, she expected to find many differences between the experiences of 19th-century women gardeners and those of today. Instead, she was struck by how modern much of their advice is, and her personal selection from the writings of these six women reflects that.

Frauen haben schon immer die Welt verändert: Sie haben geforscht, Weltliteratur geschrieben und neue Epochen in der Kunst eingeläutet. Doch die Namen dieser Frauen sucht man vergeblich in unseren Geschichtsbüchern. In Wahrheit hat nicht Walt Disney den Zeichentrickfilm erfunden, sondern eine Frau. Es waren auch Frauen, die die DNA, den ersten Algorithmus und die Kernspaltung beschrieben haben. Dank Vera Weidenbach erfahren wir nun endlich mehr über diese für die Weltgeschichte so wichtigen Frauen – wie Lilly Reich, Clara Immerwahr, Lucia Moholy, Nellie Bly und Margarete Steffin.

Born Vera Welch on 20 March, 1917 in the East End of London, Dame Vera Lynn's career was set from an early age - along with her father, who also did a 'turn', she sang in Working Men's Clubs from just seven years old. She had a successful radio career with Joe Loss and Charlie Kunz in the 1920s and '30s, but it was with World War II that she became the iconic figure that captured the imagination of the national public.

A story of courage, unconventionality and lust for life. Vera Wasowski was just seven years old when German soldiers marched her family into the Lvov Jewish ghetto in Poland. She watched her father take his own life and her mother accede to sexual blackmail in order to ensure her and Vera’s survival. With unsparing honesty and the blackest humour, she recalls a world where the desire to survive was everything.

Giacoma Foroni, una donna vissuta tra il XVIII e il XIX secolo a Malavicina, comune di Roverbella in provincia di Mantova.Si possono trovare scritti dedicati a lei in moltissime biblioteche del mondo, tra queste all'Università di Yale, di Cambridge, di Amsterdam e molte altre ancora, oltre che essere citata in tantissimi scritti storici. Ma perché Giacoma Foroni divenne così famosa e studiata? Una Relazione scritta dall'Accademia Virgiliana di Mantova ad opera di due medici fisici, Tonni e Tinelli, due chirurghi, Paganini e Ballardi, e un artista che crea cinque illustrazioni di Giacoma. ...

Trentacinque anni non sono bastati per far luce sul caso Moro. Inchieste giudiziarie e parlamentari, saggi, articoli e film non sono serviti a illuminare tutte le zone d'ombra del delitto che - forse più di ogni altro nella nostra storia repubblicana - ha colpito la coscienza del Paese e incrinato il rapporto tra società civile e mondo politico. Ecco perché vale ancora la pena di analizzare la dinamica dei 55 giorni di prigionia di Aldo Moro, nel tentativo finalmente di dare delle risposte diverse dalla versione ufficiale dei fatti.

Vlad Tepes, l'impalatore, nel XV secolo fu il principe della Valacchia, regione situata nel cuore dell'Europa Orientale. Personaggio leggendario per la sua ferocia e crudeltà, ben presto venne chiamato "Dracula", e cioè drago o demonio. Ma chi è stato veramente l'uomo che la cultura popolare prima e la letteratura gotica poi hanno reso immortale con il nome di Conte Dracula? Un paladino della sua nazione e della fede cristiana, oppure un pazzo sadico e feroce, un bestiale e sanguinario torturatore?

In A Warrior’s Faith, Ryan Job’s close friend, Robert Vera, recounts how the highly decorated Navy SEAL’s unstoppable sense of humor, positive attitude, and fierce determination helped him survive after being shot in the face by an enemy sniper on a roof in Ramadi, Iraq.

On September 13, 1994, President Bill Clinton signed what is arguably the most significant piece of legislation from his tenure as president—the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, otherwise known as the 1994 Crime Bill. It was the largest crime legislation in the history of the United States, allocating billions of dollars to hire more cops and build more prisons. And today, 30 years later, as our country reckons with the past decades of mass incarceration, the bill has received widespread backlash, blamed in part for the carceral system we have now. But was it to blame? ...

La vera storia della banda della Magliana. Quali misteri avvolgono ancora la banda della Magliana? Perché, pur macchiatosi di innumerevoli delitti, Enrico De Pedis, il boss della frangia più pericolosa della banda, è stato sepolto nella cripta della basilica vaticana di Sant'Apollinare, tra monsignori e cardinali e con il benestare del Vicario del Papa? Proprio lì vicino il 22 giugno del 1983 scomparve la quindicenne Emanuela Orlandi, e gli inquirenti sono ormai convinti che la banda della Magliana sia coinvolta nel rapimento.

10 e 25 - La vera storia dietro alla strage di Bologna. 10 e 25 è un prodotto di Slow News, è gratis per tuttə e senza pubblicità, e fino al 2 agosto lo puoi finanziare aderendo a una campagna di crowdfunding su Produzioni dal Basso.Partecipa ora.Sostieni il crowdfunding di 10 e 25.Ecco le sei puntate:1. "Il mostro nero",2. "La soffiata", 3. "Hai sentito che botto?",4. "I cerchio concentrici". 5. "I superiori incogniti"6. "Il nastro rosso"Un podcast di Gabriele Cruciata e Dario De Santis.edito da Slow NewsProducer: Rossella PivantiDisegni di Maicol&Mirco

Descubre La Chistoria de Poncho Vera: Historia y Humor en Cada Episodio Bienvenidos a "La Chistoria de Poncho Vera", el podcast donde la historia se convierte en tu nueva serie favorita. Poncho Vera, reconocido locutor y conductor mexicano de TV y radio, transforma cada episodio en un espectáculo de standup. Exploramos eventos y personajes históricos con una buena dosis de humor y un toque de incoherencia, creando el podcast que siempre quisiste para tus clases de historia y tus libros de texto. Sumérgete en un viaje único y entretenido por la historia con Poncho Vera. No te pierdas un ...

Vero Talk ist eine faszinierende Radiosendung und ein Podcast, die sich darauf konzentrieren, die Geschichten und Perspektiven von Menschen zu erforschen, die normalerweise nicht so viel Aufmerksamkeit erhalten. Die Gastgeberin Veronica Confessore führt Interviews mit verschiedenen Gästen und diskutiert Themen, die als zu langweilig oder zu riskant gelten. Mit ihrer einzigartigen Herangehensweise schafft es Veronica, diese Themen in etwas Besonderes zu verwandeln und uns eine erfrischende und inspirierende Perspektive auf das Leben zu bieten. Ob es darum geht, die Herausforderungen des ...