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Chapters: Ture Nerman, August Spångberg, Olof Aschberg, Peder Sjögren, Karin Lannby, Georg Branting. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ture Nerman (18 May 1886, Norrköping 7 October 1969) was a Swedish socialist. As a journalist and author, he was a well-known political activist in his time. He also wrote poems and songs. Nerman was a vegetarian and a strict teetotaler. Alcoholism was a major social problem in Sweden in the early 20th century, and Nerman considered alcohol being a drug that made the working class passive instead of fighting for better conditions. Ture Nerman had younger twin brothers, the artist Einar Nerman and the archeologist Birger Nerman. Nerman grew up in a middle class family in the working-class, industrial city of Norrköping. His father owned a bookstore in the city and had married an employee who was many years younger: she became the mother of Ture and his two younger brothers. As a boy, Ture Nerman loved reading the books at his fathers store, especially western books about cowboys and Indians. Nerman graduated from the Norrköping gymnasium (secondary school) in 1903 at the age of 17. On the graduation day he took his school bible and tossed it in the Motala ström river. In his autobiography, Nerman describes this as his first revolutionary action. Some years later when he was asked by the Swedish Social Democratic Party's leader Hjalmar Branting what had made him a socialist, Nerman answered that it had been the questioning of religion. After graduation he moved to study at Uppsala University. The year 1905 saw both a revolution in Russia and revolutionary development in Scandinavia as Norway declared itself independent from the rule of the Swedish crown. These changes radicalized Ture Nerman politically to the left...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2173813 ... Read more

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This reproduction was printed from a digital file created at the Library of Congress as part of an extensive scanning effort started with a generous donation from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.The Library is pleased to offer much of its public domain holdings free of charge online and at a modest price in this printed format.Seeing these older volumes from our collections rediscovered by new generations of readers renews our own passion for books and scholarship. ... Read more

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Chapters: Austrian People of World War I, Austrian People of the Spanish Civil War, Franz Borkenau, Karl Herzfeld, Odilo Globocnik, Franz Josef Popp, Victor Kugler, Hanns Albin Rauter, Austro-Hungarian Ambassadors, Adolf Pokorny, Ludwig Draxler, Julius Deutsch. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 67. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Franz Borkenau (December 15, 1900 May 22, 1957) was an Austrian writer. Borkenau was born in Vienna, Austria, the son of a civil servant. As a university student in Leipzig, his main interests were Marxism and psychoanalysis. Borkenau is known as one of the pioneers of the totalitarianism theory. In 1921, Borkenau joined the Communist Party of Germany and was active as a Comintern agent until 1929. After graduating from the University of Leipzig in 1924, Borkenau moved to Berlin. In the 1920s, Borkenau was described by Richard Löwenthal as a "sincere Marxist" who very much wanted a world revolution. At the end of 1929, Borkenau resigned from both the Comintern and the KPD owing to his personal repulsion and disgust over the way the Communists operated, combined with an increasing horror over Stalinism. Despite his break with Communism, Borkenau remained on the Left and worked as a researcher for the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, Germany. During his time at the Frankfurt Institute, Borkenau was a protégé of Carl Grünberg and his main interest was the relationship between capitalism and ideology. In 1933, the half-Jewish Borkenau fled from Germany and lived at various times in Vienna, Paris and Panama City. In the 1930s, Borkenau was involved in organizing support from abroad for the Neu Beginnen (New Beginnings) underground group, which was working for the overthrow of the Nazi regime. In a series of articles published in 1933-34 in the left-...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=6140353 ... Read more

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Chapters: Willy Brandt, Adolf Galland, Werner Mölders, Wolfgang Lüth, Condor Legion, Wilhelm Ritter Von Thoma, Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Oskar Dirlewanger, Erich Mielke, Günther Lützow, Wolfram Von Richthofen, Heinrich Rau, Hannes Trautloft, Hajo Herrmann, Josef Priller, Heinz Hoffmann, Heinrich Trettner, Wilhelm Zaisser, Manfred Stern, Hugo Sperrle, Otto Bertram, Wilhelm Marschall, Martin Harlinghausen, Augustin Souchy, Ernst Busch, Helmut Rosenbaum, Adolf Borchers, Alfred Neumann, Hubertus Von Bonin, List of German Veterans of the International Brigades, Rolf Kaldrack, Werner Töniges, Walter Grabmann, Paul Verner, Claus Korth, Werner Hartenstein, Erich Zürn, Kurt Julius Goldstein, Klaus Feldt, Ludwig Renn, Erich Weinert, Heinrich Höfemeier, Hans Beimler, Willi Bredel, Gustav Regler. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 249. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Werner Mölders (18 March 1913 22 November 1941) was a World War II German Luftwaffe pilot and the leading German fighter ace in the Spanish Civil War. Mölders became the first pilot in aviation history to claim 100 aerial victoriesthat is, 100 aerial combat encounters resulting in the destruction of the enemy aircraft, and was highly decorated for his achievements. He was instrumental in the development of new fighter tactics which led to the finger-four formation. He died in the crash of an airplane in which he was a passenger. Mölders joined the Luftwaffe in 1934 at age 21. In 1938, he volunteered for service in the Condor Legion, which supported General Francisco Franco's Nationalist side in the Spanish Civil War, and shot down 15 aircraft. In World War II, he lost two wingmen in the Battle of France and the Battle of Britain, but shot down 53 enemy aircraft. With his tally standing at 68 victories, Mölders and his unit, the Jagdgesch...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2349722 ... Read more

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Chapters: Egon Erwin Kisch, František Kriegel, Artur London. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 21. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Egon Erwin Kisch (April 29, 1885, Prague March 31, 1948, Prague) was a Czechoslovak writer and journalist, who wrote in German. He was noted for his development of literary reportage and his opposition to Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime. Kisch was born into a wealthy Sephardic German-speaking Jewish family in Prague, at that time part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and began his journalistic career as a reporter for the Bohemia, a Prague German language newspaper, in 1906. His early work is characterised by an interest in crime and the lives of the poor of Prague, taking Jan Neruda, Emile Zola and Charles Dickens's Sketches by Boz as his models. His most notable story of this period was his uncovering of the spy scandal involving Alfred Redl. At the outbreak of World War I, Kisch was called up for military service in the Austrian army. He fought on the front-line in Serbia and the Carpathians and his war-time experiences were later recorded in Schreib das auf, Kisch! (1929). He was briefly imprisoned in 1916 for publishing reports from the front that criticised the Austrian military's conduct of the war, but nonetheless later served in the army's press quarters along with fellow writers Franz Werfel and Robert Musil. The war radicalised Kisch. He deserted in October 1918 as the war came to an end and played a leading role in the abortive left-wing revolution in Vienna in November of that year. Werfel's novel Barbara oder die Frömmigkeit (1929) portrays the events of this period and Kisch was the inspiration for one of the novel's characters. Although the revolution failed, in 1919, Kisch became a founding member of the Austrian Communist Party and remained ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=976525 ... Read more

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Gangs of New York is a 2002 American historical film set inthe mid-19th century in the Five Points district of NewYork City. It was directed by Martin Scorsese and writtenby Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian and Kenneth Lonergan. Thefilm is inspired by Herbert Asbury's 1928 nonfiction bookThe Gangs of New York. It was distributed by Miramax Filmsand was nominated for numerous awards, including theAcademy Award for Best Picture. The film begins in 1846 andquickly jumps to the early 1860s. The two principal issuesof the era in New York were Irish immigration to the cityand the Federal government's execution of the Civil War.The story follows Bill "The Butcher" Cutting (Daniel Day- Lewis) in his roles as crime boss and political kingmakerunder the helm of Boss Tweed (Jim Broadbent). The filmculminates in a confrontation between Cutting and his mobwith the protagonist Amsterdam Vallon (Leonardo DiCaprio)and his immigrant allies, which coincides with the New YorkDraft Riots of 1863. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Frank Ryan, Patrick O'connell, Michael O'riordan, Peadar O'donnell, Eoin O'duffy, Ewart Milne, Irish Brigade, Joseph Macrory, Connolly Column, Charles Donnelly, Bill Gannon, Brian Goold-Verschoyle, Bob Doyle, Maurice Levitas, Robert Hilliard, Thomas Patten. Excerpt:Bill Gannon (died 1965) was a well-known militant of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and later a leading member of the Communist Party of Ireland . IRA career and the O'Higgins Assassination Gannon had fought in the Irish War of Independence . In the Irish Civil War he took the anti-treaty side and was among the force which seized the Four Courts in Dublin - the act which set off the civil war. After the defeat of his side he spent a considerable time under internment, together with numerous others. He was completely unreconciled to the victory of the "Free Staters ", and together with two fellow-detainees - Archie Doyle and Timothy Coughlin - took part in forming a secret "venegeance grouping". The three vowed that once free of imprisonment they would take revenge on their opponents, whom they considered traitors to the Irish cause. Most such private revenge pacts were broken up by the IRA leadership when it reorganised following 1924, but Gannon and his two fellow conspirators persisted and carried through their deadly aim. The act which first made Gannon (and the two others) well-known was the assassination of Justice Minister Kevin O'Higgins . On July 10, 1927, the three surprised O'Higgins on the Booterstown Avenue side of Cross Avenue in Blackrock , County Dublin and shot him down. O'Higgins was especially hated by IRA members for having ordered the executions of seventy-seven of their fellows during the Civil War, an act for which he outspokenly took responsibility and refused to express any remorse. Moreover... ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz, Polish Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War, Karol Świerczewski, Jean Jérome, Bolesław Mołojec, Henryk Toruńczyk. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Stanisaw Buak-Baachowicz (Belarusian: , Russian: ; 12 November 1883 28 November 1940) was a Belarusian-Polish general, veteran of World War I, Russian Civil War, Estonian War of Independence, Polish-Bolshevik War and the Invasion of Poland at the start of World War II. Stanisaw Buak-Baachowicz was born February 10, 1883 in Meyszty, a small village near Vilna (Vilnius, Lithuania, then Russian Empire), in a family of local landlord's cook and maid. After the birth of Stanisaw, his father left the landlord's kitchen and together with his brother acquired a small estate in Stakavievo near Vilna. Stanislaw had two brothers and six sisters. He had been attending for four years agricultural faculty in Belmonty, was working as accountant and in 1904 started working as a manager of Duke Plater farms in Horodziec and uki. In early years he had reputation of people's defender, because he often was an arbitrator in disputes between farmers and the landlord. From these times he has got a nickname "Daddy" (Bat'ka). His other characteristic nickname became part of his surname"Bulak"which means on Belarusian language a man who is driven by the wind. After the outbreak of the Great War and Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich Romanov's address to the Polish people, Buak-Baachowicz joined the Russian Imperial army. As a person of noble roots, he was drafted as an ensign to the 2nd Leyb-Courland Infantry Regiment. However, unlike many of his colleagues which were awarded the basic NCO grades for their noble ancestry only, Buak-Baachowicz proved himself as a skilled field commander and was quickly promote...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1802627 ... Read more

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Title: The Unthinkable.(Lebanon, people fear of civil war )
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: APS Diplomat News Service (Newsletter)
Date: December 4, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 65Issue: 23

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