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This book documents two historical humanitarian efforts to help the youngest victims of National Socialism in postwar Germany: After the liberation of the concentration and labor camps, from July 194 …

Nestled between Europe and Asia, Georgia has long been a battleground for empires seeking dominance over the strategically vital Caucasus. In the 19th century, as Tsarist Russia expanded southward, G …

The book is a love letter to Fiji and its unique people. It presents the ancient culture and history of the indigenous Itaukei from a different perspective than that found in the usual travel guides …

Perched atop Mount Titano, the Republic of San Marino has defied time and history to emerge as the world’s oldest surviving republic. From its legendary founding by Saint Marinus in 301 AD to its str …

The historian of the Hebrews is met at the very outset by a strange difficulty. Who were the Hebrews whose history he proposes to write? We speak of a Hebrew people, of a Hebrew literature, and of a …

The Lakota and Dakota are among the most famous indigenous peoples of North America. Known as ‘Sioux’, they were feared for their fierce resistance to the advance of white Americans. Today, they are …

In order to depict social life in England in the eighteenth century I am going to take the career of one of its most remarkable men, though you may be surprised at the choice I have made. For the eig …

Oratory is one of the earliest necessities of society; as soon as men were organised on terms of equality for corporate action, there must have been occasions when opinions might differ as to the bes …

In most branches of knowledge the phenomena the man of science has to deal with have their technical names; and, when using a scientific term, he need not have regard to the meaning this term conveys …

arly in 1914, whilst serving at the Admiralty as Second Sea Lord, I had been offered and had accepted the command of the Home Fleets, which in the ordinary course would have become vacant in the foll …