50 Ergebnisse für: sobering
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The Mammoth Book of Air Disasters and Near Misses - Paul Simpson - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=wTK0BAAAQBAJ&pg=PT188&lpg=PT188&dq=G.F.+Gardner+flight+27&source=bl&ots=NjT2CImAlj&sig=4WWMj1cG
An incredible 30,000 flights – at least – arrive safely at their destinations every day. But a handful don’t, while some come terrifyingly close to crashing. When even the smallest thing does go wrong at 35,000 feet, the result is nearly always a…
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Insurgency and Counter-insurgency in Iraq - Ahmed Hashim - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=NS831DFTYcIC
Years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, a loosely organized insurgency continues to target American and Coalition soldiers, as well as Iraqi security forces and civilians, with devastating results. In this sobering account of the ongoing violence, Ahmed…
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The Heidelberg Myth: The Nazification and Denazification of a German University - Steven P. Remy, Associate Professor of History Steven P Remy - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=c9Dr_S4WD18C&pg=PA107&lpg=PA107&dq=Weltpost-Institut+Heidelberg+wesch&source=bl&ots=5H2GfYNKwR&s
In the first work to examine both nazification and denazification of a major German university, Steven Remy offers a sobering account of the German academic community from 1933 to 1957. Deeply researched in university archives, newly opened denazification…
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I'm Just A Lonely Guy - Little Richard cover by Charley Cochran - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFwf9PBpVF8
a litte tribute to Little Richard... and a rite of passage (see below) Rite Of Passage ••• Part 1 November 2014 I, the artist formerly known as Charley Cochr...
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Hitler’s Uranium Club: The Secret Recordings at Farm Hall - Jeremy Bernstein - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=TH6NcrKvUkQC&pg=PA368&dq=%22The+Virus+House%22+Irving&lr=&as_brr=3#v=onepage&q=Irving&f=false
Near the end of World War II, ten of Germany's foremost nuclear physicists, including Werner Heisenberg, were captured by American and British forces, then spirited out of Germany and detained for six months at Farm Hall, an English country house outside…
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Kosovo: How Myths and Truths Started a War - Julie Mertus - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=2f3Azk0sCDYC&pg=PA34&dq=kosovo+demonstrations+1981+movement+for+a+national+liberation+of#v=onep
Julie Mertus provides one of the first comprehensive looks at the explosive situation in Kosovo, where years of simmering tensions between Serbs and Albanians erupted in armed conflict in 1998. In a profound and detailed study of national identity and…
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Oil Empire - Alison Fleig FRANK - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=jNaFc1OdN-QC&pg=PA56#v=onepage
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Austrian Empire ranked third among the world's oil-producing states (surpassed only by the United States and Russia), and accounted for five percent of global oil production. By 1918, the Central Powers did…
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Oil Empire - Alison Fleig FRANK - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=jNaFc1OdN-QC&pg=PA97&lpg=PA97
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Austrian Empire ranked third among the world's oil-producing states (surpassed only by the United States and Russia), and accounted for five percent of global oil production. By 1918, the Central Powers did…
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Luther's Jews: A Journey Into Anti-Semitism - Thomas Kaufmann - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=0DxuDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA10&dq=%22the+linking+word+%E2%80%9Cand%E2%80%9D+combined+with+the+definite+ar
If there was one person who could be said to light the touch-paper for the epochal transformation of European religion and culture that we now call the Reformation, it was Martin Luther. And Luther and his followers were to play a central role in the…