For the first time, the story of Leonida's wife, the hero of Thermopilai, recreated according to Herodotus's texts. This is a very strong woman, educated, emancipated. She lives in Sparta 2500 years ago and fights for women's rights. She lives during the wars between Greeks and Persians and she'll lose her husband in the war, but her bravery and love for the homeland will always remain.
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Between 1914 and 1918, military, press and amateur photographers produced thousands of pictures. Either classified in military archives specially created with this purpose in 1915, collected in personal albums or circulated in illustrated magazines, photographs were supposed to tell the story of the war. Picturing the Western Front argues that photographic practices also shaped combatants and civilians' war experiences. Doing photography (taking pictures, posing for them, exhibiting, cataloguing and looking at them) allowed combatants and civilians to make sense of what they were living through. Photography mattered because it enabled combatants and civilians to record events, establish or reinforce bonds with one another, represent bodies, place people and events in imaginative geographies and making things visible, while making others, such as suicide, invisible. Photographic practices became, thus, frames of experience.
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Elternratgeber lügen. Dieser hier nicht. Er steckt voller irrwitziger Tipps und Geschichten für verunsicherte frischgebackene Väter – und jene, die auf dem Weg dahin sind. Noch nie wurden die Qualen der Geburt für Männer nachvollziehbarer beschrieben. Oder die Auswirkungen von Schlafentzug. Matt Coyne nimmt kein Blatt vor den Mund und zeigt gleichzeitig, dass Kinder tatsächlich ein einziges Glück sind. Das hat ihn zum Facebook-Star gemacht, dem Tausende Menschen begeistert folgen. Wenn Sie wissen wollen, wie die ideale Geburt, die ideale Entwicklung Ihres Kindes und die ideale Erziehung aussehen, lesen Sie ein anderes Buch. Wenn Sie aber die ungeschönte, dreckige Wahrheit über das Kinderkriegen und das Elterndasein hören möchten, lesen Sie dieses. Es ist schonungslos ehrlich und macht Sie mit der harten Realität vertraut, aber es zeigt Ihnen auch, dass Sie kein überambitonierter Helikoptervater sein müssen, um die absurdesten und nervenaufreibendsten Situationen meistern zu können. Denn das, was es immer wieder braucht, um durch diese verrückte, schlafraubende und seltsam wunderbare Zeit zu kommen, die Ihr ganzes Leben komplett auf den Kopf stellt, ist ein gesunder Sinn für Humor.
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Elternratgeber lügen. Dieser hier nicht. Er steckt voller irrwitziger Tipps und Geschichten für verunsicherte frischgebackene Väter – und jene, die auf dem Weg dahin sind. Noch nie wurden die Qualen der Geburt für Männer nachvollziehbarer beschrieben. Oder die Auswirkungen von Schlafentzug. Matt Coyne nimmt kein Blatt vor den Mund und zeigt gleichzeitig, dass Kinder tatsächlich ein einziges Glück sind. Das hat ihn zum Facebook-Star gemacht, dem Tausende Menschen begeistert folgen. Wenn Sie wissen wollen, wie die ideale Geburt, die ideale Entwicklung Ihres Kindes und die ideale Erziehung aussehen, lesen Sie ein anderes Buch. Wenn Sie aber die ungeschönte, dreckige Wahrheit über das Kinderkriegen und das Elterndasein hören möchten, lesen Sie dieses. Es ist schonungslos ehrlich und macht Sie mit der harten Realität vertraut, aber es zeigt Ihnen auch, dass Sie kein überambitonierter Helikoptervater sein müssen, um die absurdesten und nervenaufreibendsten Situationen meistern zu können. Denn das, was es immer wieder braucht, um durch diese verrückte, schlafraubende und seltsam wunderbare Zeit zu kommen, die Ihr ganzes Leben komplett auf den Kopf stellt, ist ein gesunder Sinn für Humor.
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The people's armies discusses one of the most troubled and fascinating aspects of modern Greek and European history: the anti-axis resistance. It is a pioneering history of the men and women who waged the struggle against the axis as members of the armed partisans of ELAS and EDES. Using a wide range of previously unused sources, the book reconstructs daily life in the guerrilla armies and explores the complex reasons that led the partisans to enlist and fight. It also discusses the relations between the guerrillas and the civilian population, and examines how the guerrillas' experience of combat, hardship and loss shaped their understanding of their task and social attitudes. The book makes fascinating reading both for academics and for lay readers who are interested in modern Greek history, military history and the history of the Second World War. ;
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What did home mean to British soldiers and how did it help them to cope with the psychological strains of the Great War? Family relationships lie at the heart of this book. It explores the contribution letters and parcels from home played in maintaining the morale of this largely young, amateur army. And it shows how soldiers, in their turn, sought to adapt domestic habits to the trenches. Pursuing the unconscious clues within a rich collection of letters and memoirs with the help of psychoanalytical ideas, including those formulated by the veteran tank commander Wilfred Bion, this study asks fundamental questions about the psychological resources of this generation of young men. It reveals how the extremities of battle exposed the deepest emotional ties of childhood, and went on marking the post-war domestic lives of those who returned. ;
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Despite the scholarship and political activism devoted to keeping the memory of the Paris Commune alive, there still remains much ignorance both in France and elsewhere, about the traumatic civil war of 1871; some 20,000 to 35,000 people were killed on the streets of Paris in just the final week of the conflict. Colette Wilson identifies a critical blind-spot in French studies and employs new critical approaches to neglected texts, marginalised aspects of the illustrated press, early photography and a selection of novels by Emile Zola. This book will be of interest to students and academics studying France in the nineteenth century from a number of different perspectives war and revolution studies, cultural studies, history and cultural memory, literature, art history, photography, the illustrated press, city studies and human geography. The book will appeal equally to all lovers of Paris who wish to know and understand more about the city's turbulent past. ;
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The history of the First World War continues to attract enormous interest. However, most attention remains concentrated on combatants, creating a misleading picture of wartime Britain: one might be forgiven for assuming that by 1918, the country had become virtually denuded of civilian men and particularly of middle-class men who - or so it seems - volunteered en masse in the early months of war. In fact, the majority of middle-class (and other) men did not enlist, but we still know little about their wartime experiences. Civvies thus takes a different approach to the history of the war and focuses on those middle-class English men who did not join up, not because of moral objections to war, but for other (much more common) reasons, notably age, family responsibilities or physical unfitness. In particular, Civvies questions whether, if serviceman were the apex of manliness, were middle-class civilian men inevitably condemned to second-class, 'unmanly' status? ;
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In this lucid and cogently-argued book, Christine Hallett explores the nature of the practices developed by nurses and their volunteer-assistants during the First World War. She argues that nurses found meaning in their complex and stressful work by identifying it as a process of 'containing trauma'. Broad in its scope and detailed in its research, the book analyses the work of nurses from Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa and the United States of America. It draws on highly personal writings: letters and diaries drawn from archives and libraries throughout the world. This wide-ranging book explores a range of treatment scenarios, from the Western and Eastern Fronts to the Eastern Mediterranean, Mesopotamia and India. It considers both the efforts of nurses to provide physical, emotional and moral containment to their patients, and the work they did to maintain their own physical and emotional integrity. ;
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