Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-349). 349 pages 21 cm

71 pages, [4] pages de planches : illustrations ; 30 cm

vi, 223 p. ; 24 cm.

Cigarette card album depicts events in German history from the Middle Ages to the beginning of World War I reproduced from paintings. Includes views of battles, treaties, meetings; medieval pageantry; the Reformation; Thirty-years War; the establishment of Prussia; the time of Frederick the Great; German intellectual life around 1800; the Age of Liberation War; unification of Germany; and the period ...

Pages 101-104, advertising matter. 104 pages

Originally published in 1937 under title: International relations since the peace treaties. viii, 302 pages 19 cm

Met lit. opg., reg. 167 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Originalausg. xix, 664 pages ; 19 cm.

Contains the texts of the relevant treaties and conventions. XIV, 878 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

"List of documents and other evidence": pages 58-61 61 pages 25 cm

95 pages ; 18 cm

(Cmd. 6586). 11 pages.

"In Thailand and World War II, Direk Jayanama provides a unique, first-hand account of Thailand's diplomatic, military, and economic history between 1938 and 1948. Based largely on diaries that he kept at the time, Professor Direk's memoirs offer an extraordinary range and depth unsurpassed by the many other official Thai records and memoirs written by government officials of this period." "These detailed ...

02:10:04 (Paris 419) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, December 5, 1945. MLSs, rear views only, Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe, Chief Prosecutor for Britain, speaking before the Tribunal. Cut-in animated map, "Violations of Treaties, Agreements, and Assurances." 02:12:24 (Paris 436) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, December 11, 1945. Rear views only, counsel for Fritz Sauckel, Dr. Robert Servatius, ...

Radio interview with Benjamin Ferencz. Host: Michael Krasny. KGO (ABC news) Krasny introduces Ferencz as a modest, humble, and witty man who strives for world peace approximated through international law. He summarizes Ferencz's worldview by reading directly from his "Common Sense Guide to World Peace" (1985): we need "...a permanent council of peace composed of renowned thinkers, spiritual, community, ...

665 NN Various shots in the State Department library. Man with books. CUs document, treaties signed by officials. People in library, CUs books. Pan right to card catalog. Sign, "Library - US Department of State - For the use of the Department - Not open to the Public." CUs treaty. 665 OO Men typing at desks, telegrams with Secretary of State emblem. Office in Paris? Sign, "Passports Applications and ...

665 NN (02:10:57) Various shots in the State Department library. Man with books. CUs document, treaties signed by officials. People in library, CUs books. Pan right to card catalog. Sign, "Library - US Department of State - For the use of the Department - Not open to the Public." CUs treaty. 665 OO (02:14:48) Men typing at desks, telegrams with Secretary of State emblem. Office in Paris? Sign, "Passports ...

"In May of 1945, German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, effectively putting an end to World War II in Europe. But the aftershocks of this global military conflict did not cease with the signing of truces and peace treaties. Millions of lost and homeless POWs, slave laborers, political prisoners, and concentration camp survivors overwhelmed Germany, a country in complete disarray. British and ...

Supplement to: People's China ; vol. IV, no. 5 (Sep. 1, 1951). 8 p. ; 26 cm.

For almost five years, Franklin Roosevelt's administration tried to keep America from being drawn into war with Japan. To understand why executive efforts failed, Utley analyzes the ideas and motives not only of the men at the top but also of the bureaucrats. He concludes that the United States ultimately acted on pragmatic views rooted in deeply held economic beliefs. Although Roosevelt and Secretary ...

The 1949 Geneva Conventions are the most important rules for armed conflict ever formulated. To this day they continue to shape contemporary debates about regulating warfare, but their history is often misunderstood. For most observers, the drafters behind these treaties were primarily motivated by liberal humanitarian principles and the shock of the atrocities of the Second World War. This book tells ...

In the first part of this sweeping two-volume history, Ostler investigates how American democracy relied on Indian dispossession and the federally sanctioned use of force to remove or slaughter Indians in the way of U.S. expansion. He charts the losses that Indians suffered from relentless violence and upheaval and the attendant effects of disease, deprivation, and exposure. This volume centers on ...

The fonds includes the entire agenda of the Presidium of the Ministerial Council. Several relatively coherent units directly concern Jews, their organizations, religious societies, relevant government regulations (with an overlap after 1939 - legal status in the Protectorate, Jewish property, emigration, Jews in the civil service); reports on the activities of Jewish parties and organizations, the ...

"This book is a global history of the Interwar period, which posits a new history for the origins of the Second World War. Jonathan Haslam argues that it was not only the failures of the treaties that ended the First World War that led to the Second, as has traditionally been supposed. Rather, fear of international communism hampered the Great Powers and prevented the necessary diplomatic steps to ...