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This luxurious hardback presents The Book of Five Rings, a classic Japanese text by the undefeated swordsman Miyamoto Musashi, with gold embossing and gilded page edges. Shortly before his death in 1645, Musashi retreated to a cave to live as a hermit. There he wrote five scrolls describing the "true principles" required for victory in the martial arts and on the battlefield. Instead of relying on religion or theory, Musashi based his writings on his own experience, observation, and reason. The scrolls, published as The Book of Five Rings, have recently gained an international reputation in the business world as a means of resolving differences and achieving success. But their delineation of the psychological strength, rigorous self-control, and practical application necessary for dealing with physical and mental conflict also has a wider relevance and can be usefully applied to all our lives. This compact luxury edition with gold-foil embossing is perfect as a gift. ABOUT THE SERIES: Arcturus Ornate Classics are beautifully bound gifts editions of iconic literary works across history. These compact, foil-embossed hardbacks are richly illustrated and printed using deluxe ivory paper.

This journal of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine is a collection of Andrey Kurkov's writings and broadcasts from Kyiv.

THE TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERAN IRISH INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR'A gripping story in which Justine Picardie brilliantly contrasts the cruel Old World of wartime France with the hopeful New World epitomised by Christian Dior's New Look.'ANTONIA FRASER'An incredible story of courage, endurance and passion.'MARIA GRAZIA CHIURI, Creative Director of Dior'An extraordinary biography.'SUNDAY TIMES'Exceptional . . . Miss Dior is so much more than a biography.'DAILY TELEGRAPHMiss Dior is a story of freedom and fascism, beauty and betrayal, roses and repression, and how the polished surface of fashion conceals hidden depths. It paints a portrait of the enigmatic woman behind the designer Christian Dior: his beloved younger sister Catherine, who inspired his most famous perfume and shaped his vision of femininity. Justine Picardie's journey takes her to Occupied Paris, where Christian honed his couture skills while Catherine dedicated herself to the French Resistance, until she was captured by the Gestapo and deported to the German concentration camp of Ravensbruck.With unparalleled access to the Dior family homes and archives, Picardie's research into Catherine's courageous life shines a new light on Christian Dior's legendary work, and reveals how his enchanting 'New Look' emerged out of the shadows of his sister's suffering.Tracing the wartime paths of the Dior siblings leads Picardie deep into other hidden histories, and different forms of resistance and sisterhood. She explores what it means to believe in beauty and hope, despite our knowledge of darkness and despair, and discovers the timeless solace of the natural world in the aftermath of devastation and destruction. The result is an exquisite and unforgettably moving book.*A beautiful, full colour illustrated book featuring exclusive images from the Dior archives*'Catherine's story is beautifully, hauntingly told in spare and elegant prose by Picardie . . . moving and evocative.'THE TIMES'The juxtaposition of the terrible shadows and dazzling light is one of the great strengths of this book . . . A very personal, very passionate book.'ARTEMIS COOPER, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT'Picardie writes: 'The vestiges of Catherine's presence remain as a powerful reminder of the importance of freedom, and why it is worth fighting for.' There are few truer words.'THE SPECTATOR'Picardie's book is of the moment, celebrating an unsung hero at a time when female influences are earning new acclaim.'VOGUE'Miss Dior ensures the bravery of the women at Ravensbruck is not merely a distant echo.'i'Beautiful.' OBSERVER'Moving and beautifully illustrated.' NEW STATESMAN'Stunning.' RED'Not just beautifully written, this is also a stunningly beautiful book.' NOON

De gamle breves hemmeligheder om krig og kærlighedI 1987 begår Peter Nejsums tyske morfar, Heinz, selvmord i en alder af 77 år. Han hænger sig uden varsel i huset på Frederiksberg, og det kommer som et uforklarligt chok for Peter, som var særligt knyttet til ham. Hvad var morfaren mon blevet indhentet af? Hvad var det, familien nok vidste, men ikke ville vide af?I 2020 dukker en kasse med gamle breve fra Heinz op på Peters mors loft. Peter og hans kone, Ulla, tager arkivkassen med til Leipzig for at træde i morfarens fodspor og forstå fortiden. Langsomt rulles et liv op, og de begynder at forstå, hvad der drev den dannede og åndfulde Heinz helt ud til grænsen – og over den.Heinz’ breve er skrevet til danske Inger, som er Peters mormor. Heinz og Inger møder hinanden for første gang i 1930 til en kostumefest i Leipzig, hvor de siden slår sig ned – hjulpet af Ingers højborgerlige familie. En stormende forelskelse fører til bryllup og barn; Heinz’ journalistiske karriere går strygende. Men pludselig bryder Anden Verdenskrig ud, og Heinz drager i krig på nazisternes side, mens Inger må rejse hjem til Danmark.Krigen sætter i mange år frem nye grænser for parrets kærlighed. Adskilt af krigen begynder parret en omfattende brevveksling. Heinz sender breve først fra østfronten, så vestfronten og siden fra sit krigsfangenskab i USA. Hans ord gennemtrænges af en længsel efter sin elskede og sin elskede datter – og en afmagt over for krigen. Heinz mærker nu de hårde konsekvenser af sine sympatier og sværmerier."Min morfars hemmeligheder" er et levende vidnesbyrd om at være efterkommer til en mand, der traf et valg, som fik fatale konsekvenser. Brevene og rejsen tvinger Peter til at revidere synet på sin morfar. Kan han også tilgive ham? Peter Nejsum og Ulla Bidstrup, begge født 1965, er teologer og forfattere. Bogen er baseret på Peters morfars historie.

Packed with more than 200 full-colour artworks and photographs of American, British, Canadian, Australian, French, Polish and other Western Allied nations tanks with exhaustive specifications, World War II Tanks: Western Allies 1939-45 is a key reference guide for military modellers and World War II enthusiasts.

Engang var Osmannerriget en af verdens største og vigtigste stormagter, men ved indgangen til Første Verdenskrig var riget i knæ. Internt var man plaget af uro, forfejlede reformer og en årelang konflikt med Italien samt nationalister på Balkan. Efter en tabt krig fødtes det moderne Tyrkiet.Ved krigens begyndelse lå også Rusland mod nord på spring for at splitte riget op sammen med Storbritannien og Frankrig. Da det stod klart, at osmannerne ikke længere kunne holdes ude af verdenskrigen, satte de deres lid til en alliance med Tyskland, og i 1915 rykkede fronten mellem de allierede og centralmagterne til Mellemøsten. I begyndelsen lykkedes det osmannerne at forsvare rigets hovedstad, Konstantinopel, blandt andet i det storstilede slag ved Gallipoli, men til sidst måtte riget bukke under. Ud af den følgende opsplitning voksede det moderne Tyrkiet.Allerede under krigen var den ungtyrkiske bevægelse begyndt at forberede en kommende nationalstat under sloganet ”Tyrkiet for tyrkerne” – med omfattende konfiskering af ejendom og etnisk udrensning af landets mindretal, først og fremmest armenierne. Den britiske historiker Eugene Rogan fremstiller med et væld af kilder konfliktens udvikling på begge sider af fronten i dette internationale storværk. På medrivende vis fletter han overvejelser og beslutninger på øverste niveau sammen med betydningen for de menige soldater og den civile befolkning - og giver et balanceret billede af en krig, hvis udfald har præget regionen lige siden.Eugene Rogan er professor i moderne mellemøsthistorie og leder af Mellemøstcentret ved Oxford University. Han har skrevet en række værker, bl.a. den internationale bestseller The Arabs, og hans bøger er oversat til flere sprog."Mesterligt"★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Berlingske"Varmt anbefalet"- Information"Den første store samlede fremstilling på dansk om Osmannerriget under Første Verdenskrig er både aktuel historie og formidling på højt niveau"★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Claus Bundgård Christensen i Kristeligt Dagblad"Rogan skriver som de bedste engelske historikere gør - spændende, vidende og velunderbygget."- Weekendavisen

States seldom resort to war to overthrow their adversaries. They are more likely to attempt to covertly change the opposing regime, by assassinating a foreign leader, sponsoring a coup d'etat, meddling in a democratic election, or secretly aiding foreign dissident groups.In Covert Regime Change, Lindsey A. O'Rourke shows us how states really...

The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense - economic and political, artistic and personal.

Released in 1969, the film Battle of Britain went on to become one of the most iconic war movies ever produced. This is the full story of how the film was made, and explores the techniques used by the film crew.

An investigation into the organisation, strength, and military action of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1683 - both at Vienna and other theatres of war.

The nine were ordinary women, some still in their teens, who joined the French and Dutch Resistance in the face of Nazi horror and oppression.

Extraordinary times. Extraordinary courage.Here, from the bestselling author of The Great Escape, are eight true and startling escape stories from the Second World War. The heroism of the servicemen who dared to defy their captors in this volume is matched only by that of the underground movements and ordinary civilians who helped the escapees in these stories of daring, invention and doggedness against the odds. From the account of the Spitfire pilot left for dead by an execution squad in Sicily to the story of the air gunner forced to blag his way across the Baltic, every one is an unputdownable classic. 'As long as there are prisons men will try to escape from them; and as long as there is an RAF it will bring to the problems of escape the qualities of high resource, pure cussedness and that indefinable, damnably annoying refusal to lie down when dead, of which all the stories in this book are such excellent - and, I think, such exciting - examples.' H.E. Bates

Orosius skildrer i Historien den antikke verden fra skabelsen til 417 e.Kr., hvor værket er skrevet, og hovedvægten ligger på Roms historie. Forfat - teren vender sig mod dem i hans samtid, der an - greb kristendommen som ansvarlig for Romer - rigets vanskeligheder under folkevandringerne. I sine mange retoriske kommentarer gør han op med den traditionelle lovprisning af fortiden, og han opregner alle dens ulykker, især krigene, med omhyggelig optælling af dødsofrene. Orosius ser optimistisk på sin samtid, også på muligheden for at integrere indvandrerne i det kristne, romerske samfund. Historien blev udgangspunkt for den vesterlandske forståelse af verdenshistorien som en helhed, styret af Guds forsyn, eller senere af et sekulært opfattet, almindeligt fremskrid

An intimate, stirring portrait of a country at war and a family's battle to survive

Dokumentarisk beretning om Gert Blædels oplevelser under 2. verdenskrigI 2002 dør modstandsmanden Gert Blædel, og hans barnebarn Ole Blædel arver en hvid plasticpose fyldt med breve, notater, lydoptagelser samt, ikke mindst, morfarens frihedskæmperarmbind. Det bliver startskuddet til researchen og gravearbejdet, der nu er mundet ud i bogen Et halvt år i Gestapos kløer. Her fortæller Ole Blædel hele historien om, hvordan hans morfar under 2. Verdenskrig bliver involveret i modstandsbevægelsens arbejde og siden taget af nazisterne.Gert Blædel bliver i 1940 ansat som godsforvalter på Skjoldenæsholm Gods på Midtsjælland. I løbet af 1943 bliver skovene ved godset omdrejningspunkt for modtagelsen af en række våbennedkastninger fra englænderne, der ønsker at støtte den danske modstandskamp.I starten går det godt, men i 1944 bliver en lastbil med våben fra godset standset, og Gerts forbindelse til dem afsløres. Han bliver i første omgang sendt til Vestre Fængsel og herfra videre til Frøslevlejren. Ved juletid i 1944 bliver han og en række andre danske fanger overflyttet til den noget barskere Neuengamme-lejr i Tyskland, inden de til sidst ender i arbejdslejren Dalum ved den tysk-hollandske grænse, hvor de bliver sat til at slæbe tømmer og grave skyttegrave i den sumpede mosejord.Ole Blædels fremstilling af begivenhederne veksler med citater fra morfarens egne optegnelser fra tiden efter befrielsen. Resultatet er en stærk personlig øjenvidneberetning fra nogle af krigens mørkeste timer. Livet i koncentrationslejrene var præget af sult, sygdom, ydmygelse og korporlig såvel som psykisk terrorisering af fangerne. Det var en daglig kamp for overlevelse, og mange klarede den ikke. Men Gert Blædel gjorde, og han viede efterfølgende en stor del af sit liv til at fortælle om sine oplevelser under det nazistiske rædselsregime, for at ofrene og historien aldrig skulle blive glemt.

The German invasion of the Netherlands was meant to be a lightning-fast surgical strike, aimed at shoring up the right flank of the assault on France and Belgium. With a bold plan based largely on Luftwaffe air power, air-landing troops, and the biggest airborne assault yet seen, a Dutch surrender was expected within 24 hours.But the Netherlands possessed Europe's first fully integrated anti-aircraft network, as well as modern and competitive aircraft. On 10 May, the German attack was only partly successful, and the Dutch fought on for another four days. On the fifth day, with its original strategy having largely failed, the Luftwaffe resorted to terror-bombing Rotterdam to force a surrender.Explaining the technical capabilities and campaign plans of the two sides, and charting how the battles were fought, this fascinating book reassesses this little-known part of World War II. Author Ryan K. Noppen argues that while the Holland campaign was a tactical victory for Germany, the ability of the well-prepared but outnumbered Dutch to inflict heavy losses was a warning of what would come in the Battle of Britain.

Most crucially, it would be a critical learning exercise before Operation OVERLORD, the Allied invasion of Normandy, in June 1944. Based on his own battlefield studies in Sicily and on much new research over the past thirty years, James Holland's SICILY '43 offers a vital new perspective on a major turning point in World War II.

The bloodiest battle of the Falklands War, retold in extraordinary detail by the men who were there.

”Krigen var tålmodig. Den var ligeglad med, om der var mange, der elskede én eller ej. Krigen havde kun ét mål: at fortsætte. Bare fortsætte.”Den unge journalist Becky rejser til Afghanistan for at skrive om hverdagen ved fronten og bliver venner med soldaterne Mikael og Jan. I landskabet omkring dem er sand og savn, lys og mørke, ildkampe og improviserede sprængladninger. Et kærlighedsforhold udvikler sig mellem Becky og Mikael og fører dem fra Afghanistan til Sardinien og København. Men krigen raser og får konsekvenser for dem alle.  Mikael er en roman om krig og kærlighed. Den er et blik ind i den menneskelige bevidsthed og en rejse gennem naturens og sindets landskaber. Den handler om ensomhed og længsel, om krigens gru og kærlighedens kraft. 

A day-to-day chronicle of a defining episode in British history: the epic struggle of the Royal Air Force with the Luftwaffe.

Featuring specially commissioned artwork, this lively study assesses the array of weapons and equipment employed by the samurai, Japan''s legendary warriors.This fully illustrated new book describes and analyzes the weapons and equipment traditionally associated with the samurai, Japan''s superlative warriors. It examines the range of weapons used by them at different times and in different situations.Beginning with the rise of the samurai during the 10th century, this lively study traces the introduction of edged weapons (cutting and piercing) and missile weapons (bows and guns) over the next 500 years. The book shows clearly how they were employed by individual samurai using many previously untranslated primary texts, and explains how their use spread more widely among low-class troops, pirates, and rebels. It also shows how schools of martial arts took over and changed the weapons and their uses during the peaceful Edo Period (1615ΓÇô1868).

A unique look at how evolution has shaped humans to fight wars, even when those wars kill fighters before they reproduce.