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Offers an insight into the humanitarian exchanges and communications between warring governments during the Second World War. This book describes how the warring governments not only communicated with each other but also exchanged large numbers of people and goods.

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Merrill's Marauders were the first American Army infantry unit to fight in the China-Burma-India theater, and one of the most renowned units to come out of World War II. This book explores the creation, training and combat experiences of the Marauders, one of the most famous units in the US Army's roll of honor.

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A broad introduction to a major turning point in human development, this book guides the reader through the emergence of civilization in Mesopotamia, when city life began and writing was invented.

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A study of spiritualism in Melbourne between 1870 and 1890. Al Gabay explores the origins of the movement and relates its rise and fall to the wider intellectual and religious currents in Australian society. He shows that the seance was not a "scientific" enterprise but a religious event.

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Highlights the experiences of contemporary Native American women, detailing their personal struggles as doctors, educators, activists, family members, and artists.

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The Messerschmitt Bf 109 was one of the truly world class piston-engined fighters of World War II. This volume looks at the design and development history of these formidable warplanes, with a meticulous technical focus to reveal why the types were so effective.

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Metalworking Through History provides a comprehensive, historic overview of the subject of metalworking while exploring it within its cultural context. As a broad encyclopedia of metalworking, it allows the reader to view the different societies and periods that produced work in this medium as part of a global, interrelated practice.

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A total of 10,500 missiles were launched as part of the V1 attack, of which 3,957 were destroyed by the defences. Rushed into action in July 1944 to help counter the V1 threat, Britain's Gloster Meteor I was the first jet fighter to enter RAF service. On 4 August the Meteor scored its first V1 victory. This book deals with this jet fighter.

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This volume follows Metternich's career up to the restoration of the Bourbons in France. Originally published in 1963. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original tex

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Using new archival sources, this book shows that Prussia sought not the unity of Germany but its partition into five masses loosely enough joined to assure her control of the North. Hardenberg, not Metternich, supported the feudalistic claims of the estates suppressed by Napoleon and the resurrection of ancient estates' assemblies based mainly on c

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A comprehensive overview of Mexico's military history from 1810 to the present day, including rare facts and information not found online.

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A study of the political development of the many factions that surfaced in Independent Mexico from the achievement of Independence in 1821 to General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna's last government in 1853-55.

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Details the history, evolution, and changing relationship between the armed forces and civilian leadership in Mexico in the second half of the 20th century. This work draws from published and unpublished sources, military websites, and material obtained through information requests made directly through the secretariat of national defense.

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This study reveals how the social pact, formalized during the armed stage of the Mexican Revolution (1910-20) and implemented during the second stage (1920-40), was upset during the third or arrested stage (1940-70) when the bureaucrat-professionals at the helm opted for intensive economic development by taking the capitalist road.

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This study reveals how the social pact, formalized during the armed stage of the Mexican Revolution (1910-20) and implemented during the second stage (1920-40), was upset during the third or arrested stage (1940-70) when the bureaucrat-professionals at the helm opted for intensive economic development by taking the capitalist road.

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A concise overview of 20th- and 21st-century Mexico, this volume explores the political, economic, social, and cultural history of the world's largest Spanish-speaking country.