The Battle of Kursk Zamulin, Valeriy; Britton, Stuart
2017, 2017-07-27
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Noted historian of the Battle of Kursk, Valeriy Zamulin, takes a fresh look at several controversial and neglected topics regarding the battle and its run-up.
In 1943, the USAAF and RAF launched the Combined Bomber Offensive, designed to systematically destroy the industries that the German war machine relied on. At the top of the hit list were aircraft ...factories and plants making ball-bearings - a component thought to be a critical vulnerability. Schweinfurt in southern Germany was home to much of the ball-bearing industry and, together with the Messerschmitt factory in Regensburg, which built Bf 109 fighters, it was targeted in a huge and innovative strike.Precision required that the targets were hit in daylight, but the raid was beyond the range of any existing escort fighter, so the B-17s would go in unprotected. The solution was to hit the two targets in a coordinated 'double-strike', with the Regensburg strike hitting first, drawing off the defending Luftwaffe fighters, and leaving the way clear for the Schweinfurt bombers. The Regensburg force would carry on over the Alps to North Africa, the first example of US 'shuttle bombing'.Although the attack on Regensburg was successful, the damage to Schweinfurt only temporarily stalled production, and the Eighth Air Force had suffered heavy losses. It would take a sustained campaign, not just a single raid, to cripple the Schweinfurt works. However, when a follow-up raid was finally launched two months later, the losses sustained were even greater. This title explains how the USAAF launched its daylight bombing campaign in 1943, the technology and tactics available for the Schweinfurt-Regensburg missions, and how these costly failures forced a change of tack.
The visceral screen Furze, Robert; Furze, Robert
2014., 2015, 2019-10-15, 2014-12-01, Letnik:
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Narrative and spectacle describe two extremes of film content, but the oeuvres of John Cassavetes and David Cronenberg resist such categorization. Instead, Robert Furze argues, the defining ...characteristic of these directors' respective approaches is that of 'visceral' cinema - a term that illustrates the anxiety these filmmakers provoke in their audiences. Cassavetes demonstrates this through disregard for plot structure and character coherence, while Cronenberg's focus is on graphic depictions of mutilation, extreme forms of bodily transformation and violence.
In September 1943, at the height of World War II, the Aegean island of Leros became the site of the most pivotal battle of the Dodecanese campaign as the British tried, in vain, to retain control of ...the island. Over the course of two short months - from 15 September 1943 to 17 November 1943 - almost 1500 men lost their lives and hundreds more ended up in Prisoner-of-War camps. In this book, Julie Peakman, a modern-day resident of Leros, brings to life the story of the men caught up in the battle based on first-hand interviews and written accounts including diaries, letters, and journals.
For much of the 20th century the modernist city was articulated in terms of narratives of progress and development. Today the neoliberal city confronts us with all the cultural ‘noise’ of disorder ...and excess meaning. As this book demonstrates, for more than 40 years London-based writer, film-maker and ‘psychogeographer’ Iain Sinclair has proved to be one of the most incisive commentators on the contemporary city: tracing the emerging contours of a metropolis where the meeting of global and local is never without incident. Iain Sinclair: Noise, Neoliberalism and the Matter of London explores Sinclair’s investigations into the nature of conflicting urban realities through an examination of the ways in which the noise of neoliberal excess intersects with the noise of literary experiment. In this way, the book casts new light on theorisations of the city in the contemporary era.
The impact of the Second World War on the political and cultural scene in Argentina was transcendental in the 1940s, as it shaped the institutional destiny of the country and the strategies followed ...in international politics by the Executive Power, and permeated the important elections of 1946 that brought Juan Domingo Perón to the presidency. In this paper we propose an approach to the political and intellectual positions of Argentina in the early 1940s, especially those defended by the FORJA group on the government formed after the military coup of 4 June 1943. We will analyze their positions with respect to the different political groups - especially in relation to the different sectors of nationalism - as well as their proposals for influencing government decisions. We will also consider the clashes between the groups close to the Allies and the nationalist sectors, as they will allow us to delve into the ideas that circulated among Argentine intellectuals in the context of the war. In order to do so, we will use the concepts used in the intellectual history of the war, an approach that analyses the reception, interpretation and circulation of ideas among intellectuals in a war context. As we shall see below, the political panorama became more complex as a result of the war, relocating different intellectuals to different party spaces. For our research we will use some forjista newspapers, located in the Darío Alessandro Archive of the Mariano Moreno National Library, in which their ideas about the war and the provisions implemented by the government are reflected. We will also use various literary works of the nationalist author Manuel Gálvez about the period, seeking to expose the support given by FORJA to the government of the time and the lukewarm reception given by the military to the group's initiatives.
The impact of the Second World War on both political and cultural scene of Argentina was definitely transcendental for those times, since it ended up leading the institutional destiny of the country and finally shaped the strategies carried out, over the international affairs area, by the Executive Power throughout the 1940s. By standing on the corresponding conceptualizations from the intellectual history discipline, we will go through the exact positions defended by the yrigoyenian group ‘’FORJA’’, with respect to the government consolidation after the military coup that took place in Argentina on June 4, 1943. So as to fulfill the respective methodological standards, we will utilize some historical newspapers by FORJA, located in the Darío Alessandro Archive from the Mariano Moreno National Library, in which the political group expressed its ideas regarding the war conflict and the consequent measures that the Argentinian military government implemented. In addition, we will analyze different literary works in which many symbolical constructions were made about those times, attempting to expose the support provided by FORJA and the reluctant reception by the military cadres in response to the group's main initiatives. Parallelly, we will try to analyze the cultural images made by the Argentinian society of the time, which wound up divided into allydophiles and fascists, although the political panorama was actually taking place in a more complex way. We will contextualize the writing considering the impact of the war in Argentina’s cultural and social everyday life, by analyzing the respective actions from some of the different groups that gained importance at that time, such as the Investigation Commission of Anti-Argentinian Activities (1941-1943), the ‘’Junta de la Victoria’’ and the Argentinian Union of Women, in order to be able to carry out a reliable construction of the ideas in dispute, over the war, within the country in question.
El impacto de la Segunda Guerra Mundial en el escenario político y cultural de la Argentina fue trascendental en los años cuarenta, ya que condujo el destino institucional del país, y modeló las estrategias seguidas en política internacional por el Poder Ejecutivo, logrando permear las importantes elecciones de 1946 que llevaron a Juan Domingo Perón hacia la presidencia. En este trabajo proponemos un acercamiento a las posturas políticas e intelectuales de la Argentina en los primeros años de la década de 1940, especialmente las que defendió la agrupación FORJA sobre el gobierno formado con posterioridad al golpe militar del 4 de junio de 1943. Analizaremos sus posiciones respecto a los diferentes grupos políticos -sobre todo en relación a los distintos sectores del nacionalismo-, así como también sus propuestas para influir en las decisiones gubernamentales. También consideraremos los choques producidos entre las agrupaciones cercanas a los Aliados y los sectores nacionalistas, ya que nos permitirán adentrarnos en las ideas que circulaban entre los intelectuales argentinos en el contexto de la contienda bélica. Para ello haremos un abordaje desde los conceptos utilizados por la historia intelectual de la guerra,
un enfoque que analiza la recepción, interpretación y circulación de ideas entre los intelectuales en un contexto bélico. Como observaremos a continuación, el panorama político se complejizó como consecuencia de la guerra, reubicando a distintos intelectuales en diferentes espacios partidarios. Para la investigación utilizaremos algunos periódicos forjistas, ubicados en el Archivo Darío Alessandro de la Biblioteca Nacional Mariano Moreno, en los que quedaron plasmadas sus ideas respecto al conflicto bélico y las disposiciones que implantó el gobierno. Además emplearemos distintas obras literarias del autor nacionalista Manuel Gálvez sobre la época, buscando exponer el apoyo brindado por FORJA al gobierno de la época y el tibio recibimiento que los militares dieron a las iniciativas de la agrupación.
The military coup of 1943 has been studied with a special focus on various problems. Thus, studies have concentrated on the role of the military, decisive actors in the June 4 coup; the role of the ...Catholic Church and other actors in the military field, as well as that of the political parties and trade unions, have also been analyzed, among the main axes. The coup installed in a few months a repressive atmosphere marked by the censorship of the opposition, the annulment of political parties, the suspension of institutions and the implementation of compulsory religious education in basic schools. This article proposes to focus on the problem of consensus towards this military coup, the way in which it was socially constructed through expressions of mass culture that helped to delegitimize the republican institutions, thus giving rise to a new military coup on the horizon. In particular, we focus on the magazine Cascabel and its page "Antipolítica".
El golpe militar de 1943 instaló en pocos meses una atmósfera represiva. Este artículo propone enfocar el problema del consenso con este golpe militar a través de expresiones de la cultura de masas que ayudaron a erosionar las instituciones republicanas. El papel de la cultura de masas en su relación con los golpes militares de la historia argentina cuenta con antecedentes: el diario Crítica, debido a su involucramiento ante el golpe militar de 1930 y la revista Primera Plana ante la coyuntura de 1966. El estudio de la revista Cascabel resulta un excelente prisma para pensar el problema de la construcción del consenso. Cascabel publicó regularmente, entre 1941 y 1943, una columna regular bajo el título de “Página de la Antipolítica” que se abocaba a deslegitimar el sistema de partidos, las instituciones republicanas, además del sistema electoral, temas que ocupaban un lugar medular en su discurso en clave humorística.
The civil rights movement was defined by figures thrust into positions of importance; be they participants in a sit-in, Freedom Riders, or marchers in protests, those involved with the movement ...didn't imagine being in that position ten years earlier. Gwendolyn Patton's life centered around Detroit, Michigan, until she came to Montgomery in 1956 to visit relatives and found herself in the midst of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. That experience sparked a lifetime of civil rights activism, as Patton became a member of the Montgomery Improvement Association, supported the Freedom Riders, organized in Tuskegee, and participated in the Selma-to-Montgomery march. Patton came to call Montgomery her home, and the movement and its legacy became the most important aspect of her life. My Race to Freedom is the story of how a young woman found her voice and used it to help her community.
Over the past 40 years, Japanese designers have led the way in aligning fashion with art and ideology, as well as addressing identity and social politics through dress. They have demonstrated that ...both creative and commercial enterprise is possible in today's international fashion industry, and have refused to compromise their ideals, remaining autonomous and independent in their design, business affairs and distribution methods. The inspirational Miyake, Yamamoto and Kawakubo have gained worldwide respect and admiration and have influenced a generation of designers and artists alike. Based on twelve years of research, this book provides a richly detailed and uniquely comprehensive view of the work of these three key designers. It outlines their major contributions and the subsequent impact that their work has had upon the next generation of fashion and textile designers around the world. Designers discussed include: Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, Rei Kawakubo, Naoki Takizawa, Dai Fujiwara, Junya Watanabe, Tao Kurihara, Jun Takahashi, Yoshiki Hishinuma, Junichi Arai, Reiko Sudo & the Nuno Corporation, Makiko Minagawa, Hiroshi Matsushita, Martin Margiela, Ann Demeulemeester, Dries Van Noten, Walter Beirendonck, Dirk Bikkembergs, Alexander McQueen, Hussein Chalayan and Helmut Lang.
Looking up at the stars at the age of ten, John Casper dreamed
of being a space explorer. The Sky Above tells how
persistence and determination led to flying in space, after serving
the nation as a ...combat fighter pilot and test pilot. Despite
life-threatening experiences and failures, his spiritual faith was
pivotal in overcoming life's challenges.
Through vivid storytelling, the reader rides alongside the
author in the cockpit, feeling the fear of enemy antiaircraft fire
and the pressure of high g-forces during combat maneuvering. His
insider accounts of four Space Shuttle missions vividly describe
exhilarating launches, the magical experience of weightlessness,
and the magnificent beauty of Earth from hundreds of miles
above.
A central theme running throughout Casper's life is his faith,
as he struggles with the loss of fellow pilots and confronts life's
inconsistencies and disappointments. This is a story about his
growth and trust in his Creator, whose tenacious spirit never left
him, even during the devastating Challenger and
Columbia disasters.
Readers interested in stories of true adventure or overcoming
adversity will discover unique drama and insight. Those trying to
reach their dreams, whatever they are, will find inspiration; those
unsure or challenged in their faith will find encouragement.
