Resultados para "Kim" en Guerras y conflictos

Get out! Run! We must leave this place! They are going to destroy this whole place! Go, children, run first! Go now! These were the final shouts nine-year-old Kim Phuc heard before her world dissolved into flames - before napalm bombs fell from the sky, burning away her clothing and searing deep into her skin. It's a moment forever captured, an iconic image that has come to define the horror and violence of the Vietnam War. Kim was left for dead in a morgue; no one expected her to survive the attack. Napalm meant fire, and fire meant death.

Occupied by Union forces, Fredericksburg lies in ruins. After four years of devastating conflict, sisters Amanda and Alice are plunged into the turbulent world of the war's aftermath. Amanda struggles to maintain harmony in her home life, while her husband, Union Colonel Samuel Prescott, strives for order in the newly reunited country.

Betrothed to Major Samuel Prescott, Amanda sympathizes with the Union, but Alice struggles to forgive the Northern forces that nearly destroyed their home. To make ends meet, Alice smuggles medical supplies for the Confederacy, and she falls in love with Amanda's former beau, Colonel William Jackson. Meanwhile, two opposing armies, devastated by the clash at Fredericksburg, wait for the spring campaign on the banks of the Rappahannock River.

Våren 1945 slutade andra världskriget. För unga människor idag är kriget historia, för mig var det plågsam verklighet ... När Magda får frågan om hon vill medverka i ett tv-program om Förintelsen och åka till Tyskland vaknar många minnen till liv. Trots att hon tänker tacka nej finner hon sig snart på ett flygplan, på väg mot sitt förflutna.

Understanding the origins of civil wars and their trajectories therefore demands some appreciation of the economic, political, social, cultural, and geographic order of societies. If there is one factor that best predicts why a civil war erupts, it is a prior civil war. That is why knowledge of a country's history of political violence, and associated narratives about who is to blame and why, are critical to understanding where a civil war might next occur.

Legenden om Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel har haft ett starkt fäste i västvärldens historia i över 60 år. Han var onekligen Hitlers mest kände general och i berättelsens centrum står en enastående man: starkt motiverad, otroligt intelligent och överlägset skicklig, men inte felfri. Rommel kunde vara framfusig, oförutsägbar och arrogant och han led av depression.