Operation Fish: The race to save Europe's wealth, 1939-1945
Alfred Draper
Brilliant book written about a little-known operation in WW2 by someone very close to it. It was the largest movement of wealth in history and to this day is not really understood.
Dimensions
22 x 14.5 cm
Pages
377
Publisher
Cassell, London, 1979.
Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
Language: English.
One copy is available
Condition:Used, good condition (visible signs of use)
The book represents a personal chronicle of Croatian history in the first half of the 20th century, written by Josip Horvat with the intention of documenting the social, political, and cultural changes that shaped Croatia between 1900 and 1941.
Sveučilišna naklada Liber (SNL), 1984.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
17.24 €
Post-communism • History of Europe • Contemporary history • Military history • 20th Century
The book Genocide in the Central Podrinje 1992-1995. by Velid Šabić presents a thorough scientific analysis of the crimes committed against the Bosniak population in the middle Podrinje region during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Institut za istraživanje zločina protiv čovječnosti i međunarodnog prava Univerziteta u Sarajevu, 2008.
"Croatian Primorje in the literal sense of the word includes the western side of the former counties of Modruška-Rijeka and Lika-Krbavska along the Adriatic Sea. It stretches from Rijeka-Šušak in the north to the river Zrmanja in the south."
Knjižara Liburnija, 1925.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
39.68 €
Post-communism • 20th Century • Political-historical essays • Popular Science
Gold Hunters of Our Century is a non-fiction book published in 1959 that explores the global race for rare and strategic minerals in the context of Cold War geopolitical dynamics.
Novinarsko izdavačko poduzeće, 1959.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
7.24 €
History of Europe • 20th Century • Autobiographies and Memoirs • Biography • Political journalism
The Tragic Fate of Nicholas II and His Family is a memoir by Pierre Gilliard, a Swiss French teacher who spent thirteen years (1905–1918) at the Russian imperial court as a tutor to Tsarevich Alexei.
Naklada kraljevske zemaljske tiskare, 1921.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
8.74 €
Documents and records • World War II • Croatian history • Communism and fascism • 20th Century
The Valpovo labor camp (1945–1946) was the largest camp for Volksdeutschers in Croatia after World War II. About 4,000 Germans and Austrians were interned; at least 1,074 died, mostly from hunger, disease, and exhausting labor.
Njemačka zajednica podunavskih Švaba u Hrvatskoj, 1999.