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 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.
The book about the pre-Turkish history of Našice, written by abbot Julije Jančula, deals exclusively with that specific period of Slavonian and Našić history.
Zavičajni muzej Našice, 1996.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
4.88 €
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.
7.245.43 €
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.
Peace, as a social-individual category and desire, historically speaking, is the old dream of the sages of the always restless humanity exposed to the sufferings and violence of war.
Alberta naklada, 2019.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
5.36 €
Czech literature • History of Europe • Central European history • 20th Century • Political journalism • Political-historical essays
In this edition, translated by dr. Aleksandar Ilić, there are texts of the first Czechoslovak president in which he timely criticizes Marx, Engels and Lenin, and actually goes on to criticize imperialism in general.