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Da to betjente i sensommeren 2016 ville anholde en ung pusher på Christiania, fik det fatale konsekvenser, da manden trak en pistol og skød den ene betjent i hovedet og den anden i benet. Og det fik efterfølgende for alvor kampen mellem politiets specialgruppe Task Force Pusher Street (TFP) og pushermiljøet på Christiania til at blusse op.

Dr. Aribert Heim var en af Nazi-Tysklands mest berygtede og eftersøgte nazister. Som læge i koncentrationslejren Mauthausen udførte han grufulde operationer på raske mennesker og sprøjtede benzin ind i jødiske patienters hjerter - hans metoder kostede utallige menneskeliv. Efter Det Tredje Riges fald blev dr. Aribert Heim et af de mest eftersøgte mennesker i verden, men det lykkedes aldrig nazijægerne at finde ham og stille ham til ansvar for sine forbrydelser.

"På Slotsholmen" er beretningen om det politiske spil bag de lukkede døre. Hans Engell fortæller om dramatiske oplevelser, om skandalesagerne, om de politiske slagsmål - også bag scenen. Han går tæt på de centrale personer i dansk politik og besvarer spørgsmålet: Hvordan kunne Tamil-sagen få det katastrofale forløb, den fik? En veloplagt øjenvidneberetning fra en spændende periode i dansk politik. Hans Engell (f.

A volume in a series called The Library of Contemporary Thought—which provides top opinion makers a forum to explore the most provocative, fascinating, and relevant issues of the day—News Is a Verb focuses on contemporary journalism and its evolving readership.

På den amerikanske landevej møder vi vietnamveteranen Howard Walker på flugt fra en mørk hemmelighed. Under køreturen gennem Trumps Amerika fortæller Walker sin livshistorie, om krigstraumer og om at gå i hundene - og om sin tid sammen med den verdensberømte protestsanger Philip Boothman i New York. Det var Boothman, der samlede Walker op, da han lå i rendestenen, og siden har Walker udført lyssky arbejde for den feterede og elskede sangskriver og levet i hans skygge. Brian Dan Christensen (f.

I denne dramatiske beretning skildrer modstandsmanden Aage Bertelsen sine oplevelser i forbindelse med de danske jøders redning i 1943. Bogen er udkommet i mange oplag, er blevet oversat til en række sprog og er en klassiker i litteraturen om jødeforfølgelsen og besættelsestiden i Danmark. "Jeg har læst denne bog med oprigtig beundring, dyb bevægelse og taknemmelighed.

I "Rundt om Annapurna" beskriver forfatter og litteraturforsker Knud Wentzel sine oplevelser fra sin vandring i Annapurna-bjergene i Nepal. I dagbogsfragmenter reflekterer han over stedet og rejsen som udtryksform. Knud Wentzel (f. 1941) er en dansk essayist, litteraturforsker og lektor ved Københavns Universitet. Knud Wentzel har de sidste mange årtier spillet en afgørende rolle på dansk litteraturforsknings scene. Knud Wentzel modtog Dansk Forfatterforenings H.C.Andersen Legat i 2015.

World War II rises in its vastness and complexity over the rest of human history. A number of victims difficult to conceive, never surpassed by any other conflict; the masses of men, women, and resources mobilized in a conflict that shook even the most remote ends of the planet; the ideological battle between totalitarianism and democracy, between fascism and communism, and the passions and hatred that it aroused; the unimaginable horror and fanaticism of the Holocaust; geopolitical games; the repetition of World War I on an even more dire scale.

A teenage girl, guilty only of being Jewish, is saved from the fate that awaits her family and hidden by her parents' Catholic friends—who pay the ultimate price for their bravery. So much was risked and so much lost but the legacy of their courage and trust lives on through the surviving generations. Now, at last, their story can be told . . .

Most popular accounts of the Holocaust typically cast Jewish victims as meek and ask, "Why didn't Jews resist?" But we know now that Jews did resist, staging armed uprisings in ghettos and camps throughout Nazi-occupied Europe. In Hope and Honor, Rachel L. Einwohner illustrates the dangers in attempting resistance under unimaginable conditions and shows how remarkable such resistance was. She draws on oral testimonies, published and unpublished diaries and memoirs, and other written materials produced both by survivors and those who perished.

I et kapløb for at bevise sine tekniske evner og med blikkene rettet mod verdensrummet, udkæmpede USA og Sovjetunionen Den Kolde Krig på himmelsk front. Kapløbet mod rummet begyndte da Sovjet opsendte Sputnik 1 i 1957. USA, som havde talt om at sende sin egen satellit op bare to år tidligere, begyndte at blive urolige for, at Sovjet ville anvende sine satellitter til et angreb. Derefter fulgte et kapløb, der skulle fortsætte indtil 1971, hvor Sovjet bemandede den første rumstation, Saljut 1, og relationen mellem landene aftog.

In this engaging narrative, historian Paul Kennedy grapples with the rise and fall of the Great Powers during World War II. Tracking the movements of the six major navies of the Second World War—the allied navies of Britain, France, and the United States and the Axis navies of Germany, Italy, and Japan—Kennedy tells a story of naval battles, maritime campaigns, convoys, amphibious landings, and strikes from the sea.

From the bushfires in Australia to the outbreak of COVID-19 and America’s greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression, It Took a Crisis outlines how the events of 2020 underscored the need for a serious assessment of the status quo. Through interviews, research, and storytelling, Jordan Johnson takes a multidisciplinary approach to exploring how the COVID-19 pandemic revealed wide-ranging cracks in our social structures and accelerated a global call to action. Against this backdrop, Johnson asks if we should ever go back to normal. Perhaps normal never quite served us.

Che cosa successe di preciso quel martedì 10 giugno 1924, quando il pestaggio e l'uccisione di Giacomo Matteotti segnò un punto di svolta nella storia d'Italia? Ma soprattutto, quale fu la concatenazione di eventi che portò alla sua morte, e quale la catena di comando che sancì l'esecuzione del delitto? Con precisione chirurgica e lucidità da poliziesco americano, questo saggio inquisitorio scava negli archivi dell'epoca e riporta alla luce i fatti, le affermazioni e i personaggi che gravitarono intorno a Giacomo Matteotti nei giorni che precedettero il suo omicidio.

En 1945 Europa se encontraba en sus momentos más bajos. Gran parte del continente estaba devastado por la guerra, los asesinatos en masa, los bombardeos y el caos. Amplias zonas de Europa del Este empezaban a caer bajo control soviético para cambiar un despotismo por otro. En la actualidad, la Unión Soviética ya no existe y las democracias europeas llegan hasta la frontera de Rusia.

The French Revolution was a period of considerable political and social change in France that started in 1789 with the starting of the Estates General and ended in the month of November 1799 with the development of the French Consulate. Tons of its ideas are now regarded important structures of liberal democracy, while terms like liberté, égalité, and fraternité resurfaced in following revolts, which includes the 1917 Russian Revolution, and stimulated efforts to eliminate oppression and attain universal suffrage.

King at 9 and dead at 15, Edward VI oversaw a brief but dramatic chapter in English history. Described by his father as his "most precious jewel", Edward’s birth in 1537 marked the end of Henry VIII’s quest to procure a son and heir to continue the Tudor dynasty. But even kings can’t choose their destiny, and the boy’s premature demise prevented the intelligent, ambitious, and strong-minded youth’s potential from being fulfilled. Reliant on councillors to govern the kingdom on his behalf, his reign was not a happy time.

On a battlefield so littered with dead bodies that General Ulysses S. Grant said it would have been possible to walk across it in any direction without a foot touching the ground, the Union Army notched a brutal but significant victory against the Confederate Army. The two-day battle, with the highest number of casualties recorded in the fighting up to that time, dashed the hopes of a short war. Still, few could have grasped that this battle was only the beginning of a national campaign of slaughter that would see so many Yankee and Rebel deaths.

France: An Adventure History is a profoundly original and endlessly entertaining history of France, from the first century BC to the present day, based on countless new discoveries and thirty years of exploring France on foot, by bicycle and in the library. Beginning with the Roman army’s first recorded encounter with the Gauls and ending with the Gilets Jaunes protests in the era of Emmanuel Macron, each chapter is an adventure in its own right. Along the way, listeners will find the usual faces, events and themes of French history.

The year was 2000. Sierra Leone, in West Africa, had been ravaged by years of civil strife. With the intervention of the United Nations, two companies of the Indian Army were deployed in Kailahun as part of a United Nations peacekeeping mission. Soon, the peaceful mission turned into a war-like standoff between Major Punia's company and the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels in Kailahun, with the Indian peacekeepers cordoned off for seventy-five days without supplies. The only way home was by laying down their weapons.