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428 A.D.: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire

8vo, cloth n dj 214pp. This is a sweeping tour of the Mediterranean world from the Atlantic to Persia during the last half-century of the Roman Empire. By focusing on a single year not overshadowed by an epochal event, 428 AD provides a truly fresh look at a civilization in the midst of enormous change--as Christianity takes hold in rural areas across the empire, as western Roman provinces fall away from those in the Byzantine east, and as power shifts from Rome to Constantinople. Taking readers on a journey through the region, Giusto Traina describes the empires' people, places, and events in all their simultaneous richness and variety. The result is an original snapshot of a fraying Roman world on the edge of the medieval era. The result is an original snapshot of a fraying Roman world on the edge of the medieval era. Readers meet many important figures, including the Roman general Flavius Dionysius as he encounters a delegation from Persia after the Sassanids annex Armenia; the Christian ascetic Simeon Stylites as he stands and preaches atop his column near Antioch; the eastern Roman emperor Theodosius II as he prepares to commission his legal code; and Genseric as he is elected king of the Vandals and begins to turn his people into a formidable power. We are also introduced to Pulcheria, the powerful sister of Theodosius, and Galla Placidia, the queen mother of the western empire, as well as Augustine, Pope Celestine I, and nine-year-old Roman emperor Valentinian III. Full of telling details, 428 AD illustrates the uneven march of history. As the west unravels, the east remains intact. As Christianity spreads, pagan ideas and schools persist. And, despite the presence of the forces that will eventually tear the classical world apart, Rome remains at the center, exerting a powerful unifying force over disparate peoples stretched across the Mediterranean.

Pali s.r.l. · Italie20,00 €

Vasilis Mentogiannis, Costis Mitsotakis, George NikolaidisBiblio.com

52 Days 1943 - The Queen Olga and the Battle of Leros: Underwater Filming and Research

2004réf. 84291In English also available in Greek. Hard cover 24 cm 268 pp. ill. net weight 1740 gr. ISBN: 960-03-3732-2. "52 Days of 1943" tells the story of the 52-day battle at Leros island and the ship-legend of the Greek Navy "Queen Olga". This album is the result of investigations which lasted almost five years: hundreds of photos over thirty hours of digital video underwater shooting by the findings of the war dozens of hours of discussions with survivors Greeks and foreigners. The photos are accompanied by short texts true relay memories shocking stories of people who were eye-witnesses and illuminate unknown parts of the World War II history. // . "depth 42 feet a German transport plane appears before us inside us shudder human bones the sinking of the destroyer "Queen Olga" a legend of the Greek Navy illuminated after 60 years. Dilapidated huge military installations large canons like those of Navarone a submarine base a large rusty crane from Turin once placed hydroplanes galleries hewn in the mountains shelters and secret facilities a surgery room in the heart of the mountain make up an adventure like in a movie. Sensitive human stories of Greeks Italians Englishmen and Germans hard men cry . a time machine takes us back to the door of the plane that the German paratroopers used to jump to occupy Leros ." CONTENTS: INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I. The year 2000 the story begins. . . Aircraft data Identifying the aircraft CHAPTER 2. The "Queen Olga" a Greek destroyer The last hours of the "Queen Olga" Commissioning the "Queen Olga" The "Queen Olga" in action Greece and Italy at war The fleet that would not surrender CHAPTER 3. The Malta of the Aegean CHAPTER 4. Fifty two days in 1943 The overall picture and data concerning the war The Battle of Leros Events as related in the official German archives Italian Battery 888 Events as recorded in the official German archives CHAPTER 5. The fall of Leros Events from the official German and Italian archives The "Oria" the unknown "Titanic" CHAPTER 6. Leros is annexed to Greece CHAPTER 7. The raising of a legend A letter from Andrea Hutter "a crew member in the Ju-52 squadron who fought on Leros" Identifying the place EPILOGUE Kastaniotes hardcover

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