Culture and Ideology in the 1990s
Author: Ariana Hernandez-Reguant
This collection examines Cuban cultural production during the Special Period of the 1990s, following the collapse of the Soviet bloc. Contributors address the cultural forms; and the associated ethics and practices of la ... |
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Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle's East End
Author: Duncan Barrett & Nuala Calvi
Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle's East End Factories 'On an autumn day in 1944, Ethel Alleyne walked the short distance from her house to Tate & Lyle's refinery on the shining curve of the Thames. Lo ... |
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The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor
Author: Anne Sebba
One of Britain's most distinguished biographers turns her focus on one of the most vilified women of the twentieth century. Historian Anne Sebba has written the first full biography by a woman of Wallis Simpson, Duchess ... |
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Muslims' Stories of Detention and Deportation in America After 9/11
Author: Irum Shiekh
This book collects personal narratives of immigrants from Pakistan, Egypt, India, and Palestine who were racially profiled and detained following the September 11 attacks. Exploring themes of transnationalism, racializat ... |
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Author: Cameron Forbes & Cameron Forbes
The Korean War has never really ended. Although a ceasefire agreement was reached in 1953 after three years of savage warfare, the conflict continues to simmer just below the surface, threatening at any moment to break i ... |
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Her Life in Our Times
Author: Sarah Bradford
Elizabeth II has lived through the Abdication, the Blitz and World War Two, the sex and spy scandals of the swinging sixties, the Cold War and the nuclear threat and the Fall of the Berlin Wall. She has known 11 US Presi ... |
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Author: Denis Avey & Rob Broomby
THE MAN WHO BROKE INTO AUSCHWITZ is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into Buna-Monowitz, the concentration camp known as Auschwitz III. In the summer of 1944, Denis Avey was being h ... |
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Just in time for the centennial of the sinking of the Titanic, this graphic deluxe edition compiles firsthand accounts, testimonies, and letters by notable Titanic survivors, including Archibald Gracie, Lawrence Beesley, ... |
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The Future of Pakistan, Afghanistan and the West
Author: Ahmed Rashid
With Bin Laden dead, Pakistan threatened by internal power struggles, relationships between the United States and Pakistan at an all-time low, and as the US and Britain begin their withdrawal from Afghanistan, what are t ... |
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Author: Jan Karski
'I do not pretend to have given an exhaustive picture of the Polish Underground, its organization and its activities. Because of our methods, I believe that there is no one today who could give an all-embracing recital.. ... |
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A Story of Protest and Patriotism in the First World War
Author: Adam Hochschild
In this brilliant new work of history, Adam Hochschild follows a group of characters connected by blood ties, close friendships or personal enmities and shows how the war exposed the divisions between them. They include ... |
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The Future of Pakistan, Afghanistan and the West
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With Bin Laden dead, Pakistan threatened by internal power struggles, relationships between the United States and Pakistan at an all-time low, and as the US and Britain begin their withdrawal from Afghanistan, what are t ... |
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Conspiracy, Murder and the Cold War in the Caribbean
Author: Alex Von Tunzelmann
America's secret war in the Caribbean during the Cold War is revealed as never before in this riveting story of the machinations and blunders of superpowers, and the daring of the mavericks who took them on. During the p ... |
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Author: Henrik Eberle
Between 1925 and 1945 thousands of ordinary Germans of both sexes and all ages wrote letters to Hitler. Lost for decades, a large cache of these letters was recently discovered in the KGB Special Archive in Moscow, havin ... |
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Author: Alex Crawford
Colonel Gadaffi's Hat is both a gripping and deeply moving account of the Libyan uprising from the lone journalist who was able to report from the rebel army convoy that captured Green Square, in the heart of Tripoli. A ... |
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Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War
Author: David Edgerton
This title was selected for "Guardian" books of the year. The familiar image of the British in the Second World War is that of the plucky underdog taking on German might. David Edgerton's bold, compelling new history sho ... |
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The Occupation and Denazification of Germany
Author: Frederick Taylor
Not since the end of the Roman Empire, almost fifteen hundred years earlier, is there a parallel, in Europe at least, to the fall of the German nation in 1945. Industrious and inventive, home over centuries to a dispropo ... |
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The Woman Behind the Throne
Author: Sally Bedell Smith
This is an intimate portrait of Her Majesty the Queen. As we celebrate her Diamond Jubilee, this brand new biography of Queen Elizabeth II is the first all-round, up-close picture of one of the most fascinating, enigmati ... |
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A Short History of Modern Delusions
Author: Francis Wheen
An entertaining, impassioned polemic on the retreat of reason in the late 20th century. An intellectual call to arms, Francis Wheen's Sunday Times bestseller is one of 2004's most talked about books. In 1979 two events o ... |
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The Australian War
Author: Paul Ham
This superb illustrated edition of the award-winning Vietnam: The Australian War brings together for the first time some of the most memorable, shocking and rare images of the war with the the award-winning text. Above a ... |
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