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Selections From The Smuts Papers Volume 6 December 1934 August 1945
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Book Synopsis Selections from the Smuts Papers: Volume 6, December 1934-August 1945 by : Jan Christiaan Smuts
Download or read book Selections from the Smuts Papers: Volume 6, December 1934-August 1945 written by Jan Christiaan Smuts and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volumes V, VI and VII complete the series of selections from the Smuts Papers. Volume VI looks at the Second World War and the UNO.
Book Synopsis Selections from the Smuts Papers... by : Jan Christiaan Smuts
Download or read book Selections from the Smuts Papers... written by Jan Christiaan Smuts and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Redefining the Bonds of Commonwealth, 1939-1948 by : F. McKenzie
Download or read book Redefining the Bonds of Commonwealth, 1939-1948 written by F. McKenzie and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-06-06 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a path-breaking study of the changing attitudes of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa to Britain and the Commonwealth in the 1940s and the effect of those changes on their individual and collective standing in international affairs. The focus is imperial preference, the largest discriminatory tariff system in the world and a potent symbol of Commonwealth unity. It is based on archival research in Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States.
Book Synopsis South Africa's 1940s by : Saul Dubow
Download or read book South Africa's 1940s written by Saul Dubow and published by Juta and Company Ltd. This book was released on 2005 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1940s was a turbulent period in the history of South Africa. It opened with parliament's bitterly contested decision to enter the war; was rocked by political turmoil; and ended with a bang, as well as a whimper, as the National party captured political power in 1948.
Book Synopsis South Asian Migrations in Global History by : Neilesh Bose
Download or read book South Asian Migrations in Global History written by Neilesh Bose and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores how South Asian migrations in modern history have shaped key aspects of globalization since the 1830s. Including original research from colonial India, Fiji, Mexico, South Africa, North America and the Middle East, the essays explore indentured labour and its legacies, law as a site of regulation and historical biography. Including recent scholarship on the legacy of issues such as consent, sovereignty and skilled/unskilled labour distinctions from the history of indentured labour migrations, this volume brings together a range of historical changes that can only be understood by studying South Asian migrants within a globalized world system. Centering south Asian migrations as a site of analysis in global history, the contributors offer a lens into the ongoing regulation of labourers after the abolition of slavery that intersect with histories in the Global North and Global South. The use of historical biography showcases experiences from below, and showcases a world history outside empire and nation.
Book Synopsis A Very British Experience by : Andrew Stewart
Download or read book A Very British Experience written by Andrew Stewart and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In terms of the Second World War and Britain's wartime strategy three elements deserve close scrutiny: the paramount importance of defending the British mainland and its population; the challenges of building and maintaining coalitions and alliances; and the central role the African continent assumed in all British strategic planning. A concluding essay reflects upon the degree to which in the face of an often uncertain and unconvincing approach these critical themes underpinned the British experience of the conflict. Topics addressed include 1940 and the Defence of Britain; relations with the United States; the British Empire Air Training Plan; General (Boy) Browning and Operation Market Garden; the recall of General Alan Cunningham from Libya in 1941; plans for defending the Royal Family; Exercise Genesis, which turned west London into a battleground for a day in May 1942; and the role of the Eastern Fleet off Africa. Andrew Stewart provides a compelling chapter on the loss of the Tobruk garrison in June 1942 -- one of the worst military disasters suffered by the British Empire during the Second World War. The essay on Tobruk demonstrates how all three defining elements of wartime experience converged: the loss of public confidence about how the war was being conducted; its impact on the relationship with the Union of South Africa, a key partner in the Dominion wartime coalition; and the absolute necessity that existed for deep strategic planning on the African continent -- subsequently to be realised at the final battle at El Alamein.
Book Synopsis South Africa, the Colonial Powers and ‘African Defence’ by : G. Berridge
Download or read book South Africa, the Colonial Powers and ‘African Defence’ written by G. Berridge and published by Springer. This book was released on 1992-11-25 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the fate of South Africa's drive, which began in 1949, to associate itself with Britain, France, Portugal and Belgium in an African Defence Pact. It describes how South Africa had to settle for an entente rather than an alliance, and how even this had been greatly emasculated by 1960. In light of this case, the book considers the argument that ententes have the advantages of alliances without their disadvantages, and concludes that this is exaggerated.
Download or read book Tedder written by Vincent Orange and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Tedder became one of the most eminent figures of the Second World War: first as head of Anglo-American air forces in the Middle East, the Mediterranean and North Africa; then as Deputy Supreme Commander to General Eisenhower for the Allied campaign that began in Normandy and ended in Berlin. During those anxious, exhilarating years, he was, as The Times of London wrote, 'the most unstuffy of great commanders, who could be found sitting cross-legged, jacketless, pipe smoldering, answering questions on a desert airstrip.' After the war, promoted to five-star rank and elevated to the peerage as Lord Tedder, he was made Chief of the Air Staff, holding this appointment for longer than anyone since his time: four critical years (from 1946 to 1949) that saw the tragic start of the Cold War and the inspiring achievement of the Berlin Airlift. In 1950, he became Britain's NATO representative in Washington: a year that saw the start of a hot war in Korea that threatened to spread around the globe. This book provides the first comprehensive account of a great commander's public career and uses hundreds of family letters to portray a private life, both joyful and tragic.
Book Synopsis Barbed Wire Diplomacy by : Neville Wylie
Download or read book Barbed Wire Diplomacy written by Neville Wylie and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbed Wire Diplomacy examines how the United Kingdom government went about protecting the interests, lives and well-being of its prisoners of war (POWs) in Nazi Germany between 1939 and 1945. The comparatively good treatment of British prisoners in Germany has largely been explained by historians in terms of rational self-interest, reciprocity, and influence of Nazi racism, which accorded Anglo-Saxon servicemen a higher status than other categories of POWs. By contrast, Neville Wylie offers a more nuanced picture of Anglo-German relations and the politics of prisoners of war. Drawing on British, German, United States and Swiss sources, he argues that German benevolence towards British POWs stemmed from London's success in working through neutral intermediaries, notably its protecting power (the United States and Switzerland) and the International Committee of the Red Cross, to promote German compliance with the 1929 Geneva convention, and building and sustaining a relationship with the German government that was capable of withstanding the corrosive effects of five years of warfare. Expanding our understanding of both the formulation and execution of POW policy in both capitals, the book sheds new light on the dynamics in inter-belligerent relations during the war. It suggests that while the Second World War should be rightly acknowledged as a conflict in which traditional constraints were routinely abandoned in the pursuit of political, strategic and ideological goals, in this important area of Anglo-German relations, customary international norms were both resilient and effective.
Book Synopsis The Politics of Continuity by : John Saville
Download or read book The Politics of Continuity written by John Saville and published by Verso. This book was released on 1993-12-17 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on substantial new research, Saville focuses on the role of Ernest Bevin and his differences with Clement Attlee, particularly with regard to the Middle East. Countering the widely held view that Bevin sought accommodation with the Soviet Union, he reveals Labour's Foreign Secretary as a fervent ideologue, wholly in agreement with the deep-seated anti-Sovietism of his permanent officials.
Book Synopsis The Publishers' Trade List Annual by :
Download or read book The Publishers' Trade List Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 1790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Churchill's Secret Invasion by : John Grehan
Download or read book Churchill's Secret Invasion written by John Grehan and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1942 Britain's far-flung empire was in the greatest peril. North Africa was being overrun by the German Afrika Korps and in south-east Asia the forces of Imperial Japan had captured Singapore and were threatening India. Only the most urgent reinforcement of both war fronts could prevent disaster. But Britain's shipping routes to Egypt and India passed the island of Madagascar. If the Japanese Navy, operating out of Madagascar, could severe Britain's communications with Cairo and Delhi, then the whole of North Africa and the Indian sub-continent would be at the mercy of the Axis Powers. In a desperate race against time, and under conditions of the utmost secrecy, at Churchill's instigation Britain planned to seize Madagascar, the fourth largest island in the world, before the Japanese could strike. An overwhelming force was assembled and despatched as part of the largest convoy ever to have left Britain's shores. Yet the expedition's commanders were faced with not just military but also political obstacles, because the forces occupying the island were not those her enemy's but those of her former ally - France. The Secret Invasion is the first book to examine in detail this crucial campaign which was Britain's largest amphibious assault since the First World War and the first large-scale combined air, sea and land operation Britain had attempted.
Book Synopsis International African Bibliography by :
Download or read book International African Bibliography written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Empire Lost written by Andrew Stewart and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-09-18 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using government records, private letters and diaries and contemporary media sources, this book examines the key themes affecting the relationship between Britain and the Dominions during the Second World War, the Empire's last great conflict. It asks why this political and military coalition was ultimately successful in overcoming the challenge of the Axis powers but, in the process, proved unable to preserve itself. Although these changes were inevitable the manner of the evolution was sometimes painful, as Britain's wartime economic decline left its political position exposed in a changing post-war international system.
Download or read book Empire Lost written by Andrew Stewart and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2008-11-18 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using government records, private letters and diaries and contemporary media sources, this book examines the key themes affecting the relationship between Britain and the Dominions during the Second World War, the Empire's last great conflict. It asks why this political and military coalition was ultimately successful in overcoming the challenge of the Axis powers but, in the process, proved unable to preserve itself. Although these changes were inevitable the manner of the evolution was sometimes painful, as Britain's wartime economic decline left its political position exposed in a changing post-war international system.
Book Synopsis American Book Publishing Record by :
Download or read book American Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 1082 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Program of the Annual Meeting - American Historical Association by : American Historical Association
Download or read book Program of the Annual Meeting - American Historical Association written by American Historical Association and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some programs include also the programs of societies meeting concurrently with the association.
