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Author : Hanson W. Baldwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (67 download)
Download or read book The Crucial Years 1939-1944 written by Hanson W. Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hanson Weightman Baldwin
Publisher : George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
ISBN 13 : 9780297770893
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Crucial Years, 1939-1941 written by Hanson Weightman Baldwin and published by George Weidenfeld & Nicholson. This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leverett Saltonstall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Six Crucial Years written by Leverett Saltonstall and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Prof. John H. Wuorinen
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786252678
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (862 download)
Download or read book Finland And World War II, 1939-1944 written by Prof. John H. Wuorinen and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finland gained its independence from Russia in 1917 during the turmoil of the Russian Civil War, and ever since the communist leaders cast envious eyes toward their former domain; only waiting for a chance to invade. With the rise of Hitler’s Germany the face of Europe changed, agreements were reached between the Soviets and the Nazis in brutally dividing up a nigh-defenceless and the detente culminated in the Non-Aggression Pact of 1939. This gave Stalin and his cohorts a chance to expand their borders, whilst Hitler looked west at France and Britain, by launching an attack directed to recapture their former Grand Duchy. Thus started Finland’s participation in the Second World War. This book eloquently recounts the stubborn resistance of the Finns against the Soviet attack during the Winter War, the horrific siege of Leningrad and the Finns brave bid to retain its independence from Soviet dominance. The manuscript for the book was smuggled out of Soviet controlled Finland in late 1945, it was passed to Professor Wuorinen who skilfully edited and annotated the work into its present form. A fascinating sidelight on a little known corner of the brutal Second World War.
Author : Leonid D. Grenkevich
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136318585
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)
Download or read book The Soviet Partisan Movement, 1941-1944 written by Leonid D. Grenkevich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Partisans and terrorists have dominated military history during the second half of the 20th century. Leonid Grenkevich offers an account of the shadowy partisan struggle that accompanied the Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War (1941-1945).
Author : Arthur Layton Funk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1340 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (789 download)
Download or read book Charles de Gaulle written by Arthur Layton Funk and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 1340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patrick J. Buchanan
Publisher : Forum Books
ISBN 13 : 0307405168
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War" written by Patrick J. Buchanan and published by Forum Books. This book was released on 2009-07-28 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Were World Wars I and II inevitable? Were they necessary wars? Or were they products of calamitous failures of judgment? In this monumental and provocative history, Patrick Buchanan makes the case that, if not for the blunders of British statesmen– Winston Churchill first among them–the horrors of two world wars and the Holocaust might have been avoided and the British Empire might never have collapsed into ruins. Half a century of murderous oppression of scores of millions under the iron boot of Communist tyranny might never have happened, and Europe’s central role in world affairs might have been sustained for many generations. Among the British and Churchillian errors were: • The secret decision of a tiny cabal in the inner Cabinet in 1906 to take Britain straight to war against Germany, should she invade France • The vengeful Treaty of Versailles that mutilated Germany, leaving her bitter, betrayed, and receptive to the appeal of Adolf Hitler • Britain’s capitulation, at Churchill’s urging, to American pressure to sever the Anglo-Japanese alliance, insulting and isolating Japan, pushing her onto the path of militarism and conquest • The greatest mistake in British history: the unsolicited war guarantee to Poland of March 1939, ensuring the Second World War Certain to create controversy and spirited argument, Churchill, Hitler, and “the Unnecessary War” is a grand and bold insight into the historic failures of judgment that ended centuries of European rule and guaranteed a future no one who lived in that vanished world could ever have envisioned.
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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428915818
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (289 download)
Download or read book Planning and Organizing the Postwar Air Force, 1943-1947 written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Sloman
Publisher : Oxford Historical Monographs
ISBN 13 : 0198723504
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book The Liberal Party and the Economy, 1929-1964 written by Peter Sloman and published by Oxford Historical Monographs. This book was released on 2015 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Liberal Party and the Economy, 1929-1964 explores the reception, generation, and use of economic ideas in the British Liberal Party between its electoral decline in the 1920s and 1930s, and its post-war revival under Jo Grimond. Drawing on archival sources, party publications, and the press, this volume analyses the diverse intellectual influences which shaped British Liberals' economic thought up to the mid-twentieth century, and highlights the ways in which the party sought to reconcile its progressive identity with its longstanding commitment to free trade and competitive markets. Peter Sloman shows that Liberals' enthusiasm for public works and Keynesian economic management - which David Lloyd George launched onto the political agenda at the 1929 general election - was only intermittently matched by support for more detailed forms of state intervention and planning. Likewise, the party's support for redistributive taxation and social welfare provision was frequently qualified by the insistence that the ultimate Liberal aim was not the expansion of the functions of the state but the pursuit of 'ownership for all'. Liberal policy was thus shaped not only by the ideas of reformist intellectuals such as John Maynard Keynes and William Beveridge, but also by the libertarian and distributist concerns of Liberal activists and by interactions with the early neoliberal movement. This study concludes that it was ideological and generational changes in the early 1960s that cut the party's links with the New Right, opened up common ground with revisionist social democrats, and re-established its progressive credentials.
Author : Herman S. Wolk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Planning and Organizing the Postwar Air Force, 1943-1947 written by Herman S. Wolk and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jay Winik
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439114080
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book 1944 written by Jay Winik and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Chronicles the events of 1944 to reveal how nearly the Allies lost World War II, citing the pivotal contributions of FDR, Churchill, and Stalin,"--Novelist.
Author : Robert Lynn Fuller
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807175153
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book After D-Day written by Robert Lynn Fuller and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2021-02-24 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After D-Day is one of a small but growing body of works that examine the Allied liberators of France. This study focuses on both the French experience of the U.S. Army and the American soldiers’ reaction to the French during the liberation and its immediate aftermath. Drawing on French and American archival materials, as well as dozens of memoirs, diaries, letters, and newspapers, Robert Lynn Fuller follows French and American interactions, starting in the skies over France in 1942 and ending with the liberation of Alsace in 1945. Fuller pays special attention to French life in the war zones, where living under constant shelling offered a miserable experience for those forced to endure it. The French stoically withstood those travails—sometimes inflicted by the Americans—when they saw their sacrifices as the price of liberation and victory over Germany. As Fuller shows, when the French did not believe afflictions brought by the Americans advanced the cause of success, their tolerance waned, sometimes dramatically. Fuller maintains that the Allied bombing of France was an important yet often overlooked chapter of World War II, one that inflicted more death and destruction than the ground war still to come. Yet the ground campaign, which began with the Allied invasion of Normandy, unleashed enormous violence that killed, injured, or rendered homeless tens of thousands of French civilians. Fuller examines French and American records of the fate of civilians in the principal battle zones, Normandy and Lorraine, as well as in overlooked liberated regions, such as Orléanais and Champagne, that largely escaped widespread damage and casualties. Despite French gratitude toward the Americans for the liberation of their country, relations began to cool in the fall and winter of 1944 as progress on the battlefield slowed and then appeared to reverse with the German offensive in the Ardennes. Revealing in stark detail the experiences of French civilians with the American military, After D-Day presents a compelling coda to our understanding of the Allied conquest of German-occupied France.
Author : Robert Dallek
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195097327
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945 written by Robert Dallek and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995-08-17 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the domestic pressure which influenced Roosevelt's foreign policy and American foreign relations.
Author : Benjamin F. Jones
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199942099
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book Eisenhower's Guerrillas written by Benjamin F. Jones and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-06 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The challenges facing General Dwight Eisenhower before the Invasion of Normandy were not merely military but political as well. He knew that to liberate France, and to hold it, the Allies needed local help, which would necessitate coordinating with the highly independent French resistance groups known collectively as the maquis. The Allies' objective was to push the Germans out of France. The French objective, on the other hand, was a France free of all foreign armies, including the Allies. President Roosevelt refused to give full support to Charles de Gaulle, whom he mistrusted, and declined to supply the timing, location, and other key details of Operation Overlord to his Free French government. Eisenhower's hands were tied. He needed to involve the French, but without simultaneously involving them in operational planning. Into this atmosphere of tension and confusion jumped teams consisting of three officers each -- one from the British Special Operations Bureau, one from the U.S. Office of Strategic Services, one from the Free French Bureau Central de Renseignement -- as well as a radioman from any one of the three nations. Known as the Jedburghs, their primary purpose was to serve as liaisons to the maquis, working to arm, train, and equip them. They were to incite guerilla warfare. Benjamin Jones' Eisenhower's Guerrillas is the first book to show in detail how the Jedburghs -- whose heroism and exploits have been widely celebrated -- and the maquis worked together. Underscoring the critical and often overlooked role that irregular warfare played in Allied operations on the Continent, it tells the story of the battle for and liberation of France and the complexities that threatened to undermine the operation before it even began.
Author : Andrew Graham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134907303
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Government and Economies in the Postwar World written by Andrew Graham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chance to begin anew seldom occurs. Yet the nearly complete breakdown of the world economy between 1939 and 1945, together with the dominant position of the United States at the end of the war, provided just this opportunity. A new international economic order was built on the ruins of the old. How this happened - and the role of government in economic performance - is the subject of this important and timely book. Written by political scientists, contemporary historians and economists, it includes ten country studies covering all the major industrialized nations in the West: the USA, USSR, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain, Eastern Europe, and Scandinavia. In each chapter readers will find information on the main objectives and instruments of economic policy, the institutional framework, where the country started from at the end of the war, and a summary of what happened thereafter both in terms of policies and outcomes. Each chapter also contains data on the country's economic performance, a list of selected dates of important events, and a guide to further reading. The book begins with an overview of the sytem of international trade and payments since the war, and ends with five commentaries drawing attention to contrasts and similarities between the nations. The commentaries feature David Henderson, Head of the Economics Division of the OECD, on the overall economic performance, Charles Feinstein on the influence of different starting points, David Marquand on the effect of different political and institutional structures, and Sidney Pollard on economic policies and traditions. Learning from other countries' experience as well as understanding how they see their own problems is increasingly important with 1992, glasnost', and the problem of international policy coordination between the USA, Japan, and Germany so high on the agenda. No other book provides such a wide-ranging account of how the industrialized world came to be where it is today.
Author : Bernd Jürgen Fischer
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1557531412
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (575 download)
Download or read book Albania at War, 1939-1945 written by Bernd Jürgen Fischer and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second World War in Europe has generated more literature than perhaps any other event in modern history. Much of the interest has focused on military history, occupation policy, puppet governments, and resistance movements in Europe's principal states. Often ignored in this flood of material, however, are the small nations of southeastern Europe. Yet in the small states the human suffering was no less profound, the destruction no less devastating, the heroism no less laudable, the treachery no less despicable, and the impact no less profound. Albania at War reviews the most important developments in Albania from the Italian invasion of the country in 1939 to the accession to power of the Albanian Communist Party and the establishment of a "people's democracy" in 1946. Fischer analyzes in great detail Italian goals and objectives in Albania and explains the eventual failure of Rome's policy, the subsequent German invasion of the country against the Axis Powers. This unique path breaking book provides a vigorous and thought-provoking analysis of competing external interests in Albania and explores the great obstacles that the Albanians faced in regaining their independence at the end of the war. Albania at War, 1939-1945 thoroughly covers the developments in Albania during that turbulent period. It is essential reading for all students of Albanian history.
Author : George C. Chalou
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780788125980
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (259 download)
Download or read book The Secret War written by George C. Chalou and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1995-12 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proceedings of the first major scholarly conference on the OSS, which was in existence from 1941 through 1945. Includes 24 papers presented by veterans and historians of the OSS. Offers new insights into the activities and importance of the U.S.'s first modern national intelligence agency. Discusses: the U.S. on the brink of war; the operations of the OSS at the headquarters level and in the field throughout Western Europe, the Balkans, and Asia. Also explores the legacy of the OSS. Contributors include: Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., William Colby, Walt W. Rostow, Robin Winks, and Aline, Countess of Romanones.
