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Author : Harold Macmillan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9787040003178
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Tides of Fortune, 1945-1955 written by Harold Macmillan and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harold Macmillan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 729 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (858 download)
Download or read book Tides of Fortune written by Harold Macmillan and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Addison
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571296408
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)
Download or read book Churchill on the Home Front, 1900–1955 written by Paul Addison and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The best one-volume study of Churchill yet available.' David Cannadine, Observer 'Magisterial.' Vernon Bogdanor, New Statesman 'A tour de force... A masterly chronicle of Churchill as a domestic figure rather than as the bulldog wartime leader, and one of the most subtle portraits of him as a politician. Addison revises the view of Churchill as uninterested and out of his depth in domestic affairs, painting instead a nuanced picture of a canny parliamentarian. Churchill changed parties twice but managed to accomplish the change, writes Addison, 'with exceptional dexterity', making it appear as if he were maintaining his principles while the parties changed theirs... Addison's most interesting assertion is that the rise of Hitler saved Churchill from drifting into right-wing irrelevance. Most impressively, Addison doesn't settle for easy classifications, admitting that 'Churchill... is a man of whom almost everything that can be said is true in part.'' Kirkus Review
Author : Harold Macmillan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 729 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Harold Macmillan written by Harold Macmillan and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pat Thane
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317889061
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book The Foundations of the Welfare State written by Pat Thane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-04 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fully revised and rewritten second edition of a book which is now regarded as a classic. Takes full advantage of new research and places strong emphasis on voluntary action and the role of women in the shaping of social policy. It retains the excellent historical perspective that makes it unique among its competitors, comparing recent policy changes to pre-1950 welfare policy.
Author : Anthony Tucker-Jones
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1399047493
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Churchill Cold War Warrior written by Anthony Tucker-Jones and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2024-09-30 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Churchill Cold War Warrior, renowned military historian Anthony Tucker-Jones reassesses Winston Churchill’s neglected postwar career. He explains how in an unguarded moment Winston inadvertently sowed the seeds for the Cold War by granting Stalin control of Eastern Europe. Famously Churchill, at Fulton, then warned of the growing danger created by this partition of the continent. Winston after the Second World War wanted to prove a point. Shunned by the electorate in 1945, instead of retiring he was determined to be Prime Minister for a second time. Biding his time he watched in dismay as Britain scuttled from India and Palestine and weathered the East-West confrontation over Berlin. He finally got his way in 1951 and took the reins of a country with drastically waning powers. Churchill was confronted by a world in turmoil, with an escalating Cold War that had gone hot in Korea and an unraveling British Empire. Communism and nationalism proved a heady cocktail that fanned the flames of widespread conflict. He had to contain rebellions in Kenya and Malaya while clinging on in Egypt. Desperately he also sought to avoid a Third World War and the use of nuclear weapons by reuniting the 'Big Three'.
Author : Fraser J. Harbutt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199878935
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book The Iron Curtain written by Fraser J. Harbutt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1988-10-13 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was forty-two years ago that Winston Churchill made his famous speech in Fulton, Missouri, in which he popularized the phrase "Iron Curtain." This speech, according to Fraser Harbutt, set forth the basic Western ideology of the coming East-West struggle. It was also a calculated move within, and a dramatic public definition of, the Truman administration's concurrent turn from accommodation to confrontation with the Soviet Union. It provoked a response from Stalin that goes far to explain the advent of the Cold War a few weeks later. This book is at once a fascinating biography of Winston Churchill as the leading protagonist of an Anglo-American political and military front against the Soviet Union and a penetrating re-examination of diplomatic relations between the United States, Great Britain, and the U.S.S.R. in the postwar years. Pointing out the Americocentric bias in most histories of this period, Harbutt shows that the Europeans played a more significant part in precipitating the Cold War than most people realize. He stresses that the same pattern of events that earlier led America belatedly into two world wars, namely the initial separation and then the sudden coming together of the European and American political arenas, appeared here as well. From the combination of biographical and structural approaches, a new historical landscape emerges. The United States appears at times to be the rather passive object of competing Soviet and British maneuvers. The turning point came with the crisis of early 1946, which here receives its fullest analysis to date, when the Truman administration in a systematic but carefully veiled and still widely misunderstood reorientation of policy (in which Churchill figured prominently) led the Soviet Union into the political confrontation that brought on the Cold War.
Author : T. Heppell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137314214
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book How Labour Governments Fall written by T. Heppell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What similarities exist between the reasons for Labour losing office in 2010 and those behind why previous Labour governments were defeated? This edited volume provides a detailed historical appraisal which considers the importance of themes such as economic performance; political leadership and the condition of the Conservatives in opposition.
Author : Ian McLaine
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857729012
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book A Korean Conflict written by Ian McLaine and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-21 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1950, just five years after the end of World War II, Britain and America again went to war--this time to try and combat the spread of communism in East Asia following the invasion of South Korea by communist forces from the North. This book charts the course of the UK-US 'special relationship' from the journey to war beginning in 1947 to the fall of the Labour government in 1951. Ian McLaine casts fresh light on relations between Truman and Attlee and their officials, diplomats and advisors, including Acheson and MacArthur. He shows how Britain was persuaded to join a war it could ill afford and was forced to rearm at great cost to the economy. The decision to participate in the war caused great strain to the Labour party--provoking the Bevan-Gaitskell split which was to keep the party out of office for the next decade. McLaine's revisionist study shows how disastrous the war was for the British--and for the Labour party in particular. It sheds important new light on UK-US relations during a key era in diplomatic and Cold War history.
Author : K. Ruane
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230599087
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the European Defence Community written by K. Ruane and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-06-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the European Defence Community (EDC) as a case-study, this book examines the competing and often conflicting view of the British and American governments towards European integration in the early 1950s. The British, fearing an 'agonizing reappraisal' of the American defence commitment to Europe if the supranational EDC failed, went to great lengths to ensure the success of the scheme. When, despite these efforts, the EDC finally collapsed in August 1954, NATO was plunged into arguably the most severe crisis in its history. The crisis also possessed an Anglo-American dimension, with London and Washington badly divided on how it should be resolved. In the end, the British were instrumental in the creation of the Western European Union as a successor to the EDC. Their crisis management, however, had been rooted in fear of the 'agonizing reappraisal', a danger dismissed by many historians as exaggerated but which the British, in 1954, were perhaps right to take seriously.
Author : Geraldine, Elizabeth Gadbin-George, Gibson-Morgan
Publisher : Iggybook
ISBN 13 : 2304047815
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (4 download)
Download or read book UK and France: Friends or Foes? (Trans) cultural and legal unions and disunions written by Geraldine, Elizabeth Gadbin-George, Gibson-Morgan and published by Iggybook. This book was released on 2019-09-17T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time of major changes in the United Kingdom and to a lesser extent in France, induced by the proposed Brexit process, this collective work – composed of thirteen chapters from highly experienced academics and specialist professionals from both sides of the Channel – examines their consequences on the French and British relationship in a range of institutional, political, legal, economic, cultural but also strategic and defence-related fields with an emphasis on comparative and/or European points of view. The two editors are respectively Associate Professors at Panthéon-Assas and Tours universities. Geraldine Gadbin-George is an English solicitor, a former avocat at the Paris bar and a former French judge. Elizabeth Gibson-Morgan is Visiting Senior Research Fellow at King’s College London in the Department of Contemporary History.
Author : William Mulligan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230289622
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Primacy of Foreign Policy in British History, 1660–2000 written by William Mulligan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-10-20 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: External challenges, strategic threats, and war have shaped the course of modern British history. This volume examines how Britain mobilized to meet these challenges and how developments in the constitution, state, public sphere, and economy were a response to foreign policy issues from the Restoration to the rise of New Labour.
Author : Stuart Ball
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135284903
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Mass Conservatism written by Stuart Ball and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers that comprise this volume reveal how people are intent on preserving not only their wealth but culture too. The individual contributions identify the key arguments used to coax voters, whose natural sympathies might gravitate to the left, to vote for the Conservative Party en masse.
Author : Michael J. Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135767076
Total Pages : 573 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)
Download or read book Strategy and Politics in the Middle East, 1954-1960 written by Michael J. Cohen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-10-21 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a synthesis of strategic planning and diplomacy in the Middle East during a critical period The book explains the pivotal role that the young State of Israel played in Middle East politics Will appeal to students of strategy, middle eastern politics and military history.
Author : Behcet Kemal Yesilbursa
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113576686X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)
Download or read book The Baghdad Pact written by Behcet Kemal Yesilbursa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-08 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the formation of the Baghdad Pact and Anglo-American defence policies in the Middle East, 1950-1959. It determines the aims with which the pact was established; the failings of the pact, and the struggle that was undertaken against it by hostile countries. It examines the events surrounding the formation, development and collapse of the pact, and Anglo-American attempts to contain the Soviet Union in the Middle East. It also deals with British and American policies towards the pact and Middle Eastern defence. It seeks to examine British and American post-war defence policies in the Middle East and their collective defence projects in the region, such as the Middle East Command and Northern Tier, leading to the Baghdad Pact. It does not attempt to offer a comprehensive history of British and American policies in the Middle East, and particularly aims to explore those policies with regard to the problems of Middle East defence. In addition, it explores the policies of the local members of the pact, and examines the pact's internal structure. It poses the questions of how the members of the pact and the United States perceived the question of Middle East defence; what their basic aims were; and what problems they faced while trying to achieve these aims and implementing their chosen solutions.
Author : British Society for International Understanding
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135766878
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)
Download or read book The Baghdad Pact written by British Society for International Understanding and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1957 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeffrey Crean
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135023396X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)
Download or read book The Fear of Chinese Power written by Jeffrey Crean and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The real and potential power of China, the world's most populous nation, has long been seen as a threat by its smaller neighbors and global powers alike. The Fear of Chinese Power provides a history of this perceived threat from the 1880s to the present day, and offers rich historical context to an enduring and current concern. Focusing on the United States, but also exploring perceptions from Britain, Germany, the Soviet Union and Japan, this book asks why these fears exist and shows how they have played out on both a strategic, diplomatic level, and in the public sphere. Taking a chronological approach, the chapters explore themes such as western opposition to Chinese immigration, international views of China's new republic, hopes of friendship during the rule of Chiang Kai-Shek, the Korean and Cold Wars, Communist China's economic growth, the Chinese in popular culture and China as a modern global power. Taking economic, military and cultural vantage points into account, The Fear of Chinese Power explains why a powerful China has been a mainstay of the western imagination since the 19th century, and reveals a history which has shaped international perceptions of China to the present day.
