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Tank Battles of the Cold War 1948-1991As Anthony Tucker-Jones shows in this highly illustrated, wide-ranging history, for most of the Cold War the tank retained its pre-eminence on the battlefield.Author: Anthony Tucker-JonesPublisher: US Naval Institute PressPublished: 08/15/2021Pages: 256Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.45lbsSize: 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.10dISBN: 9781526778017About the AuthorAnthony Tucker-Jones...
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Sisters Under the Rising SunA phenomenal novel of resilience and survival from bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Heather Morris. In the midst of World War II, an English musician, Norah Chambers, places her eight-year-old daughter Sally on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe...
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The Paris AssignmentLondoner Madeleine Grant is studying at the Sorbonne in Paris when she marries charismatic French journalist Giles Martin. As they raise their son, Olivier, they hold on to a tenuous promise for the future. Until the thunder of war sets off alarms in France.Author:...
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The Secret Book of Flora LeaIn the war-torn London of 1939, fourteen-year-old Hazel and five-year-old Flora are evacuated to a rural village to escape the horrors of the Second World War. Living with the kind Bridie Aberdeen and her teenage son, Harry, in a charming stone cottage along the...
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Novels, Rhetoric, and Criticism: A Brief History of Belles Lettres and British Literary Culture, 1680 - 1900Developing a history of the English novel requires the inclusion of a vast range of cultural, economic, religious, social, and aesthetic influences. But the role of eighteenth-century English rhetorical theory in the emergence of the novel - and the critical discourse surrounding that emergence...
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Lost Worlds of 1863: Relocation and Removal of American Indians in the Central Rockies and the Greater SouthwestA comparative history of the relocation and removal of indigenous societies in the Greater American Southwest during the mid-nineteenth century Lost Worlds of 1863: Relocation and Removal of American Indians in the Central Rockies and the Greater Southwest offers a unique comparative narrative approach...
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A Genealogy of Evil: Anti-Semitism from Nazism to Islamic JihadBased on extensive scrutiny of primary sources from Nazi and Jihadist ideologues, David Patterson argues that Jihadist antisemitism stems from Nazi ideology. This book challenges the idea that Jihadist antisemitism has medieval roots, identifying its distinctively modern characteristics and tracing interconnections that link the...
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Environmental Histories of the Cold WarEnvironmental Histories of the Cold War explores the links between the Cold War and the global environment, ranging from the environmental impacts of nuclear weapons to the political repercussions of environmentalism. Environmental change accelerated sharply during the Cold War years, and so did environmentalism...
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The Collins Class Submarine Story: Steel, Spies and SpinA unique and outstanding military and industrial achievement, the Collins class submarine project was also plagued with difficulties and mired in politics. Its story is one of heroes and villains, grand passions, intrigue, lies, spies and backstabbing. It is as well a story of...
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The Destruction of Jewish Kovno (Kaunas, Lithuania)The ghetto in Kovno has its own tragic place in history because of the cruelty of conditions there and the revolt of Jews towards the end of its days. The dire circumstances of the ghetto became more widely known after World War II with...
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The Emergence of the New South, 1913-1945: A History of the SouthThe history of the South in this century has been obscured in the ever-growing mass of information about the region's rapid change and turbulent development. In this book, Volume X of A History of the South, the historical image of the modern South is...
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Jakub's World: A Boy's Story of Loss and Survival in the HolocaustWhen German troops come to the small village of Be zOEyce, Poland, in 1939, nine-year-old Jakub Szabmacher's world is forever changed. At first the humiliations inflicted by the Germans seem small, but the conditions worsen until eventually Jakub's family and much of his village...
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Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold WarAt the height of the ideological antagonism of the Cold War, the U.S. State Department unleashed an unexpected tool in its battle against Communism: jazz. From 1956 through the late 1970s, America dispatched its finest jazz musicians to the far corners of the earth,...
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The Incarcerated Modern: Prisons and Public Life in IranIran's prison system is a foundational institution of Iranian political modernity. The Incarcerated Modern traces the transformation of Iran from a decentralized empire with few imprisoned persons at the turn of the twentieth century into a modern nation-state with over a quarter million prisoners...
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Cold War Deceptions: The Asia Foundation and the CIADuring the early Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency created dozens of funding fronts to support work that aligned with CIA goals, from clandestine operations and research to liberal anticommunist programs. While investigative journalists and congressional inquiries exposed many of these fronts, little is...
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Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman StateBetween the 1850s and World War I, about one million North Caucasian Muslims sought refuge in the Ottoman Empire. This resettlement of Muslim refugees from Russia changed the Ottoman state. Circassians, Chechens, Dagestanis, and others established hundreds of refugee villages throughout the Ottoman Balkans,...
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The American Musical and the Formation of National IdentityThe American musical has achieved and maintained relevance to more people in America than any other performance-based art. This thoughtful history of the genre, intended for readers of all stripes, offers probing discussions of how American musicals, especially through their musical numbers, advance themes...
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Colonizing Kashmir: State-Building Under Indian OccupationThe Indian government, touted as the world's largest democracy, often repeats that Jammu and Kashmir--its only Muslim-majority state--is "an integral part of India." The region, which is disputed between India and Pakistan, and is considered the world's most militarized zone, has been occupied by...
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Bedouin Bureaucrats: Mobility and Property in the Ottoman EmpireIn the late nineteenth century, the Ottoman government sought to fill landscapes they legally defined as "empty." Both land and people were incorporated into territorially bounded grids of administrative law. Bedouin Bureaucrats examines how tent-dwelling, seasonally migrating Bedouin engaged in these processes of Ottoman...
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The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer: And the Birth of the Modern Arms RaceThe true story of the government conspiracy to bring down J. Robert Oppenheimer, America's most famous scientist.On April 12, 1954, the nation was astonished to learn that J. Robert Oppenheimer was facing charges of violating national security. Could the director of the Manhattan Project,...
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