A Political Legacy of the British Empire

Harshan Kumarasingham

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History
• As the British Empire receded, India and Sri Lanka, then known as Ceylon, preserved the 'Westminster' political system left by their colonial rulers. ... Lees meer

Britain and the Weimar Republic

Colin Storer

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History | nr. 29
• Between the two world wars, Germany managed - despite all the political upheavals it was experiencing - to attract extremely large numbers of British ... Lees meer

Churchill and the Islamic World

Warren Dockter

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History
• Winston Churchill began his career as a junior officer and war correspondent in the North West borderlands of British India, and this experience was t... Lees meer

Europe's Intellectuals and the Cold War

Nancy Jachec

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History
• In 1950, nearly 300 of Europe's leading artists, philosophers and writers formed an international society intended to end the Cold War. The European S... Lees meer

Empires in World War I

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History
• Soon after the guns in Belgium and France had signalled the commencement of what would become the world's single most destructive conflict to date, th... Lees meer

Remembering the Great War

Ian Andrew Isherwood

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History | nr. 91
• The horrors and tragedies of the First World War produced some of the finest literature of the century: including Memoirs of an Infantry Officer; Good... Lees meer

The Making of the German Post-War Economy

Christian L Glossner

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History | nr. 25
• The economic regeneration and post-war reconstruction of West Germany is one of the most remarkable success stories of the 20th century. However, litt... Lees meer

Britain and the United States in Greece

Spero Simeon Z Paravantes

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History
• For the first time, Britain and the United States in Greece provides an in-depth analysis of Anglo-American diplomacy in Greece from 1946 to 1950. Aft... Lees meer

The History of the Communist Party in Cyprus

Yiannos Katsourides

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History
• Cypriot pollitics are among the most contentious in Europe, and frequently attract the attention of the international community. Here, Yiannos Katsour... Lees meer

The Dresden Firebombing

Tony Joel

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History
• The firebombing of Dresden marks the terrible apex of the European bombing war. In just over two days in February 1945, over 1,300 heavy bombers from ... Lees meer

The Road to Vietnam

Pablo de Orellana

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History
• Why did the USA become involved in Vietnam? What led US policy makers to become convinced that Vietnam posed a threat to American interests? In The Ro... Lees meer

The Secret War for China

Panagiotis Dimitrakis

• Paperback | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History
• The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, in support of a Marxist-Leninist government, and the subsequent nine-year conflict with the indigenous Afghan Muja... Lees meer

Australia and Appeasement

Christopher Waters

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History | nr. 53
• On 3 September 1939, Robert Menzies, the Australian Prime Minister, broadcast to the Australian people the news that their country was at war with Ger... Lees meer

Croatia Under Ante Pavelic

Robert B McCormick

• Paperback | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History
• Ante Pavelic was the leader of the fascist party of Croatia (the Ustase), who, on Adolf Hitler's instruction, became the leader of Croatia after the N... Lees meer

Creating a Socialist Yugoslavia

Hilde Katrine Haug

• Paperback | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History
• When the Yugoslav communists came into power in 1945, they claimed to have introduced a socialist solution to the Yugoslav national question. But what... Lees meer

The History of Genocide in Cinema

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History
• The organization 'Genocide Watch' estimates that 100 million civilians around the globe have lost their lives as a result of genocide in only the past... Lees meer

The Making of the Slovak People's Party

Thomas Lorman

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History
• In 1945, just six years after coming to power, the Slovak People's Party (SLS) was disbanded as a 'criminal organisation' and its leader - Jozef Tiso ... Lees meer

Cyprus Before 1974

Marilena Varnava

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History
• Focusing on the period from September 1964, when Senor Galo Lasso Plaza assumed the UN mediatory role, to the coup d'etat and the Turkish invasion ten... Lees meer

Advertising and Propaganda in World War II

David Clampin

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History
• The Blitz- the period of Nazi bombing campaigns on civilian Britain during World War II- was a formative period for British national identity. In this... Lees meer

Frantz Fanon

Leo Zeilig

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History
• Frantz Fanon is best known as one of the leading twentieth-century political thinkers and activists against colonialism and imperialism and as the aut... Lees meer

World War I in Central and Eastern Europe

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History
• In the English language World War I has largely been analysed and understood through the lens of the Western Front. This book addresses this imbalance... Lees meer

The Propaganda War in the Rhineland

Peter Collar

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History | nr. 57
• Piecing together a fractured European continent after World War I, the Versailles Peace Treaty stipulated the long term occupation of the Rhineland by... Lees meer

Warsaw Pact Intervention in the Third World

• Paperback | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History
• It was long assumed that the Soviet Union dictated Warsaw Pact policy in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America (known as the 'Third World' d... Lees meer

Attlee's War

Robert Crowcroft

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History | nr. 41
• As deputy prime minister of Britain's coalition government during World War II, Clement Attlee became one of the most powerful figures in British poli... Lees meer