The Campaign for the Eastern Mediterranean in World War II
Both Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler wanted the Aegean Sea in 1943. The British prime minister saw an opportunity to force neutral Turkey into the Allied camp and pin down German forces while the Nazi leader hoped to keep Turkey neutral and maintain Germany's foothold in the Mediterranean and Greece.
This book provides a history of the early period of the Cold War through the framework of the United States' first two ambassadors to the United Nations, Warren Austin and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., and their tumultuous experiences from the late 1940s to the early 1960s
This book examines how public opinion in the Baltic states hindered the peoples' attempts to establish governments in exile during the upheavals of 1939-1944.
Welcome to Weird War One, a catalogue of the weird, the wonderful and the downright eccentric, from deep within IWM's First World War archives. From bizarre propaganda posters to eccentric spies, from pigeon parachutes to the ventriloquist's dummy that saved his master's life, from tickle sticks to fly swats, this is proof that, as ever, the truth ......
ISBN-13: 9781904897842
(Hardback)
Publisher: UNICORN PRESS Imprint: IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM
In this book, Joseph G. Morgan examines the career of Wesley Fishel, a political scientist who vigorously supported American intervention in the Vietnam War, what he deemed a "a great, and tragic, American experiment."
Eugenics and One Family's Story of Tragedy, Loss, and Perseverance
In this extraordinary book, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist John Erickson uncovers the long-hidden story of an immigrant family whose matriarch was imprisoned in her 20s and later sterilized, a victim of the state-sanctioned eugenics movement.
The Decline of Participatory Democracy and the Emergence of Modern Ameri
Public involvement in the electoral process has all but disappeared. Nonvoting is systemic in American Politics. It was not always this way. With the integration of America's mass electorate into the electoral system in the 1830s, voters were intensely participatory and remained mobilised in the nineteenth century.
How Jewish Values Transformed Twentieth Century American Pop Culture
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Jewish immigrants upended Protestant control of vaudeville and the silent film industry. This book rejects the commonly held explanations for this shift: Jewish commercial acumen and their desire to assimilate. Instead, this book argues that the "pleasure principle"-a positive view of bodily pleasures and ......
