Military History Books
Taylor & Francis Ltd Writing the Great War Sir James Edmonds and the
Book SynopsisBegun within months of the war''s outbreak, and not completed for a further 33 years, the writing of the Official Histories of World War I was a venture of unprecedented scale and complexity.Who, then, was responsible for producing such an enterprise? Did it aim to inform or did it have darker political motivations? Did the authors, who alone had access to records that were to remain classified for decades to come, seek to lay the facts and lessons of the war truthfully before the public? A number of critics have claimed that, on the contrary, the Official Histories were highly partial accounts written to protect reputations and cover up the true scale of British military incompetence.Andrew Green directly challenges these views, examining the progress by which official history was written, the motives and influences of its paymasters, and the literary integrity of its historians. The book focuses on four offical volumes covering arguably the most contentious battles ofTable of Contents1. The Origins, Purpose and Workings of the Historical Section 2. Sir James Edmonds 3. Edmonds' Method and Writing 4. "Military Operations: France and Belgium 1916, Volume 1, 1 July - Battle of the Somme" 5. "Military Operations: Gallipoli Part 1" 6. "Military Operations: Gallipoli Part 2" 7. "Military Operations: France and Belgium 1918, Volume , The German March Offensive" 8. "Military Operations: France and Belgium 1917, Volume II, Messins and Third Ypres (Passchendaele)" 9. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Deterrence and the New Global Security
Book SynopsisThis collection of papers rigorously examines the current place of deterrence in international security relations, delivering the best of contemporary thinking. This is a special issue of the leading journal Contemporary Security Policy.It shows how and why nuclear deterrence was the central organizing mechanism for international security relations in the second half of the twentieth century. It has been replaced by a new global security environment in which the central role of deterrence, both nuclear and otherwise, appears to have diminished. The Cold War has been succeeded by a new state of play. This book will be of interest to students of military and naval history and security studies.Table of ContentsForeword Introduction 1. Deterrence and Deterrability 2. The Emergence of Stability: Deterrence in Motion and Deterrence Reconstructed 3. Deterrence Asymmetry and other Challenges to Small Nuclear Forces 4. Deterrence and Asymmetry: Non-State Actors and Mass Casualty Terrorism 5. The New Indeterminacy of Deterrence and Missile Defence 6. United States Nuclear Strategy in the Twenty First Century 7. A Few Speculations on Russia's Deterrence Policy 8. Redefining Strategic Stability in a Changing World: A Chinese View 9. France, the United Kingdon and Deterrence in the Twenty First Century 10. Positions on Deterrence in a Non-WMD Country: The Case of Germany 11. Regional Dynamics and Deterrence: South Asia (1) 12. Regional Dynamics and Deterrence: South Asia (2) 13. Regional Dynamics and Deterrence: The Middle East Conclusions
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Clausewitz and African War
Book SynopsisOil, diamonds, timber, food aid - just some of the suggestions put forward as explanations for African wars in the past decade. Another set of suggestions focuses on ethnic and clan considerations. These economic and ethnic or clan explanations contend that wars are specifically not fought by states for political interests with mainly conventional military means, as originally suggested by Carl von Clausewitz in the 19th century. This study shows how alternative social organizations to the state can be viewed as political actors using war as a political instrument.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements Table of Contents List of Maps List of Abbreviations Chapter 1. Clausewitz, the Nature of War and African Warfare War Non-trinitarian War Trinitarian War African War Hypotheses and Cases The Actors The Interests The Instruments Cases Chapter 2. Case Study I Liberia (1989-1997) Introduction Liberia a short overview The Protagonists Phase 1. 24 December 1989 - 29 November 1990 Phase 2. 15 October 1992 - 31 July 1993 Phase 3. Post July 1993 Observations on the Dynamics of the Liberian Conflict Chapter 3. Case Study II Somalia (1988-1995) Introduction, Somalia a short overview The Protagonists Phase 1. 27 May 1988 - 27 January 1991 Phase 2. 28 January 1991 - 3 March 1992 Phase 3. 9 December 1992 - 28 March 1995 Observations on the Dynamics of the Somali Conflict Chapter 4. Political Actors Introduction A Political System Power Legitimacy Authority Rule A Political Actor and Trinitarian WarConcluding Remarks Chapter 5. Political Interests Introduction Political Interests Political Rule Resource Interests Ethnic and Clan Interests Concluding Remarks Chapter 6. Political Instruments and Conventional War Introduction Centre of Gravity Distinction between Combatants and Non-Combatants Number of RecruitsConventional War Concluding Remarks Chapter 7. Politics and Strategy in African Wars; Intervention Dilemmas References Findings Implications Political Dilemmas Military Dilemmas Concluding Remarks
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) NATO Enters the 21st Century Journal of Strategic Studies
Book SynopsisNATO's military intervention in Yugoslavia highlights the choices and problems confronting the alliance as it approaches the new century. An alliance created to keep Western Europe out of the Soviet orbit during the Cold War has sought to reinvent itself as a crisis-management organization to suppress conflicts on Europe's periphery - and perhaps beyond.Is NATO suited to playing such a role, or is the alliance a Cold War anachronism? How will Russia react to an enlarged NATO focused on out-of-area peacekeeping and conflict-prevention missions? Are there alternative security institutions that might better address Europe's security needs in the post-Cold War era?Table of ContentsChoice"readers may be intrigued by its varied critiques of official NATO orthodoxy...recommended at all levels"Choice"eclectic Volume
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Taylor & Francis Reviewing the Cold War
Book SynopsisSince the cold war ended, it has become an international field of study, with new material from China, the former Soviet Union and Europe. This volume takes stock of where these new materials have taken us in our understanding of what the cold war was about and how we should study it.Table of ContentsIt is welcome reading for anyone who is steeped in new archival evidence" on Cold War crises ("the trees") and wants to stand back and look at the Cold War as a whole ("the forest").The Russian Review
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Myth of Inevitable US Defeat in Vietnam 3
Book SynopsisThis book offers a dispassionate strategic examination of the Vietnam conflict that challenges the conventional wisdom that South Vietnam could not survive as an independent non-communist entity over the long term regardless of how the United States conducted its military- political effort in Indochina.Table of ContentsWalton has provided diplomatic and military historians with a provocative and creative view of the Vietnam War...the book should spur debate on the causes of the United States military failure in South-East Asia."- The International History Review
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Taylor & Francis Understanding the War in Kosovo
Book SynopsisThis is a comprehensive survey of developments in Kosovo leading up to, during and after the war in 1999, providing additionally the international and regional framework to the conflict.Trade Review'With its unique focus, this book constitutes an important milestone in a large academic debate. With its 350 pages this rich collection provides many valuable perspectives, yet, it also raises some questions.'- Nationalities Papers, Vol 32, No. 2'With its multi-disciplinary character this book is a valuable source for scholars, policy-makers, and journalists who want to make feasible arguments and informed policy choices related to the region.'- Maria Koinova, Harvard UniversityTable of Contents1. Claims to Kosovo 2. Kosovo or Kosova 3. Ethnic Prejudices and Discrimination 4. The Limits of Non Military International Intervention 5. Rambouillet 6. When Doves Support War and Hawks Oppose It 7. The Theory of Humanitarian Intervention 8. War on Kosovo 9. Religion in Kosovo and the Balkans 10. The UN in Kosovo 11. Ethnic Borders to a Democratic Society 12. The EU Intervention 13. Questioning Reconstruction v Regional Perspectives for an Independent Kosovo 14. Kosovo Independence and Macedonian Stability 15. Serbia after the Kosovo War
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Taylor & Francis MI6 and the Machinery of Spying
Book SynopsisPhilip H. J. Davies is one of a growing number of British academic scholars of intelligence, but the only academic to approach the subject in terms of political science rather than history. He wrote his PhD at the University of Reading on the topic ''Organisational Development of Britain''s Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1979'', and has published extensively on intelligence and defence issues. After completing his PhD he taught for a year and a half on the University of London external degree programme in Singapore before returning to the UK to lecture at the University of Reading for two years. He was formerly Associate Professor of International and Security Studies at the University of Malaya in Malaysia where he not only conducted his research but provided a range of training and consultancy services to the Malaysian intelligence and foreign services. He is now based at Brunel University, UKTrade Review'Philip Davies has written what is bound to become the standard account of how MI6 is organized and how that organization has evolved over time.'- Christie Davies, Political Studies Review'A very thoroughly researched contribution to political studies based on confidential interviews with former SIS officers and archives.' - Christie Davies, Political Studies ReviewTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Origins and the First World War, 1903-18 3. The Inter-war Years, 1919-39 4. War Without and Within, 1939-45 5. A New Kind of War, 1946-56 6. To the End of the Cold War and After, 1956-95 7. Machines of Government and Intelligence
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Taylor & Francis Across the Blocs Exploring Comparative Cold War Cultural and Social History Cold War History
Book SynopsisThis book asks the reader to reassess the Cold War not just as superpower conflict and high diplomacy, but as social and cultural history.Trade Review'Historical science would do well to emphasize the status of ther east-West conflict as a struggle for cultural meaning - as a 'war of intellects'. This book helps that process.' Jost DulfferTable of Contents1. East is East and West is West?: Towards a comparative sociocultural history of the Cold War 2. The Man Who Invented Truth: The tenure of Edward R. Murrow as director of the United States Information Agency during the Kennedy years 3. Soviet Cinema in the Early Cold War 4. Future Perfect?: Communist science fiction in the Cold War 5. The Education of Dissent: Radio free Europe and Hungarian society, 1951-56 6. The Debate over Nuclear Refuge 7. Some Writers Are More Equal Than Others: George Orwell, the state and Cold War propaganda
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Duckworth Books The Dardanelles Disaster Winston Churchills
Book SynopsisAcclaimed naval military historian Dan van der Vat argues that the disaster at the Dardanelles not only prolonged the war for two years and brought Britain to the brink of starvation, but also led to the Russian Revolution and contributed to the rapid destabilisation of the Middle East.Trade Review'A fascinating account' Nautical Magazine'Dan van der Vat has built a powerful reputation as a naval historian. The Dardanelles Disaster is a thundering assessment of a long-forgotten campaign that was a minefield of diplomacy and a failure of deep consequence that paved the way for the Russian revolution' Oxford Times
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Irish Academic Press Ltd Warfare in Ireland 18002000 v 2 Essays from the
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Irish Academic Press Ltd The Trial of Civilians by Military Courts Ireland
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Irish Academic Press Ltd Neither Unionist nor Nationalist The 10th Irish
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Gill Orange Green Khaki The Story of the Irish Regiments in the Great War 191418
Book Synopsis50,000 Irishmen died in World War I - all of whom were volunteers. The Irish were mobilized in three divisions - the 10th, the 16th and the 36th as well as in the traditional Irish regiments. This book looks at these regiments and their activities during the 1914-18 war.
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Gill CodeBreaker
Book SynopsisThe incredible true story of the librarian, the Nazi spy and Ireland's secret role in turning the tide of World War IIWhen unassuming librarian Richard Hayes, a gifted polymath and cryptographer, was drafted by Irish intelligence services to track the movements of a prolific Nazi spy, Hermann Görtz, Dublin became the unlikely venue for one of the most thrilling episodes in Irish history.In a complex game of cat-and-mouse that would wind its way through the city and its suburbs, Code Breaker reveals how Richard Hayes cracked a code that helped turn the tide of World War II, and uncovers a secret history of the capital that has remained hidden in plain view for the past 70 years.
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Gill Unspoken
Book SynopsisA triumph of family story-telling' Hugo Hamilton, author of The Pages.A tale of three journeys, the final one a successful pursuit of shadows' Myles DunganGrowing up in Waterford, Tom McGrath never noticed the odd gaps in the stories of his parents' lives before he was born; it was only many years after they died that he uncovered the unspoken truths, which did so much to explain the people they had been.Here he tells the incredible true story of his father's conscription into the British Army, his escape from a prisoner-of-war camp in Poland, his daring journey across Europe and subsequent recapture and the devastating news that awaited him in England. Tom's research also led him to discover that his mother also carried a heartbreaking secret.In writing this book Tom not only recreated his father's nail-biting escape but also embarked on a journey of his own to reconnect with previously unknown family members. Unspoken pieces together an extraordinarily rare tale that encompasses memoir, family history, and two parallel stories that were almost lost for ever.
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Gill OByrne J Irish Civil War in Colour
Book SynopsisHere is the story of Ireland's Civil War in colour a defining moment in Irish history brought to life for the first time in hand-coloured photographs. The events of 19221923 are revealed using photographs painstakingly hand-coloured by John O'Byrne. His attention to detail gives a vivid authenticity that brings the events alive. Many of these photographs, carefully selected from archives and private collections, have never been published before. They carry informative captions by Michael B. Barry, based on extensive historical research.This richly illustrated book gives a fresh perspective to the conflict. If you want a better understanding of the story of the Irish Civil War, this is the book for you.
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Thomas Nelson Publishers The Peace That Almost Was The Forgotten Story of
Book SynopsisA narrative history of the 1861 Washington Peace Conference, the bipartisan, last-ditch effort to prevent the Civil War, an effort that nearly averted the carnage that followed.
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Penguin Books Ltd The Desert War Book 4 of the Ladybird Expert
Book SynopsisPart of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES.____________Why was North Africa such a key component in Britain''s success over Mussolini and his Italian Army?How did they blunt Italy''s actions?What challenges did they face?And what new technologies were brought to bear?When fascist dictator Mussolini declared war against Britain he was taking a huge risk . . . Italy lacked natural resources, and Britain and France''s wealth.He hoped to create a new Roman Empire across the Mediterranean and into Africa. And with Hitler and the Nazi''s by his side he had a great chance of doing so - but what was it that stopped him?Discover the answers and more inside James Holland''s The Desert War, the thrilling and accessible account that explains what happened, who the key figures were and the tactics, triumphs and failures on both sides . . .Trade ReviewPraise for WW2 Ladybird Experts Series * - *Shines a light on some of the darkest and most dramatic moments of the six-year conflict. * Daily Mail *The artwork is gloriously retro, echoing the original Ladybird house style but containing completely up to date information. * Shiny New Books *
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Penguin Books Ltd The Bomber War A Ladybird Expert Book
Book SynopsisPart of the new Ladybird Expert series, The Bomber War is an accessible, insightful and authoritative introduction to the airborne Allied fight against Nazi Germany.- How did aeroplane technology change the theatre of war?- How did the Blitz affect Britain''s ability to fight?- How did the Allies finally triumph?DISCOVER how the complex impact of bomber technology shaped the outcome of World War II. From the Blitz to the Battle of the Ruhr, the Bomber War transformed the state of warfare in the twentieth century. GERMANY''S DEADLY TACTICS, THE ALLIES'' BRUTAL VICTORYWritten by historian, author and broadcaster James Holland and with immersive illustrations by Keith Burns, THE BOMBER WAR is an accessible and enthralling introduction to these critical battles and their impact on the outcome of World War II.Trade ReviewPraise for WW2 Ladybird Experts Series * - *Shines a light on some of the darkest and most dramatic moments of the six-year conflict. * Daily Mail *The artwork is gloriously retro, echoing the original Ladybird house style but containing completely up to date information. * Shiny New Books *
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Penguin Books Ltd The War in Italy A Ladybird Expert Book
Book Synopsis* PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY NOW *- Why did the Allies decide to invade Southern Italy?- How did the weather and Italian terrain complicate the fighting?- How did General Mark Clark''s Allied Armies win the final battle?Discover the mounting conflict and complex campaigns of the war in Italy. From Operation HUSKY to Clark''s final offensive, the Allied campaign tightened the noose around Nazi Germany and saw the end of Italian Fascism, though it was at a cost of high civilian casualty and destruction.AN EPIC OF GRIT, DETERMINATION AND SACRIFICEWritten by historian, author and broadcaster James Holland and with immersive illustrations by Keith Burns, THE WAR IN ITALY 1943-1945 is an accessible and enthralling introduction to these critical battles and their impact on the outcome of World War II
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Penguin Books Ltd The Battle for Normandy 1944
Book SynopsisBOOK 9 OF THE LADYBIRD EXPERT HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR, FROM AWARD-WINNING HISTORIAN JAMES HOLLANDFeaturing stunning illustrations from Keith Burns, bringing the story to life in vivid detailWhy did the Allies attack on D-Day?How did the Allies pick Normandy as a target?What was Operation Overload, the second front against the Nazis?JUNE 6 1944D-Day was a deciding conflict in World War II. But the invasion was not a straightforward attack.From feeding Nazi spies false information on the attack, to developing new technology like the Mulberry harbours, D-Day changed the course of the War for good.THE LARGEST SEABORNE INVASION IN HISTORYWritten by historian, author and broadcaster James Holland, The Battle for Normandy is an essential introduction to the naval invasion that began the liberation of Western Europe from the Nazis.__________Discov
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Penguin Books Ltd The War in Burma 19431944 A Ladybird Expert Book
Book SynopsisBOOK 10 OF THE LADYBIRD EXPERT HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR, FROM AWARD-WINNING HISTORIAN JAMES HOLLANDFeaturing stunning illustrations from Keith Burns, bringing the story to life in vivid detailWhy were British troops in Burma?What was The Defence of the Admin Box?How did the British defeat the Japanese troops?THE BURMA CAMPAIGN was one of the most prolonged campaigns in the South-East Asian theatre of war, but it was also one of the most dramatic.Against Japanese troops, and monsoon weather, the Allies finally prevailed, demonstrating to the world that the Axis powers could be defeated in the East.BRITAIN''S TURNING POINT IN THE WAR IN THE EASTWritten by historian, author and broadcaster James Holland, The War in Burma is an essential, accessible introduction to Britain''s triumph in the East.__________Discover the full Ladybird Expert WW2 series:
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Penguin Books Ltd Victory in Europe 19441945 A Ladybird Expert Book
Book SynopsisBOOK 11 OF THE LADYBIRD EXPERT HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR, FROM AWARD-WINNING HISTORIAN JAMES HOLLANDFeaturing stunning illustrations from Keith Burns, bringing the story to life in vivid detailWhat was Operation Bagration?Why did the Warsaw Uprising fail?How were the Nazis finally crushed?BRITAIN''S VICTORY IN EUROPE was a pivotal moment in the impending end of WW2, but it was no easy feat.With most of Europe under Axis control, the Allies battled through the brutal winter of 1945 to overcome German forces and finally defeat Hitler.THE PINNACLE MOMENT IN BRITAIN''S WW2 SUCCESSWritten by historian, author and broadcaster James Holland, Victory in Europe is an essential, accessible introduction to Britain''s triumph over the Nazis.__________Discover the full Ladybird Expert WW2 series:BlitzkriegThe Battle of BritainBattle of the AtlanticThe Desert WarThe Eastern FrontThe Pacific WarThe Bomber WarThe War in ItalyThe Battle for NormandyThe War in BurmaVictory in EuropeVictory Against Japan
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Penguin Books Ltd Victory Against Japan A Ladybird Expert Book
Book SynopsisBOOK 12 OF THE LADYBIRD EXPERT HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR, FROM AWARD-WINNING HISTORIAN JAMES HOLLANDFeaturing stunning illustrations from Keith Burns, bringing the story to life in vivid detailWhy did Japan decide to attack at Pearl Harbour?What was the Japanese vision of a Greater Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere?How did the American strategy turn the tide against Japanese offensives?Uncover the complexities of the brutal war against Japan.From the surprise attack on Pearl Harbour, Oahu, to the Philippines Campaign, the Allies were finally able to turn the tide against the onslaught of Japanese forces.Ending in Japanese surrender after the devastating atomic bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the war in Japan was eventually won, but at the cost of civilian lives.THE WAR THAT LED TO TWO ATOMIC BOMBINGSWritten by historian, author and broadcaster James Holland, Victory
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Penguin Books Ltd The English Civil War At First Hand
Book SynopsisAlmost a quarter of a million lives were lost as King and Parliament battled for their religious and political ideals in the English Civil War. England was divided between Cavaliers and Roundheads engaged in bitter struggles from Preston to Lostwithiel, Pembroke to York. Armies were on the march, villages were decimated and great dynasties destroyed: fathers and sons, uncles and cousins were pitted against each other in defence of their loyalties. The civil war led to the execution of a king, the beginnings of sectarian division in Ireland, savage clan warfare in Scotland and the roots of English socialism.Tristram Hunt avoids adding to the many, mostly transitory interpretations of the civil war and instead offers a timeless narrative based on the first-hand accounts of those who witnessed these traumatic events. In doing so he brings out the voices of the civil war generation - those who lost sons, who witnessed massacres and who fought for an ideal. In this book we see th
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Penguin Books Ltd Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death Reflections
Book SynopsisOtto Dov Kulka''s memoir of a childhood spent in Auschwitz is a literary feat of astounding emotional power, exploring the permanent and indelible marks left by the HolocaustWinner of the JEWISH QUARTERLY-WINGATE PRIZE 2014As a child, the distinguished historian Otto Dov Kulka was sent first to the ghetto of Theresienstadt and then to Auschwitz. As one of the few survivors he has spent much of his life studying Nazism and the Holocaust, but always as a discipline requiring the greatest coldness and objectivity, with his personal story set to one side. But he has remained haunted by specific memories and images, thoughts he has been unable to shake off.Translated by Ralph Mandel.''The greatest book on Auschwitz since Primo Levi ... Kulka has achieved the impossible'' - the panel of Judges, Jewish Quarterly-Wingate PrizeTrade ReviewThe greatest book on Auschwitz since Primo Levi ... Kulka has achieved the impossible: a mythological and strangely beautiful new language for living with Auschwitz ... a book as mighty as it is modestOf the many accounts of survival in the Nazi concentration camps - Jewish and non-Jewish - few approach Otto Dov Kulka's for the quality of its writing and attempt to understand the nature of contemporary barbarism ... one of the essential books of our age; not since Primo Levi's The Periodic Table has there been such a powerful holocaust memoir ... the writing, at times trance-like, creates an extraordinary sense of communion and intimacy with the reader ... in pained but lucid prose Kulka seeks to understand how his memory processed the trauma of Auschwitz * Telegraph *'A poetic masterpiece unlike anything else written on the subject' * Telegraph BOOKS OF THE YEAR *This is one of the most remarkable testimonies to inhumanity that I know. The deeply moving recollections of Dov Kulka's boyhood years in Auschwitz, interwoven with reflections of elegiac, poetic quality, vividly convey the horror of the death-camp, the trauma of family and friends, and the indelible imprint left on the memory of a young boy who became a distinguished historian of the Holocaust. An extraordinarily important work which needs to be readAstonishing ... [Landscapes] is, quite simply, extraordinary ... a sort of Modernist precipitate of a historical work, something strange and powerful formed from, but separate to, the solution of history ... I can't see how this book could be bettered * Times Higher Education *Almost unclassifiable ... Nothing else I have read comes close to this profound examination of what the Holocaust means ... [Kulka's] journey strikes me as a quest similar to the attempt to describe the face of God or the structure of the universe. They are too vast and too mysterious. Not that this stops us, or this author, from trying * New Statesman *Primo Levi's testimony, it is often said, is that of a chemist: clear, cool, precise, distant. So with Kulka's work: this is the product of a master historian - ironic, probing, present in the past, able to connect the particular with the cosmic. His memory is in the service of deep historical understanding, rendered in evocative prose that is here eloquently translated from Hebrew * Guardian *Beautiful, startling ... This is a great book: read it. And be grateful - its publication is, in every possible sense, a miracle ... It is the strange and shocking paradox, this child's world constructed in such proximity to death, that makes the book so startling and so beautiful. Every incident is, in effect, seen twice: through the eyes of the historian and the eyes of a boy ... This is not history, it is something else... his words enter the wider sphere of literature * Sunday Times *Kulka's reflections have an unsettling rawness ... yet even in Auschwitz, there are moments of protest, black humour and beauty ... This is a grave, poetic and horrifying account of the Holocaust which does not so much revisit the Auschwitz of the past, but the Auschwitz of Kulka's inner world * Independent *This is not so much a book about Auschwitz as one about coming to terms with the shock of survival ... Amid fragmentary, digressive impressions are images of terrible poetic concreteness ... What, ultimately, makes Kulka's book unlike any other first-hand account written about the camps is the authenticity of its vision of an 11-year-old boy... He has done the rest of us - and the world - so great a kindness by writing his book ... offer[ing] the barest glint of sunlight amid a thunderous darkness * Financial Times *A book of moments, hauntings and dreams ... it is unremitting and touches us all [with] a hallucinatory power * The Times *Otto Dov Kulka's brief, beautiful and unsettling Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death brings together childhood memories of Auschwitz with the reflections of a historian who has spent his life working on the Holocaust: a masterly interrogation of memory and the limitations of historical detachment * Times Literary Supplement BOOKS OF THE YEAR *A historian's memoir of Auschwitz, without sentimentality and almost without outrage, since it is an examination of a place where all human reactions are inadequate ... an overwhelming testimony to the human love of truth * Guardian *For the first time, [Kulka] has turned his academic eye inward to explore as unflinchingly as possible the ways in which his childhood encounter with Auschwitz has affected him. Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death makes for deeply disturbing but ultimately very rewarding reading, and is unlike any Holocaust memoir I have ever come across ... The book is not a memoir in the conventional sense, but an extraordinary collection of some of the memories, ideas and dreams that make up Kulka's internal landscape * Telegraph *In this short, powerful memoir, every word tells its story * Daily Mail *The term memoir barely seems adequate to the introspective, often poetic, sometimes hallucinatory moments that [Landscapes] captures ... such an important contribution to the literature on the Holocaust ... [it] unsettles presuppositions about the camp and its lasting psychological effects so thoroughly that even a reader steeped in the Holocaust canon is likely to experience a sense of defamiliarisation * Sydney Review of Books *Otto Dov Kulka's name should be as well known as Primo Levi's as a supreme writer of personal experience of the hell of Auschwitz. But his Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death is unlike any other Holocaust writing because it faithfully reproduces the sensibility of the eleven year old boy that Kulka was at the time. So, unnervingly there are blue skies and daring games and actual school classes along with the smell of the smoke of incinerated bodies. More than other writing except Levi's Kulka's book, excavated with great pain via his attempted therapy of memory, sets you, the reader there. It is an imperishable achievement born of strength of mind and body and a kind of glowing inner vitality that I was lucky enough to encounter when I met him a few years ago. Profound scholar, extraordinary writer some part of him remained miraculously boyish in his warm vitality. -- Simon Schama
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Manchester University Press From Beveridge to Blair The First Fifty Years of
Book SynopsisThis 50-year overview examines both the evolution of Britain's welfare state, and the varying attitudes towards it. The text concentrates on the five core services of the welfare state: health care, education, social security and the personal social services.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsChronology of events1. Introduction2. The political debate3. Social security4. Health care5. Education6. Housing7. The personal social servicesGuide to further readingIndex
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Manchester University Press Britain in the Second World War A Social History
Book SynopsisThis text provides original documents which are designed to help the reader evaluate claims that World War II introduced a new sense of social solidarity and social idealism which led to a consensus on welfare state reform.
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Manchester University Press Men ideas and tanks British Military Thought and
Book SynopsisMen, ideas and tanks reviews the development of British military ideas on armoured forces from 1903 to 1939.Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Genesis2. Tanks, visionaries and officialdom: June 1915?November 19163. The Road to Cambrai4. Cambrai to the German Spring Offensive: November 1917?June 19185. “Mechanical warfare” and victory6. An era of experiment: 1919?317. Losing the lead: 1931?368. The approach of war: 1936?39ConclusionBibliographyIndex
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Manchester University Press The Management of the British Economy 19452001
Book SynopsisThis essential work for students of economic and economic history provides an overview of economic management in Britain since 1945, how it has changed and why it has not always been successful. It examines clearly the policies introduced, the problems various governments faced in implementing them and how policy-making changed.Table of ContentsList of figuresList of tablesForeword1. Introduction; Economic Policy since 19452. Reconstruction: 1945-513. The Thirteen Years: 1951-644. The Wilson Governments: 1964-705. The Nineteen Seventies: The Great Stagflation6. The New Approach: The Thatcher Governments, 1979-907. Fine Tuning The New Approach: 1990-20018. Some Final ReflectionsAppendicesGlossaryCalendar of eventsBibliography
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Manchester University Press The Vietnam Wars Documents in Contemporary
Book SynopsisThis source book chronicles the history of the most controversial conflict of the 20th century, beginning with the birth of the Vietnamese communist party in 1930 and ending with the Vietnamese revolution in 1975. The text combines short essays with original documents to illustrate the debate.Table of ContentsWar and revolution, 1939-46; the Franco-Vietminh War, 1946-54; war renewed, 1954-60; the struggle for South Vietnam, 1960-65; the American war, 1965-68; wars of peace, 1968-74; assessments and reflections.
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Manchester University Press The Second Crusade Scope and Consequences
Book SynopsisThis wide-ranging collection offers a series of original interpretations of partially explored evidence for all three theatres of war during the Second Crusade (1145-49). It also considers the planning, execution and consequences of the crusade for western Europe, the Crusader States of the Holy Land and the Muslim Near East.Table of ContentsThe Second Crusade in history and research - Jonathan Phillips and Martin Hoch; narrative outline of the Second Crusade - Jonathan Phillips and Martin Hoch; papacy, empire and the Second Crusade - Jonathan Phillips; the papacy and the Second Crusade - Rudolf Hiestand; Albert of Aachen, St Bernard and the Second Crusade and the Lisbon letter - a translation - Susan Edgington; military aspects of the capture of Lisbon, 1147 - Matthew Bennett; capta est dertosa, clavis Christianorum - Tortosa and the Crusades - Nikolas Jaspert; the coming and impact of the Second Crusade - Carole Hillenbrand; tales of the undead - who was the count in Marcabru's "Vers del Lavador" - Linda Paterson; the non-crusade of 1150 - Timothy Reuter; Denmark and the Second Crusade - the formation of a crusader state - Kurt Willads Jensen; the price of failure - the Second Crusade as a turning point in the history of the Latin East? - Martin Hoch.
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Manchester University Press American Film and Politics from Reagan to Bush Jr
Book SynopsisThis study covers two decades in American history, when the links between Hollywood and Washington were at their strongest, a period "book-ended" by the political and cinematic figures of Reagan and Clinton. During this period movies became targets of political rhetoric of "family values".Table of ContentsIntroduction - Philip John Davies & Paul Wells1. American cinema, political criticism and pragmatism: A therapeutic reading of Fight Club and Magnolia - Paul Watson2. 'Ask not what America can do for you…': Views from the White House: Hollywood in elections and elections in Hollywood - Philip John Davies3. Oliver Stone's presidential films - Albert Auster4. '…in order to form a more perfect union': some manifest destinies: Gender and family values in the Clinton presidency and 1990s Hollywood film - Carol R. Smith5. '…and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea': crossing boundaries: New York City in American film - Leonard Quart6. Dixie's land: Cinema of the American South - Ralph Willett7. '…into the crucible with you all, God is making the American…': melting pots and pans: Independent Cinema and modern Hollywood: pluralism in American cultural politics - Brian Neve8. 'I wanna be like you-oo-oo': Disnified politics and identity from 'The Little Mermaid' to' Mulan' - Paul Wells9. 'Oh! Say, does the star-spangled banner yet wave, o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?' : contemporary conflict and contradiction: Ambiguity and Anger : Representations of African Americans in contemporary Hollywood film - Mary Ellison10. The Adversarial Imagination - Phil Melling
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Manchester University Press A History of the Ulster Unionist Party Protest
Book SynopsisThis is the first scholarly history of the development of the Ulster Unionist Party. It is essential reading for an understanding of the importance of this party to the process of finding a political settlement to Northern IrelandTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsPreface1. Origins: Irish Home Rule and the political birth of Protestant Ulster, 1885-19052. Confrontations: 'Carry on Carson', 1905-19203. Devolved and dominant: Craig's party, 1920-19404. Union dues, dividends and dilemmas: the impact of war and its legacies, 1940-19585. Challenges: losing control, 1958-19726. Altered states: the Unionist Party and the Northern Ireland conflict, 1972-2002ConclusionAppendices
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Manchester University Press Contesting home defence
Book SynopsisContesting home defence is a new history of the Home Guard, a novel national defence force of the Second World War composed of civilians who served as part-time soldiers: it questions accounts of the force and the war, which have seen them as symbols of national unity. It scrutinises the Home Guard''s reputation and explores whether this ''people''s army'' was a site of social cohesion or of dissension by assessing the competing claims made for it at the time. It then examines the way it was represented during the war and has been since, notably in Dad''s Army, and discusses the memories of men and women who served in it. The book makes a significant and original contribution to debates concerning the British home front and introduces fresh ways of understanding the Second World War.Table of ContentsList of illustrationsList of abbreviationsPreface and acknowledgements1. Introduction: contested historiesPART ONE: POLITICAL CHALLENGES2. The People’s Army: competing visions of the Home Guard3. Women, weapons and home defencePART TWO: REPRESENTATIONS4. The Home Guard in wartime popular culture5. Representations of women and home defence6. Dad's Army and Home Guard historyPART THREE: PERSONAL TESTIMONY7. Men’s memories of the Home Guard8. Women, memory and home defence9. ConclusionAppendix 1 Personal Testimony: WomenAppendix 2 Personal Testimony: MenBibliography
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Manchester University Press Contesting Home Defence Men Women and the Home
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of illustrationsList of abbreviationsPreface and acknowledgements1. Introduction: contested historiesPART ONE: POLITICAL CHALLENGES2. The People’s Army: competing visions of the Home Guard3. Women, weapons and home defencePART TWO: REPRESENTATIONS4. The Home Guard in wartime popular culture5. Representations of women and home defence6. Dad's Army and Home Guard historyPART THREE: PERSONAL TESTIMONY7. Men’s memories of the Home Guard8. Women, memory and home defence9. ConclusionAppendix 1 Personal Testimony: WomenAppendix 2 Personal Testimony: MenBibliography
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Manchester University Press War Girls The First Aid Nursing Yeomanry in the
Book SynopsisWar Girls shares the stories of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY), a group of audacious middle- and upper-class British women volunteers who nursed and worked as driver-mechanics during the First World War. It explores the ways the women subverted traditional mythologies about gender and imagined new cultural possibilitiesTable of ContentsIntroduction I. Aristocratic amazons in arms: The founding of the FANY 1907–14 2. The great adventures begin: Grace Ashley-Smith in Belgium Autumn 1914 3. Band of Hope: FANY with the Belgians at Lamarck Hospital 1914–15 4. Not a woman, but a FANY: Working for the British in Calais 1916 5. Progression is our watchword: The Belgian Convoy and Port à Binson Priory hospital 1917 6. Petticoat warriors: The French units and the convoy at St Omer 1917–18 7. Esprit de corps: FANY service after the Armistice 1918–19 PostscriptIndex
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Manchester University Press Reconsidering Gallipoli
Book SynopsisThis study broadens the debate over the cultural history of World War I beyond the Western Front, putting Australian dominance of the historiography of Gallipoli into perspective. It explores the cultural history of the 1915 campaign through the books and articles written by men who were there.Table of ContentsList of figuresAcknowledgementsMapsIntroduction1. The official response: The Dardanelles Commission2. The official response: The official histories3. The journalists’ response: Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett and C. E. W. Bean4. The soldiers’ tale: Participants’ personal narratives5. The Commander’s Response: General Sir Ian Hamilton6. Post-participant historiography of Gallipoli ConclusionBibliography
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Manchester University Press Telling tales about men
Book SynopsisExplores some of the ways in which conscientious objectors to compulsory military service were viewed and treated in England during the First World War. In doing so it considers these men's experiences, their beliefs, perceptions and actions. -- .Trade Review‘Imagine Christ dressed in khaki, thrusting his bayonet into another man. This was what some conscientious objectors to the war of 1914-18 urged their co-patriots to do. In telling the intriguing stories of these men, Lois Bibbings brilliantly exposes the contradictions of manliness in wartime.’ Professor Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck College -- .Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of illustrations IntroductionPrologue 1. ‘Despised and Rejected’ 2. Of cowards, shirkers and ‘unmen’ 3. Deviance: degeneracy, decadence and criminality 4. The ‘national danger’ 5. Conscientious objectors 6. Patriots and heroes Conclusion Epilogue Select bibliographyIndex
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Manchester University Press Jamaican Volunteers in the First World War Race
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking study that uncovers the expereince of black Jamaican soldiers to provide a fresh historical insight into the First World War. A book that will appeal to undergraduates and general readers interested in warfare, Imperial and black history.Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Degeneration and male hysteria: the wartime crisis of white masculinity2. ‘The cannon’s summoning roar’: Jamaica and the outbreak of war3. The recruitment of Jamaican volunteers4. Jamaican soldiers in Europe and the Middle East5. ‘Their splendid physical proportions’: the black soldier in the white imagination6. Discrimination and mutiny7. Military endeavour, nationalism and Pan-AfricanismIndex
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Manchester University Press Communism in Britain 1920 39 From the Cradle to
Book SynopsisBased on extensive use of primary evidence, this book is a study of the British communist life between the Wars as it was experienced at the various phases of the life cycle.Table of ContentsIntroductionPART I: The communist life cycle: the early years1. In the home: communist mothercraft and child rearing 2. Into the Party structure: the communist children movement 3. A bright and purposeful life: youth and the Young Communist League PART II: The communist life cycle: adulthood4. A single communist personality?: communist couples and Red families 5. Being in a familiar place: the life of the adult activistPART III: The communist life cycle: Shaping communists 6. Tending the communist body: the quest for physical fitness7. Communist life style: fostering correct habits, good behaviour, and right ways of living8. Communists at play9. Culture from below: a culture for proletariansPART IV: The communist life cycle: end of the cycle10. In memoriamAfterword Select bibliographyIndex
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