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Memories of Post-War Liverpool: Living, Learning, and Leaving (Dutch Robert S.)Robert Dutchs memoirs take us back to a working-class Liverpool in the aftermath of the Second World War, where childrens paths were meant to be set out for them based on the results of the 11-plus exam. Robert, however, refused to accept the outcome of the 11-plus, which had him at a secondary mod... |
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The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire (Jonas Raymond)In March 1896 a well-disciplined and massive Ethiopian army did the unthinkable-it routed an invading Italian force and brought Italys war of conquest in Africa to an end. In an age of relentless European expansion, Ethiopia had successfully defended its independence and cast doubt upon an unshakabl... |
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The Coal Black Sea: Winston Churchill and the Worst Naval Catastrophe of the First World War (Heaver Stuart)September 1914. When three Royal Navy armored cruisers were sunk in a single morning in the southern North Sea, causing 1,459 deaths, the British public reacted with shock and dismay. It was only six weeks into the war, and the loss was a huge blow to national morale. The incident also triggered a p... |
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The Foundlings War (Don Michel)Our lives would be all the richer if we read a Michel Don novel--a modern classic.--William Boyd Quiet, wryly funny prose . . . a delight.--Independent on Sunday It is shamefully parochial of us that this eminent writer has been so ignored by the anglophone world.--Sunday Times In this sequel to ... |
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The Ambassadors Daughter (Jenoff Pam)From the New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Girls of Paris. For one woman in the aftermath of World War I, the City of Light harbors dark secrets and dangerous liaisons. Paris, 1919. Margot Rosenthal has arrived in France with her father, a German diplomat. She initially resents being t... |
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What HungerA haunting coming-of-age tale following the daughter of Vietnamese immigrants, Ronny Nguyen, as she grapples with the weight of generational trauma while navigating the violent power of teenage girlhood, for fans ofJennifer's Body and Little Fires Everywhere.It's the summer before high school and Ro... |
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Crimes Unspoken: The Rape of German Women at the End of the Second World War (Gebhardt Miriam)The soldiers who occupied Germany after the Second World War were not only liberators: they also brought with them a new threat, as women throughout the country became victims of sexual violence. In this disturbing and carefully researched book, the historian Miriam Gebhardt reveals for the first ti... |
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the Era of Assassination (Traynor Lisa)Few single events in history have carried such vast consequences as the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which led to World War I, a war whose aftermath continues to affect our world today, a century later. But could the assassination have been prevented? Lisa Traynor starts wit... |
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International Economic Relations since 1945 (Schenk Catherine R.)This second edition has been updated to include an assessment of economic relations up to the COVID-19 pandemic. It focuses on three main threads that tie national economies together: flows of goods, of people and of finance. Since the end of the Second World War, the international economy transfor... |
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Children and War Past and Present: Volume 2 (Buckley John)The amount of international research on Children and War carried out by academics, governments and non-governmental organizations has continually increased in recent years. At the same time there has been growing public interest in how children experience military conflicts and how their lives have ... |
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Good Soldier Švejk (Jaroslav Hašek)The eponymous hero of The Good Soldier Svejk-- the book for which the Czech writer Jaroslav Hasek will forever be remembered--has virtually come to define, since his creation in the aftermath of World War I, the spirit of comic endurance necessary to withstand the manglings of a modern-day bureaucra... |
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Checkmate in Berlin (Milton Giles)A compulsive page-turner about the battle for Berlin and control of the Western world in the aftermath of the Second World War from the master of narrative |
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Osamu Dazais the Setting Sun: The Manga Edition (Dazai Osamu)A classic of Japanese literature, brought to life in manga for the first time! This is the first manga edition in English of The Setting Sun, Osamu Dazais classic novel, often considered his masterpiece. Set in the aftermath of World War II, this is the story of Kazuko, a strong-willed young woman... |
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The French and Indian War: Deciding the Fate of North America (Borneman Walter R.)In the summer of 1754, deep in the wilderness of western Pennsylvania, a very young George Washington suffered his first military defeat, and a centuries-old feud between Great Britain and France was rekindled. The war that followed would be fought across virgin territories, from Nova Scotia to the ... |
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The Golem, How He Came Into the World (Barzilai Maya)Provides an aesthetic and historical overview of and new critical insights into Paul Wegeners great 1920 film, recognized at the time as a breakthrough in German cinema. Actor and director Paul Wegener released his 1920 silent film The Golem, How He Came into the World in the aftermath of Germanys... |
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Creating Nationality in Central Europe, 1880-1950: Modernity, Violence and (Be) Longing in Upper Silesia (Kamusella Tomasz)In the immediate aftermath of the First World War, Upper Silesia was the site of the largest formal exercise in self-determination in European history, the 1921 Plebiscite. This asked the inhabitants of Europe s second largest industrial region the deceptively straightforward question of whether the... |
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Blood and Power'Clear, cool, plainly written and devastating' Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Times Literary SupplementA major history of the rise and fall of Italian fascism: a dark tale of violence, ideals and a country at war. In the aftermath of the First World War, the seeds of fascism were sown in Italy. While the coun... |
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The Darkest Year: The American Home Front 1941-1942 (Klingaman William K.)The Darkest Year is acclaimed author William K. Klingamans narrative history of the American home front from December 7, 1941 through the end of 1942, a psychological study of the nation under the pressure of total war. For Americans on the home front, the twelve months following the Japanese attac... |
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The PicnicA gripping reconstruction of the daring escape to freedom of hundreds of East Germans in the summer of 1989 - and how it led to the fall of the Berlin Wall. ‘Beautifully written . .. The Picnic reads like a thriller’ Peter Frankopan'Exhilarating' Observer'Intensely moving' Sunday Times'Engrossing an... |
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Can Do! The Story of the Seabees (Huie William Bradford)Born in the hellish aftermath of Pearl Harbor, the Seabees began as barely armed civilians with no military training. They had an average age of 35. GIs would joke, Never hit a Seabee, for his son might be a Marine. Americas bulldozing, jungle-hacking, Jap-cracking Construction Battalion or the Seab... |
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