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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “harold m tanner”
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  • War in Modern China

    A Military History

    by Harold M Tanner ...
    Series series Warfare and History
    This book offers comprehensive coverage of China’s military history from the Qing dynasty (1644–1912) to present.China has become one of the great world powers of the twenty-first century. As a result, Chinese leaders and observers outside of China alike seek to explain China’s strategic thought and action. In doing so, they routinely refer to China’s military history. This volume examines this ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Where Chiang Kai-shek Lost China

    The Liao-Shen Campaign, 1948

    by Harold M. Tanner ...
    Series series Twentieth-Century Battles
    "A masterful contribution not simply to the history of the civil war, but also to the history of 20th century China." —Steven I. Levine author, Anvil of Victory: The Communist Revolution in Manchuria, 1945-1948)The civil war in China that ended in the 1949 victory of Mao Zedong's Communist forces was a major blow to U.S. interests in the Far East and led to heated recriminations about how China ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Battle for Manchuria and the Fate of China

    Siping, 1946

    by Harold M. Tanner ...
    Series series Twentieth-Century Battles
    "A well-organized and excellently researched work" ( H-War) on one of the crucial battles of China's civil war.In the spring of 1946, Communists and Nationalist Chinese were battled for control of Manchuria and supremacy in the civil war. The Nationalist attack on Siping ended with a Communist withdrawal, but further pursuit was halted by a ceasefire brokered by the American general, George ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Enterprise in the Period of Fascism in Europe

    by Harold James, Jakob Tanner ...
    Series series Studies in Banking and Financial History
    The essays in this volume consider the involvement of business corporations and of individual businessmen in the politics of the 1930s and 1940s: in the move away from the market and also from democracy, towards state control and authoritarianism, including the massive intervention of the state in property rights. How far did businesses attempt to guide this intervention for their own purposes, ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

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    Series series International Socialism
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  • The Violent American Century

    War and Terror Since World War II

    by John W. Dower ...
    Series series Dispatch Books
    "Tells how America, since the end of World War II, has turned away from its ideals and goodness to become a match setting the world on fire" (Seymour Hersh, investigative journalist and national security correspondent).World War II marked the apogee of industrialized "total war." Great powers savaged one another. Hostilities engulfed the globe. Mobilization extended to virtually every sector of ... Read more

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  • Japan Runs Wild, 1942–1943

    by Peter Harmsen ...
    Series Book 2 - War in the Far East
    The author of Storm Clouds Over the Pacific, 1931–1941 chronicles Japan's dramatic reversal of fortune as Allied forces gained advantage during WWII.In early 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy were advancing on all fronts, humiliating Allied forces throughout the Pacific. In a matter of months, Japan had conquered an area larger than Hitler's empire at its apex. Hawaiians and Australians ... Read more

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  • Killing Rasputin

    The Murder That Ended the Russian Empire

    by Margarita Nelipa ...
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  • From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend

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    by Priscilla Murolo, A.B. Chitty ...
    Newly updated: "An enjoyable introduction to American working-class history." — The American ProspectPraised for its "impressive even-handedness", From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend has set the standard for viewing American history through the prism of working people ( Publishers Weekly, starred review). From indentured servants and slaves in seventeenth-century Chesapeake to high-tech ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Pinochet File

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    by Peter Kornbluh ...
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  • The Life and Riotous Times of H.L. Mencken

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    "Written with verve, intellectual sophistication, and a prickly wit worthy of its eminent subject. . . . A first-class piece of literate entertainment" ( The New Yorker).Before he went on to become a celebrated biographer and historian, renowned for such works as A World Lit Only by Fire, American Caesar, and The Last Lion, William Manchester worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Sun in the ... Read more

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  • 1941: Fighting the Shadow War

    A Divided America in a World at War

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    "A wide-ranging examination of America's entry into World War II." — Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewIn 1941: Fighting the Shadow War, A Divided America in a World at War, historian Marc Wortman thrillingly explores the little-known history of America's clandestine involvement in World War II before the attack on Pearl Harbor.Prior to that infamous day, America had long been involved in a shadow war ... Read more

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