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  • Catalonia Reborn

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  • The Second World War

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    Series series Counterfire
    The Second World War casts a long shadow, portrayed as a necessary and paradigmatic war that defeated fascism. During recent wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, US presidents and British prime ministers have tried to claim they were following in the footsteps of Winston Churchill by standing up to dictators.In The Second World War Chris Bambery tests this position in a thorough account of the ... Leer más

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  • Dominion

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    de Stephen Bown ...
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  • Mistress of Life and Death

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  • The South

    Jim Crow and Its Afterlives

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