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  • Decision in the Atlantic

    The Allies and the Longest Campaign of the Second World War

    Series series New Perspectives on the Second World War
    The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest campaign of the Second World War. This volume highlights the scale and complexity of this bitterly contested campaign, one that encompassed far more than just attacks by German U-boats on Allied shipping.The team of leading scholars assembled in this study situates the German assault on seaborne trade within the wider Allied war effort and provides a new ... Leer más

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  • Churchill and the Dardanelles

    The failed naval offensive to force a passage through the Straits of the Dardanelles in 1915 drove Winston Churchill from office in disgrace and nearly destroyed his political career. For over a century, the Dardanelles campaign has been mired in myth and controversy. Many believe it was fundamentally misconceived and doomed to fail, while others see it as a brilliant concept that might have ... Leer más

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  • Blackness and Disability

    Critical Examinations and Cultural Interventions

    Edición de Christopher M. Bell ...
    Disability Studies diverge from the medical model of disability (which argues that disabled subjects can and should be “fixed”) to view disability as socially constructed, much in the same way other identities are. The work of reading black and disabled bodies is not only recovery work, but work that requires a willingness to deconstruct the systems that would keep those bodies in separate spheres ... Leer más

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  • Churchill and Sea Power

    Winston Churchill had a longer and closer relationship with the Royal Navy than any British statesman in modern times, but his record as a naval strategist and custodian of the nation's sea power has been mired in controversy since the ill-fated Dardanelles campaign in 1915. Today, Churchill is regarded by many as an inept strategist who interfered in naval operations and often overrode his ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

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  • The Military Life & Times of General Sir Miles Dempsey GBE KCB DSO MC

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  • 1918 Year of Victory: The end of the Great War and the shaping of history

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    World War I, The Great War involved the mobilisation of some 70 million soldiers worldwide. It produced images of such pervasive horror on the Western Front that it defined warfare in human memory long into the twentieth century. The war also left a grim legacy: 13 million people died, 9 million of them combatants. Over one-third of those who died were missing, having no known graves. The chapters ... Leer más

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  • Churchill and the Navy

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