The Crucial Years 1939-1944
Author | : Hanson W. Baldwin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 525 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Hanson W. Baldwin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 525 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Hanson Weightman Baldwin |
Publisher | : George Weidenfeld & Nicholson |
Total Pages | : 499 |
Release | : 1976-01-01 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : 9780297770893 |
Author | : Prof. John H. Wuorinen |
Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2015-11-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1786252678 |
Finland gained its independence from Russia in 1917 during the turmoil of the Russian Civil War, and ever since the communist leaders cast envious eyes toward their former domain; only waiting for a chance to invade. With the rise of Hitler’s Germany the face of Europe changed, agreements were reached between the Soviets and the Nazis in brutally dividing up a nigh-defenceless and the detente culminated in the Non-Aggression Pact of 1939. This gave Stalin and his cohorts a chance to expand their borders, whilst Hitler looked west at France and Britain, by launching an attack directed to recapture their former Grand Duchy. Thus started Finland’s participation in the Second World War. This book eloquently recounts the stubborn resistance of the Finns against the Soviet attack during the Winter War, the horrific siege of Leningrad and the Finns brave bid to retain its independence from Soviet dominance. The manuscript for the book was smuggled out of Soviet controlled Finland in late 1945, it was passed to Professor Wuorinen who skilfully edited and annotated the work into its present form. A fascinating sidelight on a little known corner of the brutal Second World War.
Author | : Leonid D. Grenkevich |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2013-01-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1136318585 |
Partisans and terrorists have dominated military history during the second half of the 20th century. Leonid Grenkevich offers an account of the shadowy partisan struggle that accompanied the Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War (1941-1945).
Author | : Leverett Saltonstall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1945 |
Genre | : Massachusetts |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Arthur Layton Funk |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1340 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Peter Sloman |
Publisher | : Oxford Historical Monographs |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0198723504 |
The Liberal Party and the Economy, 1929-1964 explores the reception, generation, and use of economic ideas in the British Liberal Party between its electoral decline in the 1920s and 1930s, and its post-war revival under Jo Grimond. Drawing on archival sources, party publications, and the press, this volume analyses the diverse intellectual influences which shaped British Liberals' economic thought up to the mid-twentieth century, and highlights the ways in which the party sought to reconcile its progressive identity with its longstanding commitment to free trade and competitive markets. Peter Sloman shows that Liberals' enthusiasm for public works and Keynesian economic management - which David Lloyd George launched onto the political agenda at the 1929 general election - was only intermittently matched by support for more detailed forms of state intervention and planning. Likewise, the party's support for redistributive taxation and social welfare provision was frequently qualified by the insistence that the ultimate Liberal aim was not the expansion of the functions of the state but the pursuit of 'ownership for all'. Liberal policy was thus shaped not only by the ideas of reformist intellectuals such as John Maynard Keynes and William Beveridge, but also by the libertarian and distributist concerns of Liberal activists and by interactions with the early neoliberal movement. This study concludes that it was ideological and generational changes in the early 1960s that cut the party's links with the New Right, opened up common ground with revisionist social democrats, and re-established its progressive credentials.
Author | : Patrick J. Buchanan |
Publisher | : Forum Books |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2009-07-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307405168 |
Were World Wars I and II inevitable? Were they necessary wars? Or were they products of calamitous failures of judgment? In this monumental and provocative history, Patrick Buchanan makes the case that, if not for the blunders of British statesmen– Winston Churchill first among them–the horrors of two world wars and the Holocaust might have been avoided and the British Empire might never have collapsed into ruins. Half a century of murderous oppression of scores of millions under the iron boot of Communist tyranny might never have happened, and Europe’s central role in world affairs might have been sustained for many generations. Among the British and Churchillian errors were: • The secret decision of a tiny cabal in the inner Cabinet in 1906 to take Britain straight to war against Germany, should she invade France • The vengeful Treaty of Versailles that mutilated Germany, leaving her bitter, betrayed, and receptive to the appeal of Adolf Hitler • Britain’s capitulation, at Churchill’s urging, to American pressure to sever the Anglo-Japanese alliance, insulting and isolating Japan, pushing her onto the path of militarism and conquest • The greatest mistake in British history: the unsolicited war guarantee to Poland of March 1939, ensuring the Second World War Certain to create controversy and spirited argument, Churchill, Hitler, and “the Unnecessary War” is a grand and bold insight into the historic failures of judgment that ended centuries of European rule and guaranteed a future no one who lived in that vanished world could ever have envisioned.
Author | : James Cronin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2005-09-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134959109 |
The expansion of the British state was neither automatic nor accidental. Rather, it was the outcome of recurring battles over the proper boundaries of the state and its role in economy and society. The Politics of State Expansion focuses on the interests arrayed on either side of this struggle; providing a new and critical perspective on the growth of the `Keynsian welfare state' and on the more recent retreat from Keynes and from collective provision.
Author | : |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1428915818 |