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An exploration of Britain's relationship with coal from the explosion of the coal industry in the 1830s to the 'coal-minded' society of the 1940s.

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Since the creation of Israel, during both wartime and peacetime, many Arab coalitions have formed. This volume explores the forces behind the dissemination of these alliances; whether a distinction can be made between defection patterns; and explanations for different behaviour patterns.

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The story of the naval war in the Pacific is an exciting one. Under Cochrane's audacious leadership, Chile and Peru gained their freedom from Spain, while he enhanced his reputation and made a fortune in pay and prize money. The accepted story of the war has been based on Cochrane's own version of events. But how accurate is Cochrane's account

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The extraordinary untold story of the brilliant men who cracked the Japanese codes from Australia during World War II.

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An inspiring story of unarmed civilians of all ages who took on the Gestapo, the SS, and the Wehrmacht-and outwitted them at least 20,000 times.

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While battalions hunkered down in the mud of western France, anti-aircraft guns took aim at zeppelins floating over the capital, and Atlantic convoys tried desperately to evade German U-boats, another, more secret battle was underway.

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Codename Suzette is one of the untold stories of the Holocaust, an account of extraordinary courage in the face of evil.

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This volume offers readers the opportunity to see how the Cold War and McCarthy eras affected men, women, and children of varying backgrounds, providing a more personal examination of this important era.

Studies of the Cold War often focus on the political power players who shaped American/Soviet relations.

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This book explores how Hungarian and American writers, educators, and experts crossed the Cold War divide and built long-term networks between the centre and the periphery.

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Britain in the 1950s had a distinctive political and intellectual climate. Jim Smyth shows that, despite being allergic to McCarthy-style vulgarity, British intellectuals in the 1950s operated within powerful Cold War paradigms all the same.

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For almost a decade, the tyrannical Ngo Dinh Diem governed South Vietnam as a one-party police state while the US financed his tyranny. This book traces the tragic history of the so-called Diem experiment from his first appearance in Washington as a penniless expatriate in 1950 to his murder by South Vietnamese soldiers in 1963.

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For too long, American women have been hidden in the history of the Cold War. This title recovers their significance by examining the activities and ambitions of American women's organisations in the long period of uneasy peace. It is suitable for those in the field of gender and women's history, cultural studies, and American history.

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The impact of the Cold War is still being felt around the world today. This insightful single-volume reference captures the events and personalities of the era, while also inspiring critical thinking about this still-controversial period.

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Immortalized in film and literature, the 15th century castle of Colditz is remembered not for tales of medieval chivalry or withstanding withering sieges but for its darker past. This book examines the history of Colditz, the methods used to keep prisoners inside her formidable walls, and the techniques by which her prisoners attempted to escape.

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The book explores the peaceful exploration of space, which became a launching pad for new visions of human community and peaceful collaboration during the Cold War.