Author: David Killingray
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349182648
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Africa and the Second World War
Author: David Killingray
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349182648
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349182648
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The British Empire and its Italian Prisoners of War, 1940–1947
Author: B. Moore
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230512143
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
During the Second World War, British and Imperial forces captured more than half a million Italian soldiers, sailors and airmen. Although a symbol of military success, these prisoners created a multitude of problems for the authorities throughout the war. This book looks at how the British addressed these problems and turned liabilities into assets by using the Italians as a labour force, a source of military intelligence and as a political warfare tool before their final repatriation in 1946-47.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230512143
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
During the Second World War, British and Imperial forces captured more than half a million Italian soldiers, sailors and airmen. Although a symbol of military success, these prisoners created a multitude of problems for the authorities throughout the war. This book looks at how the British addressed these problems and turned liabilities into assets by using the Italians as a labour force, a source of military intelligence and as a political warfare tool before their final repatriation in 1946-47.
Diplomacy and Strategy of Survival
Author: Denis Smyth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521228190
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
An analysis of Britain's diplomatic efforts to preserve the non-belligerency of Franco's Spain, during the period from late 1940 to the end of 1941. Making extensive use of recently available British and Spanish documentary records, Dr Smyth explains how Britain's uphill struggle to secure Spanish non-belligerency had been rewarded with success by December 1940. Ironically, British policy-makers were unaware of the earl), success of their efforts, so they remained alert throughout 1940-41 to the danger of sudden Spanish support for a German move across their territory to Gibraltar. The conclusion notes how continuing Spanish neutrality helped the British endure 'their finest hour' and the Franco regime to survive the destruction of its former Fascist patrons.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521228190
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
An analysis of Britain's diplomatic efforts to preserve the non-belligerency of Franco's Spain, during the period from late 1940 to the end of 1941. Making extensive use of recently available British and Spanish documentary records, Dr Smyth explains how Britain's uphill struggle to secure Spanish non-belligerency had been rewarded with success by December 1940. Ironically, British policy-makers were unaware of the earl), success of their efforts, so they remained alert throughout 1940-41 to the danger of sudden Spanish support for a German move across their territory to Gibraltar. The conclusion notes how continuing Spanish neutrality helped the British endure 'their finest hour' and the Franco regime to survive the destruction of its former Fascist patrons.
The Economic Blockade
Author: William Norton Medlicott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
The Politics of Revenge
Author: Paul Preston
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134811136
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
A succinct and disturbing account of the role of the Spanish Right in the course of the twentieth century.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134811136
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
A succinct and disturbing account of the role of the Spanish Right in the course of the twentieth century.
Trade and Credit
Author: Ralph George Hawtrey
Publisher: London ; Toronto : Longmans, Green
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publisher: London ; Toronto : Longmans, Green
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
German Rocketeers in the Heart of Dixie
Author: Monique Laney
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300198035
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
This thought-provoking study by historian Monique Laney focuses on the U.S. government-assisted integration of German rocket specialists and their families into a small southern community at the end of World War II. In 1950, Wernher von Braun and his team of rocket experts relocated to Huntsville, Alabama, a town that would celebrate the team, despite their essential role in the Nazi war effort a decade earlier, for their contributions to the U.S. Army missile program and later to NASA's space program. Based on oral histories, provided by members of the African American and Jewish communities, the rocketeers' families, and co-workers, friends, and neighbors, Laney's book demonstrates how the histories of German Nazism and Jim Crow in the American South intertwine in narratives about the past. This is a critical reassessment of a singular time that links the Cold War, the “Space Race,” and the Civil Rights era while addressing important issues of transnational science and technology, and asking Americans to consider their country's own history of racism when reflecting on the Nazi past.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300198035
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
This thought-provoking study by historian Monique Laney focuses on the U.S. government-assisted integration of German rocket specialists and their families into a small southern community at the end of World War II. In 1950, Wernher von Braun and his team of rocket experts relocated to Huntsville, Alabama, a town that would celebrate the team, despite their essential role in the Nazi war effort a decade earlier, for their contributions to the U.S. Army missile program and later to NASA's space program. Based on oral histories, provided by members of the African American and Jewish communities, the rocketeers' families, and co-workers, friends, and neighbors, Laney's book demonstrates how the histories of German Nazism and Jim Crow in the American South intertwine in narratives about the past. This is a critical reassessment of a singular time that links the Cold War, the “Space Race,” and the Civil Rights era while addressing important issues of transnational science and technology, and asking Americans to consider their country's own history of racism when reflecting on the Nazi past.
Churchill on the Home Front, 1900-1955
Author: Paul Addison
Publisher: Random House (UK)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Studie over de politieke carrière van de Engelse staatsman (1874-1965)
Publisher: Random House (UK)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Studie over de politieke carrière van de Engelse staatsman (1874-1965)
Britain and Regional Cooperation in South East Asia, 1945-49
Author: Dr Tilman Remme
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134861176
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Britain and Regional Cooperation in South-East Asia, 1945-49 traces the attempt by the British Foreign Office to establish an international regional organisation in South-East Asia which would allow Britain to dominate the region politically, economically and militarily. Tilman Remme explores the changing emphasis of Britain's regional policies and puts the issues affecting South-East Asia in the post-War period into a wide context. He explores events in the light of the Japanese defeat in the Second World War, the Communist struggle for supremacy of China, the development of Anglo-American relations in Asia and the beginnings of the Cold War.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134861176
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Britain and Regional Cooperation in South-East Asia, 1945-49 traces the attempt by the British Foreign Office to establish an international regional organisation in South-East Asia which would allow Britain to dominate the region politically, economically and militarily. Tilman Remme explores the changing emphasis of Britain's regional policies and puts the issues affecting South-East Asia in the post-War period into a wide context. He explores events in the light of the Japanese defeat in the Second World War, the Communist struggle for supremacy of China, the development of Anglo-American relations in Asia and the beginnings of the Cold War.
Spying on Science
Author: Paul Maddrell
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191533092
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
The years 1945-61 saw the greatest transformation in weaponry that has ever taken place, as atomic and thermonuclear bombs, intercontinental ballistic missiles and chemical and biological weapons were developed by the superpowers. It was also a distinct era in Western intelligence collection. These were the years of the Germans. Mass interrogation in West Germany and spying in East Germany represented the most important source of intelligence on Soviet war-related science, weapons development and military capability until 1956 and a key one until 1961. This intelligence fuelled the arms race and influenced Western scientific research, weapons development, and intelligence collection. Using intelligence and policy documents held in British and US archives and records of the Ministry of State Security (MfS) of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR), this book is the most penetrating study of the scientific intelligence-gathering and subversive operations of the British, US, and West German intelligence services in the period to date. East Germany's scientific potential was contained by inducing leading scientists and engineers to defect to the West, and Paul Maddrell shows that the US Government's policy of 'containment' was more aggressive than has hitherto been accepted. He also demonstrates that the Western secret services' espionage in the GDR was very successful, even though the MfS and KGB achieved triumphs against them. George Blake twice did appalling damage the MI6's spy networks. The book reveals the identity of the most distinguished scientist to spy for the CIA as yet uncovered.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191533092
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
The years 1945-61 saw the greatest transformation in weaponry that has ever taken place, as atomic and thermonuclear bombs, intercontinental ballistic missiles and chemical and biological weapons were developed by the superpowers. It was also a distinct era in Western intelligence collection. These were the years of the Germans. Mass interrogation in West Germany and spying in East Germany represented the most important source of intelligence on Soviet war-related science, weapons development and military capability until 1956 and a key one until 1961. This intelligence fuelled the arms race and influenced Western scientific research, weapons development, and intelligence collection. Using intelligence and policy documents held in British and US archives and records of the Ministry of State Security (MfS) of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR), this book is the most penetrating study of the scientific intelligence-gathering and subversive operations of the British, US, and West German intelligence services in the period to date. East Germany's scientific potential was contained by inducing leading scientists and engineers to defect to the West, and Paul Maddrell shows that the US Government's policy of 'containment' was more aggressive than has hitherto been accepted. He also demonstrates that the Western secret services' espionage in the GDR was very successful, even though the MfS and KGB achieved triumphs against them. George Blake twice did appalling damage the MI6's spy networks. The book reveals the identity of the most distinguished scientist to spy for the CIA as yet uncovered.