Author: David DilksPublisher: London : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Retreat from Power: 1906-1939
Author: David DilksPublisher: London : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Retreat from Power: 1906-1939
Author: David DilksPublisher: London : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Retreat from Power
Author: David DilksRetreat from power : studies in Britainś foreign policy of the 20th century. 1. 1906 - 1939
Author: David DilksRetreat from Power: After 1939
Author: David DilksPublisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The Conservatives - A History
Author: Robin HarrisPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1409032744
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
The history of the Conservative party has, extraordinarily, rarely been written in a single volume for the general reader. There are academic multi-volume accounts and a multitude of smaller books with limited historical scope. But now, Robin Harris, Margaret Thatcher's speechwriter and party insider, has produced this authoritative but lively history book which tells the whole story and fills a gaping hole in Britain's historiographical record. Taking as his starting point the larger than life personalities of the Conservative Party's leaders and prime ministers since its inception, Robin Harris's book also analyses the interconnected themes and issues which have dominated Conservative politics over the years. The careers of Peel, Disraeli, Salisbury, Baldwin, Chamberlain, Churchill, Eden, Macmillan, Heath, Thatcher, Major, Hague and Cameron together amount to an alternative history of Britain since the early nineteenth century. This landmark book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in history or politics, or anyone who has ever wondered how Britain came to be the nation it is today.
British and Japanese Military Leadership in the Far Eastern War, 1941-45
Author: Brian BondPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136348832
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Some sixty years after the Far Eastern War ended, this innovative new collection brings together five distinguished UK-based scholars and five from Japan to reappraise their respective country's leadership in the Malaya and Burma campaigns. This leadership is analyzed on various levels, ranging from the grand strategic to operational. The Japanese contributors examine the reasons for their forces, brilliant advances in 1941-42, whereas the British writers have to account for the disastrous defeat, characterized by the poor leadership of senior commanders such as Bennett and Percival. Between 1943 and 1945, the tables were turned dramatically, so the failure of Japanese command decisions then comes under critical scrutiny and the British have to explain how defeat was transformed into victory. Above all, this volume should stimulate interest in different methods and styles of military leadership in view of the contrasting approaches of the British and Japanese in the Second World War.
Mussolini's Propaganda Abroad
Author: Manuela WilliamsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113424441X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This is the first major study in English of Fascist Italy’s overseas propaganda. Using rare Italian and French captured documents, this is also the first investigation into the relationship between Mussolini’s regime and Arab nationalist movements This new account covers propaganda and subversive activities engineered by the Italian government in the Mediterranean and the Middle East from 1935 until 1940, when Italy entered the war. It assesses the nature of the challenge brought by the Fascist regime to British security and colonial interests in the region. Fascist propaganda, in particular in the Arab Middle East, must be regarded as an expression of Mussolini’s foreign policy and his attempts to build an Italian empire that would stretch beyond the Mediterranean, gaining control over the exits, Gibraltar and Suez, which were in the hands of the British and the French. The activities of individual agents and organizations are carefully reconstructed and analyzed to highlight the seemingly contradictory objectives of the Italian government: on the one hand, Rome was courting the Arab nationalist movements in Egypt and Palestine, which were seeking the support of external forces capable of providing political, financial and military backing needed to overthrow foreign rulers; on the other, the regime was promoting further territorial expansion in Africa. These aspects build into an excellent picture of this fascinating period of modern history. This book will be of great interest to all students and scholars of politics, media, Italian history and propaganda.
Hard Diplomacy and Soft Coercion
Author: James SherrPublisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 186203298X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
During the Cold War, Soviet influence and Leninist ideology were inseparable. But the collapse of both systems threw Russian influence into limbo. In this book, James Sherr draws on his in-depth study of the country over many years to explain and analyse the factors that have brought Russian influence back into play. Today, Tsarist, Soviet and contemporary approaches combine in creative and discordant ways. The result is a policy based on a mixture of strategy, improvisation and habit. The novelty of this policy and its apparent successes pose possible dangers for Russia's neighbours, the West and Russia itself.
From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima
Author: Saki DockrillPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349231290
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
'The most significant issue that Dockrill addresses is that of how Japan views the war in retrospect, a question which not only tells us a lot about how events were seen in Japan in 1941 but is also, a matter still of importance in contemporary East Asian politics.' Antony Best, London School of Economics This multi-authored work, edited by Saki Dockrill, is an original, unique, and controversial interpretation of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific. Dr Dockrill, the author of Britain's Policy for West German Rearmament, has skilfully converted the proceedings of an international conference held in London into a stimulating and readable account of the Pacific War. This is a valuable contribution to our knowledge of the subject.