Search Results - "War"

War Pictures : Cinema, Violence, and Style in Britain, 1939-1945 / by Puckett, Kent

Table of Contents: “…: the life and death of Colonel Blimp -- Pistol's two bodies : Henry V at war -- Celia Johnson's face : before and after brief encounter -- Epilogue : Derek Jarman's war.…”
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War Pictures : Cinema, Violence, and Style in Britain, 1939-1945 / by Puckett, Kent

Table of Contents: “…: the life and death of Colonel Blimp -- Pistol's two bodies : Henry V at war -- Celia Johnson's face : before and after brief encounter -- Epilogue : Derek Jarman's war.…”
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Leadership and responsibility in the Second World War essays in honour of Robert Vogel /

Table of Contents: “…Loyalty in wartime: the old Tories and British war policy, 1939-1940 /…”
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Leadership and responsibility in the Second World War essays in honour of Robert Vogel /

Table of Contents: “…Loyalty in wartime: the old Tories and British war policy, 1939-1940 /…”
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Britain, France, and the financing of the First World War by Horn, Martin, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Introduction 3 -- 1 Finance, War, and Foreign Policy before 1914 7 -- 2 AShortWar, 1914-1915 28 -- 3 Relations with the United States, 1914-1915 57 -- 4 ALongWar, 1915-1918 76 -- 5 The Debate over Finance and Resources in 1915 93 -- 6 The Collapse of France 117 -- 7 The Dollar Problem 142 -- 8 A New World 166 -- Conclusion 183.…”
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Britain, France, and the financing of the First World War by Horn, Martin, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Introduction 3 -- 1 Finance, War, and Foreign Policy before 1914 7 -- 2 AShortWar, 1914-1915 28 -- 3 Relations with the United States, 1914-1915 57 -- 4 ALongWar, 1915-1918 76 -- 5 The Debate over Finance and Resources in 1915 93 -- 6 The Collapse of France 117 -- 7 The Dollar Problem 142 -- 8 A New World 166 -- Conclusion 183.…”
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You Can Help Your Country : English children's work during the Second World War / by Mayall, Berry, Morrow, Virginia

Table of Contents: “…Children in social thought between the wars -- 3. Earners or learners? Work and school 1900-1939 -- 4. …”
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You Can Help Your Country : English children's work during the Second World War / by Mayall, Berry, Morrow, Virginia

Table of Contents: “…Children in social thought between the wars -- 3. Earners or learners? Work and school 1900-1939 -- 4. …”
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Canadians behind enemy lines, 1939-1945 by MacLaren, Roy

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Canadians behind enemy lines, 1939-1945 by MacLaren, Roy

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Empire's Violent End : Comparing Dutch, British, and French Wars of Decolonization, 1945–1962 /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Beyond the League Table of Barbarity : Comparing Extreme Violence during the Wars of Decolonization / Thijs Brocades Zaalberg and Bart Luttikhuis -- Not an Afterthought : Accountability for Colonial Violence in the Dutch and British Metropoles / Huw Bennett and Peter Romijn -- Windows onto the Micro-Dynamics of Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence : Evidence from Late Colonial Southeast Asia and Africa Compared / Roel Frakking and Martin Thomas -- Cracking Down on Revolutionary Zeal and Violence : Local Dynamics and Early Colonial Responses to the Independence Struggle in Indochina and the Indonesian Archipelago, 1945-1947 / Pierre Asselin and Henk Schulte Nordholt -- The Places, Traces, and Politics of Rape in the Indonesian and the Algerian Wars of Independence / Stef Scagliola and Natalya Vince, in collaboration with Khedidja Adel and Galuh Amba -- "The normal order of things" : Contextualizing "Technical Violence" in the Netherlands-Indonesia War / Azarja Harmanny and Brian McAllister Linn -- "Bloodshed on a rather large scale" : Tactical Conduct and Non-combatant Casualties in Dutch, French, and British Colonial Counterinsurgency / Christiaan Harinck -- Comparing the Afterlives, Political Uses, and Memories of Extreme Violence during the Wars of Decolonization in France, the Netherlands, and Britain / Raphaëlle Branche.…”
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Empire's Violent End : Comparing Dutch, British, and French Wars of Decolonization, 1945–1962 /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Beyond the League Table of Barbarity : Comparing Extreme Violence during the Wars of Decolonization / Thijs Brocades Zaalberg and Bart Luttikhuis -- Not an Afterthought : Accountability for Colonial Violence in the Dutch and British Metropoles / Huw Bennett and Peter Romijn -- Windows onto the Micro-Dynamics of Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence : Evidence from Late Colonial Southeast Asia and Africa Compared / Roel Frakking and Martin Thomas -- Cracking Down on Revolutionary Zeal and Violence : Local Dynamics and Early Colonial Responses to the Independence Struggle in Indochina and the Indonesian Archipelago, 1945-1947 / Pierre Asselin and Henk Schulte Nordholt -- The Places, Traces, and Politics of Rape in the Indonesian and the Algerian Wars of Independence / Stef Scagliola and Natalya Vince, in collaboration with Khedidja Adel and Galuh Amba -- "The normal order of things" : Contextualizing "Technical Violence" in the Netherlands-Indonesia War / Azarja Harmanny and Brian McAllister Linn -- "Bloodshed on a rather large scale" : Tactical Conduct and Non-combatant Casualties in Dutch, French, and British Colonial Counterinsurgency / Christiaan Harinck -- Comparing the Afterlives, Political Uses, and Memories of Extreme Violence during the Wars of Decolonization in France, the Netherlands, and Britain / Raphaëlle Branche.…”
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Colonial caring : A history of colonial and post-colonial nursing /

Table of Contents: “…The social exploits and behaviour of nurses during the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902 /…”
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Colonial caring : A history of colonial and post-colonial nursing /

Table of Contents: “…The social exploits and behaviour of nurses during the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902 /…”
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The Reign of King John / by Painter, Sidney, 1902-1960

Table of Contents: “…The succession -- The king anda the magnates -- The king's servants -- The royal administration -- King John and the church -- King or tyrant -- The seeds of revolt -- Magna Carta -- The civil war.…”
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The Reign of King John / by Painter, Sidney, 1902-1960

Table of Contents: “…The succession -- The king anda the magnates -- The king's servants -- The royal administration -- King John and the church -- King or tyrant -- The seeds of revolt -- Magna Carta -- The civil war.…”
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Britain and China by Luard, Evan, 1926-1991

Table of Contents: “…The British assault -- The Chinese rejoinder -- Britain and the Kuomintang -- The coming of the Communists -- The Korean war -- Missionaries -- Merchants -- Geneva and after -- Hong Kong -- The two Chinas -- Chinese aspirations and British interests -- British policy and the future.…”
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Britain and China by Luard, Evan, 1926-1991

Table of Contents: “…The British assault -- The Chinese rejoinder -- Britain and the Kuomintang -- The coming of the Communists -- The Korean war -- Missionaries -- Merchants -- Geneva and after -- Hong Kong -- The two Chinas -- Chinese aspirations and British interests -- British policy and the future.…”
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Feminist Realism at the Fin de Siecle : The Influence of the Late-Victorian Woman's Press on the Development of the Novel / by Youngkin, Molly, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…The woman's press at the fin de siecle -- "They are learning to think ... for themselves" : consciousness raised -- "What the girl says" : spoken word as political tool -- Women at work, at war, and on the go : feminist action -- "The realistic method in its best expression" : successful representations of woman's agency and literary reputations -- Engaging and shaping modernism.…”
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Feminist Realism at the Fin de Siecle : The Influence of the Late-Victorian Woman's Press on the Development of the Novel / by Youngkin, Molly, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…The woman's press at the fin de siecle -- "They are learning to think ... for themselves" : consciousness raised -- "What the girl says" : spoken word as political tool -- Women at work, at war, and on the go : feminist action -- "The realistic method in its best expression" : successful representations of woman's agency and literary reputations -- Engaging and shaping modernism.…”
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