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This brown set of 2 decorative keepsake boxes can enhance visual aesthetics and create height when placed on bookshelves or consoles This item ships in 1 carton Mdf box makes a great gift for any occasion Suitable for indoor use only This item ships fully assembled in 1piece Made in India This brown colored mdf decorative keepsake box comes as a set of 2 Traditional style Each book has the title and author in gold lettering on it War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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During World War II Hollywood studios supported the war effort by making patriotic movies designed to raise the nations morale They often portrayed the combatants in very simple terms Americans and their allies were heroes and everyone else was a villain Norway France Czechoslovakia and England were all good because they had been invaded or victimized by Nazi Germany Poland however was represented in a negative light in numerous movies In Hollywoods War with Poland 19391945 M B B Biskupski draws on a close study of prewar and wartime films such as To Be or Not to Be 1942 In Our Time 1944 and None Shall Escape 1944 He researched memoirs letters diaries and memoranda written by screenwriters directors studio heads and actors to explore the negative portrayal of Poland during World War II Biskupski also examines the political climate that influenced Hollywood films
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A sensation when it appeared in Poland in 1983 the true story of Bruno Shatyns extraordinarily successful attempts to deceive the Nazis reads like a suspense thriller but it is much more This Polish Jew survived not in hiding or in a concentration camp but in the open masquerading as a nonJew And Shatyn during his sixyear ordeal retains his objectivity In 1942 armed with Aryan papers obtained with the help of Polish friends he is the manager of an estate near Cracow From this base he smuggles family members out of the doomed Cracow ghetto providing them with false working and residence permits jobs apartments personal histories One brotherinlaw works in a German army canteen another becomes director of the local German labor office So complete is the deception that when Shatyns aged mother dies her Catholic funeral is attended by a contingent of local Nazi officials in full uniform Shatyn wins the battle for survival but perhaps most important is that he survives as a rational man with courage fairness and humor
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A sensation when it appeared in Poland in 1983 the true story of Bruno Shatyns extraordinarily successful attempts to deceive the Nazis reads like a suspense thriller but it is much more This Polish Jew survived not in hiding or in a concentration camp but in the open masquerading as a nonJew And Shatyn during his sixyear ordeal retains his objectivity In 1942 armed with Aryan papers obtained with the help of Polish friends he is the manager of an estate near Cracow From this base he smuggles family members out of the doomed Cracow ghetto providing them with false working and residence permits jobs apartments personal histories One brotherinlaw works in a German army canteen another becomes director of the local German labor office So complete is the deception that when Shatyns aged mother dies her Catholic funeral is attended by a contingent of local Nazi officials in full uniform Shatyn wins the battle for survival but perhaps most important is that he survives as a rational man with courage fairness and humor
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From womans suffrage to Babe Ruths home runs from Louis Armstrongs jazz to Franklin Delano Roosevelts four presidential terms from the finale of one world war to the dramatic close of the second War Peace and All That Jazz presents the story of some of the most exciting years in US history With the end of World War I many Americans decided to live it up going to movies driving cars and cheering baseball games a plenty But alongside this postWWI spree was high unemployment hard times for farmers everpresent racism and finally the Depression the worst economic disaster in US history flipflopping the nation from prosperity to scarcity Along came one of our countrys greatest leaders FDR who promised a New Deal gave Americans hope and then saw them through the horrors and victories of World War II These three decadesfull of optimism and despair progress and Depression and of course War Peace and All That Jazzforever changed the United States
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Nation buildinga striking phenomenon of modern timeswas given a significant albeit unsuccessful trial in the Baltic areaRising to independence from Russian rule and German occupation during World War I the Baltic statesEstonia Latvia Lithuaniawere annexed by the Soviet Union during World War II The rise and fall of these nations reflects the great historical developments of the 20th century including the transformation of Wilsonian idealism into todays harsh realismFollowing a historical introduction to the political developments of the Baltic states this book examines the internal and external aspects of Lithuanian Latvian and Estonian nationhood Part I depicts the triumph of independence movements Part II compares the new nations domestic policies notably treatment of ethnic minorities and authoritarian responses to economic problems Part III analyzes the Baltic states relations with Germany Great Britain and the USSR as well as efforts among some Balts to form a Baltic Union Part IV examines the events surrounding Soviet annexation of the Baltic nations in 1944 together with the Soviet interpretation of this annexationSources for the book are Finnish German British American and especially Soviet both Russian and Lithuanian archives including some hitherto unpublished documents Many of the books ideas stem from conferences in the United States and Sweden cosponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies which also helped support this publication
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Bernard Bellon combines a detailed study of the daily lives of factory workers at DaimlerBenz with a broader discussion of the role of the automobile industry in the economic and political development of Germany from 1903 through the end of World War II Bellon was allowed access to previously closed company files detailing the companys labour practices during the Nazi period His account of the close ties of DaimlerBenz officials with the Nazi leadership and of the managements enslavement of prisoners of war and inmates of concentration camps is an important contribution to the ongoing debate concerning the role of German industry in the Nazi regime
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A scathing analysis of six decades of American foreign policy drawing on new archive material and research America and the Imperialism of Ignorance offers a unique perspective on the recent wars in Iraq and Afganistan Journalist and historian Andrew Alexander demonstrates how Americas warlike reaction to global events since the end of World War II have been kneejerk unnecessary and largely counter productive He argues that the entire Cold War was a red herring the United States and her puppet states setting out to counter a Russian expansionism that never truly existedUsing newly translated Russian archive documents and material from the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars Alexander dissects this shoot first tendency in American foreign policy through US involvement and intervention in wars throughout the second part of the twentieth century and up to the present day situation in Iraq and Afghanistan He argues that American attitudes have proved wretchedly consistent since 1945 War is no longer the last resort of diplomacy but an early option Nothing has been learnt from Vietnam with all its parallels with AfghanistanAndrew Alexander is a senior journalist for the UK Daily Mail
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Model Ts woodframe airplanes radios Prohibition the Roaring Twenties jazz flappers Babe Ruth the Depression and the two World Warsall in a thirtyyear span
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J P CROSS has spent 67 years among the Gurkhas first as a serving officer and then as a resident of Nepal being the only foreigner in the history of the country to be allowed to be both a house and landowner His language ability is such that even after 90 minutes of being interviewed on the radio only those who recognized his voice knew he was not a NepaliWith this unparalleled knowledge and experience the author has produced a unique series of articles written over the past fifty years These cover events in his own career including the time he found himself in command of a Japanese battalion fighting nationalist guerrillas in IndoChina in 1945 and jungle warfare in Malaya during the Emergency as well as descriptions of the nature of the Gurkha soldier and his relationship with the British first as part of the army of the Raj and later in the modern British ArmyInformative amusing and often moving this anthology gives an insight into one of the most enduring crosscultural relationships in British military history one of the few surviving from the age of Empire
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Nation buildinga striking phenomenon of modern timeswas given a significant albeit unsuccessful trial in the Baltic areaRising to independence from Russian rule and German occupation during World War I the Baltic statesEstonia Latvia Lithuaniawere annexed by the Soviet Union during World War II The rise and fall of these nations reflects the great historical developments of the 20th century including the transformation of Wilsonian idealism into todays harsh realismFollowing a historical introduction to the political developments of the Baltic states this book examines the internal and external aspects of Lithuanian Latvian and Estonian nationhood Part I depicts the triumph of independence movements Part II compares the new nations domestic policies notably treatment of ethnic minorities and authoritarian responses to economic problems Part III analyzes the Baltic states relations with Germany Great Britain and the USSR as well as efforts among some Balts to form a Baltic Union Part IV examines the events surrounding Soviet annexation of the Baltic nations in 1944 together with the Soviet interpretation of this annexationSources for the book are Finnish German British American and especially Soviet both Russian and Lithuanian archives including some hitherto unpublished documents Many of the books ideas stem from conferences in the United States and Sweden cosponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies which also helped support this publication
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Through a wealth of photographs and color illustrations and an informed narrative Blue Skies Orange Wings documents the surprisingly strong role of Dutch aircraft airmen designers and airlines in world aviation in the first half of the twentieth centurynbspIn this beautiful book Ryan Noppen offers the most thorough study of the early years of Dutch commercial and military aviation published in the English language He examines the famed Fokker airliners fighters and combat aircraft the development of Dutch national airline KLM and the impact that Dutch aircraft had on the world in the pioneering days of flight including a number of notable individuals Charles Lindbergh Henry Ford Amelia Earhart and more
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Bernard Bellon combines a detailed study of the daily lives of factory workers at DaimlerBenz with a broader discussion of the role of the automobile industry in the economic and political development of Germany from 1903 through the end of World War II Bellon was allowed access to previously closed company files detailing the companys labour practices during the Nazi period His account of the close ties of DaimlerBenz officials with the Nazi leadership and of the managements enslavement of prisoners of war and inmates of concentration camps is an important contribution to the ongoing debate concerning the role of German industry in the Nazi regime
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This book is about the impact of war on the Soviet system of economic planning and management between 1938 and 1945 What was the dynamic of change in the prewar Soviet economic system How well was the Soviet economy prepared for war What kind of war followed the German invasion of 1941 and what costs did it inflict on the Soviet Union How did the Soviet economy measure up to wartime requirements and what changes in economic organisation resulted What lessons were laid down for the postwar Soviet approach to both peaceful and warlike tasks
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