The Special Operations Executive (Soe) in Burma

Richard Duckett

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History | nr. 130
• In the mountains and jungles of occupied Burma during World War II, British special forces launched a series of secret operations, assisted by parts o... Lees meer

The British Empire and the Armenian Genocide

Michelle Tusan

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History
• An estimated one million Armenians were killed in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire in 1915. Against the backdrop of World War I, reports of massac... Lees meer

The Korean Diaspora in Post War Japan

Myung Ja Kim

• Paperback | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History
• The indistinct status of the Zainichi has meant that, since the late 1940s, two ethnic Korean associations, the Chongryun (pro-North) and the Mindan (... Lees meer

Secrets and Lies in Vietnam

Panagiotis Dimitrakis

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History
• The Vietnam War lasted twenty years, and was the USA's greatest military failure. An attempt to stem the spread of Soviet and Chinese influence, the c... Lees meer

World War I in Africa

Anne Samson

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History | nr. 50
• The First World War in German Southern and East Africa was fought in extremely different circumstances to the war on the Western Front. Very little ha... Lees meer

Britain's Cold War

Nicholas Barnett

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History
• The cultural history of the Cold War has been characterized as an explosion of fear and paranoia, based on very little actual intelligence. Both the U... Lees meer

Turkey Beyond Nationalism Towards Post-Nationalist Identities

• Paperback | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History
• Nationalism was a defining characteristic of Turkey in the twentieth century and was a central driving force in Kemal Ataturk's foundation of the Repu... Lees meer

A Korean Conflict

Ian McLaine

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History
• In 1950, just five years after the end of World War II, Britain and America again went to war--this time to try and combat the spread of communism in ... Lees meer

The History of the Communist Party in Cyprus

Yiannos Katsourides

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History
• Cypriot pollitics are among the most contentious in Europe, and frequently attract the attention of the international community. Here, Yiannos Katsour... Lees meer

The History of Genocide in Cinema

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History
• The organization 'Genocide Watch' estimates that 100 million civilians around the globe have lost their lives as a result of genocide in only the past... Lees meer

Killing the Enemy

Adam Leong Kok Wey

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History
• During World War II, the British formed a secret division, the 'SOE' or Special Operations Executive, in order to support resistance organisations in ... Lees meer

From Neutrality to Commitment

William Mallinson

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History | nr. 28
• Until the mid-twentieth century, the Dutch, with their overseas empire, had managed to stay aloof from the machinations of intra-European fighting. Ho... Lees meer

War in the Balkans

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History
• The history of the Balkans incorporates all the major historical themes of the 20th Century--the rise of nationalism, communism and fascism, state-spo... Lees meer

Britain, Germany and the Road to the Holocaust

Russell Wallis

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History | nr. 55
• In the 1930s, the British public's emotional response to the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War, including the bombing of Guernica, shaped the mass-p... Lees meer

A Political Legacy of the British Empire

Harshan Kumarasingham

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History
• As the British Empire receded, India and Sri Lanka, then known as Ceylon, preserved the 'Westminster' political system left by their colonial rulers. ... Lees meer

Propaganda and Conflict

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History
• Propaganda has always played a key role in shaping attitudes during periods of conflict and the academic study of propaganda, commencing in earnest in... Lees meer

The Croatian Spring

Ante Batovic

• Paperback | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History
• Nationalism is a key topic within Balkan Studies, and one of the driving forces behind the bloody and difficult history of the region. Using primary s... Lees meer

International Politics and the Northern Ireland Conflict

Alan MacLeod

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History
• British troops, which arrived as a temporary measure, would remain in Ireland for the next 38 years. Successive British governments initially claimed ... Lees meer

August Bebel

Jürgen Schmidt

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History
• August Bebel (1840-1913) was one of the towering figures of late nineteenth century European socialism and the leading figure of the German labour mov... Lees meer

The Road to Vietnam

Pablo de Orellana

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History
• Why did the USA become involved in Vietnam? What led US policy makers to become convinced that Vietnam posed a threat to American interests? In The Ro... Lees meer

Croatia Under Ante Pavelic

Robert B McCormick

• Paperback | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History
• Ante Pavelic was the leader of the fascist party of Croatia (the Ustase), who, on Adolf Hitler's instruction, became the leader of Croatia after the N... Lees meer

A History of Czechoslovakia Between the Wars

Patrick Crowhurst

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History
• Here, Patrick Crowhurst identifies the crucial political problem that faced Czechoslovakia between 1918 and 1939 - the rift between the Czechs and the... Lees meer

Myxomatosis

Peter Bartrip

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History | nr. 16
• Myxomatosis, a viral disease of European wild rabbits, was discovered in South America in the 1890s. It was deliberately introduced in Australia and F... Lees meer

Resolving Cyprus

• Paperback | Engels | International Library of Twentieth Century History
• Over the past fifty years the Cyprus Problem has come to be regarded as the archetype of an intractable ethnic conflict. Since 1964, the United Nation... Lees meer