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L'Armee des Ombres is a stark and unvarnished story about Resistance fighters in Vichy France in 1942-43 when the French leadership allowed the Nazis to occupy the country. The members of this army are cold, hungry, desperate men and women, with false names and no addresses, who can be betrayed in an instant by a traitor or an accident. They know they will probably die. A meditation on the nature of resistance and the price of courage, these heroes...
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"In this book, Hans Schmidt deals with United States military, economic, and diplomatic relations with the Republic of Haiti during the period in which the Marines occupied that country. From 1915 to 1934, Americans served as officials of the Haitian government and controlled its finances, its public works, its police force, and its sanitation. Drawing upon voluminous archival and manuscript materials unavailable until recently, Professor Schmidt...
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This is the story of the period from the end of World War II in 1945 to the signing of the Dulles Treaty in 1952, when four million Americans took part in the occupation of Japan. This is the human story behind the military history, where individuals become attracted to their former enemy, sometimes marrying them, and bringing two cultures together in a new way with a health dose of culture shock. The author follows Emperor Hirohito, Premier Tojo,...
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Describes what life was like in Paris after June 1940, when the Nazis occupied France, juxtaposing the eerie sense of normalcy felt by many Parisians with the passion of the strong resistance movement that rose around Charles de Gaulle.
"On June 14, 1940, German tanks entered a silent and nearly deserted Paris. Eight days later, France accepted a humiliating defeat and foreign occupation. Subsequently, an eerie sense of normalcy settled over the...
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No empire in history built so variously as the British empire in India. The buildings there attest to the richness of an imperial presence that lasted -- from the first trading settlement to the end of the Raj--some three hundred years. The attitude of the British to India was compounded partly of arrogance, but partly also of homesickness, and it shows in their constructions. Georgian terraces were adapted to tropical conditions, Victorian railway...
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The battle on the Eastern Front between 1941 and 1945 was the single most decisive factor of World War II. Now, drawing on sources newly available since the collapse of the Soviet Union, historian and journalist Chris Bellamy presents the first full account of this deadly conflict. He presents a shocking picture of battle in which the traditional restraints of "civilized" warfare were shed. He makes clear how the Soviets quickly rallied against Hitler...
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The Proudest Day is an account of the end of the Raj. Anthony Read and David Fisher put the events of 1947 into perspective, telling the whole story in detail from its beginnings more than a century earlier. Their narrative takes a look at many of the events and personalities involved, especially the three charismatic giants - Gandhi, Nehru, and Jinnah - who dominated the final, increasingly bitter thirty years. Meanwhile, a succession of British...
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Just after World War II, Takuya, an officer in the former Imperial Army, receives a postcard asking him to report to the U.S. Regional Command Headquarters in Tokyo. With widespread talk of prosecution for war crimes, he soon learns that truth and justice have no place in a world where the victors determine the rules of the game.
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