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Girl : My Childhood and the Second World War.
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Once They Had a Country : Two Teenage Refugees in the Second World War.
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Samuel Stouffer and the GI Survey : Sociologists and Soldiers during the Second World War.
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Young Jewish poets who fell as Soviet soldiers in the Second World War / Rina Lapidus.
Published 2014Table of Contents: “…Introduction : young Jewish poets who fell as Soviet soldiers in the second World War -- 1. Jack Althausen (1907-1942) : Communist fanaticism against the background -- 2. …”
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Japan in the world : Shidehara Kijūrō, pacifism, and the abolition of war. Klaus Schlichtmann.
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…A world without war : Shidehara as foreign minister, 1924-1931 -- From the Manchurian crisis to the end of the second World War, 1931-1945 -- Shidehara, 1945-1951 -- Japanese pacifism and politics after the Second World War.…”
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Japan in the world : Shidehara Kijūrō, pacifism, and the abolition of war / Klaus Schlichtmann.
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…A world without war : Shidehara as foreign minister, 1924-1931 -- From the Manchurian crisis to the end of the second World War, 1931-1945 -- Shidehara, 1945-1951 -- Japanese pacifism and politics after the Second World War.…”
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Gandhi's interpreter : a life of Horace Alexander / by Geoffrey Carnall ; foreword by Philippa Gregory.
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Cover; CONTENTS; DEDICATION; FOREWORD; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; ARCHIVE SOURCES; ABBREVIATIONS; 1 THE MAKING OF AN INTERNATIONALIST; 2 THE HUMANISING OF AN INTELLECTUAL; 3 THE DISCOVERY OF GANDHI; 4 QUAKER INTERVENTIONS; 5 THE 1930s; 6 THE SECOND WORLD WAR; 7 TO INDIA WITH THE FRIENDS' AMBULANCE UNIT; 8 CAMPAIGNING IN BRITAIN ANDTHE USA; 9 INDIAN INDEPENDENCE AND ITS AFTERMATH; 10 INDIA AND THE QUEST FOR A SUSTAINABLE WORLD ORDER; APPENDIX: FRITZ BERBER IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.…”
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The original Rush Limbaugh : lawyer, legislator, and civil libertarian / Dennis K. Boman.
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Farm boy -- Intellectual development and courtship -- Student at the University of Missouri -- The Great War and growing law practice -- State legislator -- The Brunk impeachment -- The Muench kidnapping trial -- The Second World War -- Limbaugh & Limbaugh -- Civil libertarian -- Twilight years.…”
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Abraham Lincoln in the post-heroic era : history and memory in late twentieth-century America / Barry Schwartz.
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Ascension : Lincoln in the Great Depression -- Apex : Lincoln in the Second World War -- Transition : Cold War, racial conflict, and contested images of Lincoln -- Transfiguration : civil rights movement, vanishing savior of the Union -- Erosion : fading prestige, benign ridicule -- Post-heroic era : acids of equality and the waning of greatness -- Inertia : the enduring Lincoln.…”
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Displaced children in Russia and Eastern Europe, 1915-1953 : ideologies, identities, experiences / edited by Nick Baron.
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…Qualls -- Making kin out of strangers : Soviet adoption during and after the Second World War / Rachel Faircloth Green -- Lost children : displaced children between nationalism and internationalism after the Second World War / Tara Zahra -- Child survivors in Polish Jewish collective memory after the Holocaust : the case of Undzere Kinder / Gabriel N. …”
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Israel Isidor Mattuck : architect of Liberal Judaism / Pam Fox.
Published 2014Table of Contents: “…Early life in Lithuania and emigration to America -- Growing up in Worcester -- The Mattuck family after Worcester -- Early education -- Harvard -- Professional training and early career -- The 'call' to England -- Early years at the LJS -- The First World War -- After the First World War -- Between the wars -- The Second World War -- The post-war years -- Private and family life -- Final years -- Mattuck the man -- Mattuck's religious outlook -- Mattuck's legacy and place in history.…”
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Britannia's glory : a history of twentieth century lesbians / Emily Hamer.
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Dedication; 1 Introduction; NOTES; 2 Lesbians and suffragists; NOTES; 3 Lesbians and the outbreak of war; NOTES; 4 Lesbians after the great war; NOTES; 5 Radclyffe hall; NOTES; 6 Lesbian life in the 1930s; NOTES; 7 The second world war; NOTES; 8 Lesbians in the 1950s; NOTES; 9 Esme langley and arena three; NOTES; 10 The politics of lesbianism; NOTES; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Texas takes wing : a century of flight in the Lone Star State / by Barbara Ganson.
Published 2014Table of Contents: “…Flying Takes Off in Texas -- The Stinson Flying Family of San Antonio and Texas Aviators in the Great War -- Between the World Wars : Barnstormers -- Owners and Operators of Flying Services -- Record Setters and Air Racers -- Creating a More Connected World -- Flight Training -- Texas Air Power during the Second World War -- Aircraft Designers and Manufacturers -- Red, White, and Blue All Over : Texas Air Power in the Cold War and the Space Age -- Epilogue: Aeronautical Achievements, Education, and the Future of Air and Space Travel -- Appendices.…”
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Fresca : a life in the making : a biographer's quest for a forgotten Bloomsbury polymath / Helen Southworth.
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…; Part Five Pacifism in the Face of a Second World War; Part Six My Own Different Personal Life; Part Seven No Remaining, No Place to Stay; Part Eight Love Under The Shadow of Death; Coda; Notes; Index; About Sussex Academic Press.…”
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Stalin's wars : from World War to Cold War, 1939-1953 / Geoffrey Roberts.
Published 2006Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Stalin at war -- Unholy alliance : Stalin's pact with Hitler -- Grand illusions : Stalin and 22 June 1941 -- War of annihilation : Stalin versus Hitler -- Victory at Stalingrad and Kursk : Stalin and his generals -- The politics of war : Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt -- Triumph and tragedy : Stalin's year of victories -- Liberation, conquest, revolution : Stalin's aims in Germany and Eastern Europe -- Last battles : Stalin, Truman and the end of the Second World War -- The lost peace : Stalin and the origins of the Cold War -- Generalissimo at home : the domestic context of Stalin's postwar foreign policy -- Cold War confrontations : Stalin embattled -- Conclusion : Stalin in the court of history.…”
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Gorbachev : the last leader of the USSR / written by Véronique Van Driessche ; translated by Jessica Foster.
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev -- Key information -- Introduction -- Biography -- From humble origins -- A childhood spent in the fields -- A career off to a good start -- Leader of the USSR -- After the USSR -- The USSR, 79 years of history -- The founding of the Soviet Union -- Stalin's omnipotence -- The USSR during the Second World War -- The Cold War -- The Brezhnev era -- Elderly leaders -- Highlights -- The new watchwords: glasnost and perestroika -- Political liberalisation -- Economic liberalisation -- Withdrawal from former USSR satellite states -- Withdrawal from the Cold War and international conflicts -- The rise of nationalism and the end of the Soviet Union -- The putsch of 1991 -- Impact -- From the USSR to Russia -- From a planned economy to a market economy -- From Communism to democracy? …”
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Undeliverable : a letter of reminiscence / Isaac Lipschits ; translated by Jeannette K. Ringold.
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Universal foreigner : the individual and the world.
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