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Millions Like Us'? : British Culture in the Second World War.
Published 1999Table of Contents: “…The Development of the Tabloid Press During the Second World War; A More Even Playing Field? Sport During and After the War; A Time for Hard Writers: The Impact of War on Women Writers; Safe and Sound: New Music in Wartime Britain; More Than 'Music-While-You-Eat'? …”
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Half the battle : civilian morale in Britain during the Second World War / Robert Mackay.
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Leisure, citizenship and working-class men in Britain, 1850-1945 / Brad Beaven.
Published 2005Table of Contents: “…-- Male youth, work and leisure, 1918-39 : a continuity in lifestyle -- The era of mass communication : working-class male leisure and "good" citizenship between the wars -- Male leisure and citizenship in the Second World War.…”
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England Eats Out : a Social History of Eating Out in England from 1830 to the Present.
Published 2004Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Publisher's acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction: Beginnings; PART ONE: 1830-1880; 1 Eating to live; 2 Places of refreshment for the working classes; 3 The growth of gastronomy; PART TWO: 1880-1914; 4 Catering for the masses; 5 Catering for the classes; PART THREE: 1914-1945; 6 The First World War, 1914-1918; 7 After the deluge, 1918-1939; 8 The worst of times? The Second World War, 1939-1945; PART FOUR: 1945-2000; 9 From austerity to affluence, 1945-1970.…”
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The Chechens : a handbook / Amjad Jaimoukha.
Published 2004Table of Contents: “…Chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 People and land -- chapter 2 History from the earliest to the end of the eighteenth century AD -- chapter 3 History from the Russian-Caucasian War to the Second World War -- chapter 4 History from the deportation to the 'Second' Chechen War -- chapter 5 Politics and current affairs -- chapter 6 Society -- chapter 7 Economy -- chapter 8 Religion and beliefs -- chapter 9 Customs and traditions -- chapter 10 Folklore -- chapter 11 Arts, crafts and architecture -- chapter 12 Music and dance -- chapter 13 Language and linguistic policy -- chapter 14 Literature -- chapter 15 Media and film -- chapter 16 The diaspora -- chapter Afterword -- chapter Proverbs and sayings -- chapter Appendices -- chapter 2 The Vainakh Pantheon -- chapter 3 Bibliographies and journals -- chapter 4 Nakh lexicography.…”
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Between mass death and individual loss : the place of the dead in twentieth-century Germany / edited by Alon Confino, Paul Betts, and Dirk Schumann.
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Title page-Between Mass Death and Individual Loss; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Part I-Bodies; Chapter 1-How the Germans Learned to Wage War; Chapter 2-The Shadow of Death in Germany at the End of the Second World War; Chapter 3-Reburying and Rebuilding; Part II-Disposal; Chapter 4-Fanning the Flames; Chapter 5-Disposing of the Dead in East Germany, 1945-1990; Chapter 6-Death at the Munich Olympics; Chapter 7-When Cold Warriors Die; Part III-Subjectivity; Chapter 8-A Common Experience of Death; Chapter 9-Laughing about Death?…”
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Death and dying in contemporary Japan / edited by Hikaru Suzuki.
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Life Course and New Death Rites in Japan: The Loss of Comrades in the Second World War and the Choice of Ash Scatttering; 9. …”
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To get Ukraine : a report from inside the country for those looking on from the outside / by Oleksandr Shyshko ; translated by Hew Davies ; book created by Max Mendor.
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…-- The consequences of forcing the peasants to join collective farms -- Paranoid Stalinist terror in Ukraine -- Ukraine before the SECOND World War -- The Second World War and Ukraine -- The Ukrainian rebel army -- The post-war period. …”
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The farm at Holstein Dip : memoir of an Iowa boyhood / by Carroll Engelhardt.
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A&E Classroom. A&E Television Networks, LLC.
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Memory and change in Europe : Eastern perspectives / edited by Małgorzata Pakier and Joanna Wawrzyniak.
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…Foci of memories in Eastern Europe -- The second world war in the memory of contemporary Polish society / Piotr Tadeusz Kwiatkowski -- Auschwitz and Katyn in politial bondage : the process of shaping memory in communist Poland / Jacek Chrobaczyński and Piotr Trojański -- Germans in Eastern Europe as a Polish-German lieu de mémoire? …”
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The test of war : inside Britain, 1939-45 / Robert Mackay.
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Florida's snowbirds : spectacle, mobility, and community since 1945 / Godefroy Desrosiers-Lauzon.
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Sterling A. Brown's A Negro Looks at the South.
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Red Prometheus: engineering and dictatorship in East Germany, 1945-1990 / Dolores L. Augustine.
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The migration process : capital, gifts, and offerings among British Pakistanis / Pnina Werbner.
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Jewish lives under communism : new perspectives / edited by Kateřina Capková and Kamil Kijek.
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