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Book The Churchill Complex

Download or read book The Churchill Complex written by Ian Buruma and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From one of its keenest observers, a brilliant, witty journey through the "special relationship" between England and America which has done so much to shape the world, from World War 2 to Brexit, through the lens of the fateful bonds between President and Prime Minister"--

Book Subject Index of the Modern Books Acquired by the British Museum in the Years 1916 1920

Download or read book Subject Index of the Modern Books Acquired by the British Museum in the Years 1916 1920 written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Common Sense

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas Paine
  • Publisher : The Capitol Net Inc
  • Release : 2011-06-01
  • ISBN : 1587332299
  • Pages : 76 pages

Download or read book Common Sense written by Thomas Paine and published by The Capitol Net Inc. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressed to the Inhabitants of America, on the Following Interesting Subjects, viz.: I. Of the Origin and Design of Government in General, with Concise Remarks on the English Constitution. II. Of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession. III. Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs. IV. Of the Present Ability of America, with some Miscellaneous Reflections

Book The Real Special Relationship

Download or read book The Real Special Relationship written by Michael Smith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Fascinating analysis' Nigel West; 'Grippingly told, authoritative' Mail on Sunday; 'Meticulously researched...a remarkably good read' John Brennan, former CIA Director; 'Excellent...a detailed, highly professional account' Sir John Scarlett, former MI6 Chief ​ The Special Relationship between America and Britain is feted by politicians on both sides of the Atlantic when it suits their purpose and just as frequently dismissed as a myth, not least by the media, which announces its supposed death on a regular basis. Yet the simple truth is that the two countries are bound together more closely than either is to any other ally. In The Real Special Relationship, Michael Smith reveals how it all began, when a top-secret visit by four American codebreakers to Bletchley Park in February 1941 - ten months before the US entered the Second World War - marked the start of a close collaboration between the two nations that endures to this day. Once the war was over, and the Cold War began, both sides recognised that the way they had worked together to decode German and Japanese ciphers could now be used to counter the Soviet threat. Despite occasional political conflict and public disputes between the two nations, such as during the Suez crisis, behind the scenes intelligence sharing continued uninterrupted, right up to the recent Russian invasion of Ukraine. Smith, the bestselling author of Station X and having himself served in British military intelligence, brings together a fascinating range of characters, from Winston Churchill and Ian Fleming to Kim Philby and Edward Snowden, who have helped shape the security of our two nations. Supported by in-depth interviews and an excellent range of personal contacts, he takes the reader into the mysterious workings of MI6, the CIA and all those who work to keep us safe.

Book The Familiar Enemy

Download or read book The Familiar Enemy written by Ardis Butterfield and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-12-10 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Familiar Enemy re-examines the linguistic, literary, and cultural identities of England and France within the context of the Hundred Years War. During this war, two profoundly intertwined peoples developed complex strategies for expressing their aggressively intimate relationship. This special connection between the English and the French has endured into the modern period as a model for Western nationhood. Ardis Butterfield reassesses the concept of 'nation' in this period through a wide-ranging discussion of writing produced in war, truce, or exile from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century, concluding with reflections on the retrospective views of this conflict created by the trials of Jeanne d'Arc and by Shakespeare's Henry V. She considers authors writing in French, 'Anglo-Norman', English, and the comic tradition of Anglo-French 'jargon', including Machaut, Deschamps, Froissart, Chaucer, Gower, Charles d'Orléans, as well as many lesser-known or anonymous works. Traditionally Chaucer has been seen as a quintessentially English author. This book argues that he needs to be resituated within the deeply francophone context, not only of England but the wider multilingual cultural geography of medieval Europe. It thus suggests that a modern understanding of what 'English' might have meant in the fourteenth century cannot be separated from 'French', and that this has far-reaching implications both for our understanding of English and the English, and of French and the French.

Book Love Across the Atlantic

Download or read book Love Across the Atlantic written by Brickman Barbara Jane Brickman and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winston Churchill famously described the political alliance between the US and UK as a 'special relationship', but throughout the cultural history of these two countries there have existed transatlantic 'special relationships' of another kind - affairs between British and American citizens who have fallen in love, with one another but often too with the idea(l) of that other place across the ocean. From romantic novelist Elinor Glyn in the 1920s to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle today, this collection examines some of the history, contemporary manifestations and enduring appeal of US-UK romance across popular culture. Looking at both historical and contemporary case-studies, drawn from across film, television, music, literature, news and politics, this is a timely intervention into the popular romantic discourse of US-UK relations, at a critical and transitional moment in the ongoing viability of the special relationship.

Book American Big Business in Britain and Germany

Download or read book American Big Business in Britain and Germany written by Volker R. Berghahn and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-04 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While America's relationship with Britain has often been deemed unique, especially during the two world wars when Germany was a common enemy, the American business sector actually had a greater affinity with Germany for most of the twentieth century. American Big Business in Britain and Germany examines the triangular relationship between the American, British, and German business communities and how the special relationship that Britain believed it had with the United States was supplanted by one between America and Germany. Volker Berghahn begins with the pre-1914 period and moves through the 1920s, when American investments supported German reconstruction rather than British industry. The Nazi seizure of power in 1933 led to a reversal in German-American relations, forcing American corporations to consider cutting their losses or collaborating with a regime that was inexorably moving toward war. Although Britain hoped that the wartime economic alliance with the United States would continue after World War II, the American business community reconnected with West Germany to rebuild Europe’s economy. And while Britain thought they had established their special relationship with America once again in the 1980s and 90s, in actuality it was the Germans who, with American help, had acquired an informal economic empire on the European continent. American Big Business in Britain and Germany uncovers the surprising and differing relationships of the American business community with two major European trading partners from 1900 through the twentieth century.

Book That Sweet Enemy

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  • Author : Robert Tombs
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2010-12-07
  • ISBN : 9781446426241
  • Pages : 816 pages

Download or read book That Sweet Enemy written by Robert Tombs and published by . This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of the People of the United States

Download or read book A History of the People of the United States written by John Bach McMaster and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book America and Britain

Download or read book America and Britain written by Harry Huntington Powers and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pictorial History of England  a History of the People as Well as of the Kingdom

Download or read book The Pictorial History of England a History of the People as Well as of the Kingdom written by George Lillie Craik and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The World s Work

Download or read book The World s Work written by Walter Hines Page and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of our time.

Book American Book Publishing Record Cumulative  1876 1949

Download or read book American Book Publishing Record Cumulative 1876 1949 written by R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The First Rapprochement

Download or read book The First Rapprochement written by Bradford Perkins and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Branch Library News

Download or read book Branch Library News written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Occupied America

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  • Author : Donald F. Johnson
  • Publisher : Early American Studies
  • Release : 2020
  • ISBN : 0812252543
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Occupied America written by Donald F. Johnson and published by Early American Studies. This book was released on 2020 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Occupied America, Donald F. Johnson chronicles the everyday lives of ordinary people living under British military occupation during the American Revolution. Focusing on port cities, Johnson recovers how Americans navigated dire hardships, balanced competing attempts to secure their loyalty, and in the end rejected restored royal rule.

Book The Nation

Download or read book The Nation written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: