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Book Documents on the French Mandate and World War II  1936 1943

Download or read book Documents on the French Mandate and World War II 1936 1943 written by Walter L. Browne and published by . This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Idealist

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  • Author : Samuel Zipp
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2020-03-10
  • ISBN : 0674245865
  • Pages : 441 pages

Download or read book The Idealist written by Samuel Zipp and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize “The Idealist is a powerful book, gorgeously written and consistently insightful. Samuel Zipp uses the 1942 world tour of Wendell Willkie to examine American attitudes toward internationalism, decolonization, and race in the febrile atmosphere of the world’s first truly global conflict.” —Andrew Preston, author of Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith A dramatic account of the plane journey undertaken by businessman-turned-maverick-internationalist Wendell Willkie to rally US allies to the war effort. Willkie’s tour of a planet shrunk by aviation and war inspired him to challenge Americans to fight a rising tide of nationalism at home. In August 1942, as the threat of fascism swept the world, a charismatic Republican presidential contender boarded the Gulliver at Mitchel Airfield for a seven-week journey around the world. Wendell Willkie covered 31,000 miles as President Roosevelt’s unofficial envoy. He visited the battlefront in North Africa with General Montgomery, debated a frosty de Gaulle in Beirut, almost failed to deliver a letter to Stalin in Moscow, and allowed himself to be seduced by Chiang Kai-shek in China. Through it all, he was struck by the insistent demands for freedom across the world. In One World, the runaway bestseller he published on his return, Willkie challenged Americans to resist the “America first” doctrine espoused by the war’s domestic opponents and warned of the dangers of “narrow nationalism.” He urged his fellow citizens to end colonialism and embrace “equality of opportunity for every race and every nation.” With his radio broadcasts regularly drawing over 30 million listeners, he was able to reach Americans directly in their homes. His call for a more equitable and interconnected world electrified the nation, until he was silenced abruptly by a series of heart attacks in 1944. With his death, America lost its most effective globalist, the man FDR referred to as “Private Citizen Number One.” At a time when “America first” is again a rallying cry, Willkie’s message is at once chastening and inspiring, a reminder that “one world” is more than a matter of supply chains and economics, and that racism and nationalism have long been intertwined.

Book Tricolor and Crescent

Download or read book Tricolor and Crescent written by William E. Watson and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2003-06-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: France's contacts with Islam and Moslem populations (especially its fallen Empire and domestic population of Algerians, Turks, and other Muslim immigrants) have conditioned French foreign and domestic policies. After briefly discussing the Crusades, Napoleon's campaigns in Egypt, the French Foreign Legion's campaigns in Algeria and Morocco, and other pre-World War I events, Watson (history, Immaculata College) reviews "contacts" during the 20th century, notably the rise and fall of the French Islamic Empire and the Algerian Crisis.

Book Lebanon

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  • Author : C. H. Bleaney
  • Publisher : Oxford, England ; Santa Barbara, Calif. : Clio Press
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Lebanon written by C. H. Bleaney and published by Oxford, England ; Santa Barbara, Calif. : Clio Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book National Union Catalog

Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases.

Book The Political History of Lebanon  1920 1950

Download or read book The Political History of Lebanon 1920 1950 written by Walter L. Browne and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Books in Print Supplement

Download or read book Books in Print Supplement written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 1478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Books in Print

Download or read book Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 1916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Political History of Lebanon  1920 1950  Lebanon s struggle for independence

Download or read book The Political History of Lebanon 1920 1950 Lebanon s struggle for independence written by Walter L. Browne and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Subject Guide to Books in Print

Download or read book Subject Guide to Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 1680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Eavesdropping on Hell

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  • Author : Robert J. Hanyok
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 2005-01-01
  • ISBN : 0486481271
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Eavesdropping on Hell written by Robert J. Hanyok and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This official government publication investigates the impact of the Holocaust on the Western powers' intelligence-gathering community. It explains the archival organization of wartime records accumulated by the U.S. Army's Signal Intelligence Service and Britain's Government Code and Cypher School. It also summarizes Holocaust-related information intercepted during the war years.

Book The Second World War

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  • Author : Antony Beevor
  • Publisher : Back Bay Books
  • Release : 2012-06-05
  • ISBN : 0316084077
  • Pages : 829 pages

Download or read book The Second World War written by Antony Beevor and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 829 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterful and comprehensive chronicle of World War II, by internationally bestselling historian Antony Beevor. Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as one of the world's premier historians of WWII. His multi-award winning books have included Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945. Now, in his newest and most ambitious book, he turns his focus to one of the bloodiest and most tragic events of the twentieth century, the Second World War. In this searing narrative that takes us from Hitler's invasion of Poland on September 1st, 1939 to V-J day on August 14, 1945 and the war's aftermath, Beevor describes the conflict and its global reach -- one that included every major power. The result is a dramatic and breathtaking single-volume history that provides a remarkably intimate account of the war that, more than any other, still commands attention and an audience. Thrillingly written and brilliantly researched, Beevor's grand and provocative account is destined to become the definitive work on this complex, tragic, and endlessly fascinating period in world history, and confirms once more that he is a military historian of the first rank.

Book The Collapse of the Third Republic

Download or read book The Collapse of the Third Republic written by William L. Shirer and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2014-10-22 with total page 1948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Book Award–winning historian’s “vivid and moving” eyewitness account of the fall of France to Hitler’s Third Reich at the outset of WWII (The New York Times). As an international war correspondent and radio commentator during World War II, William L. Shirer didn’t just research the fall of France. He was there. In just six weeks, he watched the Third Reich topple one of the world’s oldest military powers—and institute a rule of terror and paranoia. Based on in-person conversations with the leaders, diplomats, generals, and ordinary citizens who both shaped the events and lived through them, Shirer constructs a compelling account of historical events without losing sight of the human experience. From the heroic efforts of the Freedom Fighters to the tactical military misjudgments that caused the fall and the daily realities of life for French citizens under Nazi rule, this fascinating and exhaustively documented account brings this significant episode of history to life. “This is a companion effort to Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, also voluminous but very readable, reflecting once again both Shirer’s own experience and an enormous mass of historical material well digested and assimilated.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Book Lebanon in Modern Times

Download or read book Lebanon in Modern Times written by Antoine J. Abraham and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... An attempt to sketch the political history and meaningful events in the history of modern Lebanon"--Preface.

Book Troopships of World War II

Download or read book Troopships of World War II written by Roland Wilbur Charles and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book contains authentic photographs and salient facts covering 358 troopships used in World War II. In addition, other vessels of miscellaneous character, including Victory and Liberty type temporary conversions for returning troops, are listed in the appendices ..."--Pref.