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The Eden-Eisenhower Correspondence, 1955-1957

By: Anthony Eden (Earl of Avon)

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The Eden-Eisenhower Correspondence, 1955-1957

By: Anthony Eden (Earl of Avon)

Many of the letters have only recently been declassified, making it possible for the first time to publish this unique historic collection in its entirety."--BOOK JACKET.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807829358

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9780807829356

Churchill Cold War Warrior

Winston Churchill and the Iron Curtain

By: Anthony Tucker-Jones

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Churchill Cold War Warrior

Winston Churchill and the Iron Curtain

By: Anthony Tucker-Jones

In Churchill Cold War Warrior, renowned military historian Anthony Tucker-Jones reassesses Winston Churchill’s neglected postwar career. He explains how in an unguarded moment Winston inadvertently sowed the seeds for the Cold War by granting Stalin control of Eastern Europe. Famously Churchill, at Fulton, then warned of the growing danger created by this partition of the continent. Winston after the Second World War wanted to prove a point. Shunned by the electorate in 1945, instead of retiring he was determined to be Prime Minister for a second time. Biding his time he watched in dismay as Britain scuttled from India and Palestine and weathered the East-West confrontation over Berlin. He finally got his way in 1951 and took the reins of a country with drastically waning powers. Churchill was confronted by a world in turmoil, with an escalating Cold War that had gone hot in Korea and an unraveling British Empire. Communism and nationalism proved a heady cocktail that fanned the flames of widespread conflict. He had to contain rebellions in Kenya and Malaya while clinging on in Egypt. Desperately he also sought to avoid a Third World War and the use of nuclear weapons by reuniting the 'Big Three'.

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Frontline Books

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1399047493

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9781399047494

The Tories and Television, 1951-1964

Broadcasting an Elite

By: Anthony Ridge-Newman

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The Tories and Television, 1951-1964

Broadcasting an Elite

By: Anthony Ridge-Newman

This book explores the role of television in the 1950s and early 1960s, with a focus on the relationship between Tories and TV. The early 1950s were characterized by recovery from war and high politics. Television was a new medium that eventually came to dominate mass media and political culture. But what impact did this transition have on political organization and elite power structures? Winston Churchill avoided it; Anthony Eden wanted to control it; Harold Macmillan tried to master it; and Alec Douglas-Home was not Prime Minister long enough to fully utilize it. The Conservative Party’s relationship with the new medium of television is a topic rich with scholarly questions and interesting quirks that were characteristic of the period. This exploration examines the changing dynamics between politics and the media, at grassroots and elite levels. Through analysing rich and diverse source materials from the Conservative Party Archive, Anthony Ridge-Newman takes a case study approach to comparing the impact of television at different points in the party’s history. In mapping changes across a thirteen year period of continual Conservative governance, this book argues that the advent of television contributed to the party’s transition from a membership-focused party to a television-centric professionalized elite.

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Springer

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1137562544

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9781137562548

The Impossible Office?

The History of the British Prime Minister - Revised and Updated

By: Anthony Seldon,Jonathan Meakin,Illias Thoms,Tom Egerton

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The Impossible Office?

The History of the British Prime Minister - Revised and Updated

By: Anthony Seldon,Jonathan Meakin,Illias Thoms,Tom Egerton

Over 300 years, fifty-seven individuals have held the office of British Prime Minister - who have been the best and worst?

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Cambridge University Press

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1009429779

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9781009429771

The Cabinet Office, 1916–2018

The Birth of Modern Government

By: Anthony Seldon,Jonathan Meakin

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The Cabinet Office, 1916–2018

The Birth of Modern Government

By: Anthony Seldon,Jonathan Meakin

Since its creation in the depths of the Great War in December 1916, the Cabinet Office has retained a uniquely central place in the ever-changing political landscape of the last century. While the revolving door of 10 Downing Street admits and ejects its inhabitants every few years, the Cabinet Office remains a constant, supporting and guiding successive Prime Ministers and their governments, regardless of their political leanings, all the while keeping the British state safe, stable and secure. It has been at the centre of everything – wars, intelligence briefings, spy scandals, disputed elections, political crises – and its eleven Cabinet Secretaries, ever at the right hand of their political masters, have borne witness to them all. The true 'men of secrets', these individuals are granted access to the meetings that determine the course of history, trusted with the most classified information the state possesses. Written with unparalleled access to documents and personnel by acclaimed political historian, commentator and biographer Anthony Seldon, this lavishly illustrated history is the definitive inside account of what has really gone on in the last 100 years of British politics.

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Biteback Publishing

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1785902032

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9781785902031

Cautious Visionary

Cordell Hull and Trade Reform, 1933-1937

By: Michael Anthony Butler

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Cautious Visionary

Cordell Hull and Trade Reform, 1933-1937

By: Michael Anthony Butler

Cordell Hull's persistence and legislative experience were determining factors in the development of the Trade Agreements Act, 1934. This text investigates the political struggles surrounding the passage and implementation of the Act, and its impact on Roosevelt's first administration.

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Kent State University Press

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0873385969

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9780873385961

Grandeur And Misery

France's Bid for Power in Europe, 1914-1940

By: Anthony Adamthwaite

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Grandeur And Misery

France's Bid for Power in Europe, 1914-1940

By: Anthony Adamthwaite

A central question in European history is how did a great power pre-eminent in 1918 lie defeated by the same enemy less than 20 years later. Until recently the explanation has been sought in fundamental weaknesses that could only leave the French of 1940 hamstrung and demoralized. Recent studies have challenged that view and now, for the first time, the revisionist approach is displayed in a single volume, both summarizing the research of others and drawing on the author's own work in the archives. The book is about as far from 'dry as dust' diplomatic history as it's possible to get. Its very readable and the author manages to show with the telling anecdote that even a serious subject has its comic side: that, for instance, the French High Command kept forces stationed in the Alps for seven years because no one in the foreign service had thought to pass on news about a secret treaty between Italy and France in 1902; or that after a particularly stressful meeting Andrew Bonar Law, the British prime minister, mouth to Poincaré, the French president, through the closed carriage window of his train 'and you go to hell', all the while smiling and exuding affability. Such episodes are not the substance of the book, but they oil its progress.

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A&C Black

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1472578015

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9781472578013

Churchill, Master and Commander

Winston Churchill at War 1895–1945

By: Anthony Tucker-Jones

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Churchill, Master and Commander

Winston Churchill at War 1895–1945

By: Anthony Tucker-Jones

Masterful research, impeccable detail, with a beautifully flowing narrative of which Churchill himself would have been proud.' - Professor Peter Caddick-Adams From his earliest days Winston Churchill was an extreme risk taker and he carried this into adulthood. Today he is widely hailed as Britain's greatest wartime leader and politician. Deep down though, he was foremost a warlord. Just like his ally Stalin, and his arch enemies Hitler and Mussolini, Churchill could not help himself and insisted on personally directing the strategic conduct of World War II. For better or worse he insisted on being political master and military commander. Again like his wartime contemporaries, he had a habit of not heeding the advice of his generals. The results of this were disasters in Norway, North Africa, Greece and Crete during 1940–41. His fruitless Dodecanese campaign in 1943 also ended in defeat. Churchill's pig-headedness over supporting the Italian campaign in defiance of the Riviera landings culminated in him threatening to resign and bring down the British Government. Yet on occasions he got it just right: his refusal to surrender in 1940, the British miracle at Dunkirk and victory in the Battle of Britain, showed that he was a much-needed decisive leader. Nor did he shy away from difficult decisions, such as the destruction of the French Fleet to prevent it falling into German hands and his subsequent war against Vichy France. In this fascinating new book, acclaimed historian Anthony Tucker-Jones explores the record of Winston Churchill as a military commander, assessing how the military experiences of his formative years shaped him for the difficult military decisions he took in office. This book assesses his choices in the some of the most controversial and high-profile campaigns of World War II, and how in high office his decision making was both right and wrong.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472847350

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9781472847355

France and the Coming of the Second World War, 1936-1939

By: Anthony Adamthwaite

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France and the Coming of the Second World War, 1936-1939

By: Anthony Adamthwaite

First published in 1977, France and the Coming of the Second World War investigates the policies that led to the collapse of French power. The book argues that this collapse was the result of social, political, and economic troubles that buffeted French leaders. It uses a wealth of documents to explore common debates, such as Britain’s culpability for France’s inability to prevent Germany’s reoccupation of the Rhineland. It also puts forward the threat of Italy and the Mediterranean as France’s main preoccupation, rather than Germany and central Europe. France and the Coming of the Second World War uses an extensive range of archival material and includes the private papers of Daladier, Bonnet, and a number of other prominent figures. It will appeal to those with an interest in the history of the Second World War, political history, and social history.

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349

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Routledge

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1000352781

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9781000352788

The Making of the Second World War

By: Anthony P. Adamthwaite

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The Making of the Second World War

By: Anthony P. Adamthwaite

First published in 1979. In this text the Adamthwaite aims at leading students through the maze of documentation surrounding the Second World War. His book combines a critical assessment of recent research and writing with a painstaking selection of the key documents needed for a clear understanding of the policies that led to war. It contains the first student selection of British, French, German, Italian and Soviet documents, many of which are translated for the first time. Though emphasis falls on the years 1935-9, material is also included for the period 1929-35.

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1136647627

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9781136647628

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The Eden-Eisenhower Correspondence, 1955-1957

The Eden-Eisenhower Correspondence, 1955-1957

Churchill Cold War Warrior

Churchill Cold War Warrior

The Tories and Television, 1951-1964

The Tories and Television, 1951-1964

The Impossible Office?

The Impossible Office?

The Cabinet Office, 1916–2018

The Cabinet Office, 1916–2018

Cautious Visionary

Cautious Visionary

Grandeur And Misery

Grandeur And Misery

Churchill, Master and Commander

Churchill, Master and Commander

France and the Coming of the Second World War, 1936-1939

France and the Coming of the Second World War, 1936-1939

The Making of the Second World War

The Making of the Second World War

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