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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 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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241

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807829358

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9780807829356

History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth

By: James Anthony Froude

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History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth

By: James Anthony Froude

First published between 1858 and 1870, this twelve-volume history argues that the English Reformation enabled modernity.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108035612

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9781108035613

The Devil's Tabernacle

The Pagan Oracles in Early Modern Thought

By: Anthony Ossa-Richardson

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The Devil's Tabernacle

The Pagan Oracles in Early Modern Thought

By: Anthony Ossa-Richardson

The Devil's Tabernacle is the first book to examine in depth the intellectual and cultural impact of the oracles of pagan antiquity on modern European thought. Anthony Ossa-Richardson shows how the study of the oracles influenced, and was influenced by, some of the most significant developments in early modernity, such as the Christian humanist recovery of ancient religion, confessional polemics, Deist and libertine challenges to religion, antiquarianism and early archaeology, Romantic historiography, and spiritualism. Ossa-Richardson examines the different views of the oracles since the Renaissance--that they were the work of the devil, or natural causes, or the fraud of priests, or finally an organic element of ancient Greek society. The range of discussion on the subject, as he demonstrates, is considerably more complex than has been realized before: hundreds of scholars, theologians, and critics commented on the oracles, drawing on a huge variety of intellectual contexts to frame their beliefs. In a central chapter, Ossa-Richardson interrogates the landmark dispute on the oracles between Bernard de Fontenelle and Jean-François Baltus, challenging Whiggish assumptions about the mechanics of debate on the cusp of the Enlightenment. With erudition and an eye for detail, he argues that, on both sides of the controversy, to speak of the ancient oracles in early modernity was to speak of one's own historical identity as a Christian.

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Princeton University Press

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1400846595

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9781400846597

A Special Relationship

Britain Comes to Hollywood and Hollywood Comes to Britain

By: Anthony Slide

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A Special Relationship

Britain Comes to Hollywood and Hollywood Comes to Britain

By: Anthony Slide

A Special Relationship provides not only a historical overview of the British in Hollywood, but also a detailed study of the contributions made by American individuals and companies to British cinema from the beginning of the twentieth century onwards. The story begins with Ohio-born Charles Urban who came to London in 1898 and deserves credit for major involvement in the creation of a British film industry. While Ireland was still a part of Britain, the New York-based Kalem Company made films there from 1910 to 1913. British producers realized the importance of American stars, and many actors, beginning with Florence Turner (who was arguably also the first American star), made numerous British films. In the 1920s, such Hollywood stars as Mae Marsh, Betty Blythe, and Dorothy Gish remained active in Britain. In the 1930s, as their careers came to a halt, more than one hundred former American stars made the trip to England, partly as a vacation and partly in the hope of reenergizing their careers. Chapters discuss American cinematographers at work in Britain in the 1920s and 1930s and the introduction of Technicolor to British films. Diversity is represented by African American performers (most notably Paul Robeson), the Chinese American star Anna May Wong, along with female filmmakers from Hollywood. With Britain's declaration of war on Germany, there were Americans who stayed, such as Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon, contributing to the war effort. America became actively involved in British cinema after World War II, with many Hollywood studios producing films there. As the years progressed, the British film industry became an international film industry. The book concludes with the Harry Potter and James Bond series, indicative of a new international cinema, with financing and behind-the-camera talent coming from the United States, but with British locales and British stars.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1628460881

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9781628460889

Book's by Anthony Montague Browne

Churchill Cold War Warrior

Churchill Cold War Warrior

The Eden-Eisenhower Correspondence, 1955-1957

The Eden-Eisenhower Correspondence, 1955-1957

History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth

History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth

The Devil's Tabernacle

The Devil's Tabernacle

A Special Relationship

A Special Relationship

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