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Cheerful Sacrifice

The Battle of Arras, 1917

By: Jonathan Nicholls

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Cheerful Sacrifice

The Battle of Arras, 1917

By: Jonathan Nicholls

This WWI history examines the significant yet overlooked British offensive that achieved major advances on the Western Front. Fought between April 9th and May 16th of 1917, the Battle of Arras was the most lethal and costly British offensive battle of the First World War. Lasting a brutal thirty-nine days, its average casualty rate was far higher than at either the Somme or Passchendaele. It also represented the longest advance against Germany up to that point since the beginning of trench warfare. In Cheerful Sacrifice, military historian Jonathan Nicholls gives the Battle of Arras its proper place in the annals of military history, enhancing his text with a wealth of eye-witness accounts. One is left in no doubt that the survivor who described it as 'the most savage infantry battle of the war', did not exaggerate.

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239

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Pen and Sword

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ISBN 10

1844687562

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9781844687565

The Soviet Myth of World War II

Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR

By: Jonathan Brunstedt

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The Soviet Myth of World War II

Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR

By: Jonathan Brunstedt

Provides a bold new interpretation of the Soviet myth of World War II from its Stalinist origins to its emergence as arguably the supreme myth of state under Brezhnev. Jonathan Brunstedt offers a timely historical investigation into the roots of the revival of the war's memory in Russia today.

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323

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Cambridge University Press

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1108584888

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9781108584883

Operation Barbarossa

The History of a Cataclysm

By: Jonathan Dimbleby

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Operation Barbarossa

The History of a Cataclysm

By: Jonathan Dimbleby

Published in the United Kingdom by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House, under the title: Barbarossa: How Hitler lost the war.

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641

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Oxford University Press

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0197547214

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9780197547212

The Electrification of Russia, 1880–1926

By: Jonathan Coopersmith

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The Electrification of Russia, 1880–1926

By: Jonathan Coopersmith

The Electrification of Russia, 1880–1926 is the first full account of the widespread adoption of electricity in Russia, from the beginning in the 1880s to its early years as a state technology under Soviet rule. Jonathan Coopersmith has mined the archives for both the tsarist and the Soviet periods to examine a crucial element in the modernization of Russia. Coopersmith shows how the Communist Party forged an alliance with engineers to harness the socially transformative power of this science-based enterprise. A centralized plan of electrification triumphed, to the benefit of the Communist Party and the detriment of local governments and the electrical engineers. Coopersmith’s narrative of how this came to be elucidates the deep-seated and chronic conflict between the utopianism of Soviet ideology and the reality of Soviet politics and economics.

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392

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Cornell University Press

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1501705369

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9781501705366

Book's by Jonathan W. Thurston

Cheerful Sacrifice

Cheerful Sacrifice

The Soviet Myth of World War II

The Soviet Myth of World War II

Operation Barbarossa

Operation Barbarossa

The Electrification of Russia, 1880–1926

The Electrification of Russia, 1880–1926

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