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Andrew Stewart - Empire Lost; Britain, the Dominio ns and the Second World War (2008).jpeg

This fascinating book explores British imperial unity at the outbreak of the Second World War and how this ultimately led to its own dissolution in post-war years.

In September 1939, four of the five dominions took the decision to support Neville Chamberlain's London-based government and declare war on Nazi Germany. This was to be the last great outpouring of British imperial unity.
Entering the fray as 'self-autonomous' they finished it as fledgling states whose long-held political, military, economic and cultural ties with the Mother Country were now uncertain. The Second World War brought military triumphs and catastrophes for the Imperial Coalition. More importantly, it also brought political awareness and a weakening of central power. The war that defeated the Nazi Reich also helped destroy the historically accepted unity of the British Empire.
Using government records, private letters and diaries and contemporary media sources, this book examines the key themes affecting the relationship between Britain and the Dominions during the Second World War, the Empire's last great conflict. It asks why this political and military coalition was ultimately successful in overcoming the challenge of the Axis powers but, in the process, proved unable to preserve itself. Although these changes were inevitable the manner of the evolution was sometimes painful, as Britain's wartime economic decline left its political position exposed in a changing post-war international system.

Contents
Introduction: A Special Relationship
1 The Great Experiment
2 War Again
3 Controlling the Alliance
4 Standing Alone
5 Coalition United
6 Pacifi c Test
7 The ‘First’ Dominion
8 Rupture?
9 Holding the Imperial Line
10 The Private Anzac Club
11 A Family Council
12 Losing an Empire
Conclusion: Brave New World
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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Andrew Stewart - Empire Lost; Britain, the Dominio ns and the Second World War (2008).pdf

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Muirhead Bone - The Western Front (1916).jpg

I have been asked to write a foreword to Mr. Muirhead Bone's drawings. This I am glad to do, as they illustrate admirably the daily life of the troops under my command.
The conditions under which we live in France are so different from those to which people at home are accustomed, that no pen, however skilful, can explain them without the aid of the pencil.
The destruction caused by war, the wide areas of devastation, the vast mechanical agencies essential in war, both for transport and the offensive, the masses of supplies required, and the wonderful cheerfulness and indomitable courage of the soldiers under varying climatic conditions, are worthy subjects for the artist who aims at recording for all time the spirit of the age in which he has lived.
It has been said that the portrait and the picture are invaluable aids to the right reading of history. From this point of view I welcome, on behalf of the Army that I have the honour to command, this series of drawings, as a permanent record in pencil of the duties which our soldiers have been called upon to perform, and the quality and manner of its performance.

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Jeffrey H. Denton - Robert Winchelsey and the Crow n 1294-1313; A Study in the Defence of Ecclesiasti cal Liberty (2002).jpg

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This is the first detailed study of the career of one of the most important medieval archbishops of Canterbury. Robert Winchelsey sought to defend ecclesiastical rights and liberties at a time when the English Church was under constant pressure from the king and his government, and he suffered suspension from office as a result of his opposition to Edward I.

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Jeffrey H. Denton - Robert Winchelsey and the Crow n 1294-1313; A Study in the Defence of Ecclesiasti cal Liberty (2002).djvu

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Herbert W. Meyer - History of Electricity and Mag netism (1971).jpg

Written so as to be understood by the non-technical reader who is curious about the origin of all the electrical and electromagnetic devices that surround him, this history also provides a convenient compendium of information for those familiar with the electrical and magnetic fields. The book moves along at a rapid pace, as it must if it is to cover the enormous proliferation of developments that have occurred during the last hundred years or so.

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Peter Ackroyd - Albion; The Origins of the English Imagination (2004).jpg

Even a writer as popular, prolific and inventive as Ackroyd can concoct a bore. Nevertheless, Albion is likely to succeed on his considerable reputation and the success of his bestselling London: The Biography. Here Ackroyd seeks to define and describe what he sees as distinctive qualities of the English imagination as they have developed since the country's beginnings. Quoting the 17th-century Richard Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy, he claims a cultural continuity-"we weave the same web still, twist the same rope again and again." But the Englishman, as Daniel Defoe remarked, and Ackroyd concedes, remained infinitely adaptable, having already assimilated waves of invasion and conquest-and become "Roman-Saxon-Danish-Norman-English." Explaining that "mungrell" mingling in 53 thematic chapters, Ackroyd appropriates nearly every quality in literature and the arts for England (largely ignoring Ireland and downplaying Scotland). He cites love of gardens, worship of trees, cultivation of dream-visionaries, affection for eccentricity, affinity for morbid sensationalism, attraction to understatement, pleasure in alliteration, fondness for cross-dressing, passion for antiquarianism, ease with an empirical temper, relish for detective and ghost stories, penchant for portrait miniatures, creative adaptation of folksong. It is a sentimental stretch. Where London was animated by a brilliant exploitation of anecdote, Albion lacks its verve. Rather, it is armed with a goodly-and defensive-helping of "It has often been said," "it might even be said," "It is no surprise, either, that," and often bogs down in bland thesis and empty persuasion. Yet vastly learned and frequently engaging, it may prove good bedtime reading-a veritable night school.

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Frederick Copleston - A History of Philosophy; Vol ume I, Greece and Rome; From the Pre-Socratics to Plotinus (1993).jpg

All History - Frederick Copleston - A History of Philosophy Volume ...eece and Rome From the Pre-Socratics to Plotinus 1993.jpg

Conceived originally as a serious presentation of the development of philosophy for Catholic seminary students, Frederick Copleston's nine-volume A History Of Philosophy has journeyed far beyond the modest purpose of its author to universal acclaim as the best history of philosophy in English.

Copleston, an Oxford Jesuit of immense erudition who once tangled with A. J. Ayer in a fabled debate about the existence of God and the possibility of metaphysics, knew that seminary students were fed a woefully inadequate diet of theses and proofs, and that their familiarity with most of history's great thinkers was reduced to simplistic caricatures. Copleston set out to redress the wrong by writing a complete history of Western philosophy, one crackling with incident and intellectual excitement -- and one that gives full place to each thinker, presenting his thought in a beautifully rounded manner and showing his links to those who went before and to those who came after him.

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Frederick Copleston - A History of Philosophy; Vol ume I, Greece and Rome; From the Pre-Socratics to Plotinus (1993).pdf

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Frederick Copleston - A History of Philosophy; Vol ume II, Medieval Philosophy; From Augustine to Dun s Scotus (1993).jpg

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Frederick Copleston - A History of Philosophy; Vol ume II, Medieval Philosophy; From Augustine to Dun s Scotus (1993).pdf

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Frederick Copleston - A History of Philosophy; Vol ume III, Late Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy; Ockham, Francis Bacon, and the Beginning of the M odern World (1993).jpg

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Frederick Copleston - A History of Philosophy; Vol ume III, Late Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy; Ockham, Francis Bacon, and the Beginning of the M odern World (1993).pdf

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Frederick Copleston - A History of Philosophy; Vol ume IV, Modern Philosophy; From Descartes to Leibn itz (1993).jpg

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Frederick Copleston - A History of Philosophy; Vol ume V, Modern Philosophy; The British Philosophers , from Hobbes to Hume (1993).jpg

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Frederick Copleston - A History of Philosophy; Vol ume V, Modern Philosophy; The British Philosophers , from Hobbes to Hume (1993).pdf

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Frederick Copleston - A History of Philosophy; Vol ume VI, Modern Philosophy; From the French Enlight enment to Kant (1993).jpg

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Frederick Copleston - A History of Philosophy; Vol ume VI, Modern Philosophy; From the French Enlight enment to Kant (1993).pdf

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Frederick Copleston - A History of Philosophy; Vol ume VII, Modern Philosophy; From the Post-Kantian Idealists to Marx, Kierkegaard, and. Nietzsche (19 94).jpg

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Frederick Copleston - A History of Philosophy; Vol ume VII, Modern Philosophy; From the Post-Kantian Idealists to Marx, Kierkegaard, and. Nietzsche (19 94).pdf

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Frederick Copleston - A History of Philosophy; Vol ume VIII, Modern Philosophy; Empiricism, Idealism, and. Pragmatism in Britain and America (1994).jpg

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Frederick Copleston - A History of Philosophy; Vol ume IX, Modern Philosophy; From the French Revolut ion to Sartre, Camus, and Levi-Strauss (1994).jpg

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Frederick Copleston - A History of Philosophy; Vol ume IX, Modern Philosophy; From the French Revolut ion to Sartre, Camus, and Levi-Strauss (1994).pdf

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Naval Institute Press - Conway's All the World's F ighting Ships, 1947-1995 (1996).jpg

All the World's Fighting Ships 1947-1995 is a very recommendable reference work on the naval units of the period covered. Because of the historical perspective it gives an insight into many stories about the ships covered that you would not find by going through the issues of Jane's from the same period.

It also contain an overview on the naval policies and a brief history of each of the countries represented. Depending on the size of the navy these chapters are more or less verboose.

The scope of the volume has been limited to actual combatant vessel, so usually no information is found about auxilliaries. That is a pity, but a fair enough priority. The book is quite large as it is. Perhaps Conway's Maritime would consider splitting the next edition e.g. 1947-82 and 1982-2004 and then adding the auxilliaries. Illustrations in colour could also be nice in a later edition.

All together: If you need a reference volume for the figthing ships of the postwar period I don't know a choice that would give you better value for your money.

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Naval Institute Press - Conway's All the World's F ighting Ships, 1947-1995 (1996).pdf

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Philip Bobbitt - The Shield of Achilles; War, Peac e, and the Course of History (2003).jpg

The scope of Philip Bobbitt's The Shield of Achilles is breathtaking: the interplay, over the last six centuries, among war, jurisprudence, and the reshaping of countries ("states," in Bobbitt's vocabulary). Bobbitt posits that certain wars should be deemed epochal--that is, seen as composed of many "smaller" wars. For example, according to Bobbitt the epochal war of the 20th century began in 1914 and ended with the collapse of communism in 1990. These military affairs--and their subsequent "ultimate" peace agreements--have caused, each in their own way, revolutionary reconstructions of the idea and actuality of statehood and, following, of relationships between these various new entities. Of these reconstructions (including the princely state, the kingly state, and the nation-state), Bobbitt is most interested in the current incarnation, which he calls the market-state: one whose borders are scuffed and hazy at best (certainly compared to earlier territorial markers) and whose strengths, weaknesses, citizens, and enemies roam across cyberspace rather than plains and valleys. The Shield of Achilles is massive, erudite, and demanding--at once highly abstract and extremely detailed. There is about it an air of detached erudition, one noticeably free of the easy "decline and fall" hysteria too often present in contemporary historical analyses.

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DK Eyewitness - Arthur Cotterell - Ancient China ( 2005).jpg

Here is a spectacular and informative guide to the history of the great Chinese empire and the customs and traditions of its people. Stunning real-life photographs and lifelike models offer a unique eyewitness view of life in imperial China, from its earliest beginnings in the Bronze Age to its final days in the early years of the 20th century.

See the stunning bronze work of the ancient Chinese, an early irrigation machine, a set of antique acupuncture needles, the beautiful implements used for Chinese calligraphy.

Learn why the First Emperor created the terra-cotta army, what kinds of goods were carried along the Silk Route, who invented paper, how a Chinese house was constructed, why tombs were filled with pottery figures, and what a civil servant's job entailed.

Discover why emperors were known as Sons of Heaven, what kinds of weapons were used in early battles, why families worshipped their ancestors, how fishermen used bivas to catch fish, and much, much more.

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