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Author: Sir Richard Stafford Cripps
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780853037408
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Stafford Cripps cut an incongruous figure in British politics in the 1930s. His fortuitous appointment as Ambassador to Moscow in 1940 secured him a prominent position in the War Cabinet. His meticulously kept diary describes the change in his political fortune and bears witness to key German-Soviet events during World War 2.
Author: Gabriel Gorodetsky
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1984-11-01
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9780521238663
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book offers a lively revisionist account of a crucial phase in the life of Stafford Cripps: his meteoric rise from the radical fringe of Parliament on the eve of the war to membership of the War Cabinet in 1942. Cripps' ambassadorship to Moscow was of prime importance in view of the dramatic events during this period - the German conquest of Europe, Britain's struggle for survival and Russia's transformation from neutral to belligerent. Dr Gorodetsky assesses how Britain adapted to react to the changing circumstances and examines the recurrent controversy between Cripps and Churchill over Anglo-Soviet relations. New perspectives are opened on related issues such as the role of the civil service in policymaking, the British and Soviet appreciations of and reactions to intelligence on the planned German invasion of the Soviet Union and the origins of the controversies over assistance to Russia, the launching of the Second Front and the frontier issues.
Author: Sir Richard Stafford Cripps
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 280
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Stafford Cripps cut an incongruous figure in British politics in the 1930s. His fortuitous appointment as Ambassador to Moscow in 1940 secured him a prominent position in the War Cabinet. His meticulously kept diary describes the change in his political fortune and bears witness to key German-Soviet events during World War 2.
Author: Gabriel Gorodetsky
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-08-08
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780521522205
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A lively revisionist account of Cripps' ambassadorship to Moscow at a turning-point in the war.
Author: C. Wilson
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-08-05
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1137363959
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Cat Wilson brings together two strands of historical scholarship: Churchill's work as a historian and the history of WWII in the Far East. Examining Churchill's portrayal of the British Empire's war against Japan, as set down in his memoirs, it ascertains whether he mythologised wartime Anglo-American relations to present a 'special relationship'.
Author: K. Piirimäe
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-09-11
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1137442344
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1940, the USSR occupied and annexed Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, leading to calls by many that the Soviets had violated international law. This book examines British, US, and Soviet policies toward the Baltic states, placing the true significance of the Baltic question in its proper geopolitical context.
Author: Halik Kochanski
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2012-11-27
Total Pages: 911
ISBN-13: 0674071050
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Second World War gripped Poland as it did no other country in Europe. Invaded by both Germany and the Soviet Union, it remained under occupation by foreign armies from the first day of the war to the last. The conflict was brutal, as Polish armies battled the enemy on four different fronts. It was on Polish soil that the architects of the Final Solution assembled their most elaborate network of extermination camps, culminating in the deliberate destruction of millions of lives, including three million Polish Jews. In The Eagle Unbowed, Halik Kochanski tells, for the first time, the story of Poland's war in its entirety, a story that captures both the diversity and the depth of the lives of those who endured its horrors. Most histories of the European war focus on the Allies' determination to liberate the continent from the fascist onslaught. Yet the "good war" looks quite different when viewed from Lodz or Krakow than from London or Washington, D.C. Poland emerged from the war trapped behind the Iron Curtain, and it would be nearly a half-century until Poland gained the freedom that its partners had secured with the defeat of Hitler. Rescuing the stories of those who died and those who vanished, those who fought and those who escaped, Kochanski deftly reconstructs the world of wartime Poland in all its complexity-from collaboration to resistance, from expulsion to exile, from Warsaw to Treblinka. The Eagle Unbowed provides in a single volume the first truly comprehensive account of one of the most harrowing periods in modern history.
Author: David Stahel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-01-22
Total Pages: 457
ISBN-13: 1107087600
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A major new account of Germany's drive on Moscow in November 1941, one of the key battles of World War II.
Author: David Loades
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-12-17
Total Pages: 4319
ISBN-13: 1000144364
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Reader's Guide to British History is the essential source to secondary material on British history. This resource contains over 1,000 A-Z entries on the history of Britain, from ancient and Roman Britain to the present day. Each entry lists 6-12 of the best-known books on the subject, then discusses those works in an essay of 800 to 1,000 words prepared by an expert in the field. The essays provide advice on the range and depth of coverage as well as the emphasis and point of view espoused in each publication.
Author: Anita Prazmowska
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995-03-23
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780521483858
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Poland was a problematic issue for the Big Powers throughout the Second World War. For Britain, Poland was a major stumbling block in British-Soviet relations as Polish-Soviet territorial disputes clashed with the needs of the British-Soviet-United States alliance. As the Polish government-in-exile attempted to obtain a guarantee of British support, and many thousands of Polish troops fought for the British cause, the perception grew that the Churchill government had a debt to pay. Ultimately, however, it was a debt which Britain could not discharge because of its dependence on Soviet participation in the war. In this book Anita Prazmowska looks at British policies from the point of view of wartime strategy, relating this to Polish government expectations and policies. She describes a tragic situation where Polish soldiers were trapped between the grandiose and unrealistic plans of their government and the harsh realities of a war which they fought with no prospect of a satisfactory outcome for them or their country.
