A Falkland Islander’s Wartime Journal: Surviving the Siege 9781399088671, 139908867X

Port Stanley was the tiny capital of a British colony known to few beyond the world of stamp collecting. But then, sudde

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A Falkland Islander’s Wartime Journal: Surviving the Siege
9781399088671, 139908867X

A richly detailed account of the lived experiences of ordinary people in this multicultural city between 1992 and 1996,

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In 1942 Gunda Lambton was a "war guest," a single mother sent from England to Toronto to avoid the war. While

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A vivid recreation of how the governors and governed of early seventeenth-century Florence confronted, suffered, and sur

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In 1965, the UK excised the Chagos Islands from the colony of Mauritius to create the British Indian Ocean Territory (BI

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