The War Has Brought Peace to Mexico : World War II and the Consolidation of the Post-Revolutionary State [1 ed.] 9780826351326, 9780826351302

Although the battlefields of World War II lay thousands of miles from Mexican shores, the conflict had a significant inf

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The War Has Brought Peace to Mexico : World War II and the Consolidation of the Post-Revolutionary State [1 ed.]
9780826351326, 9780826351302

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Full-length accounts of three decisive WWII events—Pearl Harbor, Midway, and the evacuation of Dunkirk—from a #1 New Yor

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Propaganda did not prevent the transition of global leadership from the British Empire to the United States, Brewer asse

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*Includes pictures *Explains the appeasement of the Nazis in Czechoslovakia and Austria, and reactions to it *Includes o

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On a summer morning in Sarajevo a hundred years ago, a teenager named Gavrilo Princip took a pistol out of his pocket an

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A bold new history showing that the fear of Communism was a major factor in the outbreak of World War II The Spectre of

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Looks at the role of 3 theories – cosmopolitanism, internationalism and political realism – in armed conflict The ethi

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Legislation passed in May 1967 by the British Parliament reduced the period of secrecy for State papers from fifty to th

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The recent dedication of the World War II memorial and the sixtieth-anniversary commemoration of D-Day remind us of the

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This book is dedicated to the light tanks of the USSR, which took part in the Second World War. Here are their tactical

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