When Britain Saved The West

Author: Robin Prior
Editor: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300166621
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How Britain, standing alone, persevered in the face of near-certain defeat at the hands of Nazi Germany From the comfortable distance of seven decades, it is quite easy to view the victory of the Allies over Hitler's Germany as inevitable. But in 1940 Great Britain's defeat loomed perilously close, and no other nation stepped up to confront the Nazi threat. In this cogently argued book, Robin Prior delves into the documents of the time--war diaries, combat reports, Home Security's daily files, and much more--to uncover how Britain endured a year of menacing crises. The book reassesses key events of 1940--crises that were recognized as such at the time and others not fully appreciated. Prior examines Neville Chamberlain's government, Churchill's opponents, the collapse of France, the Battle of Britain, and the Blitz. He looks critically at the position of the United States before Pearl Harbor, and at Roosevelt's response to the crisis. Prior concludes that the nation was saved through a combination of political leadership, British Expeditionary Force determination and skill, Royal Air Force and Navy efforts to return soldiers to the homeland, and the determination of the people to fight on "in spite of all terror." As eloquent as it is controversial, this book exposes the full import of events in 1940, when Britain fought alone and Western civilization hung in the balance.

Bulletin Of The John Rylands Library

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Bulletin Of The John

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Britain And Soviet Communism

Author: F. S. Northedge
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History Of The West Indian Peoples

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Mankind

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The English Catalogue Of Books

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Report Of The West India Royal Commission

Author: Great Britain. West India Royal Commission, 1897
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Meat And Livestock Digest

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Brexit In History

Author: Beatrice Heuser
Editor: Hurst & Company
ISBN: 1787381269
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This is a stimulating work with an original perspective on the most important existential question in the UK since the Second World War. Rather than focusing on the minutiae of the on-going crisis, Beatrice Heuser considers Brexit in the light of the dialectic of Empire, sovereignty and co-operative syntheses throughout history. The result is an impressive synthesis of the evolution of power relationships within and between political entities.' -- Professor Michael Newman, author of Democracy, Sovereignty and the European Union Are Europeans hard-wired for conflict? Given the enmities that wracked the Greek city-states, or the Valois, Bourbons and Habsburgs, it seems undeniable. The Holy Roman Empire promised peace, but collapsed before it could deliver it, while rival rulers counter-balanced its power by stressing their own sovereign independence. Yet, since Antiquity, there has also been a yearning for the rule of law, the Pax Romana. For seven centuries, Europe's philosophers and diplomats have sought to build institutions of compromise between the unrestricted competition of nation-states and the universal monarchy of the old empires: a confederation whose representatives would meet to resolve differences. We have seen these ambitions at least partially realised in a progression of multilateral solutions: the Congress System, the League of Nations, the United Nations, and the European Union. But, with the United Kingdom's vote to leave the EU, state sovereignty seems to be pushing back against two centuries of travel in the other direction. The Brexit result shows that distrust of a "greater Europe" and fierce insistence on state sovereignty remain live issues in today's politics. To explain recent events, Beatrice Heuser charts the history and culture underpinning this age-old tension between two systems of international affairs.

A Nation Saved

Author: Arthur Milton
Editor: Lyle Stuart
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Argues that the Reagan administration has halted the U.S. downward spiral by easing inflation and reducing wasteful government spending

Western Civilization From The Seventeenth Century To The Contemporary Age

Author: Frank Roy Willis
Editor: D C Heath & Company
ISBN: 9780669072167
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West African Review

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The Catholic Periodical Index A Cumulative Author And Subject Index To A Selected List Of Catholic Periodicals

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A Perplexed Philosopher

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Bulletins From Britain

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Europe And America Since 1492

Author: Geoffrey Bruun
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