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(0)Alex Von Tunzelmann
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A history of the 1947 separation of India from the British Empire looks at the events and personalities involved, detailing the chaos that followed the separation as well as the secret love affair between Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and EdwinaMountbatten.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In 2020, history came tumbling down. But as the past three hundred years have shown, history is not erased when statues are removed. Exploring the rise and fall of twelve famous, yet now controversial statues, Alex von Tunzelmann takes us on a fascinating global historical tour filled with larger than life characters and dramatic stories. Von Tunzelmann reveals that statues are not historical records but political statements and distinguishes between...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Offers insight into how the Cold War played out in the Caribbean, tracing the rivalries and visions of Fidel and Raúl Castro, Che Guevara, Rafael Trujillo, and François Duvalier and the ways in which they manipulated superpower states.
4) Churchill
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
June 1944. Allied Forces stand on the brink: a massive army is secretly assembled on the south coast of Britain, poised to re-take Nazi-occupied Europe. One man stands in their way: Winston Churchill. An impulsive, sometimes bullying personality; fearful, obsessive and hurting. Fearful of repeating, on his disastrous command, the mass slaughter of 1915, when hundreds of thousands of young men were cut down on the beaches of Gallipoli. Obsessed with...
