2004

The World War Two Reader

Preface Strategy: Failures, Shocks and Mythologies Soldiers: Ideology, Race, and Gender Home Fronts: People, Places, and Politics Memories: Victims, Heroes, and Controversies

The Command of the Ocean

Foreword A Note on Conventions Dates Battle Names Exchange Rates Foreign Ranks and Titles Money Values Notes and References Quotations Rates of Ships Tonnage Weights and Measures Maps Introduction A Mountain of Iron: Operations 1649-1654 Cromwell’s Hooves: Operations 1654-1659 A Looking-Glass of Calamity: Administration 1649-1660 The Melody of Experienced Saints: Social History 1649-1660 Terrible, Obstinate …

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Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar

Stalin Family Tree Prologue: The Holiday Dinner: 8 November 1932 Part One: That Wonderful Time: Stalin and Nadya, 1878-1932 The Georgian and the Schoolgirl The Kremlin Family The Charmer Famine and the Country Set: Stalin at the Weekend Holidays and Hell: The Politburo at the Seaside Trains Full of Corpses: Love, Death and Hysteria Stalin …

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