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  • Churchill Comes of Age

    Cuba 1895

    by Hal Klepak ...
    Churchill's 21st birthday and baptism of fire both took place in Cuba in 1895. This was the year he went on his first international adventure, wrote his first military and political analyses and engaged in his first dicey diplomatic mission. Finding his footing as a journalist - and indeed a war correspondent - he also became the centre of controversy in the American and British press and, while ... Read more

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  • Disaster Preparedness and Climate Change in Cuba

    Management and Adaptation

    by Emily J. Kirk, Anna Clayfield, Leidy Casimiro Rodríguez, Lauren Collins, Margarita Fernández, Shawn Harmon, Jessica Hirtle, Hal P. Klepak, Giraldo Martin Martin0, Guillermo Mesa Ridel1, Valerie Miller2, Luis L. Vázquez3, Helen Yaffe4, Dr Isabel Story5 ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies on Cuba
    As a result of climate change, ocean temperatures are warming and sea levels are rising. Natural disasters have been increasing in frequency and ferocity. Yet, over six decades, Cuba has developed a world-leading model for disaster preparedness and risk reduction. Disaster Preparedness and Climate Change in Cuba: Management and Adaptation discusses the island’s ongoing resilience against the ... Read more

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  • Spain in Arms

    A Military History of the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939

    by E. R. Hooton ...
    This detailed military history of the Spanish Civil War dispels long-held misconceptions and sheds significant new light on the conflict.Spain in Arms chronicles the development of the Spanish Civil War on the battlefield, examining eight campaigns waged between 1937 and 1939. Through detailed analysis, it demonstrates how many accounts of military operations during this conflict are based upon ... Read more

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  • Lisbon

    War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939-45

    by Neill Lochery ...
    Lisbon had a pivotal role in the history of World War II, though not a gun was fired there. The only European city in which both the Allies and the Axis power operated openly, it was temporary home to much of Europe's exiled royalty, over one million refugees seeking passage to the U.S., and a host of spies, secret police, captains of industry, bankers, prominent Jews, writers and artists, escaped ... Read more

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  • The Spanish Civil War

    by Hugh Thomas ...
    Though more than half a century has passed since the Spaish Civil War began in 1936, it is still the subject of intense controversy. What was it that roused left wing sympathisers from all over the world to fight for a cause for which their governments would not give active support? In his famous history, Hugh Thomas presents an objective analysis of a conflict - where fascism and democracy, ... Read more

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  • Operation Garbo

    The Personal Story of the Most Successful Spy of World War II

    by Juan Pujol García, Nigel West ...
    He was GARBO to the Allies and ALARIC to the Germans – the most successful double agent of the Second World War. Indeed, his spy network across Britain was so highly regarded that he was decorated for his achievements … by both sides.Throughout the war, GARBO kept the Germans supplied with reports from his ring of twenty-four agents. Hitler's spymasters never discovered or even suspected a double ... Read more

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  • The Spanish Civil War

    Revised Edition

    by Hugh Thomas ...
    “Mr. Thomas has understood [the Spanish Civil War] incredibly well and has written it superbly. A full, vivid and deeply serious treatment of a great subject.”—Vincent Sheean, The New York Times Book ReviewA masterpiece of the historian’s art, Hugh Thomas’sThe Spanish Civil War remains the best, most engrossing narrative of one of the most emblematic and misunderstood wars of the twentieth century ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Wellington in the Peninsula, 1808–1814

    by Jac Weller ...
    The author of Wellington at Waterloo delivers an in-depth history of the military commander's tactics and strategy in the Peninsular War.After gaining strategic and tactical experience in Colonial India, Arthur Wellesley went to battle against French forces in the Peninsular War. With his decisive victories there, he ascended to the peerage of the United Kingdom as the 1st Duke of Wellington. In ... Read more

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  • The Destruction of Guernica

    by Paul Preston ...
    The leading historian on the Spanish Civil War reveals the truth about one of the most horrifying events of the twentieth century – the destruction of Guernica.Guernica, a quiet market town in the Basque region of northern Spain. On Monday 26 April 1937, as the Spanish Civil War raged, the market square was busy with farmers and townspeople. Just before five o’clock in the afternoon the sky ... Read more

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  • The International Brigades

    Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War

    by Giles Tremlett ...
    ** Shortlisted for the Military History Matters Book of the Year Award **'Magnificent. Narrative history at its vivid and compelling best' Fergal KeaneThe first major history of the International Brigades: a tale of blood, ideals and tragedy in the fight against fascism.The Spanish Civil War was the first armed battle in the fight against fascism, and a rallying cry for a generation. Over 35,000 ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • The Last Days of the Spanish Republic

    by Paul Preston ...
    Told for the first time in English, Paul Preston’s new book tells the story of a preventable tragedy that cost many thousands of lives and ruined tens of thousands more at the end of the Spanish Civil War.This is the story of an avoidable humanitarian tragedy that cost many thousands of lives and ruined tens of thousands more.On 5 March 1939, the eternally malcontent Colonel Segismundo Casado ... Read more

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  • The Peninsular War

    A Battlefield Guide

    by Andrew Rawson ...
    A new battlefield guide to the Peninsular War is long overdue. Modern development in Spain and Portugal has encroached on many of the battlefields, new research has questioned established interpretations of events, and there is a broader appreciation of the parts played by all the armies involved - the French on one side and the Spanish, Portuguese and British on the other. Andrew Rawson, in this ... Read more

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