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  • Audiobook

    Motoring Tales

    Six Stories Inspired by the Early Automobile

    by E. F. Benson, Rudyard Kipling, A. J. Alan ...
    Narrated by Cathy Dobson ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 35 min

    As the invention of the automobile enabled quicker travel and enhanced the lives of the early motorists, it also gave new impetus to a generation of story writers.Automobiles were unusual, unfamiliar beasts. They combined speed and danger with an uncanny ability to break down at unexpected moments, catapulting the unhappy traveller into new adventures, or thusting mystery strangers onto the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Hair, The

    by A. J. Alan ...
    Narrated by Cathy Dobson ...

    Unabridged

    20 min

    When the narrator finds a mysterious brass box in a curiosity shop, he is intrigued. It is heavy, round, and shaking it shows that it clearly contains something...but it cannot be opened. He buys the box and takes it home. With some effort, he manages to open it and discovers a plait of mysterious hair. After cleaning and examining the hair, he discards it on a piece of blank cardboard... or so he ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Anglo-American Relations in the Twentieth Century

    The Policy and Diplomacy of Friendly Superpowers

    by Alan Dobson ...
    The relationship between Britain and America has been the most important bilateral relationship the world has ever seen. Dobson's concise and readable book covers the whole of this century and employs selected historical detail to expose the special relationship in its true light and in all its complexity. Dobson rejects tha claim that the US was ever hegemonical. Its realtionship with Britain - ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • A History of International Civil Aviation

    From its Origins through Transformative Evolution

    by Alan Dobson ...
    For civil aviation to progress it has never been just about technology and business practices. To go from the rudiments of the early services that plied across short distances in Europe and America to what we experience today required most of all that politicians and policy-makers address the central problems of national sovereignty over air space and national ownership and control over airlines. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • US Economic Statecraft for Survival, 1933-1991

    Of Sanctions, Embargoes and Economic Warfare

    by Alan P. Dobson ...
    How have US economic defence policies promoted its security since 1933?US Policies of Economic Warfare, 1933-1991 concentrates on an important and neglected facet of America's fight for survival in the latter half of the twentieth century. It explains how US policy-makers crafted and used instruments of economic statecraft against states that posed ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • US Wartime Aid to Britain 1940–1946

    by Alan P. Dobson ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: WW2
    This book, first published in 1986, examines the American economic aid that was a vital factor in enabling Britain’s success in the Second World War. Whilst Lend-Lease did keep the British war effort alive, the agreement was always a source of great friction between the two countries. This book argues that although Lend-Lease solved Britain’s wartime supply problems, the price was the acceptance ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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    My Adventure on Dartmoor

    by A. J. Alan ...
    Narrated by Cathy Dobson ...

    Unabridged

    25 min

    A. J. Alan was the pseudonym of Leslie Harrison Lambert (1883-1941), an English magician, intelligence officer, short story writer, and radio broadcaster. He was hugely popular in the '20s and '30s for his radio broadcasts, when he performed his own humorous and often macabre short stories, which he always delivered wearing full evening dress.My Adventure on Dartmoor is typical of A. J. Alan's ... Read more

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  • US Foreign Policy since 1945

    by Alan Dobson, Alan P. Dobson, Steve Marsh, Steve Marsh ...
    Series series The Making of the Contemporary World
    US Foreign Policy since 1945 is an essential introduction to postwar US foreign policy. It combines chronologic and thematic chapters to provide an historical account of US policy and to explore key questions about its design, control and effects.New features of this second edition include:expanded coverage of the Cold Warnew chapters on the post-Cold War eraa chronology and a new conclusion that ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Churchill and the Anglo-American Special Relationship

    Edited by Alan P. Dobson, Steve Marsh ...
    Series series Cold War History
    This book examines Winston Churchill’s role in the creation and development of the Anglo–American special relationship.Drawing together world leading and emergent scholars, this volume offers a critical celebration of Churchill’s contribution to establishing the Anglo–American special relationship. Marking the seventieth anniversary of Churchill’s pronouncement in 1946 of that special relationship ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Anglo-American Relations

    Contemporary Perspectives

    Edited by Alan Dobson, Steve Marsh ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
    This book provides an examination of contemporary Anglo-American relations. Sometimes controversially referred to as the Special Relationship, Anglo-American relations constitute arguably the most important bilateral relationship of modern times. However, in recent years, there have been frequent pronouncements that this relationship has lost its ‘specialness’.This volume brings together experts ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Anglo-American Relations and the Transmission of Ideas

    A Shared Political Tradition?

    Edited by Alan P. Dobson (1951-2022), Steve Marsh ...
    Series Book 6 - Transatlantic Perspectives
    Too often, scholarship on Anglo-American political relations has focused on mutual social and economic interests between Britain and the United States as the basis for cooperation. Breaking new ground, Anglo-American Relations and the Transmission of Ideas instead explores how ideas, on either side of the Atlantic have mutually influenced each other. In those transnational interactions, there ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    19 Club, The

    by A. J. Alan ...
    Narrated by Cathy Dobson ...

    Unabridged

    22 min

    A secretive gentlemen's dining society meets twice a year. On these occasions they invite a guest speaker... always somebody who has done something extraordinary, like flying to Australia and back, driving across China... or some incredible criminal feat such as robbing the Bank of England. On the search for the next speaker, the Club Secretary spots an account of a most extraordinary jail-break ... Read more

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