The Growing Power of Japan, 1967-1972: Analysis and Assessments from John Pilcher and the British Embassy, Tokyo Author(s): Hugh Cortazzi (Editor) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: November 1, 2015 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 468 pages ISBN-10: 1898823146 ISBN-13: 9781898823148 Book Description John Pilcher’s appointment as HM Ambassador to Japan in 1967, three years after the widely acclaimed Tokyo Olympics, was both judicious and enlightened. His role was to be that of a ...
Gold Juno Sword (Air War D-Day) Author(s): Martin W Bowman (Author) Publisher: Pen and Sword Aviation Publication Date: November 19, 2013 Language: English Print length: 256 pages ISBN-10: 1781591792 ISBN-13: 9781781591796 Book Description This is the final volume of a comprehensive five-part work, including a multitude of personal accounts of every aspect of the aerial operations on ‘Gold’ ‘Juno and ‘Sword’ beaches during D-Day. It relays the sense of relief experienced as Allied troops gained ...
The Tulsa Race Massacre: The Department of Justice Review and Evaluation by: Department of Justice (Author) Publisher: Melville House Publication Date: 2025-02-26 Language: English Print Length: 272 pages ISBN-10: 1685892213 ISBN-13: 9781685892210 Book Description Just days after it released a blistering report on what really happened 100 years ago in Tulsa, Oklahoma — detailing how the white citizens literally massacred Tulsa’s black citizens, and how it was covered up — the Trump adminis...
Women Who Woke up the Law: Inside the Cases that Changed Women’s Rights in Canada by: Karin Wells (Author) Publisher: Second Story Press Publication Date: 2025-03-04 Language: English Print Length: 250 pages ISBN-10: 1772604194 ISBN-13: 9781772604191 Book Description “Who was the woman trying to convince a jury in a tiny courthouse in Nova Scotia that it was self-defense when she killed her partner; and who was the young woman walking into the palais de justice in small-town Quebec arguing...
The Highlands: From the presenter of BBC TV’s Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands by: Paul Murton (Author) Publisher: Birlinn Publication Date: 2021-10-05 Language: English Print Length: 240 pages ISBN-10: 1780277210 ISBN-13: 9781780277219 Book Description Paul Murton journeys the length and breadth of the spectacularly beautiful Scottish Highlands. In addition to bringing a fresh eye to popular destinations such as Glencoe, Ben Nevis, Loch Ness and the Cairngorms, he also visits some remo...
Chinese Tanks & AFVs: 1950-Present (Technical Guides) by: Martin J Dougherty (Author) Publisher: Sterling Publishing Publication Date: 2019-08-14 Language: English Print Length: 128 pages ISBN-10: 1782748687 ISBN-13: 9781782748687 Book Description With a new world order emerging in the early 21st century, Chinese ground forces have been consistently improved and geared towards quality for costly main battle tanks, while still maintaining a huge number of cheaper AFVs. With 7,450 vehicles, Ch...
Confrontation The War with Indonesia 1962 – 1966 by: Nicholas van der Bijl (Author) Publisher: Pen and Sword Military Publication Date: 2014-05-19 Language: English Print Length: 304 pages ISBN-10: 1783030186 ISBN-13: 9781783030187 Book Description For over four years in the ‘Swinging Sixties’ the armed forces of the UK were engaged in a little publicized but crucial jungle war against communist aggressive on the vast island of Borneo.At any one time up to 50,000 troops (half of the Army’s stren...
The Opium Wars: A History From Beginning to End (History of China) by: Hourly History (Author) Publication Date: 2018-12-05 Language: English Print Length: 46 pages ISBN-10: 1790415810 ISBN-13: 9781790415816 Book Description Discover the remarkable history of the Opium Wars…Violent confrontation between armed groups over the supply of illegal narcotics is something we commonly associate with criminal gangs in modern cities, but in the mid-nineteenth century Great Britain went to war with I...
Wrong Women: Selling Sex in Monto, Dublin’s Forgotten Red Light District by: Caroline West (Author) Publisher: Eriu Publication Date: 2025-07-08 Language: English Print Length: 288 pages ISBN-10: 1804184411 ISBN-13: 9781804184417 Book Description ‘I found it fascinating – it’s an integral part of the history of Dublin that has been lost to time for too long’ – Rick O’SheaA feminist history of Europe’s largest red-light district and an examination o...
Shipping Lords and Coolie Stokers: Class, Race, and Maritime Capitalism in the Early Twentieth Century by: Ravi Ahuja (Author) Publisher: Verso Publication Date: 2024-12-31 Language: English Print Length: 256 pages ISBN-10: 1804293512 ISBN-13: 9781804293515 Book Description A TRAGIC SHIPPING ACCIDENT OPENS A WINDOW ON RACIALIZED LABOUR MANAGEMENT IN AN AGE OF IMPERIALISMWhen eighty-seven passengers and crew died in the shipwreck of the Royal Mail ship Egypt in 1922, the accident gave rise to a r...
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