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Free Download Vietnam and the Cold War 1945-1954: French Imperial Decline and Defeat at Dien Bien Phu
by John Pike
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1526789299 | 578 Pages | PDF | 12.7 MB

Free Download Monty’s Greatest Battles 1942-1945 by Adrian Stewart
English | July 21, 2024 | ISBN: 1399046012 | 272 pages | MOBI | 15 Mb
Examines both the strengths and weaknesses of one of Great Britain’s most renowned military leaders.

Free Download Rens van Munster, Casper Sylvest, "The Politics of Globality since 1945: Assembling the Planet"
English | 2016 | pages: 218 | ISBN: 1138645621, 1138477605 | PDF | 2,8 mb
This timely, comprehensive and interdisciplinary volume advances an original argument about the complex roots and multiple politics of globality. It shows that technological innovations and decisive developments since 1945 – from the nuclear revolution to anthropogenic climate change and debates about the Anthropocene – have prompted reflections on the global condition of humanity and helped reshape political communities by making the world (appear) small, manageable and interconnected.

Free Download The Augustow Roundup of July 1945: Accounts of the Brutal Soviet Repression of Polish Resistance by Teresa Kaczorowska, Bożena U. Zaremba, Halina Koralewski
English | April 18, 2023 | ISBN: 1476689040 | 185 pages | EPUB | 11 Mb
In 1945, remnants of the Polish Home Army re-formed to counter brutal Soviet repressions. In July of that year, more than 7,000 HA freedom fighters were arrested in the northeastern Augustow region and held in barns, pigsties and warehouses where they were beaten and tortured. Two thousand of them were never seen again-their whereabouts remain a mystery. Seventy-five years later, their relatives still search for answers and the location of their mass burial. This book examines the fateful events of the Augustow Roundup (a.k.a. "little Katyn") through eyewitness testimonies.

Free Download Frédéric Bozo, "French Foreign Policy since 1945: An Introduction"
English | ISBN: 1785332767 | 2016 | 220 pages | PDF | 1357 KB
When Charles de Gaulle declared that "it is because we are no longer a great power that we need a grand policy," he neatly summarized France’s predicament on the world scene. In this compact and engaging history, author Frédéric Bozo deftly recounts France’s efforts to reconcile its proud history and global ambitions with a realistic appraisal of its capabilities, from the aftermath of World War II to the present. He provides insightful analysis of the nation’s triumphs and setbacks through the years of decolonization, Cold War maneuvering, and European unification, as well as the more contemporary challenges posed by an increasingly multipolar and interconnected world.

Free Download Anglo-Australian Naval Relations, 1945-1975: A More Independent Service by Mark Gjessing
English | June 20, 2018 | ISBN: 3319927434 | 239 pages | PDF | 2.25 Mb
This book examines Anglo-Australian naval relations between 1945-75, a period of great change for both Australia and Great Britain and their respective navies. It explores the cultural and historical ties between the Royal Navy and the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), the efficacy of communications between the services, and the importance of personal relations to the overall inter-service relationship. The author assesses the dilemmas faced by Great Britain associated with that nation’s declining power, and the impact of the retreat from ‘East of Suez’ on the strategic relationship between the United Kingdom and Australia. The book also considers operational co-operation between the Royal Navy and the RAN including conflicts such as the Korean War, the Malayan Emergency, and confrontation with Indonesia, as well as peacetime pursuits such as port visits and the testing of atomic weapons in the 1950s. Co-operation in matters of personnel and training are also dealt with in great detail,along with the co-operation between the Royal Navy and the RAN in equipment procurement and design and the increased ability of the RAN to look to non-British sources for equipment procurement. The book considers the impact of stronger Australian-American ties on the RAN and appraises the role it played in the conflict in Vietnam.

Free Download Allied Victory Over Japan 1945: Rare Photographs from Wartime Achieves (Images of War) by Jon Diamond
English | December 3, 2023 | ISBN: 1399042882 | 232 pages | MOBI | 62 Mb
"Jon Diamond is to be commended for his attention to detail, great use of maps and amazing photographs." ― IPMS/USA

Free Download R. M. Clarke – Dodge Military Vehicles 1940-1945 (Brooklands Books Collection No.1)
Brooklands Books | 1993 | ISBN: 0946489270 | English | 76 pages | PDF | 62.77 MB

Free Download Michael S. Shull, "Hollywood War Films, 1937-1945: An Exhaustive Filmography of American Feature-Length Motion Pictures Relating to World W"
English | ISBN: 0786428546 | 2006 | 488 pages | PDF | 61 MB
From 1937 through 1945, Hollywood produced over 1,000 films relating to the war. This enormous and exhaustive reference work first analyzes the war films as sociopolitical documents. Part one, entitled "The Crisis Abroad, 1937-1941," focuses on movies that reflected America’s increasing uneasiness. Part two, "Waging War, 1942-1945," reveals that many movies made from 1942 through 1945 included at least some allusion to World War II.

Free Download Thomas J Spinner, "A Political And Social History Of Guyana, 1945-1983"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0865318522, 0367019892, 0367169762 | EPUB | pages: 244 | 0.6 mb
Originally published in 1984, this is a documented account of the political history of the former British colony of Guyana. Providing a reflection of the increasing involvement of the United States in the Caribbean and Central America on the long-term political, social and economic effect that intervention can have on the small states of less developed countries during the period of 1945 to 1983. The text includes a detailed historical account of post-World War II politics and moves onto the emergence of the nationalist movement in Guyana in the late 1940s and the cold war period of the 1950s; concluding with the consequences both politically and economically in the 1980s.