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Free Download Prisoners of War: Europe: 1939-1956 by Bob Moore
English | August 5, 2022 | ISBN: 019884039X | True EPUB | 560 pages | 3.5 MB
The Second World War between the European Axis powers and the Allies saw more than twenty million soldiers taken as prisoners of war. While this total is inflated by the unconditional surrender of all German forces in Europe on 8 May 1945, it nonetheless highlights the fact that captivity was one of the most common experiences for all those in uniform – even more common than frontline service. Despite this, and the huge literature on so many aspects of the war, prisoner of war histories have remained a separate and sometimes isolated element in the wider national chronicles of the conflict constructed in the post war era. Prisoners of every nationality had their own narratives of military service and captivity.

Free Download C. K. Stead, "You have a Lot to Lose: A Memoir, 1956-1986 (2) "
English | ISBN: 1869409124 | 2020 | 440 pages | AZW3 | 1522 KB
New Zealand’s most extraordinary literary everyman-poet, novelist, critic, activist. C. K. Stead told the story of his first twenty-three years in South-West of Eden. In this second volume of his memoirs, Stead takes us from the moment he left New Zealand for a job in rural Australia, through study abroad, writing and a university career, until he left the University of Auckland to write full time aged fifty-three. It is a tumultuous tale of literary friends and foes (Curnow and Baxter, A. S. Byatt and Barry Humphries, and many more) and of navigating a personal and political life through the social change of the 1960s and 70s. And, at its heart, it is an account of a remarkable life among books-of writing and reading, critics and authors, students and professors. From Booloominbah to Menton, The New Poetic to All Visitors Ashore

Free Download Raymond Ramcharitar, "A History of Creole Trinidad, 1956-2010: Ariel and Caliban in the Isle of Noises"
English | ISBN: 3030756335 | 2021 | 358 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This book offers a history of post-Independence Trinidad and Tobago. It explores how culture and politics have operated in tandem to shape the society. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including literature, government reports, official statistics, the press and the Carnival, it critically analyses the popular conception of creolization as the driving force in modern Trinidad and Tobago. Ultimately, the book examines the way in which Trinidad and Tobago’s unique ethnic and political ecosystems contribute to its national character.

Free Download Jerzy Kochanowski, "The Other October Revolution: Poland, 1956-57"
English | ISBN: 3506791710 | 2023 | 364 pages | PDF | 8 MB
The cautious expansion of freedoms in the sign of de-Stalinization is remembered in Poland as the "October Thaw of 1956". The renowned historian Jerzy Kochanowski presents an innovative view of this era. He vividly describes the contemporary facts of life as hooliganism and prostitution, work and unemployment, money and corruption, the concept of deliberate motherhood and dreams of having one’s own car. The term "revolution" in the title of the book is to be taken literally, because the emotions that gripped Polish society at the time manifested themselves in a variety of ways on the streets. When the "Polish October Revolution" was over, the country was irreversibly changed.

Free Download Yagil Henkin, "The 1956 Suez War and the New World Order in the Middle East: Exodus in Reverse"
English | ISBN: 0739187201 | 2015 | 340 pages | EPUB | 35 MB
The 1956 Suez War, fought between Egypt and the improbable coalition of Britain, France, and Israel, was a key point in the history of the Middle East and the Arab-Israeli conflict. A blitzkrieg-style Israeli victory proved that Israel’s victory in the 1948 war was not an accident to be swiftly fixed by Arab armies, and gave the country eleven years of relative peace until the next major conflict. An Anglo-French blunder marked the decline of British and French influence in the Middle East, to be replaced by Soviet and US involvement. Egyptian defiance of the great powers of the past marked the high point of Arab nationalism.

Free Download Rustam Alexander, "Regulating homosexuality in Soviet Russia, 1956-91: A different history"
English | ISBN: 1526155761 | 2021 | 264 pages | PDF | 7 MB
This ground-breaking book challenges the widespread view that sex and homosexuality were unmentionable in the USSR. The Khrushchev and Brezhnev eras (1956-82) have remained obscure and unexplored from this perspective. Drawing on previously undiscovered sources, Alexander fills in this critical gap.

Free Download David Fletcher – British Military Transport 1829-1956
Stationery Office | 1998 | ISBN: 0112905706 | English | 142 pages | PDF | 96.92 MB
An illustrated history of the land vehicles used by the British army.

Free Download Michael Guarneri, "Vampires in Italian Cinema, 1956-1975"
English | ISBN: 1474458114 | 2020 | 232 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Positioning itself at the intersection of Italian film history, horror studies and cultural studies, this fascinating book asks why, and how, was the protean, transnational and transmedial figure of the vampire appropriated by Italian cinema practitioners between 1956 and 1975?

Free Download Michael Guarneri, "Vampires in Italian Cinema, 1956-1975"
English | ISBN: 1474458114 | 2020 | 232 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Positioning itself at the intersection of Italian film history, horror studies and cultural studies, this fascinating book asks why, and how, was the protean, transnational and transmedial figure of the vampire appropriated by Italian cinema practitioners between 1956 and 1975?

Free Download Derek Varble, "The Suez Crisis 1956"
English | 2003 | pages: 97 | ISBN: 1841764183 | PDF | 12,7 mb
In July 1956 Egyptian President Gamal Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal, causing immediate concern to Britain and France. They already opposed Nasser and were worried at the threat to maritime traffic in the Canal. This book traces the course of subsequent events. Together with Israel, Britain and France hatched a Description to occupy the Canal Zone and overthrow Nasser. Israel attacked Sinai, and Britain and France launched offensives throughout Egypt, but strategic failures overshasdowed tactical success. Finally, Britain, France and Israel bowed to international pressure and withdrew, leaving the Suez Canal, and Egypt, firmly in the hands of President Nasser.