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World War II Behind Closed Doors

2009-04-28 History
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Book Synopsis World War II Behind Closed Doors by : Laurence Rees

Download or read book World War II Behind Closed Doors written by Laurence Rees. This book was released on 2009-04-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revelatory chronicle of World War II, Laurence Rees documents the dramatic and secret deals that helped make the war possible and prompted some of the most crucial decisions made during the conflict. Drawing on material available only since the opening of archives in Eastern Europe and Russia, as well as amazing new testimony from nearly a hundred separate witnesses from the period—Rees reexamines the key choices made by Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt during the war, and presents, in a compelling and fresh way, the reasons why the people of Poland, the Baltic states, and other European countries simply swapped the rule of one tyrant for another. Surprising, incisive, and endlessly intriguing, World War II Behind Closed Doors will change the way we think about the Second World War.

World War Two Behind Closed Doors

2008 History
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Book Synopsis World War Two Behind Closed Doors by : Laurence Rees

Download or read book World War Two Behind Closed Doors written by Laurence Rees. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning documentary-maker and historian Laurence Rees brings us a gripping new history of World War II. From the dramatic and secret deals that helped make the war possible, to some of the most crucial decisions taken during the conflict, World War II: Behind Closed Doors is full of surprises, even for those who think they know the history. Drawing on material only available since the opening of archives in the East, Rees re-examines the key decisions made by Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt during the war. And as the truth about Stalin's earlier friendly relationship with the Nazis is laid bare, a devastating and surprising picture of the Soviet leader emerges - one that is deeply embarrassing for many Russians. The emotional core of the book is the amazing new testimony obtained from nearly a hundred separate witnesses from the period. Former Soviet secret policemen talk frankly for the first time about their repressive work; Allied seamen reveal how they braved the Arctic convoys; and Red Army veterans talk of how they killed Germans in hand-to-hand fighting on the Eastern Front. The enthralling narrative is a mix of high politics - including the inside story of the Allies' meetings at Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam - and the dramatic personal experiences of those on the ground who bore the consequences of their decisions. The myth that World War II was, uniquely in the twentieth century, an entirely moral war is destroyed in this brilliant re-examination. Accompanying a major six-part BBC2 history series, this is an ambitious, emotional and engaging way of telling the history of the war that has not been attempted before.

Behind Closed Doors

2008 World War, 1939-1945 / History
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Release : 2008
Genre : World War, 1939-1945 / History
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Book Synopsis Behind Closed Doors by : Laurence Rees

Download or read book Behind Closed Doors written by Laurence Rees. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Behind Closed Doors

2012-02 History
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Release : 2012-02
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Behind Closed Doors by : Laura Stark

Download or read book Behind Closed Doors written by Laura Stark. This book was released on 2012-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drwaing on extensive archival sources, Laura Stark reconstructs the daily lives of scientists, lawyers, administrators, and research subjects working - and 'warring' - on the campus of the National Institutes of Health, where they first wrote the rules for the treatment of human subjects.

Behind Closed Doors

2009-11-17 History
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Release : 2009-11-17
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Behind Closed Doors by : Amanda Vickery

Download or read book Behind Closed Doors written by Amanda Vickery. This book was released on 2009-11-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning author of The Gentleman’s Daughter,a witty and academic illumination of daily domestic life in Georgian England. In this brilliant work, Amanda Vickery unlocks the homes of Georgian England to examine the lives of the people who lived there. Writing with her customary wit and verve, she introduces us to men and women from all walks of life: gentlewoman Anne Dormer in her stately Oxfordshire mansion, bachelor clerk and future novelist Anthony Trollope in his dreary London lodgings, genteel spinsters keeping up appearances in two rooms with yellow wallpaper, servants with only a locking box to call their own. Vickery makes ingenious use of upholsterer’s ledgers, burglary trials, and other unusual sources to reveal the roles of house and home in economic survival, social success, and political representation during the long eighteenth century. Through the spread of formal visiting, the proliferation of affordable ornamental furnishings, the commercial celebration of feminine artistry at home, and the currency of the language of taste, even modest homes turned into arenas of social campaign and exhibition. The basis of a 3-part TV series for BBC2. “Vickery is that rare thing, an…historian who writes like a novelist.”—Jane Schilling, Daily Mail “Comparison between Vickery and Jane Austen is irresistible…This book is almost too pleasurable, in that Vickery's style and delicious nosiness conceal some seriously weighty scholarship.”—Lisa Hilton, The Independent “If until now the Georgian home has been like a monochrome engraving, Vickery has made it three dimensional and vibrantly colored. Behind Closed Doors demonstrates that rigorous academic work can also be nosy, gossipy, and utterly engaging.”—Andrea Wulf, New York Times Book Review

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