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In this excerpt from Eric T. Jennings' Free French Africa in World War II, rediscover the story of French Equatorial Africa and Cameroon's roles in the Second World War.
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Musical instrument conservation is perhaps the most complex field of art conservation because it not only involves the specialized techniques of wood, metal, textiles, paper, leather, and painting conservation, but also deals with a diverse array of instrument types, including brass and woodwinds, bowed and plucked stringed instruments, stringed keyboard instruments, organs, percussion instruments, automatic […]
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We live today in a world that grew out of World War II. When I worked for fourteen years on a history of that war, a question that often puzzled me was that of the aims of the leaders of the major participants. What sort of world were they aiming for? One of the issues […]
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Press Archivist, Dr Rosalind Grooms, takes us back to the 1930s, and explores how the Second World War disrupted our bibles business, and sparked a war of words between publishers at Cambridge, Oxford, and Collins.
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Diana Lary, the author of China's Civil War, reveals how the end of World War II left China in devastation.
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In this excerpt from Justice in Asia and the Pacific Region, 1945-1952, Yuma Totani explores the impacts of WWII as the Allied powers brought war crimes trials against the Japanese. The pursuit of justice shed new light on war in the Philippines.
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On August 15, 1945, the army of Japan surrendered to the Allies, ending the largest global war in history. To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, we will be featuring excerpts and exclusive posts from our history titles and authors for the next three weeks. Phillips Payson O'Brien, the author of How the War Was Won, looks at the strategic decisions and key players that helped the United States put an end to war.
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Since the birth of our nation, American women have been fighting an uphill battle to fight. Beyond the Band of Brothers tackles the pervasive myth in the US military and in popular culture that women don’t have a place in combat. Check out this timeline for a greater understanding of the role women have played […]
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