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During the Second World War, Britain and France engaged in a hidden struggle shaped by great power rivalry and covert political action. Intelligence archives reveal that Winston Churchill had decided against an alliance with France. To secure Britain's postwar position, he opted to consolidate control of the Middle East by creating a Greater Syria, establishing a Jewish State, and permitting a campaign of subversion to oust the French from the region. The strategy brought him up against Ch...

Red Ghosts traces the history of anti-communism in Argentina from the early twentieth century to the present, including its renewed prominence in the era of Javier Milei. Despite its centrality to the country's political life, anti-communism has rarely been analysed systematically. From elite fears of the labour movement, through Peronism, the Cold War, and the political violence of the 1970s, to the last military dictatorship and contemporary right-wing movements, Red Ghosts

It had been a shitty day at school. 18-year-old Tim Masterson had just gotten home when he heard girlish giggling coming from the other side of the hedgerow that screened off the pool area. He stopped to listen, picking up several female voices, although he couldn't hear what was being said, just the laughter.His curiosity peaked. He quick stepped down the row and around the corner to the back door of the pool house. As he entered, he noticed that the French doors that lead to the ...

Famous for its ‘Modern Dance on Baby Oil', the Taipei Dance Circle (1984–2019) changed how we think about movements. This book captures a rare behind-the-scenes look in dance ethnography at the group's final experimental years (2014-2017) after losing their founder, Shaw-Lu Liu. During this chaotic but creative and liminal phase, the author compares Shaw-Lu Liu's and Cheng-Chieh Yu's choreographic methodologies through thirteen months of fieldwork, positioning divergent paths in modern / p...

The Beauty Within Shadow was written between August 2019 and June 2020.These poems are concerned with the balancing of darkness and light in our everyday lives, the search for an understanding of pain and sorrow, and the processing of other thoughts we’d usually avoid by filling our days with mindless distractions."Shove up National Treasures. We need to make room for Henry Normal." - Radio Times"The Alan Bennett of poetry" - The Scotsman"Distinctly funny" - Ti...

Henry Normal's first poetry collection in over twenty years, combining both new and selected poems from his previous performance work. This collection encompasses the subjects of love, death, loneliness, loss, human frailty and other classic conversation stoppers.First published by Five Leaves in 2016, Staring Directly at the Eclipse is revised and reissued by Flapjack Press in 2018."Succinct, heartrending and peppered with gentle punchlines" - The Guardian"The Alan...

Sam A. Mustafa examines the changing role of Prussia in the lives of German people, from the founding of the empire in 1871 to the present. He addresses the steady diminution of Prussia's power within the Reich, its crisis during the Weimar Republic, and the symbolic uses of Prussia by the Nazis. He also explores the historical preservation efforts and the revisions of Prussia in East and West Germany, and the remnants of Prussia in landscapes and popular culture. Mustafa concludes by anal...

Travel narratives have been recorded since the invention of writing, surviving as myths, epics, official records, diaries, and personal accounts. Despite this long history, their significance remains largely absent from contemporary studies of travel and tourism. Bringing together philosophical, historical, and anthropological perspectives, this book examines what these narratives reveal about the nature of travel experience. It shows how accounts from the past illuminate the enduring fasc...

Lukas Paul Schmelter re-examines the debate over West German Ostpolitik, focusing on Franz Josef Strauss and his approach to foreign policy in the 1960s and early 1970s. He argues that Strauss's opposition to Brandt's eastern policy was incited by an alternative strategic concept, centred on European federal union, political integration, and a Europeanised response to détente and the German question. Drawing on archival research, Opposing Ostpolitik situates Strauss within the wider histor...

The Beauty Within Shadow was written between August 2019 and June 2020.These poems are concerned with the balancing of darkness and light in our everyday lives, the search for an understanding of pain and sorrow, and the processing of other thoughts we’d usually avoid by filling our days with mindless distractions."Shove up National Treasures. We need to make room for Henry Normal." - Radio Times"The Alan Bennett of poetry" - The Scotsman"Distinctly funny" -...

Raining Upwards is Henry Normal’s first all new poetry collection in over twenty years. These poems explore relationships with science, nature, humanity and other vital matters we are usually too busy to think about.Henry Normal was born in St Annes, Nottingham, in 1956. He now lives in Brighton with his wife the screenwriter Angela Pell, and their son Johnny. Henry performs poetry at literature festivals around the UK, was recently given a Honorary Doctorate of letters by...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Saskia Sinclair was almost famous once. A pop hit in 2006, a brief stint on a soap, and a scandalous affair with a footballer—she had it all. But now, at 40, her career is drier than her agent’s WhatsApp replies. So when she's offered a spot on Celebrity Survival Island, she says yes before reading the fine print. (Rookie mistake.)Now she’s in the middle of nowhere, with no phone, no glam squad, and no clue how...