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  • THE CHANGING FACE OF WESTERN COMMUNISM
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    THE CHANGING FACE OF WESTERN COMMUNISM
    DAVID CHILDS
    This book, first published in 1980, provides both a broad review and detailed analysis of the major issues that had been affecting the changing relations between Moscow and the other European Communist parties. In discussing the Spanish, Italian, French and Scandinavian communist parties the individual contributors expose the weaknesses as well as the strengths of the parties, ...

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  • GERMANY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (RLE: GERMAN POLITICS)
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    GERMANY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (RLE: GERMAN POLITICS)
    DAVID CHILDS
    The book traces the development of Germany from the Kaiser’s Reich in the 1870s to the reunited democratic state led by Helmut Kohl in the 1990s. The author begins by countering the popular view of Germany before 1914 as irredeemably reactionary, and after assessing Germany’s part in the First World War, he outlines the rise and fall of the Weimar Republic. The 12 years of Hitl...

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  • THE GDR (RLE: GERMAN POLITICS)
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    THE GDR (RLE: GERMAN POLITICS)
    DAVID CHILDS
    Widely praised in its first edition, the second edition of The GDR was updated to cover events through the spring of 1988, examining in particular the impact of new leadership in both Bonn and Moscow and of the changing world economy on the prospects of the GDR. ...

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  • HONECKER'S GERMANY (RLE: GERMAN POLITICS)
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    HONECKER'S GERMANY (RLE: GERMAN POLITICS)
    DAVID CHILDS
    Picking up many of themes of David Childs’ earlier book, The GDR: Moscow’s German Ally, this book discusses the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from 1971 until the mid 1980s. Written at a time when the GDR was one of the most modern and successful socialist states, with a growing importance within the socialist bloc and the global stage, this books examined a number of importa...

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  • WEST GERMANY (RLE: GERMAN POLITICS)
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    WEST GERMANY (RLE: GERMAN POLITICS)
    DAVID CHILDS / JEFFREY JOHNSON
    This book, originally published in 1981, provides the student and general reader alike with a fascinating account of the dynamic re-emergence of Germany after the Second World War as one of the world’s leading and most powerful states. The book gives extensive coverage to all aspects of the former West Germany’s political, social and economic arrangements. As well as dealing wi...

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  • THE FALL OF THE GDR
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    THE FALL OF THE GDR
    DAVID CHILDS
    The book charts the dramatic months leading to one of the most profound changes of the 20th century, the opening of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the restoration of German unity in 1990. The author analyses the nature of Communist rule in the GDR over 40 years, its few strengths and its many weaknesses, and the myths which grew up around it. This book places the GDR in its intern...

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  • BRITAIN SINCE 1945
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    BRITAIN SINCE 1945
    DAVID CHILDS
    Britain since 1945 is the established textbook on contemporary British political history since the end of the Second World War. David Childs' authoritative chronological survey discusses domestic policy and politics in particular, but also covers external and international relations. This new and improved seventh edition of this important book brings the picture to the present ...

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  • GROWING REMEMBRANCE
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    GROWING REMEMBRANCE
    DAVID CHILDS
    The story of the inspiration for, establishment and evolution of the National Memorial Arboretum is a fascinating one. Sited at Alrewas, Staffordshire, the Arboretum has become the Nations all year round focus for remembering and paying tribute to all who have served their country in both peace and war not only in the armed forces and merchant navy but in the emergency services...

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  • EAST GERMANY IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
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    EAST GERMANY IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
    BAYLIS, THOMAS A. / CHILDS, DR DAVID / CHILDS, DAVID / COLLIER, ERWIN L. / RUESCHEMEYER, MARILYN
    As a new decade begins the popular demand for change has meant that the social and political fabric of the the Eastern Bloc countries has been irrevocably altered. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the key political, economic and social areas of East German society, such as the military and the church, areas which will intrinsically involved with the movement for cha...

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  • THE TWO RED FLAGS
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    THE TWO RED FLAGS
    DR DAVID CHILDS
    An incisive account of the impact of socialism on the life and politics of Europe and the former Soviet bloc in the twentieth century. It covers the origins of socialism in those countries where it had most impact. ...

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  • INVADING AMERICA
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    INVADING AMERICA
    DAVID CHILDS
    A fascinating examination of why England failed for so long to colonize North America, in contrast to Spain's rapid conquest farther south. Within a generation of Columbus's first landfall in the Caribbean, Spain ruled an empire in central and south America many times the size of the home country. In stark contrast, after a century of struggle, and numerous disasters, English c...

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  • TUDOR SEA POWER
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    TUDOR SEA POWER
    DAVID CHILDS
    In the sixteenth century England turned from being an insignifcant part of an offshore island into a nation respected and feared in Europe. This was not achieved through empire building, conquest, large armies, treaties, marriage alliances, trade or any of the other traditional means of exercising power. Indeed England was successful in few of these. Instead she based her power...

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  • THE WARSHIP MARY ROSE
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    THE WARSHIP MARY ROSE
    DAVID CHILDS
    This new paperback edition brings the history of Henry VIII's famous warship right up to date with new chapters on the stunning presentation of the hull and the 19,000 salvaged artefacts in the new museum in Portsmouth.Mary Rose has, along with HMS Victory, become an instantly recognisable symbol of Britain's maritime past, while the extraordinary richness of the massive collec...

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  • PIRATE NATION
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    PIRATE NATION
    DAVID CHILDS
    For all the romantic mythology surrounding the court of Queen Elizabeth I, the financial underpinning of the reign of 'Gloriana' was decidedly sordid. Elizabeth's policy of seizing foreign assets made her popular at home but drew her into a public/private partnership with pirates who preyed on the state's foes and friends alike, being rewarded or punished depending on how much ...

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