Happyland: A History of the Dirty Thirties in Saskatchewan, 1914-1937, Paperback - Curtis McManus

"Dirty Thirties" is the sobriquet commonly applied to the agricultural crisis in the drylands of southern Saskatchewan in Canada that coincided wit...

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Publishing during the 100th Anniversary of the First World War An NYRB Classics Original The budding young Hungarian artist B la Zombory-Moldov n w...

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The fighting that raged in the East during the First World War was every bit as fierce as that on the Western Front, but the titanic clashes betwee...

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The culmination of a 4-year project to tell the story of Surrey in the First World War

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Focussing on radicals and reformers this book explores the role of music in transmitting political culture across the Anglophone world over time an...

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From Nero's burning of Rome to Martin Luther's posting of the 95 Theses to Billy Graham's crusades, the history of Christianity is a story filled w...

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DescriptionThis thematic history of the world from 1780 to the onset of the First World War reveals that the world was far more 'globalised' at thi...

Publisher: Stenlake PublishingAuthor(s): J. P. HollingsworthIllustration(s): 130 illustrations and photographsNumber of pages: 112Publication date:...

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Auden, Lewis, MacNeice and other key poets of the 'Thirties' were children of the First World War, obsessed by war and by communalism and by the cl...

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Publisher: Tommies GuidesNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 228 x 153 x 10Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): John EwingR...

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DescriptionIf wars were wagered on like pro sports or horse races, the Germany military in August 1914 would have been a clear front-runner, with a...