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Ever since 1066 there has been a substantial French presence in
London. It is now said to be the sixth most populous French city
and this book illustrates, explains, and exposes how this came
about over more than a 1000 years. Full of individual stories and
overlooked details covering a common history, from William the
Conqueror, via the Huguenots (e.g. David Garrick's family), and the
emigres of the French Revolution ( such as the families of Joseph
Bazelgette, Augustus Pugin and Isambard Brunel), and on to London,
the capital of the Free French during WWII. It is also a guide book
to those streets, museums, monuments, churches and art dedicated to
the French of London. Voltaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Foch and dozens
of others are all honoured by plaques or statues. Traces and
stories of those escaping the French Revolution and the Commune are
remembered. Talleyrand, Chateaubriand and Madame de Stael all lived
in London during those turbulent years.
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East-West detente was hotly debated during its heyday in the 1970s.
Critics saw it as a form of appeasement which, they claimed,
strengthened communism while weakening the West. Supporters saw it
variously as a means of reducing the danger of war, subverting
communism and, in Europe, bridging the division of the continent.
This book presents a balanced assessment of the reality of detente,
and of the different interests involved, looking back through the
eyes of expert contributors from Britain, Germany, France, Italy,
Poland, Hungary and Austria. It takes a particularly close look at
the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), which
produced the Helsinki Final Act and a series of follow-up measure
that continue to evolve to the present day. It argues that, in
negotiating the text of the Final Act, the West won a victory that
was insufficiently recognized at the time. Davy concludes that
detente was ambiguous, conferring short-term political and economic
benefits on East European regimes while at the same time weakening
their foundations and contributing to their collapse in 1989.
European Detente will be of interest to students, academics and
practitioners in international relations, strategic studies and
international politics, particularly those specializing in Eastern
Europe.
A gripping first hand account of how Soviet Communism impacted on
those who had to live their daily lives under its rule.
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This work explores the value of the motorcycle to communications,
and how the despatch rider helped prevent German victory.
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