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With the United States producing almost 90,000 AFVs during World
War II, American tanks made up the bulk of those deployed by the
western Allies, and were even supplied through the lend-lease
scheme to the Soviet army on the Eastern Front. American Tanks of
World War II explores the tanks, self-propelled guns, halftracks
and armoured cars deployed by American forces, from the Torch
landings in Algeria to the hard fighting in Normandy and the bitter
Ardennes offensive. Organised chronologically by type, the entries
include the M3 Stuart, the first American-crewed tank to engage the
enemy in tank combat in the war; the ubiquitous M4 Sherman, which
proved cheap and reliable and was built in great numbers and in
many variants; the M22 Locust light tank, designed to be
air-dropped in support of airborne units; and the M26 Pershing, a
heavy tank that arrived late in the war and was capable of beating
the best tanks Germany had to offer. There are also chapters on the
many motor gun carriages used by US forces, including the M8 HMC
and T12 halftrack, both designed to provide close support for
infantry. Illustrated with expert colour profile artworks for each
entry and completed with technical specifications, American Tanks
of World War II is a detailed reference guide for modellers and
enthusiasts with an interest in World War II AFV technology.
Organised chronologically by type, Russian Tanks of World War II
offers a highly-illustrated guide to the main armoured fighting
vehicles used by the Red Army during World War II. The book offers
a comprehensive survey of Soviet AFVs, from the pre-war T-18 light
tank and BT fast tank series to the heavy Joseph Stalin tanks and
self- propelled guns of the final months of the war. All the major
and many minor tanks are featured, including every significant
variation of the T-26 light tank, KV series and T-34 to see action
on the Eastern Front. There are also chapters on the many types of
self-propelled guns developed by Soviet industry, as well as Allied
Lend-Lease AFVs, such as the British Churchill and Valentine tanks
and American Sherman and Stuart tanks. Each featured profile
includes authentic markings and colour schemes, while every
separate model is accompanied by exhaustive specifications. Packed
with 120 newly-commissioned, full-colour artworks with exhaustive
specifications, Russian Tanks of World War II is a key reference
guide for military modellers and World War II enthusiasts.
Contemporary Latin American Cultural Studies is a collection of new
essays by recognised experts from around the world on various
aspects of the new discipline of Latin American cultural studies.
Essays are grouped in five distinct but interconnected sections
focusing respectively on: (I) the theory of Latin American cultural
studies; (II) the icons of culture; (III) culture as a commodity;
(IV) culture as a site of resistance; and (V) everyday cultural
practices. The essays range across a wide gamut of theories about
Latin American culture; some, for example, analyse the role that
ideas about the nation - and national icons have played in the
formation of a sense of identity in Latin America, while others
focus on the resonance underlying cultural practices as diverse as
football in Argentina, TV in Uruguay, cinema in Brazil, and the
'bolero' and soaps of modern-day Mexico. Contemporary Latin
American Cultural Studies has an introduction setting the ideas
explored in each section in their proper context. The essays are
written in jargon-free English (all Spanish terms have been
translated into English), and are supplemented by a concluding
section with suggestions for further reading.
A comprehensive review of the wide and varied range of window
tracery designs that emerged during the medieval period. While the
terms used to describe the tracery of medieval church windows are
familiar (Early English, Decorated, Perpendicular), there has been
no really detailed attempt to examine it as a distinct, stylistic
architectural form, agap which this book seeks to address. Based
upon a visual catalogue of over 250 images of surviving types and
styles from churches throughout England, it traces the progression
of ideas and the continuity of motifs and themes intracery patterns
from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries, showing how
different themes emerged within the main architectural styles; it
also looks at the distinction between a window's architectural form
and its tracery style, and describes the several different tracery
techniques. The volume is completed with a detailed glossary.
Stephen Hart is a retired architect, and the author of numerous
works, including Flint Flushwork.
Created from what was left of the gigantic stockpiles of Soviet
armoured fighting vehicles after the end of the Cold War, the
Russian armoured forces were reorganized in the early 1990s. Ground
forces were involved in a series of conflicts in border states,
nationalistic insurrections of minorities following the end of the
Soviet Union, and the lifting of its iron fist on these regions.
From Chechnya to the Crimea to the Ukraine, Modern Russian Tanks
explores the main battle tanks, armoured fighting vehicles,
armoured personnel carriers, self- propelled guns and
missile-launching platforms in service since 1990. Organised by
type and then alphabetically by manufacturer, the entries include
the BMD-3, BMPT Terminator, T-90 and T-15 main battle tank, and
their variants, as well as the Buk missile system responsible for
shooting down the Malaysian Airlines 777 jet over Ukraine in 2014.
Illustrated with expert colour profile artworks for each entry and
completed with technical specifications, Modern Russian Tanks is a
detailed reference guide for modellers and enthusiasts with an
interest in modern military technology.
East Anglia has a unique and very substantial heritage of
flint-built churches and secular buildings over a wide area that
range from Saxon times to the 20th century, many of them of
exceptional beauty, and most in a good state of preservation.
Stephen Hart considers that these buildings, in which a large
number of different flintwork techniques and designs are used that
are partly functional, partly dependent upon local materials and
partly aesthetic in inspiration, constitute an important part of
our heritage. It has only been scantily treated in previous works.
His book is the first comprehensive one to be written on English
flint architecture and is likely to become the definitive work on
the subject. He shows that, although some of these techniques and
designs are also to be found in other chalkland regions of England,
including Hampshire, Sussex (e.g. Goodwood House), Kent, Wiltshire
and Dorset, the greatest variety is in East Anglia. He has devised
a classification system based on analysis of the materials and
workmanship in flintwork which distinguishes between different
types of flint, including flint combined with brick and stone. The
numerous colour plates and black and white photographs convey the
fascinating multiplicity of styles to be found, some of them
reminiscent of the work of contemporary artists like Richard Long,
and the virtuoso skills of the craftsmen who created them. There is
a deeper consciousness and wider appreciation of vernacular
architecture today in Britain than there has ever been, and the
book could well inspire people to explore new possibilities in the
use of flint architecture. Apart from its general appeal, it is a
book that will strike a particular chord among architects,
designers, craftsmen, local historians, artists and regional
councils responsible for planning and conservation.
A reinterpretation of the British Army's conduct in the crucial
1944-45 Northwest Europe campaign, this work examines
systematically the "Colossal Cracks" operational technique employed
by Montgomery's Anglo-Canadian 21st Army Group and demonstrates the
key significance that morale and casualty concerns exerted on this
technique. To ensure a full understanding of the campaign, one
needs to look not only at Montgomery's methods but at those of his
army commanders, Dempsey and Crerar; thus, this study addresses the
scant attention to date paid to these two figures. Hart suggests
that Montgomery and his two senior subordinates handled this
formation more effectively than some scholars have suggested. In
fact, "Colossal Cracks," the concentration of massive force at a
point of German weakness, represented the most appropriate weapon
the 1944 British Army could develop under the circumstances.
Previous studies have been characterized by an overemphasis on
Montgomery's role in the campaign, rather than a systematic
examination of overall British methods. They have ignored the
difficulties that the 1944 British Army faced given its manpower
shortage, and they have underestimated the appropriateness of
Monty's methods to the campaign war aims that Britain pursued:
namely, the desire that Britain's modest military forces secure a
high profile within a larger Allied effort. The cautious,
firepower-laden approach used by the 21st Army Group was both crude
and a double-edged sword; however, despite these weaknesses,
"Colossal Cracks" represented an appropriate technique given the
nature of British war aims and the relative capabilities of the
forces involved. It proved to be just enough to defeatthe Germans
and keep alive British hopes that her war aims might be achieved.
James Chuter Ede (1882-1965) served the longest term of office as
Home Secretary in the last 200 years, three weeks more than Theresa
May. He is the only senior member of Attlee's legendary 1945
cabinet not yet to have found a biographer. His contribution to
that government - and in Robert Harris's words, 'We still live in
the society shaped by Clement Attlee' - although largely unsung,
was immense. Alongside towering achievements such as Bevan's NHS,
his own measures, in administrative, legal and social reform, did
much to set the seal on Labour's reforming programme, including the
Criminal Justice Act 1948, paving the way for the abolition of
capital punishment. Previously, working with RA Butler, he provided
a major contribution to the Education Act 1944\. Equally
interesting for historians and readers of history is how Ede's life
and career present a political, cultural and social account, in his
journey from Victorian family life with a Liberal background,
through Cambridge and the Unitarian religion, to Labour politics,
working in education and local government. He represented suburban
Mitcham and then industrial South Shields in Parliament, where his
performances were legendary in an age of oratory - low-key, yet
cutting and decisive. This will be an important contribution to the
burgeoning interest in the historiography of post World War II
Labour Britain.
In 1969 a young chemist, Arthur Weiss, is recruited by an anti-war
group to convert uranium into plutonium for the construction of a
nuclear bomb. Arthur is told the bomb's only purpose is to
establish a bargaining position with the government-that it will
not be detonated. But as Arthur's involvement deepens, particularly
relative to the group's attractive leader, Billie Lee, his life
begins to spin out of control.
This first translation of the complete poetry of Peruvian Cesar
Vallejo (1892-1938) makes available to English speakers one of the
greatest achievements of twentieth-century world poetry. Handsomely
presented in facing-page Spanish and English, this volume,
translated by National Book Award winner Clayton Eshleman, includes
the groundbreaking collections "The Black Heralds "(1918), "Trilce
"(1922), "Human Poems "(1939), and "Spain, Take This Cup from Me
"(1939).
Vallejo's poetry takes the Spanish language to an unprecedented
level of emotional rawness and stretches its grammatical
possibilities. Striking against theology with the very rhetoric of
the Christian faith, Vallejo's is a tragic vision--perhaps the only
one in the canon of Spanish-language literature--in which salvation
and sin are one and the same. This edition includes notes on the
translation and a fascinating translation memoir that traces
Eshleman's long relationship with Vallejo's poetry. An introduction
and chronology provide further insights into Vallejo's life and
work.
This edition of the poetry of Cesar Vallejo (1892-1938) includes an
introduction which takes into account the most recent criticism
written on the Peruvian poet, an annotated bibiography, and a
glossary which explains some of the more difficult and technical
terms used by Vallejo. Each of the thirty-eight poems selected is
followed by a short commentary in plain English.
Why have conservatives fared so much better than progressives in
recent decades, even though polls show no significant move to the
right in public opinion? "Cultural Dilemmas of Progressive
Politics" highlights one reason: that progressives often adopt
impoverished modes of discourse, ceding the moral high ground to
their conservative rivals. Stephen Hart also shows that some
progressive groups are pioneering more robust ways of talking about
their issues and values, providing examples other progressives
could emulate.
Through case studies of grassroots movements--particularly the
economic justice work carried on by congregation-based community
organizing and the pursuit of human rights by local members of
Amnesty International--Hart shows how these groups develop
distinctive ways of talking about politics and create
characteristic stories, ceremonies, and practices. According to
Hart, the way people engage in politics matters just as much as the
content of their ideas: when activists make the moral basis for
their activism clear, engage issues with passion, and articulate a
unified social vision, they challenge the recent ascendancy of
conservative discourse.
On the basis of these case studies, Hart addresses currently
debated topics such as individualism in America and whether strains
of political thought strongly informed by religion and moral values
are compatible with tolerance and liberty.
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