Acquisitions

Acquisitions, Books

Acquisitions

Sarah Caro. How to Publish Your PhD. London: SAGE Publications, 2009. Might come in handy one day. P. D. Smith. Doomsday Men: The Real Dr Strangelove and the Dream of the Superweapon. London: Penguin, 2008. Nice to see I’m not the only one with such dreams. NB: the author has a blog which often contains

Acquisitions, Books

Acquisitions

Kate Darian-Smith. On the Home Front: Melbourne in Wartime: 1939-1945. Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2009. 2nd edition. Actually, I bought this last week but I don’t suppose anybody cares but me! An excellent survey of life in wartime Melbourne — the phoney war period, the fear of invasion and bombing in early 1942, the arrival

Acquisitions, Books

Acquisitions

Richard Overy. The Morbid Age: Britain Between the Wars London: Allen Lane, 2009. One I’ve been looking forward to getting my hands on! It’s not a general history of the 1920s and 1930s, but more a history of ideas, with a particular focus on (as the title suggests) pessimistic ones. There are a couple of

Acquisitions, Books, Ephemera

Acquisitions

The Duke of Bedford. Total Disarmament or an International Police Force? Glasgow: Strickland Press, 1944. Or false a dichotomy? Bedford was a pacifist and (maybe) a fascist. Here he is the author of a twelve-page pamphlet which originally sold for 2d. and which I bought for … much more than 2d.! If I’d known I

Acquisitions, Books

Acquisitions

Oliver Stewart. Air Power and the Expanding Community. London: George Newnes, 1944. Thanks to Chris for pointing this one out to me. Looks forward to the post-war period and argues that the airpower (both military and civil) will be fundamental to the power blocs which will emerge, and that armed forces should combine all three

Acquisitions, Books, Games and simulations

Acquisitions

Joseph Miranda. First Battle of Britain. Decision Games, 2009. A wargame, not a book, included with Strategy & Tactics 255. The German air offensive against Britain in 1917 and 1918. The German player raids British cities and tries to damage civilian morale; the British player tries to intercept the raiders and bomb their aerodromes. It’s

Acquisitions, Books

Acquisitions

Campbell Craig and Sergey Radchenko. The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008. Talks a bit about the Baruch plan, which seems (perhaps naively) to me to be a close relative of the pre-war proposals for an international air force and the international control of

Acquisitions, Books

Acquisitions

David Faber. Munich: The 1938 Appeasement Crisis. London: Simon & Schuster, 2008. A much-needed narrative history, though I’m sure it won’t quite satisfy me! Mostly political and diplomatic, and mostly from the British point of view. Also some of the street-level stuff — calls ARP Sunday gas mask Sunday. Matthew J. Flynn. First Strike: Preemptive

Acquisitions, Books

Acquisitions

David Cortright. Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. A history of pacifism, mainly concentrating on Britain and the United States in the 20th century, with an emphasis on the latter half.

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