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A comprehensive historiographical and bibliographical survey of the Falklands/Malvinas campaign of 1982, this work provides a guide to published materials, oral histories, government reports, fiction, art, videos and film exhibitions, and postage stamps associated with the area and the campaign.

Beginning in August 1942 and continuing through the end of 1943, when the Japanese base at Rabaul was isolated and bypassed, the Solomon Islands Campaign was conducted with combined Allied forces from the Southwest Pacific and Central Pacific commands and included several major amphibious landings, a dozen naval battles, and continuous air attacks. A comprehensive bibliography on the Solomon Islands Campaign, this book includes an historiograp...

This is the most comprehensive bibliography of the Spanish Armada of 1588 in recent years and the only up-to-date reference which provides a critical assessment of important source materials and an annotated bibliography of 1114 titles representing all genres of literature and Western languages. This scholarly guide is also the first to assess the vast collection of writings that have accompanied the recent 400th anniversary of the Armada camp...

Promoted as virtually unsinkable, the ultimate luxury liner, the largest ship in the world, the RMS Titanic sank on its maiden voyage in April 1912, taking some 1, 500 people to their death. Aboard the ship were the wealthy and famous as well as hundreds of immigrants seeking a new life in America. The most dramatic marine disaster of modern times, the Titanic tragedy captured the interest and imagination of the entire world. The intensity of ...

Provides an evaluative survey of the literature on the most complex and perhaps most controversial campaign of World War II.

This volume is a comprehensive bibliographical and historiographical survey of the battle of Jutland, the major naval engagement of World War I. Rasor has incorporated all published books, monographs, official reports, dissertations, bibliographies, pertinent journals and periodicals, collections of unpublished personal papers, letters, diaries, manuscripts, and other materials. Sources appropriate to the background on the origins and conseque...

A world-renowned British stateman, Arthur James Balfour is best known as Prime Minister and signer of the Balfour Declaration, calling for a national home for Jews in Palestine. Less well known are his initiatives in creating a structure for strategic planning, preparation for, and fighting a war, the Committee of Imperial Defence, and chairing the committee which articulated the basis for the constitution of the British Commonwealth of Nation...

Part one of this guide to the literature on the Earl Mountbatten of Burma, is a historiographical essay which provides critical analysis and evaluation of the works and integrates them into the overall literature. It covers all of the 450 titles in part two, which is an annotated bibliography.

This text includes a historiographical narrative which is cross-referenced to an annotated bibliography of 759 works of film and fiction by and about General Douglas MacArthur. It covers the US Army general's career - including World Wars I and II, the occupation of Japan and the Korean War.

Perhaps the most influential figure in 20th century British, imperial, and world history, Winston S. Churchill has been the subject of numerous studies, biographies, and controversies, but not of a recent comprehensive bibliography. The most extensive and up-to-date bibliographic work on Churchill, this book provides a full historiographical survey and over 3, 000 annotated entries on all of the important writings by and about Churchill. Refle...

Providing comprehensive coverage of the literature on the Southwest Pacific Campaign of World War II, this book includes both a historiographical narrative and an annotated bibliography of over 1500 entries. It reviews, evaluates and integrates a collection of popular and scholarly literature.