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political partyfounded in 1932 by would-be dictatorOswald Mosley, who espoused virulentanti-Semitismand acorporatisteconomic philosophy. The BUF modeled itsideologyand approach on those of theItalian Fascist regimeandNazi Germany, both of which provided financial support for the British movement. It was...
As Joe’s jealousy escalates, Asquith’s direction takes on more weird and wonderful forms, referencing silent comedy, German expressionism and Russian montage, sometimes all in the same scene. When violence erupts, it’s swift and brutal, but the film’s main pleasure is its pragmatic ...
Scholars of British involvement in the Middle East have generally restricted their narratives to the highest diplomatic levels and failed to account for the way imperialism functioned "on the ground." Spurred by a Russian threat to India and the increasing decentralization of the Iranian state, ...
The British West Indies initially provided England's most important and lucrative colonies.[32]Settlements were successfully established in St. Kitts (1624), Barbados (1627) and Nevis (1628),[25]but struggled until the "Sugar Revolution" transformed the Caribbean economy in the mid-17th century....
in the war”.25The Russian revolution in 1917 gave the lie to such notions, but hopes continuedfor some alternative to the interminable slaughter in the West, especially after thefailure of yet another Anglo-French effort, the Nivelle offensive, in the spring of1917.In the early summer of ...
"[The] Russian government and its intelligence and security services frequently make use of non-governmental intermediaries to achieve their foreign intelligence objectives," Gibbs writes. "This structure serves in part to hide the overt involvement of the Russian government." ...
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Today, March 10th, marks the centenary of the involvement of Indian soldiers fighting alongside the British Army at the Battle of Neuve Chappelle near Lille in France. Indian troops arrived in France in September 1914 and over 1 million featured in battles across the Western Front and from Germa...
(such as myself), covering over 3,000 years of history in less than 300 pages. It lacks the literary flair and flourish of Tim Mackintosh-Smith’s magisterialArabs. I found myself skimming through the latter parts of the book- the Pahlavi era and the subsequent Islamic Revolution- as I ...