History of the Baloch Regiment
History of the Baloch Regiment

Author: Ahmed Rafiuddin

Publisher:

Published: 2005-04-01

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 9781845740948

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In the Indian Army of my day this was the 10th Baluch Regiment which, on the outbreak of war in 1939, consisted of five active battalions (1st to 5th) and a training battalion (10th). During the war a further eight active service battalions were raised (6th to 9th and 14th to 17th) and in addition three Garrison Battalions and four Garrison Companies, the latter providing security and administrative personnel at schools of instruction, GHQ Delhi and military prisons. In May The 10th Training Battalion at Karachi was redesignated the Baluch Regimental Centre (BRC) . Most of this history is about World War II and the part played by the Regiment, whose battalions served in Waziristan (NW Frontier), Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, N Africa, Eritrea, Sicily, Italy Greece, Malaya, Singapore and Burma, winning two VCs and suffering a total of 6,371 casualties of whom 763 were killed and a further 239 died due to sickness etc. Of the total, 92 were officers holding the King s Commission and 168 the Viceroy s Commission (Jemadar, Subedar and Subedar Major). The operations and battles are well described and supported by plenty of maps and a number of interesting photos. But of particular interest is the part dealing with post-war, the birth of Pakistan, partition and the appalling the massacres of refugees and the break-up of the old Indian Army. The author, who was commissioned in the Baloch Regiment in 1958 and commanded its 17th Battalion, is severely critical of the British government, especially Mountbatten whom he accuses of bias towards India. And then the Kashmir situation which led to war between the two countries in 1947-48 and here the part played by Mountbatten is savaged: The situation had become so intolerable that the Supreme Commander, Field Marshal Auchinleck, resigned in protest against Mountbatten s disgusting partiality. There are a number of most useful appendices listing campaigns and Battle Honours (1939-45), honours and awards, casualty figures in detail, succession of COs of all the battalions, the reconstituted Baloch Regiment-1956 and more. There are extensive footnotes and an impressive bibliography and an index.

The East German Leadership and the Division of Germany
The East German Leadership and the Division of Germany

Author: Dirk Spilker

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2006-07-13

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 0199284121

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Would it have been possible to build a unified and democratic Germany half a century before the fall of the Berlin Wall? This book reassesses this question by exploring Germany's division after the Second World War from the point of view of the SED, the communist-led and Soviet-sponsored ruling party of East Germany.Drawing on unpublished documents from the SED archives, Dr Spilker rejects claims that the East German comrades and their Soviet masters had abandoned their struggle for socialism and were willing to accept a democratic Germany in exchange for a pledge to neutrality. He argues that the communists' sudden switch to a multi-party approach at the end of the war was a tactical move inspired not by a desire for compromise but by the mistaken belief that they could win political hegemony - and thechance to introduce socialism throughout Germany - through the ballot box.Communist optimism, as this book shows, rested on specific assumptions about the situation after the war, all of which revolved around the prospect of political instability and social unrest in West Germany. The comrades in East Berlin did not just say that their regime would ultimately prevail, they genuinely believed it. Nor should their hopes be dismissed as a mere fantasy. In the aftermath of the war, the economic gap between the two Germanies was still relatively narrow and West Germany'sfuture success as a magnet for the people in East Germany was by no means guaranteed.

The Cambridge History of the Kurds
The Cambridge History of the Kurds

Author: Hamit Bozarslan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-04-22

Total Pages: 1027

ISBN-13: 1108583016

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The Cambridge History of the Kurds is an authoritative and comprehensive volume exploring the social, political and economic features, forces and evolution amongst the Kurds, and in the region known as Kurdistan, from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century. Written in a clear and accessible style by leading scholars in the field, the chapters survey key issues and themes vital to any understanding of the Kurds and Kurdistan including Kurdish language; Kurdish art, culture and literature; Kurdistan in the age of empires; political, social and religious movements in Kurdistan; and domestic political developments in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Other chapters on gender, diaspora, political economy, tribes, cinema and folklore offer fresh perspectives on the Kurds and Kurdistan as well as neatly meeting an exigent need in Middle Eastern studies. Situating contemporary developments taking place in Kurdish-majority regions within broader histories of the region, it forms a definitive survey of the history of the Kurds and Kurdistan.

A Concise History of Russia
A Concise History of Russia

Author: Paul Bushkovitch

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-12-05

Total Pages: 517

ISBN-13: 1139504444

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Accessible to students, tourists and general readers alike, this book provides a broad overview of Russian history since the ninth century. Paul Bushkovitch emphasizes the enormous changes in the understanding of Russian history resulting from the end of the Soviet Union in 1991. Since then, new material has come to light on the history of the Soviet era, providing new conceptions of Russia's pre-revolutionary past. The book traces not only the political history of Russia, but also developments in its literature, art and science. Bushkovitch describes well-known cultural figures, such as Chekhov, Tolstoy and Mendeleev, in their institutional and historical contexts. Though the 1917 revolution, the resulting Soviet system and the Cold War were a crucial part of Russian and world history, Bushkovitch presents earlier developments as more than just a prelude to Bolshevik power.

100 Years since the Great Union of Romania
100 Years since the Great Union of Romania

Author: Dan Dungaciu

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2019-11-06

Total Pages: 445

ISBN-13: 1527542971

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100 Years since the Great Union of Romania is a pertinent witness to the course of Romanian political thinking. It confirms that December 1918 demands to be celebrated as a fundamental historical event, which imparts a prominent force to the continuing dynamics of the preposition ‘since’, potentiating it not only with the structural valences of the initial moment and the starting point, but also giving it the meaning of the plenary symbols of a historical act which, after 100 years, celebrates its establishment by reaffirming and confirming its fully-mature vocation. This volume is dedicated to the 100 years since the Great Union of all Romanians. It will appeal to the wider academic community, PhD students, professors, and researchers, and to any reader interested in history, history of political thoughts, political philosophy and science or international relations.