The Velvet Chancellors
Author: Terence Prittie
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 318
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Author: Terence Prittie
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 318
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Publisher: Holmes & Meier Publishers
Published: 1981-04-01
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780841967502
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kristina Spohr
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016-03-24
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0191064912
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHelmut Schmidt is the neglected chancellor of modern German history, overshadowed by 'the greats' - Bismarck, Adenauer, Brandt and Kohl. This volume retrieves Schmidt's true significance as a pivotal figure who helped reshape the global order during the crisis-ridden 1970s. This major reinterpretation, based on detailed research in Schmidt's private papers and numerous archives in Europe and America, reveals him as a leader equally skilled in economics and security, and adept at personal diplomacy, who dared to act as a 'double interpreter' between the superpowers during the nadir of the Cold War. Schmidt was no mere 'crisis-manager': in fact he brought to the chancellorship a depth of reflection, evident in two decades of writings and speeches that justifies considering him an intellectual statesman on a par with Henry Kissinger. His achievements were prodigious. Hailed as the 'world economist', Schmidt helped create the G7 forum for global economic governance and the European Monetary System at a time when capitalism seemed on the rocks. And as the 'strategist of balance', he designed NATO's 'dual-track' response to the crisis caused by the massive Soviet arms buildup of Euro-missiles. This decision, Kristina Spohr argues, played a crucial part in holding together the Western alliance and paved the way to defusing the Cold War in Europe. Schmidt brought his country to the top table of world politics - what he unashamedly called Weltpolitik - as an equal of the wartime victor powers. It was through his Chancellorship that West Germany came of age on the global stage.
Author: John Campbell Baron Campbell
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Published: 1868
Total Pages: 418
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Published: 1845
Total Pages: 684
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Published: 1847
Total Pages: 548
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Published: 1845
Total Pages: 688
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sarah Waters
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2011-02-03
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 0748129324
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the oyster huts of Whitstable to the music halls of Victorian London, Tipping the Velvet is the glorious first novel from this much-loved author 'Piercing the shadows of the naked stage was a single shaft of rosy limelight, and in the centre of this was a girl: the most marvellous girl - I knew it at once! - that I had ever seen.' A saucy, sensuous and multi-layered historical romance, Tipping the Velvet follows the glittering career of Nan King - oyster girl turned music-hall star turned rent boy turned East End 'tom'. 'Erotic and absorbing... Written with startling power' New York Times Book Review 'An unstoppable read, a sexy and picaresque romp through the lesbian and queer demi-monde of the roaries Nineties' Independent on Sunday 'Waters is an extremely confident writer, combining precise, sensuous descriptions with irony and wit' Observer
Author: John Campbell Baron Campbell
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Published: 1846
Total Pages: 700
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Published: 1851
Total Pages: 538
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