La Lutte Continue ...? Contemporary History and Algeria
The contribution of the witnesses from the Battle of Algiers to the debate on contemporary history.
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Conserving Estonia in the New Europe
Merlin Waterson looks at how the newly-independent Estonia is recovering its heritage.
The Dockers Who Won
John Crossland looks at the Dock Strike that succeeded in 1889.
The Xi’an Incident: The Beginning of the End for Chiang Kai-shek
The Xi'an Incident, a tragi-comic sequence of mutiny and kidnapping, marked a crucial stage in the struggle between Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists and Mao Zedong’s Communists.
D-Day Propaganda
Caroline Reed looks at the propaganda campaigns accompanying the D-Day landings on 6 June 1944.