>Storm on the Horizon: The Challenge to American Intervention, 1939-1941
http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=432C0D8BA990C1AF257C16AD10A5CEEF
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Forgotten-Slave-Trade-European-Slaves-ebook/dp/B08N1FCZBL/
>Everybody knows about the transatlantic slave trade, which saw black Africans snatched from their homes, taken across the Atlantic Ocean and then sold into slavery. However, a century before Britain became involved in this terrible business, whole villages and towns in England, Ireland, Italy, Spain and other European countries were being depopulated by slavers, who transported the men, women and children to Africa where they were sold to the highest bidder. This is the forgotten slave trade; one which saw over a million Christians forced into captivity in the Muslim world.
>Starting with the practice of slavery in the ancient world, Simon Webb traces the history of slavery in Europe, showing that the numbers involved were vast and that the victims were often treated far more cruelly than black slaves in America and the Caribbean. Castration, used very occasionally against black slaves taken across the Atlantic, was routinely carried out on an industrial scale on European boys who were exported to Africa and the Middle East. Most people are aware that the English city of Bristol was a major center for the transatlantic slave trade in the eighteenth century, but hardly anyone knows that 1,000 years earlier it had been an important staging-post for the transfer of English slaves to Africa.
>Reading this book will forever change how you view the slave trade and show that many commonly held beliefs about this controversial subject are almost wholly inaccurate and mistaken.
>If anyone has any of Furet's other books on the French Revolution in English, I'd appreciate it.
http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=9CF41949A2D9B1C47D7B281D4F8029F7
>The French Revolution and the creation of modern political culture. Vol. 3. The Transformation of Political Culture 1789-1848 edited by François Furet & Mona Ozouf
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00AKRTWT8
>The Western genre has long been associated with right-wing and libertarian politics, and is said to promote individualism and free-market economics. In a new look at the Western, however, Ryan McMaken shows that the Western is in fact often anti-capitalist, and in many ways, the genre attacks the dominant ideology of nineteenth-century America: classical liberalism.
>The classical Westerns of the mid-twentieth century often feature wealthy capitalist villains who oppress the cowardly and defenseless shopkeepers and farmers of the frontier. The gunfighter, a representative of the law and order provided by the nation-state, intervenes to provide safety and justice.
>In addition to attacks on capitalism, the Western attacks other prized values of the bourgeois middle classes including Christianity, education and urbanization.
>McMaken examines these themes as used in the films of John Ford, Anthony Mann, and Howard Hawks. These pioneers of the classical Westerns are then contrasted with later innovators such as Sergio Leone, Sam Peckinpah, and Clint Eastwood.
>Also included are discussions of the role of the LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE series, Victorian literature, and the nature of crime on the historical frontier.
>Ernst Junger's "The Worker"
http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=FD61C98F3B46562B59D8F8F8A8A7CF17
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bulls-Eye-Assassination-Supergun-Inventor-ebook/dp/B01LXIFIH9/
>When two 7.5-mm rounds were shot point-blank into Gerald Bull's skull in March 1990, it was the end of a life that had begun with great promise and the beginning of a story that was to shock the world.
>Exactly who killed him was not known, but the real mystery was the man himself and his legacy.
>Born in Canada, Bull was the youngest person ever to receive a doctorate from the University of Toronto. His particular expertise was measuring the performance of objects in flight.
>In the 1960s, he was involved in a joint U.S-Canadian venture to develop huge guns capable of firing satellites into orbit, but his dream of doing so was forced to end when funding for the project was cancelled. Moving away from pure space research, he turned to designing artillery and shells…
>It was Bull who secretly designed the first Star Wars system, twenty years before Reagan announced his version.
>It was Bull who designed special shells for the Navy to bombard North Vietnam.
>In the late 1970s, the CIA encouraged Bull to build a new gun for the South Africans, despite the U.S. arms embargo.
>It was artillery designed by Bull that confronted American troops during Operation Desert Storm — artillery that had a longer range than anything comparable in the Allied memory.
>In this stunning work of investigative journalism, Bull’s Eye combines the excitement and drama of a thriller with a cast of extraordinary characters from the worlds of intelligence, government, and the arms business. This is the story of the most talented designer of artillery this century; a man betrayed, who in despair and anger fell into the world of seedy arms merchants and ambitious third world dictators.