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Bloomsbury Churchill Archive

Churchill Archives www.churchillarchive.com Take a Tour Available via annual subscription and perpetual access to institutions worldwide. Published in October 2012 by Bloomsbury Publishing in collaboration with the Churchill Archives Centre, the Churchill Archive is a digital library of modern international history. It includes more than 800,000 pages of original documents, produced between 1874 and 1965, ranging from Winston S. Churchill’s personal correspondence to his official exchanges with kings, presidents, politicians, and military leaders. This is more than a fantastic collection of primary source material; it is a unique online resource offering new insight ... read more

Brill Cold War Intelligence Online

Cold War Intelligence The Secret War Between the U.S. and the USSR, 1945-1991 Editor: Matthew M. Aid This unique collection of well over 2,300 formerly classified U.S. government documents (most of them classified Top Secret or higher) provides readers for the first time with the documentary record of the successes and failures of the U.S. intelligence community in its efforts to spy on the Soviet Union during the Cold War. This document collection covers the period from the end of World War II in 1945 until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, but also includes a number of formerly classified historical reports and articles written by U.S. intelligence historians since t ... read more

Brill International Law anf World Order Westons and Carlsons Basic Documents

International Law & World Order Weston's & Carlson's Basic Documents ISSN: 2211-4394 Publication Type: E-Reference Work Imprint: Brill | Nijhoff Language: English Burns H. Weston† & Jonathan C. Carlson This online documentary compendium gathers in a single easy-to-use collection the most significant and influential legal primary sources of the post-WWII global order. It is both a comprehensive documentary history of public international law over the past 70 years and an anthology of currently operational international instruments. Organized topically and chronologically, the collection provides easy and quick access to ... read more

Brill The SHAFR Guide Online

The SHAFR Guide Online An Annotated Bibliography of U.S. Foreign Relations since 1600 General Editor: Alan McPherson, Temple University ISBN13: 9789004315891 Copyright Year: 2017 Format: Online Imprint: BRILL Language: English Videos and Tutorials SHAFR PL SHAFR LT The SHAFR Guide Online: An Annotated Bibliography of U.S. Foreign Relations since 1600 is a 2.1 million-word online annotated bibliography of historical work covering the entire span of U.S. foreign relations. It aims to jump-start the research of both students from high school to graduate school as well ... read more

Brill U S Intelligence on Asia 1945-1991

U.S. Intelligence on Asia, 1945-1991 Editor: Matthew M. Aid ISSN: 2542-7113 Publication Type: Primary Source Online Imprint: BRILL Language: English The purpose of this unique online collection is to provide students and researchers with the declassified documentary record about the successes and failures of the U.S. intelligence community in the Far East during the Cold War (1945-1991). Particular emphasis is given to America’s principal antagonists in Asia during the Cold War era: the People’s Republic of China, North Korea and North Vietnam. However, countries such as Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Si ... read more

Brill U S Intelligence on Europe 1945 1995

U.S. Intelligence on Europe, 1945-1995 Editor: Matthew M. Aid This unique collection of over 4,000 formerly classified U.S. government documents provides a comprehensive survey of the U.S. intelligence community’s activities in Europe, including Eastern Europe, Turkey and Cyprus, covering the time period from the end of World War II to the fall of the Iron Curtain and beyond. Scope: U.S. Intelligence operations in Western Europe U.S. Intelligence operations in Eastern Europe U.S. Intelligence gathering on Western European communist parties Economic intelligence gathering Monitoring European anti-nuclear groups in the 1980s Intelligence gathering on terrorist groups ... read more

Brill U S Intelligence on the Middle East 1945-2009

U.S. Intelligence on the Middle East, 1945-2009 Editor: Matthew M. Aid Publication Type: Primary Source Online Imprint: BRILL Language: English Since 1945, the U.S. intelligence community has had to cover a half dozen major wars and several dozen smaller but equally bloody armed conflicts in the Middle East, as well as innumerable civil wars, border clashes, armed insurgencies, and terrorist attacks. This comprehensive document set sheds light on the U.S. intelligence community’s spying and analytic efforts in the Arab world, including the Middle East, the Near East, and North Africa. It covers the time period from the end of World ... read more

Brill Weapons of Mass Destruction

Weapons of Mass Destruction The Top Secret History of America’s Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Warfare Programs and Their Deployment Overseas Editor: Matthew M. Aid Publication Type: Primary Source Online Imprint: BRILL Language: English At its peak in 1967, the U.S. nuclear arsenal consisted of 31,255 nuclear weapons with an aggregate destructive power of 12,786 megatons – more than sufficient to wipe out all of humanity several hundred times over. Much less known is that hidden away in earth-covered bunkers spread throughout the U.S., Europe and Japan, over 40,000 tons of American chemical weapons were stored, as well as thousands ... read more

Brill Yearbook of International Organizations Online

Yearbook of International Organizations Online ISSN: 2211-2847 Publication Type: E-Reference Work Imprint: BRILL Language: English About UIA (The Editors) The Yearbook of International Organizations Online provides a comprehensive database of intergovernmental (IGOs) and international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) worldwide. Free from print restrictions, the Yearbook Online covers over 67,000 international organizations – federations, scholarly societies, associations and transnational actors of all types – in all corners of the world, over centuries of history, and is updated on a regular basis by a dedicat ... read more

DeGruyter Deutsche Geschichte im 20 Jh Nationalsozialismus Holocaust Widerstand und Exil 1933 1945 Online

Deutsche Geschichte im 20. Jh. Nationalsozialismus, Holocaust, Widerstand und Exil 1933-1945 Online (20th Century German History Online – National Socialism, Holocaust, Resistance and Exile 1933–1945) One-time purchase of all content. Language: German Video/tutorial Click here to listen to the audio presentation National Socialism Holocaust EN National Socialism Holocaust HU National Socialism Holocaust LT National Socialism Holocaust PL National Socialism Holocaust SK Approximately 40,000 primary sources with about 450,000 pages 18,000 biograp ... read more

DeGruyter Deutsche Geschichte im 20 Jh Tagesrapporte der Gestapo Wien Online

DeGruyter Deutsche Geschichte im 20 Jh Tagesrapporte der Gestapo Wien Online Tagesrapporte der Gestapoleitstelle Wien 1938–1945 (Daily Reports of the Gestapo Headquarters Vienna 1938–1945) One-time purchase of all content. Language: German 741 daily reports, 5,795 pages Unique source with information on almost 16,000 people Other records are incomplete due to deliberate destruction of documents and bomb damage. Previously unpublished, rarely used records on the politically motivated persecution of “public enemies”. The database is an ideal supplement to the situation and status reports from other parts.? Non-restrictive DRM – al ... read more

DeGruyter Hitler Quellen 1924 1945 Online

Hitler Quellen 1924-45 Online RSA-Edition – Hitler-Prozess – Domarus-Edition (Hitler – Sources Online) One-time purchase of all content. Language: German Year: 2013 The database contains nearly 9,000 pages of the three original print editions. Three key sources for Hitler research are now available in a single database that documents the full spectrum of Hitler’s world-view. Important features: the database can be searched by topic thanks to an integrated subject index; it is also searchable by date, place, name, and publication title. “What makes the present edition so significant is not least the fact that it documen ... read more