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Article: The post-war world.(The Struggle for Europe: The History of the Continent since 1945; Star Dust Falling; Ebb Tide in the British Maritime Industries: Change and Adaptation, 1918-1990; Maritime History of Britain and Ireland;Atomic Narratives and American Youth: Coming of Age with the Atom, 1945-1955; Spies in Himalayas: Secret Missions and Perilous Climbs; Everest: 50 Year, on Top of the World; Chinese Warfare. The PLA Experience Since 1949; And the Wind Blew Cold: The Story of an American POW in North Korea; A War of Patrols: Canadian Army Operations in Korea; Adventures in Russian Historical Research: Reminiscences of American Scholars from the Cold War to the Present; Eastern Europe: States and Societies 1945-2000; Protest Movements in 1960s West Germany: A Social History of Dissent and Democracy; The 1960s; Liberalism's Last Hurrah: The Presidential Campaign of 1964; Lyndon Johnson and Europe: In the Shadow of Vietnam; Let the Bastards Go: From Cuba to Freedom on `God's Mercy'; Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War; Yugoslavia and Its Historians: Understanding the Balkan Wars of the 1990s; Afghanistan: A Modern History; Israel's Wars: A History Since 1947; Palestine: Why They Fight and Can They Stop?; Broken Promises: Israeli Lives)(Book Review)(Brief Review)
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- May 1, 2003
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The Struggle for Europe: The History of the Continent since 1945 by William Hitchcock (Profile Books, 25 [pounds sterling]) takes a fresh and provocative look at the last 50 years, particularly on the development of the Cold War, shrewdly exploring the roots of many of the genuine tensions to be seen in the continent today.
Star Dust Falling by Jay Rayner (Black Swan, 6.99 [pounds sterling]) narrates the doomed flight of a plane lost in the Andes in 1947 and its discovery over half a century later.
Ebb Tide in the British Maritime Industries: Change and Adaptation, 1918-1990 by Alan G. Jamieson (University of Exeter Press, 37.50 [pounds sterling]) ...