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A Satellite Empire
Satellite Empire is an in-depth investigation of the
political and social history of the area in southwestern Ukraine
under Romanian occupation during World War II. Transnistria was the
only occupied Soviet territory administered by a power other than
Nazi Germany, a reward for Romanian participation in Operation
Barbarossa.
Vladimir Solonari's invaluable contribution to World War II
history focuses on three main aspects of Romanian rule of
Transnistria: with fascinating insights from recently opened
archives, Solonari examines the conquest and delimitation of the
region, the Romanian administration of the new territory, and how
locals responded to the occupation. What did Romania want from the
conquest? The first section of the book analyzes Romanian policy
aims and its participation in the invasion of the USSR. Solonari
then traces how Romanian administrators attempted, in contradictory
and inconsistent ways, to make Transnistria \"Romanian\" and
\"civilized\" while simultaneously using it as a dumping ground for
150,000 Jews and 20,000 Roma deported from a racially cleansed
Romania. The author shows that the imperatives of total war
eventually prioritized economic exploitation of the region over any
other aims the Romanians may have had. In the final section, he
uncovers local responses in terms of collaboration and resistance,
in particular exploring relationships with the local Christian
population, which initially welcomed the occupiers as liberators
from Soviet oppression but eventually became hostile to them. Ever
increasing hostility towards the occupying regime buoyed the
numbers and efficacy of pro-Soviet resistance groups.
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Occupation in the East
A nuanced, eye-opening portrait of the lives of thousands of Germans, for whom Warsaw and Minsk became home, following their occupation by the Third Reich. Describes their unity in their self-conception as a \"master race.\" Examines how they engaged in acts of shocking brutality against Poles, Belarusians, and Jews, while social conditions became increasingly conducive to systematic mass murder.
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Nazi empire-building and the Holocaust in Ukraine
Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine.
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The secret war in Afghanistan : the Soviet Union, China and the role of Anglo-American intelligence
\"The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, in support of a Marxist-Leninist government, and the subsequent nine-year conflict with the indigenous Afghan Mujahedeen was one of the bloodiest conflicts of the Cold War. Key details of the circumstances surrounding the invasion and its ultimate conclusion only months before the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 have long remained unclear; it is a confidential narrative of clandestine correspondence, covert operations and failed intelligence. The Secret War in Afghanistan undertakes a full analysis of recently declassified intelligence archives in order to asses Anglo-American secret intelligence and diplomacy relating to the invasion of Afghanistan and unveil the Cold War realities behind the rhetoric. Rooted at every turn in close examination of the primary evidence, it outlines the secret operations of the CIA, MI6 and the KGB, and the full extent of the aid and intelligence from the West which armed and trained the Afghan fighters. Drawing from US, UK and Russian archives, Panagiotis Dimitrakis analyses the Chinese arms deals with the CIA, the multiple recorded intelligence failures of KGB intelligence and secret letters from the office of Margaret Thatcher to Jimmy Carter. In so doing, this study brings a new scholarly perspective to some of the most controversial events of Cold War history. Dimitrakis also outlines the full extent of China's involvement in arming the Mujahedeen, which led to the PRC effectively fighting the Soviet Union by proxy. This will be essential reading for scholars and students of the Cold War, American History and the Modern Middle East.\"--Publisher's website.
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0148 Using the UK Biobank study to estimate occupational causes of chronic disease: comparability with the UK national population and adjustment for bias
Objectives The UK Biobank study is a sample of 502,682 people aged 40–70, clustered around 22 assessment centres. As part of a project to investigate the causes of COPD and estimate the UK occupational burden, we have assessed the sample’s representativeness with respect to the UK national population, with a view to accounting for potential biases. Method We have compared characteristics of the Biobank population (age, education, employment, smoking etc) to that of the UK population as estimated from national data sources. Results Deprivation index scores indicate that Biobank respondents in more affluent wards are over-represented (52% of Biobank respondents versus 28% nationally have scores of less than -2). The Biobank respondents are also better-educated (33% to degree level, 17% nationally), with similar qualification levels in men and women, whereas more men than women nationally in this age range had higher level qualifications. Fewer were currently employed than nationally (58% vs. 65%), particularly men over 60, with more retired (45% vs. 33%), and fewer disabled or unemployed. There are more in managerial and professional (54% vs. 46%), and fewer in routine and manual occupations (22%, 33% nationally), and fewer smokers (33% vs. 49%). Fewer in the already under-represented unskilled occupations (47% vs. 70% for other occupations), or with reported respiratory ill-health (50% vs. 59%) have a usable email address. Conclusions As Biobank respondents are on average less deprived, better educated and under-represented in unskilled occupations than the national population, estimating national occupational COPD burden, and collecting further data without bias will require data adjustments.
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Greece, the Decade of War
During the 1940s Greece was torn apart twice, first by World War II and second by Civil War.Beginning in 1941, the occupation of Greece by Germany was intensely brutal. Children starved on the streets of Athens. The Jewish population was decimated in the Holocaust. Heroic acts of resistance - performed in concert with the SOE - were met with vicious reprisals. When Greece was finally freed from Nazi rule in 1944, the fractured and embittered nation became engulfed in civil war, as conflict flared between the British and American-sponsored government and communist-led rebels. Acclaimed historian of Greece David Brewer here investigates this tumultuous decade in Greece’s modern history, providing a compelling military and political history.
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