The Atlantic-October 2023
English | 110 Pages | PDF | 51.15 MB

Free Download James Miller - The North Atlantic Front: Orkney, Shetland, Faroe and Iceland at War
Birlinn | 2003 | ISBN: 1843410117 | English | 175 pages | PDF | 105.84 MB
During the two world wars, the chain of island groups - Orkney, Shetland, the Faroes and Iceland - linking Europe to North America, acquired great strategic significance. Operating from its main base at Scapa Flow, the Royal Navy and its allies sought to contain the German naval threat within the North Sea and protect the northern flank of maritime operations in the North Atlantic. This book tells the story of operations along this northern front in a sequel to the author's earlier account of Scapa Flow, operations that had to contend with fierce weather as well as a determined and capable enemy. While the clandestine, daring operations of the Shetland Bus to maintain contact with occupied Norway are well known, some other aspects of the story have almost faded from memory: the Northern Patrol of armed merchant cruisers based in Shetland in between 1914 and 1918 that implemented an effective blockade on German commerce; the lonely patrols of the Coastal Command flying boats; and the military occupation of the Faroes and Iceland in between 1940 and 1945. The book also recounts some remarkable incidents, such as the arrest in 1914 of the staff of the Lerwick Post Office, the laying and clearing of the North Sea mine barrage, and the VE Day riots in Reykjavik. Illustrated with over a hundred archive photographs, this is a fascinating glimpse into a theatre of war overlooked by other naval history books.

Free Download Jerome C Branche, "Post/Colonialism and the Pursuit of Freedom in the Black Atlantic "
English | ISBN: 1138061476 | 2018 | 294 pages | EPUB | 1496 KB
Post/Colonialism and the Pursuit of Freedom in the Black Atlantic is an interdisciplinary collection of essays of wide historical and geographic scope which engages the legacy of diaspora, colonialism and slavery.

Free Download Carla Rahn Phillips, "The Struggle for the South Atlantic: The Armada of the Strait, 1581-84: The Armada of the Strait, 1581-1584 "
English | ISBN: 1908145153 | 2016 | 204 pages | EPUB | 1025 KB
The Armada of the Strait under Don Diego Flores de Valdés in 1581-84 came at a crucial juncture in global politics. Philip II of Spain had assumed the crown of Portugal and its overseas empire, and Francis Drake's daring peacetime raids had challenged the dominance of Spain and Portugal in the Americas. The armada was intended to ensure the loyalty of Portuguese Brazil; bolster its defences against hostile native peoples, and English and French pirates and interlopers; and fortify and settle the Strait of Magellan to prevent further incursions into the Pacific.

Free Download The Battle of the Atlantic: The Longest Campaign of World War II (History) by 50 minutes
English | April 26, 2016 | ISBN: 2806276616 | 52 pages | EPUB | 1.03 Mb
Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the events of the Battle of the Atlantic in next to no time with this concise guide.

Free Download Richard Snow, "A Measureless Peril: America in the Fight for the Atlantic, the Longest Battle of World War II"
English | 2011 | pages: 368 | ISBN: 1416591117, 1416591109 | EPUB | 3,7 mb
An exciting history told with a novelist's eye and filled with intimate details of the longest and largest battle of WWII-the fight for the Atlantic Ocean.

Free Download The North Atlantic Treaty Organization: The Enduring Alliance
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032391995 | 182 Pages | PDF (True) | 2 MB
This book is the concise story of NATO. It considers the origins, development, challenges, structure, and direction of the Alliance against the backdrop of a changing world and a changing Europe, the changing relationship of the United States to its Allies, the twin threats posed by both Russia and terrorism, the emerging challenge of China, and the EU-NATO relationship. Crucially, the book considers the impact of new and emerging disruptive technologies on NATO planning, force and resources, as well as NATO's place in a changing world. Women, peace, and security are discussed, together with NATO's role in combating climate change. Central to the book is a debate over the future of deterrence and defense and the role of nuclear, conventional, cyber, and information strategies in a new deterrent posture. The book concludes by looking out to 2030 and beyond. The worldwide market will include academia, the student body on all aspects of IS, strategic studies, Cold War history, think- tanks, international institutions, and interested readers.

Free Download Kerry Bystrom, "The Global South Atlantic"
English | ISBN: 0823277879 | 2017 | 336 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Not only were more African slaves transported to South America than to North, but overlapping imperialisms and shared resistance to them have linked Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean for over five centuries. Yet despite the rise in transatlantic, oceanic, hemispheric, and regional studies, and even the growing interest in South-South connections, the South Atlantic has not yet emerged as a site that captures the attention it deserves.

The AtlantiVol 331 No 03 [Apr 2023] (TruePDF)
English | 100 Pages | PDF | 17.02 MB

Free Download Michael Morris, "Scotland and the Caribbean, c.1740-1833: Atlantic Archipelagos "
English | ISBN: 1138778982 | 2015 | 256 pages | EPUB | 1042 KB
This book participates in the modern recovery of the memory of the long-forgotten relationship between Scotland and the Caribbean. Drawing on theoretical paradigms of world literature and transnationalism, it argues that Caribbean slavery profoundly shaped Scotland's economic, social and cultural development, and draws out the implications for current debates on Scotland's national narratives of identity. Eighteenth- to nineteenth-century Scottish writers are re-examined in this new light. Morris explores the ways that discourses of "improvement" in both Scotland and the Caribbean are mediated by the modes of pastoral and georgic which struggle to explain and contain the labour conditions of agricultural labourers, both free and enslaved. The ambivalent relationship of Scottish writers, including Robert Burns, to questions around abolition allows fresh perspectives on the era. Furthermore, Morris considers the origins of a hybrid Scottish-Creole identity through two nineteenth-century figures - Robert Wedderburn and Mary Seacole. The final chapter moves forward to consider the implications for post-devolution (post-referendum) Scotland. Underpinning this investigation is the conviction that collective memory is a key feature which shapes behaviour and beliefs in the present; the recovery of the memory of slavery is performed here in the interests of social justice in the present.