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The book offers insights into the creation and growth of a pioneering global business and the challenges of turning an unconventional idea into a successful enterprise. It explores how mass overseas volunteering disrupted the self-satisfied worlds of charities and governments involved with international development aid and introduced new ideas into youth travel and tourism. Through detailed case studies and candid accounts of both mistakes and achievements, the book shows how the reality of mass overseas volunteering overcame establishment obstacles and gave young people new opportunities worldwide.

The author stresses the value of geographical expertise to political decision-making and illustrates this through the use of case—studies. His analysis of the sources of power goes deep into an understanding of politics and explores the implications for geography of political thought.

From his harsh childhood in London’s Jewish East End to his fiery days as a militant trade union leader in Glasgow, Shinwell’s life was defined by conflict, charisma, and conviction. Slowe provides unprecedented access to personal papers and private insights, revealing how a convicted wartime rioter transitioned into a formidable Secretary of State for Defence and Minister of Fuel and Power during Britain’s crucial post-WWII reconstruction.

During a bombardment one developed a craze for two water and cigarettes. Few could ever eat under an intense bombardment, especially on the Somme, where every now and then a shell would blow pieces of mortality, or complete bodies, which had been putrefying in no man’s land, slap into one’s trench. Shell-fire, too, always stirred up swarms of black flies, of which there was an absolute plague on the Somme battlefields. . .” —Captain Francis Hitchcock, Guillemont, 1916 An original and highly detailed approach to the history of World War I, combining contemporary accounts with a modern-day guide to the battlefields of the Western Front. This fascinating anthology provides a more authentic picture than any textbook could ever hope to give of the courage and the daily life of the men who served during World War I.

By prior agreement, the Allied armies (positioned approximately 60 miles to the west) halted Devastation in Berlin Soviet troops at the Brandenburg Gate their advance on the city in order to give the Soviets a free hand. The depleted German forces put up a stiff defense, initially repelling the attacking Russians, but ultimately succumbing to overwhelming force. By April 24 the Soviet army surrounded the city slowly tightening its stranglehold on the remaining Nazi defenders. Fighting street-to-street and house-to-house, Russian troops blasted their way towards Hitler’s chancellery in the city’s center. Inside his underground bunker Hitler lived in a world of fantasy as his “Thousand Year Reich” crumbled above him. In his final hours the Fuehrer married his long-time mistress and then joined her in suicide. The Third Reich was dead.

Focusing primarily on post-war Great Britain, author Peter M. Slowe provides a comprehensive framework evaluating how state-led industrial infrastructure directly influences corporate location choices and shapes the trajectory of struggling regional economies.


Target Audience
This book remains a vital historical and structural resource for researchers in economic geography, regional policy planners, macroeconomic historians, and academic libraries focusing on British industrial policy