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Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism? written by Robert Kuttner performed by Mike Chamberlain on Audio CD (Unabridged)

Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism? written by Robert Kuttner performed by Mike Chamberlain on Audio CD (Unabridged)£39.99

Before and after World War II, a serendipitous confluence of events created a healthy balance between the market and the polity - between the engine of capitalism and the egalitarian ideals of democracy. Under Roosevelt's New Deal, unions and collective bargaining were legalized. Glass-Steagall reined in speculative finance. At Bretton Woods, a global financial system was devised explicitly to allow nations to...

The Pacific - Hell was and Ocean Away written by Hugh Ambrose performed by Mike Chamberlain on CD (Unabridged)

The Pacific - Hell was and Ocean Away written by Hugh Ambrose performed by Mike Chamberlain on CD (Unabridged)
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ISBN:  9781847678461
Genre - Main:  Non-Fiction
Genre - Specific:  War
Duration:  1440 mins
Length:  Unabridged
Author:  Hugh Ambrose
Performer 1:  Mike Chamberlain
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THE PACIFIC is a gripping piece of historical writing following the extraordinary true stories of four U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy carrier pilot fighting in the Pacific region during World War II. Between America's retreat from China in late November 1941 and the moment General MacArthur's airplane touched down ....

.... on the Japanese mainland in August 1945, five men - Austin Shofner, Vernon Micheel, Sidney Phillips, Eugene Sledge and John Basilone - fought the key battles in the war against Japan. From the debacle in Bataan, to the miracle at Midway and the relentless vortex of Guadalcanal, the war led one to the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot and the others to the coral strongholds of Peleliu, the black terraces of Iwo Jima and the killing fields of Okinawa, until at last the survivors enjoyed a triumphant, yet uneasy, return home. In THE PACIFIC Hugh Ambrose focuses on the struggles and triumphs of these men who put their lives on the line for the allied forces.

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