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However, in the end a coalition of naval officers and abolitionists forced the British government's hand into eradicating the slave trade entirely.Squadron grew from historian John Broich's passion to hunt down firsthand accounts of this untold story. Through research from archives throughout the U.K., Broich tells a tale of defiance in the face of political corruption, while delivering thrills in the tradition of high seas heroism. 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Those who promoted new waterworks argued that they could use water to realize a new kind of British society—a productive social machine, a new moral community, and a modern civilization. They did not merely cite the dangers of epidemic or scarcity. Despite many debates and conflicts, this vision won out—in town after town, from Birmingham to Liverpool to Edinburgh, authorities gained new powers to execute municipal water systems.  But in London local government responded to environmental pressures with a plan intended to help remake the metropolis into a collectivist society. The Conservative national government, in turn, sought to impose a water administration over the region that would achieve its own competing political and social goals. The contestants over London's water supply matched divergent strategies for administering London's water with contending visions of modern society. And the matter was never pedestrian. The struggle over these visions was joined by some of the most colorful figures of the late Victorian period, including John Burns, Lord Salisbury, Bernard Shaw, and Sidney and Beatrice Webb.  As Broich demonstrates, the debate over how to supply London with water came to a head when the climate itself forced the endgame near the end of the nineteenth century. 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Western Europe  was conquered; southeastern Europe was falling, Great Britain on its  heels; and Rommel’s Afrika Korps was freshly arrived to drive on the  all-important Suez Canal.   In Blood, Oil and the Axis, historian John Broich tells the  story of Iraq and the Levant during this most pivotal time of the war.  The browbeaten Allied forces had one last remaining hope for turning the  war in their favor: the Axis running through its fuel supply. But when  the Golden Square—four Iraqi generals allegiant to the Axis cause—staged  a coup in Iraq, elevating a pro-German junta and prompting military  cooperation between Vichy French–occupied Syria and Lebanon and the  Axis, disaster loomed.   Blood, Oil and the Axis follows those who participated in  the Allies’ frantic, improvised, and unlikely response to this dire  threat: Palestinian and Jordanian Arabs, Australians, American and  British soldiers, Free French Foreign Legionnaires, and Jewish  Palestinians, all who shared a desperate, bloody purpose in quashing the  formation of an Axis state in the Middle East. Memorable figures of  this makeshift alliance include Jack Hasey, a young American who ran off  to fight with the Free French Foreign Legion before his own country  entered the war; Freya Stark, a famous  travel-writer-turned-government-agent; and even Roald Dahl, a  twenty-three-year-old Royal Air Force recruit (and future author of  beloved children’s books).   Taking the reader on a tour of cities and landscapes grimly familiar  to today’s reader—from a bombed-out Fallujah, to Baghdad, to Damascus—Blood, Oil and the Axis  is poised to become the definitive chronicle of the Axis’s menacing  play for Iraq and the Levant in 1941 and the extraordinary alliance that  confronted it.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50406290653457,"sku":"CIN1468313991VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53076338311441,"sku":"CIN1468313991G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1468313991.jpg?v=1751273368"},{"product_id":"squadron-book-john-broich-9780715652312","title":"Squadron","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50418722636049,"sku":"GOR009101968","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50541290979601,"sku":"GOR008850388","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51742484562193,"sku":"GOR014387303","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51828218069265,"sku":"GOR009855383","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0715652311.jpg?v=1750784256"},{"product_id":"white-supremacy-book-john-broich-9781009627696","title":"White Supremacy","description":"When did whiteness begin? 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