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Epitácio Pessoa: Brazil

Makers of the Modern World: The peace conferences of 1919-23 and their aftermath
by Michael Streeter

To be published in April 2010, on the 91st anniversary of his election as the president of Brazil, while in Paris, this is the story of Epitácio Pessoa, the Treaty of Versailles and the rise and fall of Brazil’s tumultuous First Republic.

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South America

Makers of the Modern World: The peace conferences of 1919-23 and their aftermath
by Michael Streeter

While Brazil declared war on Germany in the First World War, the rest of South America held back. But four – Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru and Uruguay – did break off diplomatic relations with Germany in 1917, in sympathy with US policy and with the Allies in Europe. Their reward was a place at the Paris Peace Conference table and for the first time a chance to play a role on the world stage rather than just in their own backyard.

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Central America

Makers of the Modern World: The peace conferences of 1919-23 and their aftermath
by Michael Streeter

They were in the United States’ backyard, and in some cases under her direct protection. So in many ways it was little surprise when Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Panama and Honduras joined the war on the Allied side in 1917 and 1918.

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London Fragments

A Literary Expedition
by Rüdiger Görner

‘If you like London – or love good writing – you’ll want to curl up with this book and walk the streets with the great writers who have been there before’ – Tribune

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Price: £6.40

Sailing by Starlight

In Search of Treasure Island
by Alex Capus

Sailing by Starlight is part biography, part travel journal and part tribute to Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. Capus takes the reader on an adventure on the South Seas in search of the very treasure made famous by Stevenson.

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Price: £7.99