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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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Eleftherios Venizelos: Greece


by Andrew Dalby

The Greek Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos (1864–1936) was one of the stars of the Paris Peace Conference, impressing many of the Western delegates, already possessed of a romantic view of ‘the grandeur that was Greece’, with his charm and oratorical style. He won support for his country’s territorial ambitions in Asia Minor, the ‘Great Idea’ of a revived Hellenic empire controlling the Aegean and stretching to the Black Sea.

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Sir Robert Borden: Canada

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

This book is to be published on the 90th anniversary of Sir Robert Borden's resignation, having played a crucial role in transforming the British Empire into a partnership of equal states.

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Beneš, Masaryk: Czechoslovakia

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

To be published March 2010.... Tomáš Masaryk was hard at work within a month of the outbreak of war lobbying in Paris and London for an independent Bohemia, still a major component of the Austrian Empire within the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, which would incorporate the predominantly Slovak regions of northern Hungary.

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Admiral Togo

The Nelson of the East
by Jonathan Clements

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Price: £11.99