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  1. Second World War, The (1994 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 2 x 30 min., 1996 sale: £35.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) both parts

    Covers: German and Japanese war aims and calculations; massive Axis victories in Europe and Asia and the reasons for the them; momentous Russian struggle for surival; the tide turned in the Pacific and...

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  2. Mahatma Gandhi (1993 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1996 sale: £19.99 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    Covers: Gandhi’s early years in London and South Africa; return to India; confronting the Raj - disobedience, tensions; saint and/or politician; assassination and place in history. Presented by Dr D...

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  3. South African War, The: 1899-1902 (1993 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1996 sale: £19.99 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    Covers: Milner, Kruger, gold; two Boer republics humiliate the British Empire, guerilla and commando versus blockhouse and concentration camp; toll and legacy of war. Presented by Dr J R Smith with Professor...

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  4. Stalin: Terror and Transformation (1992 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1996 sale: £19.99 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    Covers: Stalin’s rise to power; his assault on Russian backwardness; the scale and effect of the purges; Russia and World War II; Stalin’s place in Russian history. Presented by Dr C J Read with...

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  5. Mussolini and Italian Fascism (1991 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1996 sale: £19.99 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    Covers Mussolini’s origins and rise to power, the nature of Fascism; Mussolini as supreme opportunist; illusions and delusions; the new imperialism; nemesis. Presented by Professor J A Davis with Danis...

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  6. Decline of Tsarism, The (1988 Video)

    Producer
    Ian Thompson
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 1996 sale: £19.99 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    Uses a variety of sources including a series of early colour photographs commissioned for Nicholas II and a painting by Il’ya Repin entitled ‘Religious Procession in the Kirsk Gubernia’, to show how...

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  7. French Revolution, The (1988 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 25 min., 1996 sale: £19.99 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    Looks at the causes and course of the French revolution of 1789-93. Covers: the high hopes of 1789 - the Declaration of the Rights of Man; war, counter-revolution and social conflict; the place of the...

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  8. Nazi Seizure of Power, The (1988 Video)

    Director
    Gordon Randall
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1996 sale: £19.99 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    Covers: Hitler’s early career; Weimar weakness; who supported the Nazis and why; establishment intrigues; consolidation of Nazi power and the purge of the SS in summer 1934. Filmed on location in Munich...

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  9. Outbreak of the First World War, The (1988 Video)

    Producer
    Ian Thompson
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1996 sale: £19.99 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    Centres on an interview with Professor Fritz Fischer and the debate surrounding his thesis that a general war was planned by the leadership of Germany to prevent the growth of Slav power. This offers an...

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  10. Revolution of 1688, The (1988 Video)

    Producer
    Ian Thompson
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Betamax, VHS. col. 30 min., 1996 sale: £19.99 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    Covers: James II and his subjects; motives of William and the English conspirators; risks and uncertainties, luck and planning, reasons for the success; the outcome - how ‘glorious’? Presented by Dr R...

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