1940: Myth and Reality is a controversial 1990 book by British historian Clive Ponting. It is a revisionist history of the Second World War, particularly...
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(1994) and 1940: Myth and Reality (1990). Ponting was born in Bristol, the only child of Charles Ponting, who is thought to have worked in sales, and his...
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Britain Saved the West: The Story of 1940". 15 June 2017. Carlton, David (1993). "Churchill in 1940: Myth and Reality". World Affairs. 156 (2): 97–103. JSTOR 20672382...
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The "Hitler Myth": Image and Reality in the Third Reich is a book by British historian Ian Kershaw that was first published in 1987. In the book, Kershaw...
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Axis powers (section Origins and creation)
Reichert, 1992), p. 63. D. C. Watt, "The Rome–Berlin Axis, 1936–1940: Myth and Reality", The Review of Politics, 22: 4 (1960), pp. 530–531. Sinor 1959...
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RAF Maintenance Command (category Logistics units and formations of the Royal Air Force)
National Archives Air of Authority p.129, Ponting, 1940: myth and reality p.130, Ponting, 1940: Myth and Reality "Colleges - Soldiers of Oxfordshire". Archived...
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Minister of Aircraft Production (category Ministries established in 1940)
Clive (1990). 1940: Myth and Reality. London: Hamish Hamilton. ISBN 978-0-241-12668-4. Lord Beaverbrook, a Week at the Office – About MAP creation in 1940...
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Battle of Britain (category 1940 in the United Kingdom)
Journal of Military History, 44 (3): 128–134 Ponting, Clive (1991). 1940: Myth and Reality. I.R. Dee. ISBN 978-0929587684. Pope, Stephan. "Across the Ether:...
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and Diplomacy, 1936–1942. Basingstoke, UK: Macmillan. MacInnes, Charles M. (1962). Bristol at war. London: Museum. Ponting, Clive (1990). 1940: Myth and...
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2001), pp. 144–160, at 146. D. C. Watt, "The Rome–Berlin Axis, 1936–1940: Myth and Reality", The Review of Politics, Vol. 22, No. 4 (1960), pp. 519–543, at...
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Bibliography of the Battle of Britain (category 1940 in the United Kingdom)
Journal of Military History, 44 (3): 128–134 Ponting, Clive (1991). 1940: Myth and Reality. I.R. Dee. ISBN 978-0-929587-68-4. Pope, Stephan. "Across the Ether:...
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The Rommel myth, or the Rommel legend, is a phrase used by a number of historians for the common depictions of German Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel...
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27 Club (redirect from White lighter myth)
accidents. The cultural interpretation of events gave rise to an urban myth that celebrity deaths are more common at 27, a claim that has been refuted...
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1970. ISBN 0-07-035010-8. Strippel, Richard G. Amelia Earhart: The Myth and the Reality. New York: Exposition Press, 1972. ISBN 0-682-47447-9. Strippel,...
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Holocaust or other war crimes during World War II. The myth, heavily promoted by German authors and military personnel after World War II, completely denies...
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Medusa (category Articles having different image on Wikidata and Wikipedia)
Berbers originated her myth as part of their religion. The three Gorgons—Medusa, Stheno, and Euryale—were described by Hesiod and Apollodorus as offspring...
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Battle of France (redirect from Battle of France (1940))
Blitzkrieg-Legende: Der Westfeldzug 1940, Operationen des Zweiten Weltkrieges [The Blitzkrieg Myth: The Western Campaign in 1940, Operations of the Second World...
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Wilfrid Sellars (redirect from Myth of the Given)
of perception, and philosophy of science. His most notable contributions include his critique of foundationalist epistemology (the "Myth of the Given")...
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Occupation of the Baltic states (redirect from Myth of Soviet occupation 1940)
Occupying Power in the Baltic Economies – Myths and Reality" (PDF). Vidzemes Augstskola. "Gatis Krūmiņš: Debunking Myths of Soviet Investment in the Baltics"...
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Adam and Eve, according to the creation myth of the Abrahamic religions, were the first man and woman. They are central to the belief that humanity is...
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incompatibility (help) Clark, L. (2016). Blitzkrieg: Myth, reality and Hitler's Lightning War – France, 1940 (1st ed.). London: Atlantic Books. ISBN 978-0-85789-732-9...
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Territorial losses of Thailand (category 20th-century maps and globes)
to Siam, and creates an illusion that the country had a distinct geographical shape before the loss of those territories, while in reality those boundaries...
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conceal the id's conflicts with reality, to profess...to be taking notice of reality even when the id has remained rigid and unyielding." Originally, Freud...
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legacy. A Hollywood film version, starring Henry Fonda and directed by John Ford, was released in 1940. The narrative begins just after Tom Joad is paroled...
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is a 1940 American black-and-white swashbuckling film released by 20th Century-Fox, directed by Rouben Mamoulian, produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, and starring...
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2011, ISBN 9781441164438 The Gestapo: The Myth and Reality of Hitler's Secret Police, Coronet–Hodder and Stoughton, 2015, ISBN 9781444778069 The Hitler...
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Civilization: Myth or Reality, challenged contemporary attitudes "about the place of African people in scholarly circles around the world" and relied upon...
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Persephone (redirect from Demeter and persephone)
myth of her abduction, her sojourn in the underworld, and her cyclical return to the surface represents her functions as the embodiment of spring and...
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Wolfram Wette (category 1940 births)
Germany and the Second World War series from the German Military History Research Office (MGFA). Wette's 2002 book, The Wehrmacht: History, Myth, Reality has...
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American frontier (redirect from Myth of the West)
DiLorenzo, Thomas J. "The Culture of Violence in the American West: Myth versus Reality". The Independent Institute. Mullen, Kevin. "Malachi Fallon First...
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