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Tacit Alliance
The ‘special relationship’ between the UK and the USA is generally regarded as having being forged during the Second World War. Tony McCulloch challenges this view, arguing that the groundwork for the relationship was laid by the Roosevelt administration’s response to the growing threat Nazi Germany posed to US security between 1930 and 1940.
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Kirsty Logan
Kirsty Logan is the author of the novels Now She is Witch, The Gracekeepers, and The Gloaming, the short story collections A Portable Shelter and The Rental Heart & Other Fairytales, the flash fiction chapbook The Psychology of Animals Swallowed Al …
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