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Topics – PDF Books on 20th and 21st Century Europe
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Foreign News Translations
FBIS Daily Reports – West Europe – 1979-1996
1979-1988
FBIS
FBIS daily reports were English-language translations of publicly available foreign mass media reports that were transmitted by radio, television, and print. The Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) was an open source office within the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The JPRS reports that may also be here are essentially FBIS reports.
FBIS Daily Reports – East Europe – 1987-1996
1979-1993
FBIS
FBIS daily reports were English-language translations of publicly available foreign mass media reports that were transmitted by radio, television, and print. The Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) was an open source office within the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The JPRS reports that may also be here are essentially FBIS reports.
FBIS Daily Reports – Soviet Union – 1978-1992
1985-1992
JPRS Reports – USSR – 1979-1994
FBIS
FBIS daily reports were English-language translations of publicly available foreign mass media reports that were transmitted by radio, television, and print. The Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) was an open source intelligence component within the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The JPRS reports that may also be here are essentially FBIS reports.
Open Access Books on 20th and 21st Century Europe PDF Free Download
The Open Access materials below are modern books and other works made freely available online by universities, academic publishers, the Library of Congress, and other nonprofit organizations. Open Access collections usually include pdf textbooks, online courses, classroom lesson plans, and recent academic books that reflect current scholarship and research.
Some works may only be read online, but many can be downloaded as PDF or EPUB files.
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