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'Excellent... It is a tremendous tale - one of the most dramatic in our island's history - and O'Keeffe tells it beautifully' The TimesCharles Edward Stuart's campaign to seize the British throne ended with one of the quickest defeats in history: on 16 April 1746, at...
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Vintage Digital
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2021-01-28
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Caritas, a form of grace that turned our love for our neighbour into a spiritual practice, was expected of all early modern Christians, and corresponded with a set of ethical rules for living that displayed one's love in the everyday. Caritas was not just a willingness...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-01-28
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Caritas, a form of grace that turned our love for our neighbour into a spiritual practice, was expected of all early modern Christians, and corresponded with a set of ethical rules for living that displayed one's love in the everyday. Caritas was not just a willingness...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-01-28
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'Fascinating... One of the most astute political commentators on Putin and modern Russia' Financial Times'An amazing achievement' Peter FrankopanCan anyone truly understand Russia?Russia is a country with no natural borders, no single ethos, no true central identity. ...
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Ebury Digital
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2021-01-28
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In light of the discrepancy between Britain's and France's postcolonial security roles in Africa, which seemed already determined half a decade after independence, this book studies the making of the postcolonial security relationship during the transfer of power and...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-01-26
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In light of the discrepancy between Britain's and France's postcolonial security roles in Africa, which seemed already determined half a decade after independence, this book studies the making of the postcolonial security relationship during the transfer of power and...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-01-26
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What is Early Modern History? offers a concise guide to investigations of the era from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries and an entry-point to larger questions about how we divide and organize the past and how the discipline of history has evolved. Merry...
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Polity
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2021-01-20
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A Wall Street Journal national security reporter takes readers into the lives of frontline U.S. special operations troops fighting to keep the Taliban and Islamic State from overthrowing the U.S.-backed government in the final years of the war in...
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PublicAffairs
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2021-01-19
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Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize,Winner of the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award &Winner of The Society of the Cincinnati Prize.
In the late summer and fall of 1777, after two years of indecisive fighting on both sides, the outcome of the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-01-15
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'I don't know where to stop praising Benny and this amazing book' - HEATHER MORRIS, The Tattooist of Auschwitz 'This book...is the stuff folk tales are made of. How wonderful that sometimes they are true' - MARTIN FREEMAN'An engaging book...There wasn't one anecdote or...
Editeur :
Sphere
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2020-12-31
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From the jaws of defeat, incredible victories.AT ALL COSTS! transports you to the battlefront for over two centuries of astonishing military confrontations.From the Battle of Minden in 1795 to dramatic second world war stories and the Battle for Goose Green in the...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2020-12-10
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SEIZE AND HOLD vividly demonstrates how military objectives can be seized by clever tactics and ruthless action.From the First World War to Vietnam, this collection gives exciting, atmospheric descriptions of eleven twentieth-century battlefield triumphs. Portraying...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2020-12-10
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W&N Military
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In the mountain of books that have been written about the Third Reich, surprisingly little has been said about the role played by the German nobility in the Nazis' rise to power. While often confidently referred to, the 'fateful' role played by the German nobility is...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-12-10
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In the mountain of books that have been written about the Third Reich, surprisingly little has been said about the role played by the German nobility in the Nazis' rise to power. While often confidently referred to, the 'fateful' role played by the German nobility is...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-12-10
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The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle-Eastern and North African History critically examines the defining processes and structures of historical developments in North Africa and the Middle East over the past two centuries.The Handbook pays particular attention to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-11-30
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The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle-Eastern and North African History critically examines the defining processes and structures of historical developments in North Africa and the Middle East over the past two centuries.The Handbook pays particular attention to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-11-30
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'Engrossing and powerful . . . rich and thought-provoking'Fara Dabhoiwala, Guardian'Path-breaking . . . a major rewriting of history'Mihir Bose, Irish Times'Slave Empire is lucid, elegant and forensic. It deals with appalling horrors in cool and convincing prose.'The...
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Robinson
Parution :
2020-11-26
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“A Nazi resistance story like none you’ve ever heard or read.” —Hampton Sides, author of Ghost Soldiers and On Desperate Ground"Every page is gripping, and the amount of new research is nothing short of mind-boggling. A brilliant book for...
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Algonquin Books
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2020-11-10
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From the acclaimed military history author, this action-packed World War II history describes the Allies' brutal naval engagements and daring harbor raids to destroy the backbone of Hitler's surface fleet.The sea had become a mass grave by 1941 as Hitler's four capital...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2020-11-03
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A fascinating and hilarious gallop through twentieth-century British history, by comedian Al Murray.An awful lot has happened in the last 100 years or so. In fact, when you look at how much went on in the 20th century, it's amazing it didn't take longer than that.And...
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Quercus
Parution :
2020-10-29
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