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Hailed as "masterly" (Wall Street Journal) and a "monumental achievement" (Douglas Brinkley), this book tells the riveting, true story of the group of elite US and Canadian soldiers who sacrificed everything to accomplish a crucial but nearly...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2019-09-03
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The full story of the first and only time American and Soviets fought side-by-side in World War II
At the conference held in in Moscow in October 1943, American officials proposed to their Soviet allies a new operation in the effort to defeat Nazi Germany.The Normandy...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-09-02
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All Hail to the Archpriest revisits the debates and disputes known collectively in the literature on late sixteenth and early seventeenth century England as the 'Archpriest controversy'. Peter Lake and Michael Questier argue that this was an extraordinary instance of...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-08-29
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All Hail to the Archpriest revisits the debates and disputes known collectively in the literature on late sixteenth and early seventeenth century England as the 'Archpriest controversy'. Peter Lake and Michael Questier argue that this was an extraordinary instance of...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-08-29
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From an expert in the Pacific theater of World War II comes the tragic story of the pilots who fought the last fight of the war during the first hour of peaceWhen Billy Hobbs and his fellow Hellcat aviators from Air Group 88 lifted off from the venerable Navy carrier...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2019-08-27
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DISCOVER THE EXHILARATING TRUE STORY BEHIND THE ACTION-PACKED CLASSIC FILM'GOOSE AND MAVERICK MOVE OVER . . .' Admiral James Stavridis________March 1969.American jets are getting shot down at an unprecedented rate over Vietnam. In an urgent effort to regain the...
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Penguin
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2019-08-22
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Germany in the 20th century endured two world wars, a failed democracy, Hitler's dictatorship, the Holocaust, and a country divided for 40 years after World War II. But it has also boasted a strong welfare state, affluence, liberalization and globalization, a successful...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-08-15
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Over the course of the Great War, a quarter of million settlers and subjects from Algeria served in French forces. Thousands more crossed the Mediterranean to work in the war industries of metropolitan France. On the Algerian Home Front, men, women, and children of all...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-08-13
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Over the course of the Great War, a quarter of million settlers and subjects from Algeria served in French forces. Thousands more crossed the Mediterranean to work in the war industries of metropolitan France. On the Algerian Home Front, men, women, and children of all...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-08-13
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The classic, bestselling biography of one of the most controversial figures in British history from 'One of the finest historians of the age'The Times Literary SupplementFrom Fenland farmer and humble backbencher to stalwart of the good old cause and the New Model Army,...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2019-08-08
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'An outstanding book of astonishing power . . . One finishes it with an ache in the heart'JON SWAIN, writer and foreign correspondent, author of River of Time'Through a profoundly moving tale that weaves together the connected stories of a victim, his surviving family,...
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Robinson
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2019-08-01
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'Everything about this story is astounding' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times"Trinity" was the codename for the test explosion of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on 16 July 1945. Trinity is now also the extraordinary story of the bomb's metaphorical father, Rudolf Peierls;...
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Penguin
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2019-08-01
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Ist im Spannungsfeld zwischen Holocaustliteratur und Ghostwriting auch ein Ende von Authentizität zu erwarten? Der Ghostwriter ist ein gängiger Aktant im Genre Autobiografie. Die Anforderungen an den Ghostwriter eines historischen Zeugen scheinen besonders hoch zu sein,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2019-07-29
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Tobias Buck arrived in Madrid in December 2012, in time to celebrate the bleakest Christmas the city had seen in a generation. Capital and country were reeling from a series of economic shocks that had brought Spain to the brink of ruin. The housing boom had...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2019-07-25
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The Battle for Milne Bay - Japan's first defeat on land in the Second World War - was a defining moment in the evolution of the indomitable Australian fighting spirit. For the men of the AIF, the militia and the RAAF, it was the turning point in the Pacific, and their...
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Hachette Australia
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2019-07-23
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Das Buch bietet eine diskursanalytische Untersuchung kollektiver Identitätskonstruktionen im Internet. Dabei wird die globale Gottscheer-Diaspora hinsichtlich der Erzählung ihrer eigenen Geschichte fokussiert. Nach mehreren Auswanderungswellen, der Umsiedlung 1941 und...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2019-07-18
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Winner of the Franco-British Society Book Prize 2019'The ultimate biography of the Sun King' Simon Sebag Montefiore Louis XIV dominated his age. He extended France's frontiers into Netherlands and Germany, and established colonies overseas. The stupendous palace he...
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Penguin
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2019-07-11
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The extraordinary German bestseller on the final days of the Third ReichOne of the least understood stories of the Third Reich is that of the extraordinary wave of suicides, carried out not just by much of the Nazi leadership, but also by thousands of ordinary Germans,...
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Penguin
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2019-07-04
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'To say that Catherine Bailey makes history come alive is such a cliché and yet it's so true, she is absolutely one of my favourite writers' Kate Atkinson'A brilliant analysis of senseless cruelty, and an inspiring account of how hope can still triumph over all odds'...
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Penguin
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2019-06-27
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'A magnum opus, an accessible and genuinely global history ... This is a book for today and tomorrow' Financial Times Capitalist enterprise has existed in some form since ancient times, but the globalization and dominance of capitalism as a system began in the 1860s...
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Penguin
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2019-06-27
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