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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. An Equal Burden is the first scholarly...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-31
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. An Equal Burden is the first scholarly...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-31
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This volume recounts the battles of Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift, exploring how they were fought, how they have been remembered, and what they mean for us today.
The battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879, the first major battle in the Anglo-Zulu war, witnessed the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-03
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This volume recounts the battles of Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift, exploring how they were fought, how they have been remembered, and what they mean for us today.
The battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879, the first major battle in the Anglo-Zulu war, witnessed the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-03
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In Person: Reenactment in Postwar and Contemporary Cinema delineates a new performative genre based on replay and self-awareness. The book argues that in-person reenactment, an actual person reenacting her past on camera, departs radically from other modes of mimetic...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-12-05
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This handbook explores a diverse range of artistic and cultural responses to modern conflict, from Mons in the First World War to Kabul in the twenty-first century. With over thirty chapters from an international range of contributors, ranging from the UK to the US and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-05
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The First World War did not end in Central Europe in November 1918.The armistices marked the creation of the Second Polish Republic and the first shot of the Central European Civil War which raged from 1918 to 1921.The fallen German, Russian, and Austrian Empires left...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-11-22
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This book discusses the relationship between geology and fighting during the American Civil War. Terrain was largely determined by the underlying rocks and how the rocks weathered.This book explores the difference in rock type between multiple battlegrounds and how...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-11-14
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In 1914, Ypres was a sleepy Belgian city admired for its magnificent Gothic architecture. The arrival of the rival armies in October 1914 transformed it into a place known throughout the world, each of the combatants associating the place with it its own particular...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-11-10
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A thrilling peek behind the curtain at the men who supported Britain's most famous king from Sunday Times bestselling author Tracy Borman OBE 'An outstanding work of historical artistry' - ALISON WEIR-------Henry VIII is well known for his tumultuous relationships with...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2018-11-01
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This is a fresh and surprising account of Japan's culture from the 'opening up' of the country in the mid-nineteenth century to the present.It is told through the eyes of people who greeted this change not with the confidence and grasping ambition of Japan's ...
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Penguin
Parution :
2018-11-01
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The First World War did not end in Central Europe in November 1918.The armistices marked the creation of the Second Polish Republic and the first shot of the Central European Civil War which raged from 1918 to 1921.The fallen German, Russian, and Austrian Empires left...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-11-01
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Enemy Number One tells the story of the Soviet cultural and propaganda apparatus and its efforts to control information about the United States in the postwar landscape. Beginning with the 1945 meeting of American and Soviet troops on the Elbe, this period saw cultural...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-11-01
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The broadcast that George VI made to the nation on the outbreak of war in September 1939 - which formed the climax of the multi Oscar-winning filmThe King's Speech - was the product of years of hard work with Lionel Logue, his iconoclastic Australian-born speech...
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Quercus
Parution :
2018-11-01
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Part of the Ladybird Expert History of the Second World War series, The Eastern Front 1941-1944, is an authoritative and accessible introduction to the brutal confrontation between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union along a 1,200 mile front. Historian, author and...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2018-11-01
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The Ladybird Expert Series
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*Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2019* 'A fascinating portrait of Victorian London' Observer'I devoured it in one sitting' Alison Weir 'Excellent' Dan Snow Early on the morning of 6 May 1840, on an ultra-respectable Mayfair street, the elderly Lord...
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Penguin
Parution :
2018-10-25
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The bestselling author of Team of Teams dismantles the Great Man theory of leadership, by profiling leaders whose real stories defy their legends. In Leaders, retired four-star general Stan McChrystal explores what leadership really means, debunking the many myths that...
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Penguin
Parution :
2018-10-23
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‘Mallinson . . . combines the authority of a soldier-turned-military historian with the imaginative touch of the historical novelist.’ Lawrence James, THE TIMESWe remember months, because months have names, because they are linked to the seasons, and because they have...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2018-10-18
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In 1914, Ypres was a sleepy Belgian city admired for its magnificent Gothic architecture. The arrival of the rival armies in October 1914 transformed it into a place known throughout the world, each of the combatants associating the place with it its own particular...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-10-17
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Stalin's Secret Weapon is a gripping account of the early history of the globally significant Soviet biological weapons program, including its key scientists, its secret experimental bases and the role of intelligence specialists, establishing beyond doubt that the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-10-15
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