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Explosive SAS action in East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan.The command came: 'Stop those vehicles!'It was like a red rag to a bull. Instantly streams of 7.62 mm tracer and 50 mm calibre machine gun rounds arced across the night sky and smashed into the bus and truck.Elite...
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Hachette Australia
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2014-03-25
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Hachette Military Collection
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On June 15, 1942, as thousands of vacationers lounged in the sun at Virginia Beach, two massive fireballs erupted just offshore from a convoy of oil tankers steaming into Chesapeake Bay. While men, women, and children gaped from the shore, two damaged oil tankers fell...
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Basic Books
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2014-03-25
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Irish Officers in the British forces, 1922-45 looks at the reasons why youngIrish people took the king's commission, including the family tradition, the school influence and the employment motive. It explores their subsequent experiences in the forces and the responses...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-03-25
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Argentina is famous for its ties with fascism as well as its welcoming of Nazi war criminals after World War II. At mid-century, it was the home of Peronism. It was also the birthplace of the Dirty War and one of Latin America's most criminal dictatorships in the 1970s...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-03-21
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The Russian Empire presented itself to its subjects and the world as an Orthodox state, a patron and defender of Eastern Christianity. Yet the tsarist regime also lauded itself for granting religious freedoms to its many heterodox subjects, making 'religious toleration'...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-03-21
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From the headlines of local newspapers to the coverage of major media outlets, scenes of war, natural disaster, political revolution and ethnic repression greet readers and viewers at every turn. What we often fail to grasp, however, despite numerous treatments of...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-03-21
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It seemed at times during the 1960s that America was caught in an unending cycle of violence and disorder. Successive summers from 1964-1968 brought waves of urban unrest, street fighting, looting, and arson to black communities in cities from Florida to Wisconsin,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-03-20
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A vivid and original account of warfare in the Middle Ages and the cruelty and atrocity that accompanied it.Sean McGlynn investigates the reality of medieval warfare. For all the talk of chivalry, medieval warfare routinely involved acts which we would consider war...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2014-03-20
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'One of the best half-dozen personal accounts of the Normandy campaign' - Richard HolmesStuart Hills embarked his Sherman DD tank on to an LCT at 6.45 a.m., Sunday 4 June 1944. He was 20 years old, unblooded, fresh from a public-school background and Officer Cadet...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2014-03-20
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For most people, the U.S. suffrage campaign is encapsulated by images of iconic nineteenth-century orators like the tightly coifed Susan B. Anthony or the wimpled Elizabeth Cady Stanton. However, as Mary Chapman shows, the campaign to secure the vote for U.S. women was...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-03-20
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The tragic story of the last Royalist attempt to overthrow the French revolutionIn the summer of 1793 French Royalists surrendered the great naval base at Toulon to the British, intending this to be the springboard for a full-scale counter-revolution. A multi-national...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2014-03-20
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Das Buch vermittelt ein umfassendes Bild von den ebenso aufwendigen wie glanzvollen Krönungszeremonien Josephs II. zum Römischen König. Dabei kommt nicht nur die Vergangenheit zur Sprache, sehr wohl wird auch der Gegenwartsbezug hergestellt. Zahlreiche Darstellungen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-03-19
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A Companion to Reconstruction Presidents presents a series of original essays that explore a variety of important issues, themes, and debates associated with the presidencies of Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, and Rutherford B. Hayes. Represents the first...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-03-18
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
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The role of religion in the founding of America has long been a hotly debated question. Some historians have regarded the views of a few famous founders, such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Thomas Paine, as evidence that the founders were...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-03-18
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For the last 800 years coroners have been important in England's legal and political landscape, best known as investigators of sudden, suspicious, or unexplained death. Against the background of the coroner's role in historic England, this book explains how sudden death...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2014-03-18
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>A COMPANION TO JOHN F. KENNEDY A COMPANION TO JOHN F. KENNEDY “Marc J. Selverstone has compiled an indispensable volume of essays on John F. Kennedy and his presidency, written by a stellar cast of scholars. What stands out in sharp relief in this wide-ranging and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2014-03-14
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
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This carefully crafted ebook: “Myths And Legends Of Ancient Greece And Rome - Unabridged” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. A comprehensive collection of all the major and minor gods of Rome and Greece, with descriptions of...
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e-artnow
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2014-03-13
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Although shattered by war, in 1945 Britain and France still controlled the world's two largest colonial empires, with imperial territories stretched over four continents. And they appeared determined to keep them: the roll-call of British and French politicians,...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-03-13
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Although shattered by war, in 1945 Britain and France still controlled the world's two largest colonial empires, with imperial territories stretched over four continents. And they appeared determined to keep them: the roll-call of British and French politicians,...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-03-13
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In popular imagination, environmentalism is often linked to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and the political activism of the 1960s and '70s that moved increasing numbers of Americans to insist on a better quality of life-open spaces, clean air and water, beautification...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-03-12
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