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Niall Ferguson's acclaimed bestseller on the highs and lows of Britain's empire'A remarkably readable précis of the whole British imperial story - triumphs, deceits, decencies, kindnesses, cruelties and all' Jan Morris Once vast swathes of the globe were coloured...
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Penguin
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2012-10-25
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To the people of Great BritainWorld War II was the deadliest and bloodiest war in history. Never before or since have so many people made such a personal sacrifice in the line of duty.Raiders tells the extraordinary true stories of six of the most daring special...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2012-10-25
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Decius - Die Charakterisierung seiner Person ist geprägt von den Auswirkungen seiner Religionspolitik. Mit Hilfe von Inschriften und Papyri legt der Autor die Strukturen offen, die den kultischen und administrativen Maßnahmen der decianischen Zeit zugrunde lagen. Die...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-10-25
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A source of inspiration for the film Viceroy's HousePamela Mountbatten was born at the end of the 1920s into one of Britain's grandest families. The daughter of Lord Louis Mountbatten and his glamorous wife Edwina Ashley, she was brought up by nannies and governesses as...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-10-25
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The world at the beginning of the 20th century seemed for most of its inhabitants stable and relatively benign. Globalizing, booming economies married to technological breakthroughs seemed to promise a better world for most people. Instead, the 20th century proved to be...
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Penguin
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2012-10-25
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Is America the new world empire? Presidents from Lincoln to Bush may have denied it but, as Niall Ferguson's brilliant and provocative book shows, the US is in many ways the greatest imperial power of all time. What's more, it always has been an empire, expanding...
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Penguin
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2012-10-25
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Clive Aslet's War Memorial: The Story of One Village's Sacrifice from 1914 to 2003, is a powerful story of those who died in war.Who were the men and women whose names are commemorated on war memorials around the country? Where did they live - and how and why did they...
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Penguin
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2012-10-25
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The controversial revisionist history of World War I that made Niall Ferguson's nameThe First World War killed around eight million men and bled Europe dry. More than any other event, it made the twentieth century. In this boldly conceived book and provocative, aimed to...
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Penguin
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2012-10-25
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This ebook edition contains the full text version as per the book. Doesn't include original photographic and illustrated material.This book tells the stories of forty heroes, all awarded bravery medals for their conduct during Special Forces missions over the last 150...
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Headline
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2012-10-25
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Winston Churchill had a longer and closer relationship with the Royal Navy than any British statesman in modern times, but his record as a naval strategist and custodian of the nation's sea power has been mired in controversy since the ill-fated Dardanelles campaign in...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-10-25
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Winston Churchill had a longer and closer relationship with the Royal Navy than any British statesman in modern times, but his record as a naval strategist and custodian of the nation's sea power has been mired in controversy since the ill-fated Dardanelles campaign in...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-10-25
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Sean Londgen has conducted numerous interviews and reveals a new perspective on life under the Nazis that has long been forgotten and replaced by the myth of Colditz and The Great Escape.Between 1939 and 1945 almost 200,000 British and Commonwealth Servicemen were held...
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Constable
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2012-10-25
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After Empires describes how the end of colonial empires and the changes in international politics and economies after decolonization affected the European integration process. Until now, studies on European integration have often focussed on the search for peaceful...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-10-25
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The last Ice Age, which came to an end about 12,000 years ago, swept the bands of hunter gatherers from the face of the land that was to become Britain and Ireland, but as the ice sheets retreated and the climate improved so human groups spread slowly northwards,...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-10-25
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The last Ice Age, which came to an end about 12,000 years ago, swept the bands of hunter gatherers from the face of the land that was to become Britain and Ireland, but as the ice sheets retreated and the climate improved so human groups spread slowly northwards,...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-10-25
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How was history written in Europe and Asia between 400-1400?How was the past understood in religious, social and political terms? And in what ways does the diversity of historical writing in this period mask underlying commonalities in narrating the past? The volume,...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-10-25
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When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Hungarian Jew and a medical doctor, Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared from death for a grimmer fate: to perform "scientific research" on his fellow inmates under the...
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Penguin
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2012-10-25
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With the recent success of 'Rome' on BBC2, no one will look at the private lives of the Roman Emperors again in the same light. Anthony Blond's scandalous expose of the life of the Caesars is a must-read for all interested in what really went on in ancient Rome. Julius...
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Robinson
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2012-10-25
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Brief Histories
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In reaction to the centralizing nation-building efforts of states in nineteenth-century Europe, many regions began to define their own identity.In thirteen stimulating essays, specialists analyze why regional identities became widely celebrated towards the end of that...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-10-24
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Early Modern Europe was teeming with impostors. Identity theft was only one form of misrepresentation: royal pretenders, envoys from imaginary lands, religious dissimulators, cross-dressers, false Gypsies - all these caused deep anxiety, leading authorities to invent...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-10-24
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