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Historians have long understood that the notion of "the cold war" is richly metaphorical, if not paradoxical. The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union was a war that fell ambiguously short of war, an armed truce that produced considerable bloodshed....
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Oxford University Press
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2012-09-01
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In 1962, when the Cold War threatened to ignite in the Cuban Missile Crisis, when more nuclear test bombs were detonated than in any other year in history, Rachel Carson released her own bombshell, Silent Spring, to challenge society's use of pesticides. To counter the...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-09-01
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Following the success of Rees' bestselling Auschwitz, this substantially revised and updated edition of The Nazis - A Warning from History tells the powerfully gripping story of the rise and fall of the Third Reich.During a 16-year period, acclaimed author and...
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Bbc Digital
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2012-08-31
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In 1960, the Imperial War Museum began a momentous and important task. A team of academics, archivists and volunteers set about tracing WWI veterans and interviewing them at length in order to record the experiences of ordinary individuals in war. The IWM aural archive...
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Ebury Digital
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2012-08-31
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An exposition and analysis of the development of propaganda, focusing on how the development of radio transformed the delivery and impact of propaganda and led to the use of radio to incite hatred and violence.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-08-31
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On the night of 7 November 1918 French troops at La Capelle, on the Western Front, noticed a soft halo develop in the fog over no man's land. They heard the rumble of cars, then perceived the vague form of a huge white flag: the Germans were crossing the line to seek...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-08-31
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On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the earth to collect...
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Transworld Digital
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2012-08-31
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Most people have heard of the Stauffenberg Plot but it is not widely known that this was only one of a long series of attempts on the life of Adolf Hitler. The Germans, Soviets, Poles and British all made plans to kill the Fuhrer. Lone gunmen, disaffected German...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-08-31
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'An enthralling account of the murky shadow-world of Elizabethan espionage' Helen Castor, author of She-Wolves'Alford has brought a dash of le Carré to the 16th century' The TimesElizabeth I's reign is known as a golden age, yet to much of Europe she was a 'Jezebel'...
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Penguin
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2012-08-30
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Steven Mithen's unique history of water and society in the ancient world has never been told before and is particularly relevant today in the face of global climate change.The planet faces a 21st-century global water crisis - but to what extent is this really new? Past...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-08-30
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Eugene Rogan has written an authoritative new history of the Arabs in the modern world. Starting with the Ottoman conquests in the sixteenth century, this landmark book follows the story of the Arabs through the era of European imperialism and the Superpower rivalries...
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Penguin
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2012-08-30
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Festivals were the heartbeat of Greek and Roman society and fulfilled significant roles in its social and political organization and within its institutions. Setting the rhythm of the year, festivals were a common denominator for a wide-ranging series of phenomena that...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-08-30
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The rise and fall of the Roman Republic occupies a special place in the history of Western civilization. From humble beginnings on the seven hills beside the Tiber, the city of Rome grew to dominate the ancient Mediterranean. Led by her senatorial aristocracy,...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-08-30
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In January 2007, within the space of only six days, three large fishing boats - the Pere Charles, the Honey Dew II and the Renegade - capsized and sank off the south east coast of Ireland. There were eleven crewmen on board the three vessels.In a tragic week, seven...
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Hachette Books Ireland
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2012-08-30
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Bright Young Things is a thoroughly entertaining non-fiction account of 'the real Downton Abbey', which brings to life the historical backdrop of the series in an informative, fun and engaging book. As one viewer told The New York Times: 'I'm just enjoying the show so...
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Virgin Digital
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2012-08-30
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The struggle between Rome and Carthage in the Punic Wars was arguably the greatest and most desperate conflict of antiquity.The forces involved and the casualties suffered by both sides were far greater than in any wars fought before the modern era, while the eventual...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-08-30
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From historian David Priestland, Merchant, Soldier, Sage is a remarkable book that proposes a radical new approach to how we see our world, and who runs it, in the vein of Francis Fukuyama's The End of HistoryWe live in an age ruled by merchants. Competition,...
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Penguin
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2012-08-30
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'The book that made me think, 'yes, this is the way to write history,' was Finest Hour by Phil Craig and Tim Clayton.' - James Holland In 1940, Europe lay at Hitler's feet. Britain faced its darkest hour - outnumbered and friendless as the German army continued its...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2012-08-30
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Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two
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In a small prairie school in 1929, Connie Flood helps a backward student, Michael Graves, learn how to read. Observing them and darkening their lives is the principal, Parley Burns, whose strange behaviour culminates in an attack so disturbing its repercussions continue...
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Maclehose Press
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2012-08-30
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Was there a German-Jewish dialogue? This seemingly innocent question was silenced by the Holocaust. Since then, it is out of the question to take comfortable refuge to a distant past when Mendelssohn and Lessing started this dialogue. Adorno/Horkheimer, Arendt, and...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-08-29
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