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Whenever man has gone to war in modern times there has been no shortage of men and women to write about his exploits. They were known as war correspondents, a type of journalists whom General Wolseley called 'the newly invented curse to armies'. This study of the war...
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Mainstream Digital
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2012-01-27
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'A riveting thriller-style account of what happened to the Nazi gold hoard' Guardian'A major feat of detection . . . a remarkable story' Birmingham PostIn 1945, as Allied bombers continued their final pounding of Berlin, the panicking Nazis began moving the assets of...
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Mainstream Digital
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2012-01-27
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Blue-Water Empire is Robert Holland's magnificent narrative of Britain's military and cultural ties with the Mediterranean Sea, in the style of the epic naval histories of N. A. M. Rodger.Britain has been a major presence in the Mediterranean from the Battle of the Nile...
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Penguin
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2012-01-26
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Over the last three decades major advances in research and scholarship have transformed understanding of the Scottish past. In this landmark study some of the most eminent writers on the subject, together with emerging new talents, have combined to produce a large-scale...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-01-26
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Over the last three decades major advances in research and scholarship have transformed understanding of the Scottish past. In this landmark study some of the most eminent writers on the subject, together with emerging new talents, have combined to produce a large-scale...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-01-26
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The veterans of the Fourteenth Army who fought in Burma between 1942 and 1945 called themselves 'the forgotten army'. But that appellation could equally well be applied to the whole of the British army after 1945. Histories of Britain's post-war defence policy have...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-01-26
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This volume examines the period from Rome's earliest involvement in the eastern Mediterranean to the establishment of Roman geopolitical dominance over all the Greek states from the Adriatic Sea to Syria by the 180s BC. Applies modern political theory to ancient...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2012-01-25
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This volume presents documents that illustrate the variety of experiences and themes involved in the transformation of American political, economic, and social systems during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (1870-1920). Includes nearly 70 documents which cover the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2012-01-25
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Uncovering the Past: Documentary Readers in American History
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An accessible and authoritative overview capturing the vitality and diversity of scholarship that exists on the transformative time period known as late antiquity. Provides an essential overview of current scholarship on late antiquity – from between the accession of...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2012-01-25
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Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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An accessible and authoritative overview capturing the vitality and diversity of scholarship that exists on the transformative time period known as late antiquity. Provides an essential overview of current scholarship on late antiquity – from between the accession of...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2012-01-25
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Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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By 1991, following the disintegration first of the Soviet bloc and then of the Soviet Union itself, the United States was left standing tall as the only global super-power. Not only the 20th but even the 21st century seemed destined to be the American centuries. But...
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Basic Books
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2012-01-24
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The graphic, first-hand story of the first voyage and disastrous sinking of RMS Titanic - told by the survivors themselves.The story of the sinking of the great liner, Titanic, has been told countless times since that fateful night on 14th April 1912 by historians,...
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Robinson
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2012-01-19
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What is Britishness?What allowed one small island group to rule a quarter of the world and, even today, to have the most spoken language after Chinese?What makes Americans admire the guts, traditions and loyalties of these island Anglo-Saxon and Celtic peoples?What is...
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Constable
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2012-01-19
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In der Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts setzte ein Transformationsprozess der ländlichen Gesellschaft ein, der kein geradliniger Vorgang war und nicht ohne Brüche verlief. Basierend auf disparatem Quellenmaterial zu den kursächsischen Bauernunruhen von 1790 stellt die Studie...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-01-19
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Elizabeth II is the longest-reigning British monarch. A personally quiet, modest and dutiful person, she is far better-informed about the lives of her subjects than they often realize. She has known every Prime Minister since Winston Churchill and every American...
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Robinson
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2012-01-19
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Brief Histories
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The first book to tell the strange and fascinating story of General Zhang Xue-liang, the Chinese-Manchurian 'Young Marshall' - a man who left an indelible mark on the history of modern China, but few know his story. Unlocking the mystery of this man's life, Aron...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-01-17
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Children born out of wedlock were commonly stigmatized as "bastards" in early modern France. Deprived of inheritance, they were said to have neither kin nor kind, neither family nor nation. Why was this the case? Gentler alternatives to "bastard" existed in early modern...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-01-17
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This book examines why several American literary and intellectual icons became pioneering scholars of the Hispanic world after Independence and the War 1812. At this crucial time for the young republic, these gifted Americans found inspiration in an unlikely place: the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-01-14
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How the division of the Americas from the rest of the world affected human history.In 15,000 B.C. early humankind, who had evolved in Africa tens of thousands of years before and spread out to populate the Earth, arrived in Siberia, during the Ice Age. Because so much...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-01-12
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Perhaps more than anywhere else in the world, the nineteenth century encounter between East Asia and the Western world has been narrated as a legal encounter. Commercial treaties--negotiated by diplomats and focused on trade--framed the relationships among...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-01-11
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