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In this comprehensive history, John Keegan explores both the technical and the human impact of the greatest war of all time. He focuses on five crucial battles and offers new insights into the distinctive methods and motivations of modern warfare.In knowledgable,...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-08-31
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A narrative history of the American Civil War, which covers not only the battles and the troop movements but also the social background that brought on the war and led, in the end, to the South's defeat.
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Vintage Digital
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2011-08-31
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'A superb work of scholarship, full of riveting detail' Sunday TimesA powerful and revelatory history book about the bloodlands - the lands that lie between Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany - where 14 million people were killed during the years 1933 - 1944.In the...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-08-31
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Coco Chanel, high priestess of couture, created the look of the chic modern woman: her simple and elegant designs freed women from their corsets and inspired them to crop their hair. By the 1920s, Chanel employed more than two thousand people in her workrooms, and had...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-08-31
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This astute biography brilliantly captures, in one volume, the full range of Winston Churchill's astonishing career. perhaps the greatest political figure of modern times, Churchill's achievement extended well beyond his emblematic role in the Second World War. Piers...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-08-31
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A concise narrative of Greek history and an analysis of the literature, art, and thought of the ancient Greeks. Tells the story of Greek civilization from the from the Minoan Period to the time of the Byzantine Empire Surveys the remarkable culture and history the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-08-31
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Famine may be triggered by nature but its outcome arises from politics and ideology. In Three Famines, award-winning author Thomas Keneally uncovers the troubling truth -- that sustained widespread hunger is historically the outcome of government neglect and individual...
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PublicAffairs
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2011-08-30
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'Brick walls' occur everywhere and all the time in genealogy research. Solving Genealogy Problems will help you make real progress through difficult areas and dead ends. With this book you can take your British Isles family tree back further. Solving Genealogy Problems...
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Robinson
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2011-08-26
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William Lorimer
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A Companion to Theodore Roosevelt is the first comprehensive anthology to encompass Roosevelt as whole, highlighting both his personality and his skilled diplomacy. Revitalizes and internationalizes scholarship on this most popular and highly-rated American president ...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-08-26
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
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This revised and expanded edition of the widely-praised A History of Byzantium covers the time of Constantine the Great in AD 306 to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Expands treatment of the middle and later Byzantine periods, incorporating new archaeological...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-08-26
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Blackwell History of the Ancient World
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The events of 1968 are often seen purely as a student revolution, but impacted on every aspect of French society – theatre, film, sexuality, race, the countryside, the factories. This volume explores the full diversity of this extraordinary upheaval, and shows how 1968...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2011-08-26
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A History of the Hellenistic World provides an engaging look at the Macedonian monarchies in the period following the reign of Alexander the Great, and examines their impact on the Greek world. Offers a clearly organized narrative with particular emphasis on state and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-08-26
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Blackwell History of the Ancient World
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A portrait of a civilisation which flourished within living memory and left an indelible mark on historyIn the 13th century Yiddish language and culture began to spread from the Rhineland and Bavaria slowly east into Austria, Bohemia and Moravia, then to Poland and...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2011-08-25
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By the author of Life and Fate, now a major Radio 4 drama starring Kenneth Branagh. Vasily Grossman is widely recognized as one of the outstanding literary figures of the twentieth century. The short fiction collected here - satire, comedy, tragedy and pure narrative -...
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Maclehose Press
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2011-08-25
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'The deck and the bridge were pointing to the sky at an alarming angle and our thoughts were to get the devil out of it and into the water. Almost in unison we shouted "for God's sake jump boys".'Citizen Sailors is a groundbreaking people's history of the Royal Navy in...
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Penguin
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2011-08-25
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Posen und seine Hochschuleinrichtungen waren seit den polnischen Teilungen Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts immer wieder Ausgangspunkt deutsch-polnischer Auseinandersetzungen gewesen, wobei von polnischer Seite stets das gewichtige Argument einer Mehrheit der polnischen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-25
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Named Book of the Year by the Sunday Times, TLS, Spectator, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Mail and Scotland on Sunday, Ian Kershaw's The End is a searing account of the final months of Nazi Germany, laying bare the fear and fanaticism that drove a nation to destruction.In...
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Penguin
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2011-08-25
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Was war die Hanse? Ein Städtebund? Diese Untersuchungen betrachten die «Städtehanse» unter einem neuen Aspekt und kommen zu einer anderen Antwort auf diese seit hundert Jahren strittige Frage. Im Mittelpunkt stehen die Ratsherren, die als Delegierte Städte auf dem...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-25
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This is the story of the Black and Tans and Auxiliaries, the most notorious police forces in the history of the British Isles. During the Irish War of Independence (1920-1), the British government recruited thousands of ex-soldiers to serve as constables in the Royal...
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OUP Oxford
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2011-08-25
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Defined by the messianic, iconic figure of Adolf Hitler, the twelve years of the Third Reich were one of the pivotal periods of the modern age. From small beginnings in the 1920s, the Nazi Party rose to a position of absolute power in Germany, bringing with it the...
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Quercus
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2011-08-25
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