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The Emperor's Last Stand is a book about St Helena, an island with a sad, strange history, and about the tangle of stories and myths, absurdities and simple facts that have accumulated around Napoleon and his sojourn here. It follows him through the eyes of those who...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2012-12-31
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The inside story of today's Dambusters, 617 Squadron RAF, at war in Afghanistan.In May 1943, 617 Squadron RAF executed one of the most daring operations in military history as bombers mounted a raid against hydro-electric dams in Germany. 617 Squadron became a Second...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2012-12-27
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The true story of how Britain won the First World War.The popular view of the First World War remains that of BLACKADDER: incompetent generals sending brave soldiers to their deaths. Alan Clark quoted a German general's remark that the British soldiers were 'lions led...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2012-12-20
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The inside story of the most daring SAS rescue mission everIn September 2000 eleven British soldiers were captured by a notorious militia gang in Sierra Leone.The so-called 'West Side Boys' had subjected their part of the country to a long reign of terror, murdering,...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2012-12-20
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Dramatic, illustrated account of the biggest naval battle of the First World War.On 31 May, 1916, the great battle fleets of Britain and Germany met off Jutland in the North Sea. It was a climactic encounter, the culmination of a fantastically expensive naval race...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2012-12-20
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A compelling and persuasive account of how the Romantic Movement permanently changed the way we see things and express ourselves.Three great revolutions rocked the world around 1800. The first two - the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution - have inspired the...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2012-12-20
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A major new history of the most infamous battle of the First World War, as described by the men who fought it.On 1 July 1916, Douglas Haig's army launched the 'Big Push' that was supposed finally to bring an end to the stalemate on the Western Front. What happened next...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2012-12-20
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The story of the decimation of the Royal Flying Corps over Arras in 1917As the Allies embarked upon the Battle of Arras, they desperately needed accurate aerial reconnaissance photographs. But by this point the Royal Flying Club were flying obsolete planes.The new...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2012-12-20
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An extraordinary account - from firsthand sources - of upper class women and the active part they took in the WarPre-war debutantes were members of the most protected, not to say isolated, stratum of 20th-century society: the young (17-20) unmarried daughters of the...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2012-12-20
Collection :
WOMEN IN HISTORY
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The Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution draws on a wealth of new scholarship to create a vibrant dialogue among varied approaches to the revolution that made the United States.
In thirty-three essays written by authorities on the period, the Handbook brings to...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-12-06
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A History of Modern Europe surveys European history from the defeat of Napoleon to the twenty-first century, presenting major historical themes in an authoritative and compelling narrative. Concise, readable single volume covering Europe from the early nineteenth...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-12-05
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Concise History of the Modern World
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These are Anthony Burgess's candid confessions: he was seduced at the age of nine by an older woman; whilst serving in Gibraltar in World War II he was thrown into jail on VE Day for calling Franco names; he once taught a group of Nazi socialites that the English...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2012-11-30
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A Companion to World War II brings together a series of fresh academic perspectives on World War II, exploring the many cultural, social, and political contexts of the war. Essay topics range from American anti-Semitism to the experiences of French-African soldiers,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-11-29
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
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Few scholarly fields have developed in recent decades as rapidly and vigorously as Holocaust Studies. At the start of the twenty-first century, the persecution and murder perpetrated by the Nazi regime have become the subjects of an enormous literature in multiple...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-11-22
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Few scholarly fields have developed in recent decades as rapidly and vigorously as Holocaust Studies. At the start of the twenty-first century, the persecution and murder perpetrated by the Nazi regime have become the subjects of an enormous literature in multiple...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-11-22
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As a British infantry officer in the Royal Gurkha Rifles Emile Simpson completed three tours of Southern Afghanistan. Drawing on that experience, and on a range of revealing case studies ranging from Nepal to Borneo, War From The Ground Up offers a distinctive...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-11-20
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As a British infantry officer in the Royal Gurkha Rifles Emile Simpson completed three tours of Southern Afghanistan. Drawing on that experience, and on a range of revealing case studies ranging from Nepal to Borneo, War From The Ground Up offers a distinctive...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-11-20
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After the German occupation of 1940, Britain was forced to reassess its relationship with Norway, a country largely on the periphery of the main theatres of the Second World War. Christopher Mann examines British military policy towards Norway, concentrating on the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-11-19
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Jane Austen is a mystery. The first incontrovertibly great woman novelist, she is, among other things, one of the finest prose stylists in literature; the first truly modern writer, the Godmother of chick lit. She is also the greatest enigma (next to Shakespeare) in...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2012-11-15
Collection :
Brief Histories
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The Iranian Revolution of 1979 was a turning-point in modern history.The destruction of the Iranian monarchy not only upset the political order in the Middle East and brought on a quarter-century of warfare, but introduced a new way to look at history. In Days of God...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2012-11-08
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