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Down South by Chris Parry - one man's astonishing diary of war in the Falklands'A gripping account of heroism - and chaos - in the South Atlantic' Mail on Sunday'Compelling, gripping. A vividly written, thought-provoking and engaging account' The TimesIn 1982...
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Penguin
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2012-02-16
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The second and final volume of the definitive account of the German submarine war.Acclaimed on its publication in 1997 ('should become the standard history of the Unterseeboote' - Washington Post) volume one of Clay Blair's magnum opus is here followed by volume two,...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-02-16
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On the surface, "wartime" is a period of time in which a society is at war. But we now live in what President Obama has called "an age without surrender ceremonies," where it is no longer easy to distinguish between times of war and times of peace.
In this inventive...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-02-06
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At nightfall on December 7 1942, twelve British canoeists arrived by submarine off the coast of France, tasked with infiltrating the dockyards of Bordeaux, and wreaking havoc with the German shipping they found there. Manning fragile 'cockles' through the turbulent...
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Quercus
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2012-02-02
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Saul David's All The King's Men is a thrilling history of the British Redcoat from the English Civil War to Waterloo.Between 1660 and 1815 British supremacy on foreign soil was near total. Central to this success was the humble redcoat soldier who showed heroism in...
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Penguin
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2012-02-02
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Diana Mosley was one of the most fascinating and controversial figures of recent times. For some, she was a cult; for many, anathema. Born in 1910Diana was the most beautiful and the cleverest of the six Mitford sisters. She was eighteen when she married Bryan Guinness,...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-01-31
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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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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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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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At Warburg, Germany, in 1941, four British PoWs find an unexpected means of escape from the horrors of internment when they form a birdwatching society, and embark on an obsessive quest behind barbed wire.Through their shared love of birds, they overcome hunger,...
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Short Books
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2012-01-11
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Between the Second World War and the early 1970s, political leaders, activists, citizens, protestors. and freedom fighters triggered a human rights revolution in world affairs. Stimulated particularly by the horrors of the crimes against humanity in the 1940s, the human...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-01-05
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Archibald Wavell was born a few years before Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee and died shortly after the end of the Second World War (1883-1950). During that time the country in which he was born and brought up in changed beyond recognition, undergoing a fundamental...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-12-31
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A rich and fascinating account of the lives of Victorian governesses, exploring nineteenth-century attitudes to women, family and class.If a nineteenth century lady had neither a husband to support her nor money of her own, almost her only recourse was to live in...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2011-12-30
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Sequel to the Sunday Times bestseller EVELYN, also a major film.After the heady days of the trial which released her from the care of the State Industrial schools and succeeded in changing the law, Evelyn returns to the same grinding poverty. And when Desmond is once...
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Orion
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2011-12-30
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A gripping account of the U-Boat war.Already acclaimed on publication in the United States, the U-Boat war is here chronicled with authority, fidelity, objectivity, and extraordinary detail. He also writes vivid and dramatic scenes of naval actions with startling new...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2011-12-30
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Food, and in particular the lack of it, was central to the experience of the Second World War. In this richly detailed and engaging history, Lizzie Collingham establishes how control of food and its production is crucial to total war. How were the imperial ambitions of...
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Penguin
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2011-12-21
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This companion offers an overview of Lyndon B. Johnson's life, presidency, and legacy, as well as a detailed look at the central arguments and scholarly debates from his term in office. Explores the legacy of Johnson and the historical significance of his years as...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-12-19
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
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Hailed in turns as 'excellent', 'intelligent', 'scrupulously fair', 'remarkable', 'impressive', and 'definitive', this superb book, by one of the pre-eminent writers of his generation, focuses on the life of Joachim von Ribbentrop, Hitler's Foreign Minister from 1938...
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Abacus
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2011-12-15
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In 1950, when Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh and Kim Il-Sung met in Moscow to discuss the future, they had reason to feel optimistic. International Communism seemed everywhere on the offensive: all of Eastern Europe was securely in the Soviet camp; America's...
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Penguin
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2011-12-01
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How the first ever SAS operation ended in disaster in the desertIn summer 1941 Erwin Rommel was Hitler's favourite general: he had driven the British out of Libya and stood poised to invade Egypt. He seemed unbeatable. So the British decided to have him killed. The...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2011-12-01
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