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Since the end of World War II, the United States has been the world's pre-eminent military power. Yet it has suffered as much failure as it has experienced victory. The bloody stalemate in Korea, defeats in Vietnam and Afghanistan, and difficulties fighting Iraqi...
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Polity
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2026-04-10
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This book is the first comprehensive scientific reconstruction of the captivity experience of Allied prisoners in Italy. Between 1940 and 1943, around 70,000 Allied soldiers, mostly British, were imprisoned in Italy, that was unable to fulfil its duties as a holding...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-04-02
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In the aftermath of civil war, often the most daunting task is to reconcile former opponents who continue to demand justice--or even vengeance--for wartime suffering. Remembering the Wars of Religion offers a historical perspective on the painful legacy of civil war by...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-03-31
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From the award-winning author of American Sirens and A Thousand Naked Strangers comes a real-life thriller about the most daring rescue in air-medical history. JULY 2014. Two American medical volunteers who joined the fight against the deadliest Ebola outbreak in world...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2026-03-03
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In August 1940, a man walked into Leon Trotsky's study in Mexico City and drove an ice pick into his skull. The killer? Ramón Mercader - an aristocratic Spaniard turned Soviet assassin. The mastermind? Joseph Stalin.But this was no simple hit. It was the climax of a...
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John Murray
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2026-02-26
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THE WAR AND PEACE TRILOGY BUNDLECombining three books by the million-copy bestselling author Giles Milton, the War and Peace Trilogy bundle offers a thrilling chronological account of the Second World War.'The master of narrative history' Sunday TimesBOOK 1: D-DAY:THE...
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John Murray
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2026-02-26
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From the acclaimed writer and journalist, a vivid and wide-ranging portrait of love, sex and loneliness in contemporary JapanNo sex. No kids. No future?When Tom Feiling moved to Tokyo as a student in the early nineties, Japan was a beacon of the future: a rising...
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Penguin
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2026-02-26
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Since antiquity, governments have used torture to gather information and determine guilt. But its track record is shaky, to say the least: thinkers from Aristotle to the present have observed that torture does not work, and thinkers from Foucault to Orwell have doubted...
Editeur :
Polity
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2026-02-04
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History of Violence
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A powerful, definitive account of modern Syria and its fateFew countries have had as vexed a political history as Syria. Carved out of the Ottoman empire at the end of the First World War, Syria was then brutally ruled by France. This French ‘mandate’ carved out new...
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Penguin
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2026-01-29
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A comprehensive history of the Nova Scotian nurses who served in World War I, from a leading historian and author of Nova Scotia at War, 1914–1919.
Very little has been written about Canadian military nurses in the Great War largely because, more than a century later,...
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Nimbus
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2026-04-14
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The Classic Collection of T. E. Lawrence. Illustrated: Guerrilla Warfare, Revolt in the Desert, Seven Pillars of Wisdom,The Forest Giant and Others brings together the essential writings of T. E. Lawrence, the legendary “Lawrence of Arabia.”
This richly illustrated...
Editeur :
Asimis Books
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2026-04-04
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence is a remarkable historical and autobiographical work that recounts the author’s experiences during the Arab Revolt of 1916–1918. Lawrence, widely known as Lawrence of Arabia, served as a British liaison officer who worked...
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Fanela Publishing
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2026-03-27
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The Sunday Times bestselling edge-of-your-seat exploration of what would happen in the event of nuclear war, perfect for readers of American Prometheus:The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer.Nuclear war begins with a blip on a radar screen.This is a...
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Transworld Digital
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2024-03-28
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This book is phenomenal ... It's about as good as journalism gets ...The highest praise I can give If We Burn is to say that it would be criminally negligent not to read it if you'd like to change the world. - ROB DELANEY Bevins's clear-eyed, sympathetic...
Editeur :
Wildfire
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2023-10-03
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CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES * TELEGRAPH * PROSPECT'The best account of the ongoing conflict — its preconditions and its present-day horrors' Prospect Do you know what is at stake in Ukraine? Urgent, compelling reading from the author of...
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Penguin
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2023-05-16
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'One brilliant woman writing about another: an irresistible combination.' - Antonia Fraser'One of the most delightful biographies I have ever read.' - A.N. Wilson'Reading Worsley is as enjoyable as reading Christie herself.' - Ruth Scurr'Full of unique insight, eye...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2022-09-08
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'A wonderfully fresh, vivid and engaging portrait.' Jane Ridley, author of Bertie: A Life of Edward VII'Has much of the abundant charm of its author.' Spectator'The glory of this book is in the details.' The Times'Worsley's command of the material and elegant writing...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2018-09-06
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Letters from Iwo Jima reveals the true story of the Battle of Iwo Jima, the subject of two films directed by Clint Eastwood. Flags of Our Fathers tells the story of the US Marines who raised the flag above the island: the iconic image of the war with Japan. His other...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2015-09-10
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Die Reaktion der europäischen NATO-Mitglieder auf den Druck der USA, substanziell aufzurüsten, wird systematischer Kritik unterzogen und die Bedrohung nüchtern analysiert. Umrissen werden die Konturen einer von militärischen Statusallüren...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2026-01-02
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The Oxford Handbook of American Military History examines the chronological and thematic range of American military history, from the colonial era to the present, exploring a variety of connections between war, military institutions, and American society, politics,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-12-31
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