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The controversial first-hand account of what really happened in the south Atlantic skiesSharkey Ward commanded 801 Naval Air Squadron, HMS Invincible, was senior Sea Harrier adviser to the Command, flew over sixty missions and was awarded DSC. Yet had he followed all...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2022-03-31
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W&N Military
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A new global history of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan - an invasion whose consequences are still felt in Afghanistan and across the wider world.
On 24 December 1979, Soviet armed forces entered Afghanistan, beginning an occupation that would last almost a decade...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-03-31
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Protestant nuns and mixed-confessional convents are an unexpected anomaly in early modern Germany. According to sixteenth-century evangelical reformers' theological positions outlined in their publications and reform-minded rulers' institutional efforts, monastic life...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-03-31
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Protestant nuns and mixed-confessional convents are an unexpected anomaly in early modern Germany. According to sixteenth-century evangelical reformers' theological positions outlined in their publications and reform-minded rulers' institutional efforts, monastic life...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-03-31
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After a humiliating defeat in the Crimean War, the Russian Empire struggled to reassert its position as a global power. A small noble family returned from the siege of Sevastopol and joined the rulers' efforts to advance Russian standing in the decades until 1917....
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OUP Oxford
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2022-03-31
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In the hundredth year of the British Broadcasting Corporation, historian Simon J. Potter looks back over the hundred year history, asking if the BBC is really the 'voice of Britain', and what comes next for British public broadcasting.
2022 marks the centenary year of...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-03-31
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Exam board: Pearson EdexcelLevel: GCSE (9-1)Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2021First exam: Summer 2022Endorsed for Pearson Edexcel qualificationsLet Justice to History - one of the most respected organisations in the teaching community - guide you through the...
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Hodder Education
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2022-03-31
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Oxford thought it was at war. And then it was. After the horrors of the First World War,Oxford looked like an Arcadia - a dream world - from which pain could be shut out. Soldiers arrived with pictures of the university fully formed in their heads, and women finally won...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2022-03-31
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On Arid Ground focuses on the relationships between empire and environment in Central Asia, using environmental history to examine the practice of Russian imperialism in Turkestan at the end of empire, from the 1860s until 1916. It reveals for the first time a...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-03-31
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Based on more than a decade's writing, research, and travel, this book offers a rare glimpse into China's expanding economic, cultural, and political power in the Eurasian heartland.
China's rise is changing the world. Much attention has been given to how China's...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-03-31
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Heliodorus' Aethiopica (Ethiopian Story) is the latest, longest, and greatest of the ancient Greek romances. It was hugely admired in Byzantium, and caused a sensation when it was rediscovered and translated into French in the 16th century: its impact on later European...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-03-31
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?This book considers how legal history has shaped and continues to shape our shared present. Each chapter draws a clear and significant connection to a meaningful feature of our lives today. Focusing primarily on England and Australia, contributions show the diversity...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2022-03-30
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Geographies of Nationhood examines the meteoric rise of ethnographic mapmaking in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a form of visual and material culture that gave expression to territorialised visions of nationhood. In the Russian Empire's Baltic...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-03-29
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Geographies of Nationhood examines the meteoric rise of ethnographic mapmaking in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a form of visual and material culture that gave expression to territorialised visions of nationhood. In the Russian Empire's Baltic...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-03-29
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Dieser Band versammelt die Beiträge einer Tagung, die im Februar 2019 mit Unterstützung des Forschungsverbunds Marbach Weimar Wolfenbüttel und der Dr. phil. Fritz Wiedemann Stiftung in der Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel stattfand. Ziel der interdisziplinären...
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Springer VS
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2022-03-28
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The Mongolian Empire, which reigned over the Eurasia Continent, was a great empire in the Middle Ages. Now, however, it is a divided nation, with a current population of about 10 million people, all of whom are distributed throughout the region, which makes contact with...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2022-03-28
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The idea of India and the Indian diasporic imagination is the product of the rich scholarship being done on the Asian sub-continent, as well as in the many countries where South Asians have settled.The notion of ‘many Indias’ and many diasporas attempts to accommodate...
Editeur :
Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée
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2022-03-25
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Horizons anglophones
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What are the origins and nature of terror and terrorism in the United States and beyond? This book of essays about the history and contemporary reality of terror reveals little-known aspects of a compelling subject. Since the American and French Revolutions, governments...
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Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée
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2022-03-25
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Horizons anglophones
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This book establishes the role of French writer Charles Baudelaire in the formation of paradigms of modernity in Italian poetry between 1857, the year of publication of Baudelaire’s highly influential collection Les Fleurs du Mal, and 1912, when the first anthology...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2022-03-24
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