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_____________Ross Kemp has encountered conflict and warfare the world over, broadcasting from some of the most volatile military hot-zones. From meeting the world's deadliest gangsters, to perhaps his hardest assignment of all; embedded with the British Army in...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2010-10-14
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'It wasn't until after he was safely back in the aircraft again that I heard that he'd actually been out on the wing to try to put the fire out ... Remember that we were flying at about 90 miles an hour at a height of 13,000 feet'Squadron Leader RP Widdowson on Sergeant...
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Ebury Digital
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2010-10-14
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Scott's Northern Party played an integral role in his iconic last expedition, but how did they survive? Through the eyes of the men involved, Meredith Hooper recounts one of the greatest tales of adventure and endurance, which has often been overshadowed by the tragedy...
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John Murray
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2010-10-14
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'I go about the street with water-creases crying, "Four bunches a penny, water-creases."'
London Labour and the London Poor is an extraordinary work of investigative journalism, a work of literature, and a groundbreaking work of sociology. Mayhew conducted hundreds...
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OUP Oxford
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2010-10-14
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Clerics in the Middle Ages were subjected to differing ideals of masculinity, both from within the Church and from lay society. The historians in this volume interrogate the meaning of masculine identity for the medieval clergy, by considering a wide range of sources,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-10-13
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The classic history of the political and economic devastation wrought by runaway inflation in Weimar Germany—“brilliant” (Guardian) In 1923, with its currency effectively worthless (the exchange rate in December of that year was one dollar to...
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PublicAffairs
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2010-10-12
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Drawing on both wartime discourse about women and the voices of individual women living at the Italian Front, Allison Belzer analyzes how women participated in the Great War and how it affected them. The Great War transformed women into purveyors and recipients of a new...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-10-11
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See the author featured in the "New Books in History" podcast:
http://newbooksinhistory.com/2011/04/01/erik-jensen-body-by-weimar-athletes-g ender-and-german-modernity-oxford-up-2010/
In Body by Weimar, Erik N. Jensen shows how German athletes reshaped gender roles in...
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Oxford University Press
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2010-10-07
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The Fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942 is a military disaster of enduring fascination. For the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the island, Peter Thompson tells the explosive story of the Malayan campaign, the siege of Singapore, the ignominious surrender to a...
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Piatkus
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2010-10-07
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Richard II (1377-99) has long suffered from an unusually unmanly reputation. Over the centuries, he has been habitually associated with lavish courtly expenditure, absolutist ideas, Francophile tendencies, and a love of peace, all of which have been linked to the king's...
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OUP Oxford
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2010-10-07
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Covering their lives from childhood to the end of the Georgia governorship, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter is one of the few major biographies of an American president that pays significant attention to the First Lady. So deeply were their lives and aspirations intertwined,...
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Oxford University Press
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2010-10-06
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Oft entscheiden Äußerlichkeiten über unser Verhältnis zu Fremden. Zugleich erlaubt die sinnliche Wahrnehmung fremder Personen und Orte, Rückschlüsse auf die eigene Identität zu ziehen. Dies gilt auch für das Judentum und die jüdische Wahrnehmung. Während die Figur des...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2010-10-06
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The Civil War as you've never experienced it before, through original, first-hand reportage ofThe New York Times, the country's newspaper of record. Available for the first time in a unique book/DVD packageThe New York Times, established in 1851, was one of the few...
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Black Dog & Leventhal
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2010-10-03
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Making Slavery History focuses on how commemorative practices and historical arguments about the American Revolution set the course for antislavery politics in the nineteenth century. The particular setting is a time and place in which people were hyperconscious of...
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Oxford University Press
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2010-10-01
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In 2004, after felling his last chimney and retiring from steeplejacking, Fred took to the road on his beloved traction engine for the BBC series Made in Britain. Travelling the length and breadth of the country, the intention was to seek out the remarkable achievements...
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Transworld Digital
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2010-09-30
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This is the story of the greatest empire the world has ever known. Simon Baker charts the rise and fall of the world's first superpower, focusing on six momentous turning points that shaped Roman history. Welcome to Rome as you've never seen it before - awesome and...
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Bbc Digital
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2010-09-30
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Sally Denton and Roger Morris make clear how and why Las Vegas became the greatest 'business success story' of the twentieth century, and how the rest of America ensured this success by contributing capital as well as customers. Headquarters of a trillion-dollar...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-09-30
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In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation - America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War and went on to build...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-09-30
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Southern Afghanistan in the early 1990s was in even greater chaos than it is now. The Russians, who had occupied the country throughout the 1980s, were long gone. The disparate ethnic and religious leaders who had united to eject the invaders - the famous mujaheddin -...
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Transworld Digital
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2010-09-30
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For over 700 years the international language of science was Arabic. In Pathfinders, Jim al-Khalili celebrates the forgotten pioneers who helped shape our understanding of the world.All scientists have stood on the shoulders of giants. But most historical accounts today...
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Penguin
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2010-09-30
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