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Why has war been a consistent presence throughout the human past A leading historian explains through rich examples and keen insight.

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How can we ever understand why those in the Third Reich acted the way they did What could have led them to commit such atrocities in the name of the Fuhrer This title offers shocking insight into Hitler's henchmen.

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The object of this book is to introduce readers to a whole range of military history which has all the drama, dangers, horrors and excitement that we associate with Stalingrad or the Somme. Battles are acute moments of history whenever and wherever they have been fought. Through them we can understand how warfare and world history have evolved.

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Contains dozens of specially commissioned maps and specially photographed items of ephemera.

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24 August 1939: The fate of the world is hanging in the balance. Hitler has ambitions to invade Poland and hopes Stalin will now help him. The West must try to stop him. Nothing was predictable or inevitable. The West hoped that Hitler would see sense if they stood firm. Hitler was convinced the West would back down.

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Drawing on a wealth of evidence to account for the Soviet Union's victory against invading forces, this book offers an account of the epic struggle that turned the tide of the Second World War. It re-creates the Soviet Union's apocalyptic struggle against Nazi Germany, from the point of view both of the troops and of the ordinary civilians.

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How close did Britain really come to invasion during this time What were Hitler and Churchill's motives And what was the battle's real effect on the outcome of the war This title deals with these questions.

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Tells the history of the Blitz in the Second World War. This book examines the well-known parts of the campaign, and the significance of bombing on many other fronts - the German use of bombers on the Eastern Front for example (and discovered material on the more familiar 'Blitz' on Britain), or the Allied campaigns against Italian cities.

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Half a century after their deaths, the dictatorships of Stalin and Hitler still cast a long and terrible shadow over the modern world. They were the most destructive and lethal regimes in history, murdering millions. They fought the largest and costliest war in all history.

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British intellectual life between the wars stood at the heart of modernity; it was the golden age of the public intellectual and scientist: Arnold Toynbee, Aldous and Julian Huxley, H G Wells, Marie Stopes and a host of others. This title opens a window onto the creative but anxious period between the First and Second World Wars.

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A superbly illustrated new history of the Third Reich from a world-class historian.

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Contains dozens of specially commissioned maps and specially photographed items of ephemera.

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The story of the Battle of Britain, including details of the tactics employed by each side, the people who took part, and of course the aircraft.