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Did Hitler - code name: `Grey Wolf' - really die in 1945 This book argues that he escaped to Argentina, where he lived until 1962.

On the evening of February 17, 1864, the Confederacy's H L Hunley sank the Union's formidable sloop of war the USS Housatonic and became the first submarine in world history to sink an enemy ship. This title presents the story of Hunley.

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Presents a picture of life in rural Australia before, during and after World War 1 and during the Depression.

An unsentimental meditation on memory and loss that recounts the author's search for a Holocaust memorial that speaks to the death of his young cousin.

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A powerful antidote to our atomised lives, Hello, Stranger delves into humanity's rich history of welcoming (and worrying about) strangers, to show us how being more open might end the loneliness epidemic, solve the migrant crisis and change the world.

Catapulted into national politics by his heroic campaigns to feed Europe during and after World War I, Herbert Hoover - an engineer by training - exemplified the economic optimism of the 1920s. This book assesses Hoover's policies and legacy in the face of one of the darkest periods of American history.

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This text provides an insight into the life of Hildegard of Bingen, a nun in medieval Germany. Hildegard was a religious leader, poet, visionary, a writer of medical treatises, and a composer. Through her writings, this book presents her views on sex, love and marriage, medicine and music.

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An authoritative and comprehensive guide to the region's history. It will become the outstanding reference for researchers, teachers, students and the general public throughout Australia, enabling them to locate information about significant events, institutions, people and places, themes and topics in the history of Western Australia.

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Years ago a significant part of the political, religious, intellectual, and terrorist leadership of the Arab world declared an all-out war against the documented history of the Middle East and America's role in the Muslim world. "Blaming the Victim" is the first wave in a counterattack against that Arab war on history.

Hitler's American Friends details the US antagonists who sought to protect and promote Hitler during WWII.

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A riveting narrative of the events surrounding the death of Adolf Hitler and the downfall of the German Nazi State.

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A book about the story behind the historic meeting between Franklin D Roosevelt and King George VI on the eve of the Second World War, now the subject of a major Hollywood movie, Hyde Park on Hudson, starring Bill Murray as FDR.

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'A beautifully readable reminder of how much of our urgent, collective history resounds in places all around us that have been hidden in plain sight.' Afua Hirsch, author of Brit(ish)

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Peter Conrad draws on his brilliant repertoire of cultural skills to assess, surprise, invigorate and delight us with his kaleidoscopic presentation of the movies and music, jeans and sneakers, food and refrigerators, novels and paintings that have shaped so much of the world in our lifetimes.

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An entertaining and amazingly informative guide to the realities of slavery in ancient Rome, with an introduction by Mary Beard.

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Highlights some of the important documentary evidence available to the family historians researching Irish ancestry. This title offers researchers what is available locally and online.

A memoir that questions what it means to be black and white in America.

Published in Antwerp in 1570, the "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" did something no previous book had done: here was the world in all its component parts. Paul Binding introduces its author, Abraham Ortelius, and examines the economic, cultural, religious and political backdrop to his atlas.

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An unsparing memoir of the city in the 21st century, from a long-time Parisien d'adoption

The true story of the men who flew the deadliest missions of World War II, and an unlikely hero who received the Medal of Honor.

(, Unabridged edition)

Reissued with a striking new cover, the classic account of one of the most dramatic final acts in modern history: the collapse of the Third Reich.