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Although the Fifteenth Air Force was dismissed as "minor leaguers" by the Eighth Air Force, strategic bombers from this outfit had done a "major league" job on axis targets in southern Europe following its formation in Italy in 1943. This work covers the Fifteenth Air Force.

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The B-17 saw combat in the Pacific from the moment a formation of these bombers arrived at Pearl Harbour during the attack of 7th December 1941. This is a history of the B-17's role in the Pacific War.

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The Consolidated B-17 Liberator was the Allies' most numerous bomber. This volume covers the exploits of the B-17 with the 90th Bomb Group in the South-West Pacific, the Seventh Air Force based in Australia and with the US Navy and marine Corps.

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The operations of the B-25 Mitchell, the only American medium bomber to operate in the China-Burma-India (CBI) Theater of World War 2.

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This work focuses on the Japanese bomber killers of World War II. Responsible for shooting B-29s out of the skies of Japan, these pilots used a range of tactics, including ramming. This book includes first-hand accounts, archival Japanese material, and scale plans of all major fighter variants.

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This is the fully illustrated story of the desperate struggle between the world's most advanced self-defending bomber and Japan's most heavily armed single-seat fighter interceptor of World War II.

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The B-57 Canberra was the first jet-powered American attack aircraft committed to the Vietnam War. The B-57E was involved in the Patricia Lynn missions, parts of which remain classified. This book documents the role of the Australian Canberra B-20 in working alongside the B-57.

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this completely revised edition features over 11 000 names! Complied especially for Australian and New Zealand readers, entries in this easy-to-follow volume include: meanings pronunciation diminutives name histories alternative spellings names from all over the world

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World War One had a devastating, cataclysmic impact on the world and the British people.

In this highly readable and moving survey of life back at home during the First World War, Gerard DeGroot challenges this assumption, finding pre-war social structures were surprisingly resilient.

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Traces, journalist and war historian, C E W Bean's footsteps and paints a picture of the Western Division, in 21st century Australia.

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This book includes both the story of slave trader William James Smith and an examination in microcosm of the domestic slave trade in the Souths hinterland. The authors provide insight into the life and business of William James Smith to analyze the interior slave trade and characterizations of slave traders.

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This book is both the story of William James Smith, a South Carolina backcountry slave trader, and an examination in microcosm of the domestic slave trade in the South's hinterland. The authors examine the life and business of William James Smith, revealing the interior slave trade and the slave trader are more nuanced than previously thought.

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A year before the much-heralded second front was opened at Normandy in 1944, the Allies waged a campaign in Sicily and Italyan assault that was marked by argument and dissent from beginning to end, highlighting the fundamental differences in strategic thinking between the Americans and the British.

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The storming of Badajoz involved Wellington's infantry in some of the most savage hand-to-hand fighting of the Peninsular War. During the night of 6th April 1812, Wellington's soldiers hacked their way through a town defended with great courage by a French and German garrison.

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Examining the history of Ottoman Baghdad during the First World War through the lens of U.S. consulate records, this book explores the profound economic, social, and political transformations that reshaped the city from 1914 to 1916.

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An addition to the CAMPAIGN series which examines the German invasion of Byelorussia in June 1944, codenamed Operation Bagration, in which the Germans suffered huge losses. Illustrated with bird's-eye views and maps of the various stages of the campaign.

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A hodgepodge about life in Ensenada, a town in Estado de Baja California Norte.

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This history of the western Balkans in the 16th century brings together rich primary research and a masterful synthesis of key work on Habsburg Croatia, Ottoman Bosnia, and Venetian Dalmatia. Tracy offers the first clear assessment of how Austria and Venice, despite their mutual hostility, managed to hold back a seemingly unstoppable Turkish march.

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Using class analysis to understand the dynamics of political conflict in mid-nineteenth-century France, this title explores political activity among workers in three industrialized French cities - Toulouse, Saint-Etienne, and Rouen. It analyses the failed municipal revolutions of 1871 and the triumph of liberal-democratic institutions in France.