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A hilarious, myth-busting romp through history from Mark Juddery, a Canberra-based freelance journalist. Gallipoli: birth of a nation BUSTED! The brontosaurus: coolest dino BUSTED! Titanic: biggest movie ever BUSTED! A lighthearted look at the fifty most overrated things in history.

(Hardback)

Archaeological and historical introduction to the site of Butrint in Albania from the Bronze Age to modern times.

(Paperback)

Tells the remarkable stories of men and women born in China after 1979 - the recent generations raised under China's single-child policy. From the businessman's son unable to pack his own suitcase, to the PhD student who pulled herself out of extreme rural poverty, this book shows how these generations embody the hopes and fears of a great nation.

(Hardback)

A concise overview of Spanish America during the colonial era (1492-1825), this study attempts a synthesis of Iberian and Latin American historical narratives within the context of world history.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

Regarded as the elite arm of the military during the Middle Byzantine period, the cavalry executed high speed reconnaissance, agile arrow barrages and crippling blows to enemy formations. This book offers an examination of their training, weaponry, dress and daily life.

(Paperback)

The hundred-year period ending in 1025, from the reign of the Emperor Constantine VII to that of Basil II 'the Bulgar-Slayer', encompassed the last great era of Byzantine aggression and dominance in the Near East and Balkans. This study sheds new light on the colourful regiments of the Byzantine Imperial Guard.

(Paperback)

For four hundred years the Byzantine Empire's naval forces vied with the warships of the Islamic world for mastery of the Mediterranean. This book offers a glimpse of the long-lost world of war at sea in the age of Byzantium.

(Hardback, 2nd edition)

(Paperback, 2nd edition)

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

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(Paperback)

A guide to the organizational, logistical and strategic development of the Byzantine army, its weaponry and its technology. It follows the ups and downs of 800 years in the history of this most enigmatic of empires, offering information on its political, social and cultural life.

(, 2nd edition)

Chronicles events up to the coronation of the heroic Alexius Comnenus in 1081.

(Paperback)

C-47 is a popular aircraft, carrying out missions every bit as strategically important and as dramatic for the aircrew as those of the fighters and bombers. The C-47's wartime operations paved the way for post-war military air transport. This book examines these popular and vital units.

(Paperback)

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

A physician and spokesman for the French Ideologues, Pierre-JeanGeorges Cabanis (1757-1808) stands at the crossroads of several influential developments in modern culture--Enlightenment optimism about human perfectibility, the clinical method in medicine, and the formation and adaptation of liberal social ideals in the French Revolution. This first

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

This book discusses how Greek and South Italian vase paintings of the musical contest between Apollo and Marsyas became the model for Etruscan representations of Cacus ambushed by the Vibennae brothers, two Etruscan heroes of the sixth century B.C. The study demonstrates that the Etruscans knowingly adapted Greek iconographic forms to represent the

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

Cadwallader Colden was a Scottish migr to the American colonies in the 18th century.

(Paperback)

The largest city in Normandy, Caen's position at the extreme left of the Allied beachhead gave it major strategic value for Allies and Germans alike.

(Hardback)

A history of the four-year Roman Civil War that began with Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon in 49 BC. Focusing always on Caesar, the work sketches a panorama of Roman society and is based primarily on Caesar's own "Commentaries", written to explain and justify his military campaigns.