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After finally achieving what had eluded even his grandfather Genghis Khan - the conquest of China - and inheriting the world's largest navy, Khubilai Khan set his sights on Japan.

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"Kamikaze: Japanese Special Attack Weapons, 1944-45".

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When the author returned home from Afghanistan, he left behind him surreal intensity and exhilaration of battle. He also left behind lasting bonds of friendship formed with his Afghan comrades Qiam, Syed and Majhib. This title tells of their first meetings, mutual suspicion and incomprehension, and how this eventually turned into brotherhood.

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Born in 1904, Brandt played a major role in the first mass killing programme of the Third Reich, the so called 'euthanasia' programme. This biography explores how a rational, highly cultured, literate, young professional could come to be responsible for mass murder and criminal human experiments on a previously unimaginable scale

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This manual illustrates the development of samurai armies during the mid-16th century, which witnessed the introduction of firearms. Focusing on the Kawanakajima campaigns of 1553-1564, it relates the struggle between two of mediaeval Japan's greatest warlords, Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin.

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Long before Americans were imbued with the sense of a national past, local antiquarians and amateur historians wrote about the people, places, and happenings that were closest to their hearts, creating in the process a historical record of incalculable value.

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"For, Lo! We live in an Iron Age--In the age of Steam and Fire!" wrote a poet mesmerized by the engines that were transforming American transportation, agriculture, and industry during his lifetime. Indeed, by the nineteenth century fire had become America's leitmotif--for good and for ill. "Keeping the flame" was deadly serious: even the slightest

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By placing the judiciary and the moonshiners in their institutional and cultural contexts, this work shows how Florida judges acted independently, and balanced individual rights with legal necessity in the enforcement of the liquor laws in Florida.

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After almost two centuries of on-and-off resistance to white encroachment on Indian lands, a band of Ohio Indians attacked and almost destroyed the army of the infant U.S.A.

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American history has been produced by the union of disparate states, each with its own ethnic, geographical and economic history. The number of articles and monographs on Kentucky history has increased dramatically since the last Kentucky bibliography was published in 1949.

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This book examines the governance and politics of Kenya since independence with a particular focus on the betrayal by the political class of the aspirations of anticolonial nationalism.

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This book examines the history of early colonial Kenyas administration and economic condition and provides policy direction for the administration and development of Kenyas economy. It is a good source of information for imperial and colonial studies as well as in the areas of history, economy, and administration.

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This reference guide to African history provides substantive entries on 36 watershed events that shaped the history of the continent from the prehistoric past to the dawn of the 21st century.

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Under Marshal Semyon Timoshenko, the Stavka's remaining reserves were assembled and prepared to conduct a breakthrough attack intended to encircle the German Sixth Army near Kharkov. However, Stalin was unaware that the Germans were planning their own riposte at Kharkov, known as Operation Fredericus.

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Jamil Hasanlis research on 1950s Azerbaijan sheds light on the watershed period in Soviet history while also furnishing the reader with a greater understanding of the root causes of the dissolution of the USSR.