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Hitler's protracted siege of Leningrad resulted in one of the most brutal campaigns on the Eastern Front during World War II. The German Army Group North was able to isolate the city and its garrison for a period of 900 days. This book examines the strength of the garrison's defenses, which ultimately prevented the Germans from capturing the city.

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This pivotal history of the kings of Sparta not only describes their critical leadership in war, but also documents the waxing and waning of their social, political, and religious powers in the Spartan state.

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For much of the 16th century the Mediterranean was a battleground between Christians and Muslims. This work details a five hour melee in which the Christians inflicted a decisive defeat on the Turks in a battle which proved to be the last great galley fight of all time.

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Leprosy and colonialism investigates the history of leprosy in Suriname within the context of Dutch colonial power and racial conflict, from the plantation economy and the age of slavery to its legacy in the modern colonial state. -- .

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Explores the lessons that can be gleaned through a look from the East Central European experience of dissent for dissent and resistance as general modern phenomena

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Lest We Forget brings together first-hand recollections from the Great War to the Second World War, to vividly illustrate the impact of war.

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This eye-opening book highlights the role of elites in constructing systems of persecution and extermination during the Holocaust.

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This in-depth narrative history of the interactions between English settlers and American Indians during the Virginia colony's first century explains why a harmonious coexistence proved impossible.

Britain's first successful settlements in America occurred over 400 years ago.

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This collection seeks to locate the sex in the well-known trilogy of 'sex & drugs & rock 'n' roll'. By looking at how sex and sexuality were expressed, presented and received, the collection shows youth culture to be crucial to the changes and challenges that informed British society into the late twentieth century.

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On Platform One of Paddington Station in London, there is a statue of an unknown soldier; hes reading a letter. On the hundredth anniversary of the declaration of war everyone in the country was invited to take a moment and write that letter. A selection of those letters are published here, in a new kind of war memorial one made only of words.

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Drawing on his father's long-archived correspondence as a prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials, Senator Dodd's narrative and contextual observations give readers the feeling of being in the courtroom during this momentous event. Eight-page b&w photo insert.

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Modern international business has its origins in the overseas trade of the Middle Ages. Of the various communities active in trade in the Islamic countries at that time, records of only the Jewish community survive. Thousands of documents were preserved in the Cairo Geniza, a lumber room attached to the synagogue where discarded writings containing

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This book discusses archaeological research and representation of Native American lifeways at the Levanna site from 1923-1941 and through the 2007-9 re-excavations and artifact analyses, along with the supporting excavations at the Myers Farm site.

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In this paperback of his acclaimed and wide-ranging study, David Scott challenges traditional assumptions about how Britain achieved her global might.