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The myth of the eighteenth-century British "war machine" persists, perplexing those who search for the reasons why Britain lost the Revolutionary War. In this book, R. Arthur Bowler argues that although recent and traditional studies have pointed out many problems of the British forces in America, they have failed to appreciate a major weakness--lo

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This study examines the logistics of the First Crusade. The author analyzes how its participants managed to feed and sustain themselves across diverse landscapes, travel through foreign kingdoms, and have the ability to capture the holy city of Jerusalem.

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This detailed local history examines the impact of the Lollards and the Reformation on the society, local government and church of York.

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Analysing the lollard legacy in the post-Reformation era, this book identifies the significance of John Foxe's Acts and Monuments in shaping these medieval dissenters for early moderns. It shows that Foxe left much of their radical beliefs intact, inadvertently contributing to later contentions in the Church of England's struggle for identity.

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This volume examines the impact, reception, circulation and refashioning of the criminological theories put forth by Cesare Lombroso in North and Latin America from the late 19th to the mid 20th century.

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In this history of early modern London, the essays range widely, covering the themes of polis and the police, gender and sexuality, space and place, and material culture and consumption.

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The first Zeppelin attack on London came in May 1915 - and with it came the birth of a new arena of warfare, the 'home front'. German airships attempted to raid London on 26 separate occasions between May 1915 and October 1917, but only reached the capital and bombed on nine occasions, with much terror inflicted upon the capital's residents.

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On a sunny May afternoon in 1917, the peace of an English seaside town was shattered when a flight of German Gotha bombers appeared without warning. Twenty-three Gothas had set out to attack London in this first bomber raid. This book tells the story of the Gotha and the massive Staaken 'Giant' bomber raids against London.

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A social history of London in World War II, throughout which a spirit of defiance united all sections of society. Based on published sources as well as interviews, letters and diaries, the book presents a record of a population under siege.

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In 1968 the world's largest antique went to America. But how do you transport a 130-year-old bridge 3,000 miles And why did Robert P McCulloch, a multimillionaire oil baron and chainsaw-manufacturing king, buy it Why did he ship it to a waterless patch of the Arizonan desert Did he even get the right bridge

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London calling Italy is a book about the BBC Italian Service during the Second World War. It examines the role of the Italian broadcasters, the programmes and their reception.

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London calling Italy is a book about the BBC Italian Service during the Second World War. It examines the role of the Italian broadcasters, the programmes and their reception.

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Jerry White's London in the Eighteenth Century is an unrivalled, panoramic account of the city's dramatic century of rebirth by its leading expert.

London in the eighteenth century had risen from the ashes.

Jerry White's London in the Twentieth Century, Winner of the Wolfson Prize, is a masterful account of the citys most tumultuous century by its leading expert.

In 1901 no other city matched London in size, wealth and grandeur.

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The German bombing raids on London from September 1940 to May 1941 - the London Blitz - supply us with some of the mythologised stories from the Home Front of Second World War. This book analyses letters, diaries and memoirs written by those citizens who endured the Blitz.

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This book tells the epic story of a London under siege through the voices of those that lived it. Amy Helen Bell here uncovers the personal stories of hundreds of Londoners from all walks of life, who scribbled in diaries and notebooks from inside air raid shelters and bombed-out houses to record their experiences of the Blitz.

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